Vocal Velocity

Adventures of an eBay writer, instructor and educator This is the blog for Janelle Elms of Ebay University, Ebay Stores, etc... She is an awesome person who has things going in the right direction. After reading her blog, from what she reveals about herself, I find her to be honest, outgoing, and self assured. Plus she like 4x4'in! If you are an ebay person, looking for some marketing direction she has the keys to those doors. The only thing that I think could be improved in her class, would be more emphisis upon the social marketing aspects. But then again I think this would take a whole day for those discussions. After the classes, most of the people where coming to me to ask about the social marketing, thanks to her comment about me being a social marketing guru. I wish! For those who do not want to be a ebay seller, there are plenty of work for you if you can get in with these power sellers. One member of the class sold film, 16mm - 70mm. He did not have a newsletter about his

In LA this a church that is podcasting with great success. Thier podcasts are great, leaving quit an impact upon the soul. Mind you, I am not one to go lightly on the subject of these kind of ministries. Nor are these kinds of churches or Godcasts part of my spiritual travels. But it did leave this idea in my head. Have podcasts of sermons, so that people can sample what attending the church would be like. Larger churches already have a Sunday morning service on local channels and even cable. For the local church, the one down the street, what is it like? What kind of preaching goes on in the walls? What kind of worship is played out by the congregation? This just shows even more that the smaller churches have got to have a website, RSS feeds, podcasts and more. It should never be considered that listening to a Godcast would make up for going to church, no more than watching Church on TV counts for attendence. Finally, I found the link to the iTunes Stanford page. I had been trying to

Brandon Carpenter Originally uploaded by Carpenter_B . I do need to post an image of me, so that everyone know me and can maybe get a handle on my personality. Iain took this picture, while I was in my office working. He went camera button nuts and took lots of pictures. Since he is six, I have been working with him about where to aim the camera to take a picture. I have been teaching him the "Rule of Thirds" and about how to hold the camera. He likes to smash the camera button and then move the camera right after pushing the button. So lots images are blurred or smeared. I have been thinking of researching for a blogging app for my Palm T|T. This would be handy to do more than make notes with it. But to get all the notes together and then make the post. Then when I sync the T|T a post is made.

I have a planned trip to Dallas this weekend and have plans of hitting the new Apple Store in NorthPark. I have no idea where this is, so I will be getting my local guide to get me there. Maybe I will be able to get Jessica, my step-daughter and Chelsea, Clint's wife to do things with Bailey, for a few hours so I can get in some me time. As a longtime user and advocate of the Mac platform, I have yet to make it to a Apple Store. I look forward to this, though I don't think I will have much cash for anything worthwhile. I might pick a book or two. I came across a great contest site, cdcovers.cc, for CD Covers. But they do not do music covers, and would also want more than just the Front Cover. They want the booklets too. I do a lot scanning, and this would be annoying and time consuming to do this kind of scanning at the quality they want. 300dpi scan would still take some time to scan, open the image in a graphics editor and then to do any post processing of the image. Still t

Greetings, The Vocal Velocity Blog is going to my voice for the things I have an insterest in, and what are the most important issues going on in my world. This will include family stuff. Always interesting to read what others are doing in thier family. Technologies, hardware and software, will be discussed. I am a avid fan of the Macintosh Platform and Applescript. I also enjoy tech gadgets and the fun things you do with them. Photography will be used, both still and video. I like the podcast thing, and may do something with that medium. So be warned, I will not be timely, or even efficient at this, like others. I am, more than anything, just trying out the technology and figuring out how it will fit into my current lifestyle.