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CJCD Join the Radio Revolution

By on April 27, 2009 in Social Media/Internet, Travels

Dear CJCD,

How have you been? I haven’t heard you in a while. I just popped over to your website again and saw that nothing has changed and wasn’t surprised. Guys, do you still want to be the best radio station of the north? I’m sure you do that’s why I think it would be wise to invest a little time into revamping your website.

I recently started following a host from CKLB on twitter and from there was lead to their website and I was quite impressed.

Photo Credit: Ian Hayhurst

Photo Credit: Ian Hayhurst

Not only did it have a fresh looking design, it was also interactive. Listeners are able to comment and give their opinion on content that has been posted by the hosts. Which I think is big for people, especially in today’s world when everyone has something to say.  Did you know CJCD, that you can also stream their radio station online? While it is live! I know that’s why I don’t listen to you anymore. I don’t have a radio handy while I’m working or at home, all I have is the Internet. Most stations these days offer steaming online, from local stations such as CKLB to Sirius and XM Satellite Radio. I think it would be work looking into nonetheless.

Another little tip I have for you to consider would be making your News stories that you put up on your supposed website into a RSS feed. Doing this will only benefit you. I’m sure it would be easier to put online and with a RSS feed people would be more inclined to reading it. They would be able to still view it off your website (I guess if they really still wanted to) but they would also be able to subscribe to the feed either via e-mail or Feed Reader. By making it more accessible and easier to read you are more than likely going to gain a larger loyal following.

If you wanted to go the extra mile or 1.609 kilometer with the RSS feed you could go on over to Twitter and make yourself an account and syndicate your feed with your account. So when you publish a breaking news article or any article for that matter your followers would know right away.  You could also make the account more personal and be like Fort St. John’s @derrickhand from 101.5 The Bear who tweets promotions, releases, advertising, etc. for his followers.

Well I can only hope you consider some of these ideas as they are all completely beneficial to you.

Sincerely

The Bushman.

Readers now its your turn. Do you think CJCD or any busines for that matter should join the Social Networking wave and become more socially active online?

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Social Networking Anyone?

By on February 11, 2009 in Social Media/Internet

I love Social Networking, not only that I love how they can all be intertwined. I recently wanted to find a way to only have to update my Facebook status or Twitter status but have them both show up the same. What do I do? I Google it, what else. I found a Facebook application called… Twitter that not only showed the status updates of the people I followed but pulled my status from Twitter and made it also my Facebook status. Greatest thing Ever! To top it all off I also have a Twitter plugin here in Firefox that allows me update my status directly from my address bar with out even being on the site itself. So now everything is updated from there. Awesome!

I feel like I literally live online, now if only I could work here as well. I would just move on in…….(Mr. I think you have gone crazy). So now not only do I spend pretty much every waking moment online (which most people would think is a waste of time, but I actually am doing something productive) doing productive things like research, blogging, etc. but now when I get bored I have Digg and Stumbleupon to amuse me for hours. Plus it is a great way to find those random interesting sites that you would have never found other wise.

You must be thinking “wow Bushman, that’s a lot of Social Networking and whats the point”. Yes and No, to someone who doesn’t do it, it is a lot. To someone who is also internet savvy this is not, there are still so many out there that I have yet to find. If you know any interesting one let me know. Now to the point! Pure Amusement, no I’m kidding. I have a dream, stupid maybe but still a dream, I would love to someday work online. Work online so I don’t have to always be in one spot. I would love to just drive around with satellite internet hooked up in my truck (that can be done) but anyways that’s another post. If I want to fulfill that dream I think it is wise to start building a reputation even if I don’t actually get there for another 10 years. I will always be online somewhere. Now I don’t know how this will affect me or not, but I don’t really use my real name. I’m sure some of my readers who I don’t know personally know it. I mean I did just post my stink’in Facebook Profile above. I just hope by building up The Bushman it will benefit me as a real person years down the line when I attempt to actual work online whether it is for my self or for someone else.

One last thing that I can not forget, but have already mentioned. The one thing I would not be able to live with out online. FireFox, greatest browser ever! I have several plugins which make life so much easier online. 1. Scribefire, which allows me to write blog posts directly from Firefox. So if I need to be looking through another site that has to do with the post I can actually be there. Instead of switching back and forth and losing my train of thought (which I can do easily). 2. WordPress Helper, this plugin and Scribefire are similar but different and I can’t use them at the same time. Helper is a little tab in the bottom right of the browser as well and gets me to my site, new post, new page, dashboard, etc quickly so I don’t have to go throw the process of logging on blah blah blah. Neat thing about it as well is it tells me if the site I’m on is powered by WordPress or not. Cool 3. Digg and Stumbleupon I have already talked about but they are in my tool bar. If I “Digg” the site I click digg it. Nough Said! If I want to Stumble, I just click stumble. I can also set what I want to stumble for and if I like it or not. Nough Said!

To sum everything up we have FriendFeed which is like a RSS Feed for every social networking site I’m at. This would be the best place to Follow me, it shows it all. It is also on my homepage.

If you would like to recommend a site please do so.

I’m The Bushman.

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eNews & Updates Opps

By on February 10, 2009 in Journal

If you have subscribed to the eNew & Updates you may want to do that again. When I put up that widget I forgot to change the feed link in the code to my own. So if you did subscribe to it you are now getting updates from the maker of that widget for this theme :) .

All is good now.

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