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Each week, the CBC's technology columnist Tod Maffin introduces listeners to new technology, from consumer electronics to the latest Internet trends. Primary Format : News Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Montreal State/Province : Unknown Country : Canada Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Nerd Podcast Podcasts Methings.com listings of Nerd Podcast Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Webinar: The Seven Critical Keys to Marketing Your Brand on Google+ Google+, the search engine’s quickly growing social network, is poised to become a huge force in marketing your brand. In direct competition with Facebook, G+ has one major leg up on Zuckerberg’s creation: Search Engine Visbility. If you expect your brand to be found online a year from now, you must attend this fast-paced, information-packed [...] by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Presentations | Books | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 2: “Bi-Polar Disorder and Psychosis” Get Alerted When Each Show’s Out! Want to get an email as soon as each episode is released? Just sign up here — it’s 100% spam-free and your information will never be shared with anyone else. It’ll only be used to alert you to new episodes, once a week. Taking Crazy Back: Episode 2 “Bi-Polar [...] by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Presentations | Books | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taking Crazy Back Radio – Episode 1 For the next five weeks, I’m producing and hosting a radio series about mental health and addictions. It airs Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m. on Great Talk AM 1110 KWDB. This is episode one. Click the yellow play button on the right to play. Show runs 55 minutes. Taking Crazy Back – Episode 1 by todmaffin Links [...] by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Presentations | Books | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taking Crazy Back Radio – Episode 1 For the next five weeks, I’m producing and hosting a radio series about mental health and addictions. It airs Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m. on Great Talk AM 1110 KWDB. This is episode one. Click the yellow play button on the right to play. Show runs 55 minutes. Download audio file (TCB1_mixdown.mp3) Donations Welcome to Recoup Cost [...] by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Presentations | Books | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Audio: My thoughts on Steve Jobs’ legacy Here’s the audio from the short segment I did on CBC Radio’s The Current, talking about the legacy that Steve Jobs leaves behind. http://www.todmaffin.com/uploads/audio/stevejobs.mp3 by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Presentations | Books | Contact Tod by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Presentations | Books | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Here’s the audio of the interview I did with Mark Forsythe of CBC Radio‘s B.C. Almanac, talking about protecting your identity online. 15 min audio — click the Yellow play button at the right end of the bar below to play. Download audio file (almanac_identitytheft.mp3) by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | [...] by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | Books | iPhone App | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Beginner’s Guide to Auto-Tune the News In case you haven’t seen any of the Auto-Tune the News stuff, it’s worth a few minutes to watch these videos. Auto-Tune the News is a series of music videos which are mostly taken from real news coverage and set to music. But the real genius behind these incredibly popular viral videos is that the [...] by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | Books | iPhone App | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Boosting ROI with Social Media One of the biggest myths of social media is that people believe social media is not measurable. Not true. In fact, social media is very likely the most measurable marketing tactic one has at one’s disposal. This is an interview I did with Donna Papacosta, as part of the Grand and Toy Small Business Podcast [...] by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | Books | iPhone App | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What’s On My Business Bookshelf Here’s a short video of the books currently on my “shortlist” shelf of business books. Related articles The Bookshelf Apartment (neatorama.com) Bookshelf Porn: the joy of shelves (telegraph.co.uk) the bookshelf as memory theater (text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com) Bookgasmic Image Collections – Bookshelf Photos for Lovers of Bookshelves (VIDEO) (trendhunter.com) by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches [...] by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | Book ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Use Google Tasks Click to Play A simple approach to using Google Tasks by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | Books | iPhone App | Contact Tod by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | Books | iPhone App | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How to Use Google Tasks (the simple approach) I’ve tried pretty much every online task manager out there. Finally, I stumbled upon the simple Google Tasks and tweaked it to make it very powerful. Here’s how my to-do list is set up within Google Calendar. You may find it very helpful! by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | Books | [...] by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | Books | iPhone App | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My “Four Buckets System:” How I Organize, Read, and Act On 537 Articles a Day Like a lot of folks in the social media space, I follow a lot of blogs, Twitter feeds, YouTube accounts, and other content. According to Google Reader, I average 537 articles a day. I don’t just skim them, I actually have a pretty well-defined system for organizing, reading, and taking action on many of the [...] by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | Books | iPhone App | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chasing “It”: How Radio and Podcasting Need to Adapt Click here if you can not see the embedded video above. by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | Books | iPhone App | Contact Tod by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | Books | iPhone App | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deconstructing Viral: How to Build a Killer Viral Marketing Campaign A New Presentation by Tod Maffin Now booking for Fall 2010/2011 Can blind luck be reproduced? Absolutely, says Tod Maffin. Today’s viral campaigns may seem like jackpots in a one-in-a-million lottery, but it turns out they are well within the reach of any marketing team’s grasp. All it takes is knowing the secret ingredients behind [...] by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | Books | iPhone App | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Klout and the Incalculable Value of Surprising Influencers Kevin Rose had a fever. And, because he’s a nerd, he tweeted about it. That prompted the writers behind the deadpanned-but-hilarious TV ads for Old Spice to create a video response just for Kevin. You can see it below: This video has been the talk of the web in the last few days — not [...] by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | Books | iPhone App | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Klout and the Incalculable Value of Surprising Influencers UPDATE: I did a segment on CBC Radio about this viral marketing campaign. Click the yellow Play icon on the bar below to listen. You can listen to it here. Kevin Rose had a fever. And, because he’s a nerd, he tweeted about it. That prompted the writers behind the deadpanned-but-hilarious TV ads for Old [...] by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | Books | iPhone App | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website When Virus Warnings Become Their Own Viruses This morning, the University of Calgary breathlessly released a news release titled Danger in the Internet Café. It reports on a new computer virus that can sneak onto your computer from other infected computers via unencrypted wireless signals, like the ones typically found in Internet cafés. From there, like most viri these days, it plants adware. [...] by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | Books | iPhone App | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taking Crazy Back — Highlights from my F5 Expo keynote Share Embed this on your own blog or web site: <p><object width=”560″ height=”340″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/W7ehviLPSv0&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0×2b405b&color2=0×6b8ab6″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Digital Etiquette: Where’s Our Generation’s Miss Manners? I was the luncheon speaker for a conference for realtors last month. Just before I took the stage, one attendee took the stage to give etiquette lessons on dining. It was one of the most entertaining and surprisingly educational ten minutes I’d been through. I thought I knew all I needed to about which silverware [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Get the perfect word at SnappyWords.com Click to Play Get the perfect word at SnappyWords.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Now available: My ebook for realtors DRIVE! The Busy Realtor’s Guide to Profitable Social Media Marketing is a quick 60+ page handbook for any realtor who wants to get started in social media marketing. You’ll get an instantly downloadable PDF file, formatted just like a real book, that you can read or print out to take with you to [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Asus AiGuru SV1T Review – Skype Phone Click to Play Tod Maffin (http://www.todbits.com) reviews the Asus AiGuru SV1T Skype phone. Overall, it’s a great unit — can be untethered for use via battery and wireless. Very simple use, big touch-screen, simple setup. Thanks to Jessica Samuels from AM 1150 Radio in Kelowna B.C. and Ben Eadie from MechanicalMashup.com for testing help. For [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friend Splitting: Doing Business And Personal on Facebook So you’ve got a Facebook account and added a couple of dozen friends. In time, you begin to add some business contacts as well. Since your business contacts can now see your profile, you’re faced with a dilemma. Do you stop posting any personal comments like jokes, updates about your family, etc.? Or do you post only [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social Media Marketing for Realtors Click to Play Tod Maffin, author of “DRIVE! The Busy Realtor’s Guide to Social Media Marketing”, presents one of his keynote addresses. Details at by Tod Maffin: Web Site | Blog | Speeches | Books | iPhone App | Contact Tod Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taking Crazy Back: The Action Manifesto (or “Why It’s Time to Stop Being So Nice”) I am sick — SICK!– of endless government study. I mean that literally. I live with a disorder that we would know a lot more about if only government took it seriously and did more than study the problem. On the mental health scale, my disorder is mild. I can function, live a balanced life, and [...]About the author: Tod Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas of Recruiting, Leading, Teaching, and Marketing to Generation Y/Millennials. His informatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News report about my “Leading the Facebook Generation” half-day seminar Here’s how a local TV station covered my half-day workshop, Leading the Facebook Generation, in Medicine Hat last week. What the Meeting Planner Said “This event more than doubled any other event we have ever had so we were very pleased. The feedback from the evaluations provided was very positive… Everyone enjoyed Tod’s sense of humor and [...]About the author: Tod Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas of Recruiting, Leading, Teachin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Audio Interview: “Friends with Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook” If you’re a small business trying to find your way around social media, a very solid resource has hit the bookstores. Friends With Benefits: A Social Media Marketing Handbook was written for marketers looking to find new effective ways to sell products and services through social media channels like blogs, Facebook and Twitter. Julie Szabo and [...]About the author: Tod Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas of Recruiting, Leading, Teaching, and Marketin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Audio Interview: Building Influence, Improving Reputation, and Earning Trust Through Social Media The new book Trust Agents has been generating a lot of buzz. Written by two social media veterans, they show readers how to tap into the power of social networks to build brands’ influence, reputation, and, of course, profits. [buy the book] I had the chance to interview co-author Julien Smith for about 20 minutes about [...]About the author: Tod Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas of Recruiting, Leading, Teaching, and Marketing to Generation Y/Millen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New Video: Tod giving Social Media Marketing presentation About the author: Tod Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas of Recruiting, Leading, Teaching, and Marketing to Generation Y/Millennials. His information-rich, funny, and fast-paced keynote presentations keep him in high demand at major conferences from Stockholm to Sydney, Berlin to Florida, and across North America. Each year, he speaks to [...]About the author: Tod Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas of Recruiting, Leading, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tod on Tape: A 13-Year-Old Broadcaster Okay, this ain’t stayin’ up long… but here’s a 13-year-old me at my first radio gig, on UBC’s campus radio station CiTR. Press the blue Play icon below to listen. About the author: Tod Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas of Recruiting, Leading, Teaching, and Marketing to Generation Y/Millennials. His information-rich, funny, [...]About the author: Tod Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas of Recruiting, Leading, Tea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The JFK Assassination: Me and John F. Kennedy Forty-six years ago, today, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. That much is known. The rest, pretty much, is speculation. When I was 11, I found myself browsing through the used books section of the Value Village in New Westminster, B.C. My eyes stopped on a weathered copy of the Warren Commission findings — [...]About the author: Tod Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas of Recruiting, Leading, Teaching, and Marketing to Generation Y ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Friend Splitting: Doing Personal AND Business on Facebook So you’ve got a Facebook account and added a couple of dozen friends. In time, you begin to add some business contacts as well. Since your business contacts can now see your profile, you’re faced with a dilemma. Do you stop posting any personal comments like jokes, updates about your family, etc.? Or do you post only [...]About the author: Tod Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas of Recruiting, Leading, Teaching, and Marketing to Generation Y/Mi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Watch Tod’s ‘SWARM Communications’ webinar For more information about the full presentation, check out Tweet Warfare: Protecting Your Brand When It’s Attacked Online. About the author: Tod Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas of Recruiting, Leading, Teaching, and Marketing to Generation Y/Millennials. His information-rich, funny, and fast-paced keynote presentations keep him in high demand at major [...]About the author: Tod Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas of R ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Video: Tod In Action About the author: Tod Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas of Recruiting, Leading, Teaching, and Marketing to Generation Y/Millennials. His information-rich, funny, and fast-paced keynote presentations keep him in high demand at major conferences from Stockholm to Sydney, Berlin to Florida, and across North America. Each year, he speaks to [...]About the author: Tod Maffin [contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the areas of Recruiting, Leading, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Now watch online! “Swarm Communications: Protecting Your Brand When Good Buzz Goes Bad” Want to see the whole 90-minute keynote presentation?You are view­ing a selected por­tion of a longer keynote pre­sen­ta­tion I give called “Tweet Warfare: Protecting Your Brand from Online Attacks.” (Clicking won’t stop the video; it will open a new page up.)This keynote is for any pub­lic rela­tions or com­mu­ni­ca­tions per­son in an orga­ni­za­tion or asso­ci­a­tion, or [...]About the author:Tod Maffin[contact] is a keynote speaker and thought-leader in the area ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website New: “Managing the Facebook Generation: How to Lead, Inspire, and Retain the Generation-Y Millenials” I’ve been working all summer on my new H.R. presentation. Here it is! Managing the Facebook Generation How to Lead, Inspire, and Retain the Generation-Y Millenials In this follow-up to Tod’s massively popular presentation Recruiting the Facebook Generation, Tod will show your delegates the eight key ways your business must change if you want to engage and retain [...]This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are reading this on any web site that has advertising, o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Blogathon Vancouver (at Workspace) at 2:30 a.m. Here are the troopers who were doing their Blogathon things in the wee hours, at Workspace. Everyone’s very, very tired. This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are reading this on any web site that has advertising, or has this in its entirety without attribution and a link back to TodMaffin.com, please contact Tod. Blogathon [...]This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are reading this on any web site that has advertising, or has this in its entire ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Behind the Scenes at CBC Vancouver’s new “integrated newsroom” One of the projects CBC is undertaking across the country is a sweeping “integration” of its news-gathering resources. Rather than having separate newsrooms, assignment desks, and reporters for TV, radio, and web, CBC will now have a single source for its operations. CBC Vancouver just opened its integrated newsroom. Behind the Scenes at CBC Vancouver’s new [...]This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are reading this on any web site that has advertising, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What iPhone 3’s Voice Memos actually sound like (not bad!) Sean Carruthers did a great review of the iPhone’s new Voice Memos application (comes with the iPhone 3.0 software update) the other day. One thing I haven’t been able to find any reviews of the actual audio quality, so I did my own test and I have to say… the quality is really much better than [...]This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are reading this on any web site that has advertising, or has this in its entirety without attribution and a link back ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mental health advocacy Audio of an interview I did on CBC Winnipeg’s Information Morning radio show about my own journey through depression and addiction. This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are reading this on any web site that has advertising, or has this in its entirety without attribution and a link back to TodMaffin.com, please contact [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Flip Mino HD and Flip HD: Review Click to Play I’ve had a chance to play with the Flip Mino HD for about a week or two now and I’m overall really very impressed. In the end, I prefer my own video editing software than the packaged one, but that’s just personal preference. I really didn’t miss the lack of zoom or [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toshiba Portege R600 Review This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are reading this on any web site that has advertising, or has this in its entirety without attribution and a link back to TodMaffin.com, please contact Tod. Toshiba Portege R600 Review Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toshiba Portege R600 Review This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are reading this on any web site that has advertising, or has this in its entirety without attribution and a link back to TodMaffin.com, please contact Tod. Toshiba Portege R600 Review Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Toshiba Portege R600 Review This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are reading this on any web site that has advertising, or has this in its entirety without attribution and a link back to TodMaffin.com, please contact Tod. Toshiba Portege R600 Review Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Whodunit— This is VERY cool! You owe it to yourself to stop whatever you’re doing and press the Play button on the video below. It’s only two minutes long, but it’s most excellent.This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are reading this on any web site that has advertising, or this in its entirety without attribution and a [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The TRUTH EXPOSED behind those misleading VoteSmart B.C. TV ads This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are reading this on any web site that has advertising, or this in its entirety without attribution and a link back to TodMaffin.com, please contact Tod.The TRUTH EXPOSED behind those misleading VoteSmart B.C. TV ads Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website VoteSmart B.C. EXPOSED! Click to PlayPerhaps you’ve seen the ads on television extolling the virtuals of the Gordon Campbell liberal government of B.C. Watch this video to see the TRUTH EXPOSED behind these misleading commercials.This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are reading this on any web site that has advertising, or this in its entirety [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Genius Remix: William Hung vs. Outkast a Genius Remix: William Hung vs. Outkast Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Credit Union presentations Tod Maffin has spoken to these and more credit unions and related organizations: IBM Credit Union, U.S. Capital One Credit Union Connect CU Association Capital One Credit Union Young Presidents� Association Envision Financial Credit Union HSBC Credit Union Managers� Association Credit Union Central of British Columbia B.C. Public Sector Bargaining Worklife B.C. Canadian Society of Association Executives Vancouver Board of Trade International Association of Business Communicators Credit Un ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Please critique my video podcast opener What do you think? a Please critique my video podcast opener Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website My Favourite Musical Numbers I’d like to take this moment to come out of the closet.I like musicals. Scratch that. I LOVE musicals! It’s cost me many girlfriends, actually. It’s hard to maintain your masculinity when you’re singing“Broadway Baby” to yourself to fall asleep.And, with that, I present my (current) seven favourite musical numbers.Broadway BabyDaisy EaganYou Can’t Stop [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tod Maffin: Recruiting the Facebook Generation preview HRPO Click to Play a Tod Maffin: Recruiting the Facebook Generation preview HRPO Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sample Pre-Event Promotional Video Greeting This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are reading this on any web site that has advertising, or has this in its entirety without attribution and a link back to TodMaffin.com, please contact Tod.Sample Pre-Event Promotional Video Greeting This is a copyrighted article from TodMaffin.com. If you are reading this on any web site that has advertising, or has this in its entirety without attribution and a link back to TodMaffin.com, please contact Tod.Sample Pre-Event Promotio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tod reviews the 3M MPro110 Mini Projector a Tod reviews the 3M MPro110 Mini Projector Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Your Cell Phone Is Tracking You Satellite tracking isn’t new… we’ve had G-P-S around for years. But you may be surprised at what they’re starting to do with the technology now. For one, you may be being tracked without your knowledge…. and no satellites are involved at all!Cell Phones: The New GPSThis is an article from Tod Maffin, a social media [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Your Cell Phone Is Tracking You Satellite tracking isn’t new… we’ve had G-P-S around for years. But you may be surprised at what they’re starting to do with the technology now. For one, you may be being tracked without your knowledge…. and no satellites are involved at all! Cell Phones: The New GPS Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Radio freelancer sells documentary thanks to Idea to Air It’s always a great feeling to get an email from someone who bought my book Idea to Air: A Freelancer’s Field Guide to Selling to Public Radio. Just yesterday, I got this email from Lisa Hale: Hi Tod, I wrote you in December that I had gotten a pitch accepted by Dispatches.� After two months of hard work [...] SHARETHIS.addEntry( { title: "Radio freelancer sells documentary thanks to Idea to Air", url: "http://todmaffin.com/ideatoair-success" } ); Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AUDIO: Is HD-DVD down for the count? Here’s the audio of the piece that will air on CBC Radio morning shows tomorrow. Why the 70s porno music? ‘Cause I was having a bad day and thought it would cheer me up. There. Now you know all of radio’s secrets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is HD-DVD Dead?: Script of my CBC Radio interviews One of radio’s dirty little secrets is it’s not always as “live” as it may seem. You might hear me on your regional CBC Radio One morning show as the show’s own technology columnist. Truth is, I’m also the tech columnist for about 23 other regional shows. Early every Wednesday morning, I sit in a small [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Is YouTube�s Front Page So Pointless I like YouTube a lot. I’ve been to parties where the main attraction is people showing others their Favourites from YouTube. (I tend to go to geeky events.) By far, the most talked-about video in the last few days has been Marie Osmond fainting on live television, after her performance on Dancing With The Stars. Here’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Got a sec? Vote in this free SMS poll I’m testing out a new SMS/text polling system created by LiveVote.ca here in Vancouver (video to come later) but I need your help with it. I need you to take just a second and answer the question below via SMS. There is no extra cost to you for this text message (free if you have a texting [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rogers� new high-speed network. I�m impressed. I spent an hour or so with the folks from Rogers this morning to find out about their new 3G network. I have to say, it’s pretty damned amazing. The live full-motion video calling looks like something out of the future. Here’s a detailed video that explains it, pricing, phones, and a demo of the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Third Tuesday events kick off across Canada! Click here to check outThe Third Tuesday Vancouver! I’m really glad to have found the Third Tuesday groups in Toronto and Ottawa — Third Tuesday is quickly becoming Canada’s official monthly Social-Media Meetup. I’ve been working with Tanya Davis and Joe Thornley to set up a Third Tuesday branch here in Vancouver. Third Tuesday events are informal, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Secret of Tech Coverage, Revealed As some of you know, I’m CBC Radio’s national technology columnist. I do a lot of research in consumer electronics and technology trends. And every so often, people ask me how their product or company can appear in my column. At least from my point of view, here are the primary considerations: I’m not a business [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An IED attack from the tank This is incredible video from the Middle East. Nobody gets hurt, but it’s amazing to see what happens to pavement when an IED explodes. This is an article from Tod Maffin, a social media strategist, national broadcaster, and leading keynote speaker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shameless Promotion This is an article from Tod Maffin, a social media strategist, national broadcaster, and leading keynote speaker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Panasonic�s new �intelligent scene selector� This is an article from Tod Maffin, a social media strategist, national broadcaster, and leading keynote speaker. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website