Feb 24 2010

Increasing accessability – an experiment – audio blogs

Category: Blogging tipsSarah Arrow @ 1:37 pm

I recently discovered ProNagger, and I am gutted she has my name ;-)

One of her post suggests using a site called Odiogo which is added to your Wordpress blog in the form of a plugin in and allows people to listen to your blog rather than read it.

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As increasing a blogs acessibility can only be a good thing, I thought I would try it on Birds on the Blog. I know that Birds have deaf readers and readers with physical disabilities, I wasn’t aware of any readers with sight issues but I still thought that I would give Odiogo a try – if it makes things easier for our readers, then it’s worth having.

Firstly, it does sound a little stilted as it’s read, a bit like Stephen Hawkins and it has a male voice.  It works by converting the blogs feed to an audio MP3 file, so your blogs become podcasts as well. Secondly, the podcasts are iTunes compatible as well.

So far so good.

It has also highlighted the need for me to tag images in posts correctly – or the reader reads out “our flickr pic 5677889″ instead of “a picture of a cute fluffy kitten”…

Odiogo is currently free, but I would happily pay for a female voice as the majority of my bloggers are female :-)

Go take a look and let me know what you think or pop on over to Birds and have a listen to one of the blog posts.

Sarah

PS the plugin is available for some of the major blogging platforms and not just wordpress, I should have mentioned that sooner :-)

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Feb 23 2010

Learning to use Email for marketing campaigns

Category: Quick winsSarah Arrow @ 10:59 am

The good news is I am still not selling you anything, the good news is… Katherine Davison has an excellent hands on training session scheduled for the 11th of March 2010 in Southend, Essex.

Creating a list, managing the list and starting your campaign are all topics covered in the interactive training.

Now for those of you that don’t know, Katherine is a talented trainer and makes complex things simple (that’s why she trains tough and obscure software :-) )

So if email marketing is something you are considering, go and check out Katherine’s training course and book yourself a place, this will cost you but trust me when I say training with Katherine is money well invested.

Sarah

Book email training here

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