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RepodcastingRepodcasting 78 - The Iron ClawIt’s time for a new Repodcasting episode! This month we have Karen (@karenunland) & Elizabeth joining Lucia to recast the recent critically acclaimed wrestling movie, The Iron Claw. Send your miscast movie suggestions to repodcasting@gmail.com. Facebook and Instagram: repodcasting2024-05-0142 min
Putting It TogetherBobby and Jackie and Jack – Merrily We Roll Along (with Karen Unland)Let's get into the weeds about the Kennedy family. Karen Unland returns to the podcast to discuss American dynasties, and how Sondheim uses references effectively in this song.You can follow Karen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarenUnlandAnd you can listen to her new podcast called Bloom here: https://bloom.taprootedmonton.ca/We are using three productions to frame our discussion of Merrily We Roll Along.The Original Broadway Cast (1981) starring Jim Walton, Ann Morrison, and Lonny Price.You can listen to it on Apple Music: https://music.apple...2023-01-111h 07Putting It TogetherThe Barber and His Wife – Sweeney Todd (with Karen Unland)The rebuttal to No Place Like London. Karen Unland returns to discuss Sweeney Todd's worldview and how this song has echoes throughout the show. You can follow Karen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarenUnlandAnd you can listen to the podcast she does with her daughter called That's a Thing?! here: https://thatsathing.transistor.fmYou can purchase Stephen Sondheim's first book of lyrics, Finishing the Hat, by going here: https://amzn.to/2LB9ZJoWe are using three productions to frame our discussion of Sweeney Todd.The Original Broadway Cast (1979...2022-01-1248 min
Speaking MunicipallyLeduc's photo radar is a BroccoLIEHere are the relevant links for this episode:Vaccine BattleMayor Nenshi's tweetOpen Data VisualizationZoo BoozeBeer, wine, Prosecco can now be consumed at Edmonton Valley ZooE-VideosEdmonton Public Library sees demand soar for online books, classes and videos during pandemicGuest: Karen Unland@karenunlandLinkedInPeople's AgendaPeople's AgendaAnother progress report on the People’s AgendaBranded PostsMisleading or helpful: Should city councillors use branded graphics on social media?Photo RadarLeduc scraps photo radar city-wideTemporary SheltersEdmonton ap...2021-04-3030 min
The Breakfast Dish#36 - Elizabeth and Karen Unland (That's a Thing?! Podcast)Welcome to Season 2 of The Breakfast Dish! Dance, music, visual art, theatre and get-to-know-you conversations with the artists behind the work. Join Griffin Cork and his mom, Karen Johnson-Diamond every Monday morning as they meet the creators of today's digital offerings. This podcast is dairy and gluten free!This week, mother and son Karen and Griffin speak with mother and daughter Karen and Elizabeth, hosts of the podcast That's a Thing?! - That’s a Thing?! is a sometimes belated, already outdated guide to your teens, tweens, and everything under 20. In each episode, Elizabeth (a te...2021-04-1943 minPutting It TogetherEvery Day a Little Death – A Little Night Music (with Karen Unland)No doubt living with Carl Magnus every day does feel like a little death. Karen Unland returns to try and understand the character of Charlotte, if the title of the song has a secret meaning, and how it doesn't quite work in the movie version.You can follow Karen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarenUnlandCheck out Taproot Edmonton: https://edmonton.taproot.newsOr Taproot Publishing: https://www.taprootpublishing.caKyle's appearance on Bottomless Broadway: https://link.chtbl.com/6CBA1E1WThe Every Day a Little Death scene in the...2021-01-201h 01
Don't Call Me a GuruEp 35 - iMEDIA Call-In Extravaganza (Digital Marketing Tips from a Range of Experts)In Episode 35 of Don't Call Me A Guru, host Linda Hoang is joined by former co-host and co-founder Tyler Jack Butler, along with a cast of characters in a special iMEDIA Call-In Extravaganza featuring digital and social media marketing tips from experts who would have spoken at the 2020 iMEDIA Conference had it not been postponed due to COVID-19. We also discuss social and crisis comms related to COVID-19! Excuse the poor and differing audio quality, this episode was recorded creatively using Google Hangouts.
Thanks to special guests:
Tyler Jack Butler @tylerjackbutler
Morgan Hrynyk @iM...2020-03-141h 11Putting It TogetherWith So Little To Be Sure Of – Anyone Can Whistle (with Karen and Elizabeth Unland of That's a Thing?!)It's a weird way to end a show, but then again with Anyone Can Whistle everything has been a bit odd. Karen Unland and her daughter Elizabeth (from the podcast That's a Thing?!) join the show to discuss With So Little To Be Sure Of. They also talk about the difficulty with love songs, whether this song is inconsistent with the characters singing it, and they try to guess how many Tony Award nominations the show received. That's a Thing?! podcast: https://thatsathing.transistor.fmOn Twitter: https://twitter.com/thatsathingyegKaren is also...2019-10-091h 11
Seen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 82: Elizabeth SpencerMeet Elizabeth Spencer, creator and co-host (with me, her mother) of That's a Thing?!, "a sometimes belated, already outdated guide to your teens, tweens and everything under 20." That's a Thing?! is a podcast that grew out of various conversations around the dinner table and elsewhere. Elizabeth and her brother, Jon, would start talking about something in the media they pay attention to, and realize based on their parents' confused reaction that "Oh my god, adults don't know about this!" So we decided to make a show that explores that. In this episode, you'll hear us...2018-01-2236 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 81: Kat GriffithsMeet Kat Griffiths (again!), a fangirl of the highest order who shines a light on the artists who make the songs she loves with a podcast called Start the Music. I say "again" because I had Kat on the show way back in Episode 19 to talk about her experience as a member of the rotating cast of smart women who discuss Doctor Who on Verity!. She continues to appear on Verity!, as well as on an improv show called Doctor Who's Line, Is It?... Anyway!. Those are both the products of ensembles, whereas Start the M...2018-01-0835 min
That's a Thing?!Episode 2: Team 10Welcome to Episode 2 of That’s A Thing?!, “a sometimes belated, already outdated guide to your teens, tweens and everything under 20.” Elizabeth, a real live teenager, explains things to her mom. And this time around, she tells the story of Team 10. Team 10 is a collective of YouTube channels whose hosts boost each other’s follower counts by harnessing the same techniques that made oldtime Hollywood, soap operas, wrestling and reality TV capture our attention. The tropes are familiar, but Team 10 had completely escaped Karen’s attention, until now. Here are the show notes: Official website of...2017-12-2825 min
That's a Thing?!Episode 1: CreepypastaShow notes: Where to find creepypasta stories, memes and such: Creepypasta Wiki creepypasta.com Trollpasta Wiki Creepypasta on Quotev and Wattpad
Creepypasta memes Creepypasta narrators MrCreepyPasta and CreepsMcPasta
The Creepypasta Collection Some of the characters we discuss:
Jeff the Killer (and the picture we describe)
Smile Dog (and the picture)
The Rake (and the picture)
Sonic.exe (and the picture) Old-school stuff from the mom: Flowers in the Attic Freddy Krueger Jason from Friday the 13th Michael Myers from Halloween Quora: Why do so many girls like horror movies? Have you encountered som...2017-12-2829 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 80: Dan ShesselMeet Dan Shessel, co-host and co-creator of the Northern Nerdcast, a showcase for the geeky, nerdy people, groups and events in and around the Edmonton area. The Northern Nerd Network started as a YouTube channel in 2013, but it was killing Dan to leave so much on the cutting room floor, which he found himself doing a lot with video. Podcasts can be longer, and Dan loves podcasts himself, so it made a lot of sense to swivel to audio in 2014, with a little bit of video in the mix. Dan co-hosts the podcast with Chelsea...2017-12-1825 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 79: Press Start to JoinMeet Josh Shenfield and Alan Techsmith, two prolific nerds who talk about video games, movies, TV, comics and "more geekery than you can shake a joystick at" on Press Start to Join. Like many podcasts, Press Start to Join began because friends who met in high school kept having interesting conversations and decided to put them on the internet. That was five years ago, and more than 160 episodes later, they have learned a lot, and are still having fun. Some episodes are deep dives into video game history (like this one on Tetris); some are l...2017-12-0435 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 78: Meredith BratlandMeet Meredith Bratland, a writer and traveller who has turned her curiosity about people from elsewhere into a podcast called Migration Patterns. Meredith talks to people who have immigrated to Canada about their homelands. Her approach is personal rather than political, and her first season is full of lovely conversations with interesting people that collectively demonstrate her thesis, without weighing down each episode with such gravitas, that immigration makes our country stronger. Meredith writes, but blogging was starting to bore her, so she decided a podcast was the best medium for this endeavour. "I went to...2017-11-2036 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 77: Meetup with Doug HoyerDoug Hoyer has written more Edmonton podcast music than anyone I know, even though he doesn't live here any more. So when he came back to Edmonton for a few days in October, I grabbed the opportunity to ask him about that work at the Edmonton Podcasting Meetup. This is an edited version of the live audio from that session at Variant Edition on Oct. 21, 2017. We talked about three circumstances in which Doug's music would be used on a podcast: Commissioned work: You can hear original music that Doug specifically wrote for these...2017-11-0639 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonInterlude: Episode 1 of That's a Thing?!This week I bring you something completely different — instead of the usual interview with a local podcaster or blogger, or the audio from one of our podcasting meetups, this episode features the pilot for a new podcast called That's A Thing?!, "a sometimes belated, already outdated guide to your teens, tweens and everything under 20." This idea came out of a series of conversations with my daughter, Elizabeth, about phenomena that were completely common and normal to her, and utterly foreign to me. Because we both listen to a lot of podcasts, and because I had access to rec...2017-10-2335 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 76: Sandra Sperounes and Agnes DeMarcoMeet Sandra Sperounes and Agnes DeMarco, the music writer and the rock-n-roll mom who shine a spotlight on creative people with their podcast, Agnes + Sandra's Three-Way. Their relationship started when Sandra, then a writer with the Edmonton Journal, interviewed Agnes, "a personality in her own right" (which you will definitely hear in this conversation) who is also the mother of musician Mac DeMarco. Their podcast started with a conversation over a dirty Martini, and that cheeky name came from their first guest. Now that they are several episodes in, they are clearly having a grand ti...2017-10-0936 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 75: Caleb CaswellMeet Caleb Caswell, who combines his background in journalism and music to have sincere conversations about Edmonton's music scene on The Tear Down. Caleb studied both music and professional writing at MacEwan University, and was looking for a way to combine those experiences. He had done enough freelance writing to know he was leaving a lot of good quotes uncaptured in interviews with musicians. A podcast turned out to be a way to get into more depth. He goes to a show with his guest, and they talk about it before getting into the guest's music, which...2017-09-2532 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 74: Sylvia SchneiderMeet Sylvia Schneider, co-host of the Equinely-Inclined podcast for Canada's horse community, and a pioneer of Alberta podcasting. Sylvia wanted to do a podcast before the concept was even a gleam in anyone's eye — she just didn't know that was the name for what she wanted to do. She started finding fellow horse-lovers on message boards, before the World Wide Web made it so much easier for us to connect with each other. And she started a blog, for which she would interview people in the equine community. "I always thought it would be so muc...2017-09-1134 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 73: Jeff MacCallumMeet Jeff MacCallum, one-half of the team behind two Edmonton podcasts that focus on independent music on the prairies: Cups N Cakes and Inside the Artist's Studio. Cups N Cakes started because Jeff and his friend, Carey Newton, wanted to stay in touch. There are easier ways to maintain a friendship than to make a podcast, however, especially one that takes hours of research. They are well into their third year now, and have big plans for the future. Cups N Cakes has about half an hour of talk and an hour of music, which...2017-08-2835 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 72: Meetup with Erika EnsignErika Ensign of Verity! and many, many other podcasts joined us at the July podcasting meetup to talk about growing a fandom. Erika is one of the most prolific podcasters I know, and one of the most successful. She has a hand in these:
Verity!, where six smart women talk about Doctor Who;
Beginner's Puck, a podcast for hockey fans new and old;
The Uncanny Magazine Podcast, a companion to the online magazine of science fiction and fantasy (which just won its second Hugo Award!);
The Audio Guide to Babylon 5, a rewatch of the sci-fi series;
L...2017-08-1439 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 71: Sydney LancasterMeet Sydney Lancaster, the visual artist and advocate who extends the reach of her work through her blog and helps artists learn how to look after the business side of their work through Visual Arts Alberta-CARFAC (Canadian Artists' Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens). Sydney has been a full-time artist since 2005, with a practice in drawing, printmaking, photography and large-scale sculptural installations. "I call myself jokingly a closet phenomenologist, because what I'm interested in is how we hang stories on the world around us," she says. In this episode, you'll hear Sydney's thoughts on the u...2017-07-3142 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 70: Taproot LiveI had the pleasure of moderating a discussion about urban planning wishes at a live event put on by Taproot Edmonton, my other adventure in building a future for local media, which I've been working on for the past year with Mack Male. It was an interesting discussion on a profoundly local topic, so I figured it might also be of interest to listeners of Seen and Heard in Edmonton. Here you go. This episode is also available in Apple Podcasts, on Google Play, on SoundCloud or on Stitcher. For more on Ryan Stephen...2017-07-1747 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 69: Amy and Scott FralickMeet Scott and Amy Fralick, the smart and creative couple who are chronicling their adventure with pregnancy later in life on their new podcast, 40 & Knocked Up! You may know them as two-thirds of The Frolics, a surf-punk band that started in Nashville and is now part of Edmonton's music scene. You may also know Scott as a broadcast journalist who is now at CITY-TV. But they are also parents who decided after 40 that they wanted to have another child. It has not been easy, and they had trouble finding useful and non-boring resources, so they're m...2017-07-0336 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 68: Meetup with Michael ShortFor our June podcasting meetup, we had a chat with Michael Short of Let's Go Outdoors about how to make a living in new media. I don't think it's a stretch to say that Michael is a man ahead of his time. Long before the Internet made it a whole lot easier to be an independent media producer, Michael was doing it with Let's Go Outdoors, where he covers all kinds of stories to do with land, air and water, and distributed them on radio, TV and now online. His business model on Let's Go O...2017-06-1939 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 67: Andrew PaulMeet Andrew Paul, who uses his journalistic chops to tell stories about philanthropy and good works in Edmonton as part of the team that produces The Well-Endowed Podcast. Andrew came up through alt-weeklies and magazines after he graduated from the journalism program at MacEwan. He shifted into doing public relations for arts and non-profit organizations with his now-wife, Fawnda Mithrush, and ended up at the Edmonton Community Foundation, which encourages philanthropy and funds charitable activities. The podcast is an extension of the foundation's efforts to tell the stories of its donors and the work it su...2017-06-0528 min
The Well Endowed PodcastEpisode 9 – Big Hearts, Open MindsOn this month’s episode, we sit down with Jon Hall to remember his wife, Gail Hall, and her dedication to uplifting Edmonton’s community. Jas Pandher reveals everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the Sikh Turban with the Turban Eh! event for Canada 150. We speak with Karen Unland about the landscape of podcasting in Edmonton, and we find out more about her new project: The Alberta Podcast Network. We also spend a little time at the Zoo where we catch up with ECF donors and partners.
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Donate to the ChefGail Fund here. And you...2017-06-0100 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 66: Cultivating a communityI had the great pleasure of talking to Ben Yendall of Tales from the Hydian Way and Trina Shessel from the Northern Nerdcast on stage at the Needle on May 12 during NorthwestFest's LunchPods series. Both Ben and Trina have cultivated a community around their podcasts, and are members of Edmonton's growing and increasingly connected podcasting community. They shared a lot of excellent insights about how and why they got into podcasting, and what they have learned about "community" in all (or at least many) senses of the word. I also talk a bit about the Al...2017-05-2235 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 65: Meetup with Fawnda MithrushOur April meetup gave us a chance to talk about the power of cross-promotion by engaging in some cross-promotion — I love me some meta. We had a chance to talk Fawnda Mithrush, who is managing director of NorthwestFest, Edmonton's international festival of nonfiction film, art and music. Fawnda is the brain behind LunchPods, a series of live podcast shows on at The Needle Vinyl Tavern throughout this week in conjunction with the film festival. Fawnda also hosted I Don't Get It, an award-winning podcast about contemporary dance, which she's hoping to resurrect one of these da...2017-05-0923 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 64: Michael Vecchio and Elliott TantiMeet Elliott Tanti and Michael Vecchio, two friends who started sparring about politics for fun and decided to turn their frequent debates into the Highlevel Showdown podcast. Highlevel Showdown started in the Tory Building at the University of Alberta, where Elliott and Michael found themselves engaging in political discussions that spilled over onto the LRT on the way home. Elliott had done a podcast called What's Up UAlberta, and it felt natural to capture the conversations they were already having. A terrific politics podcast was born. In this episode, you'll hear how the show has ch...2017-04-1730 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 63: Building local listenershipOur March podcasting meetup offered a local spin on #trypod, a campaign that started in the U.S. to encourage more people to listen to podcasts. I am, of course, strongly in favour of more people listening to podcasts of all kinds, but I am particularly interested in carving out some mindshare for locally produced shows. That's why I invited Chris Chang-Yen Phillips, creator of Let's Find Out, and Katrina Ingram, interim CEO of CKUA, to give their perspectives on how to do that. Chris's podcast was part of his successful application to be Edmonton's histori...2017-04-0335 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 62: Getting started with The BroadcastOur February meetup was kind of a sequel to an earlier meetup on how to get started. Among the aspiring podcasters in that audience were journalists Trisha Estabrooks and Alex Zabjek. At that point, they knew they wanted to do a podcast, but they had so many questions. They got some answers at that meetup, and found a lot more on their own on their way to launching The Broadcast, a show about women and politics in Alberta. So I decided to have them back to share what it took to pull the trigger. "You g...2017-03-2132 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 61: Lauren DaryMeet Lauren Dary, an Edmonton photographer and one-half of the team behind That’s So Maven, a podcast by, for and about female entrepreneurs. Lauren and her co-host, Andrea Beça, discovered in a series of texts that they had both been thinking about starting a podcast. Then they discovered they were both interested in focusing on women in business. Kismet. Off they went. At first they thought it would be bi-weekly, but when they started building their list of potential guests, it was quickly more than a year long. So now they have a weekly...2017-03-0626 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 60: Keep it tight or let it run?Our January meetup was billed as a debate between Taylor Chadwick of What It Is against Andrea Beça of That's So Maven on how long a podcast should be. "Debate" turned out to be a bit of a strong term. As Taylor says at one point, "it sounds like we're just going to agree the whole time." I accept responsibility. Everyone's just so nice. They do come from different points of view on what works for the length of their own shows. The sweet spot for What It Is — an arts interview show that Tay...2017-02-2049 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 59: Tyler ButlerMeet Tyler Butler, the always-learning digital marketing strategist and musician who explores social media on the new podcast Don’t Call Me A Guru. Don't Call Me A Guru is a monthly conversation about social media strategy between Tyler, who works at MacEwan University, and Linda Hoang, who used to work at NAIT and now works at Calder Bateman. They met kibbitzing with each other online, and now we get to listen in on their "conversations we would have had anyway," and learn a lot about social media in the process. Tyler also produces Clock Radio, a...2017-02-0624 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 58: Nick McQuikMeet Nick McQuik, the always hustling comic who co-hosts The Quik and Slow Comedy Show, a long-running podcast featuring "comedians interviewing comedians about comedy in a basement." Nick started podcasting in part to learn more about his craft, a good trick I may have adopted myself a time or two. He also jumped in with both feet by buying a lot of equipment, so he kind of had to make it happen after that. I suspect I am too old and square for some of the comedy on Nick's show, which he co-hosts with Aaron M...2017-01-2326 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 57: Meetup on how to find your podcasting nicheWe kick off 2017 with the audio from our November meetup with Haley Radke of Adoptees On and Wang Yip of The Dip on how to find your niche. In a way, these two podcasts couldn't be more different, in format, audience and tone. Haley's podcast is an interview show that gives a voice to people who were adopted, and Wang's is a conversation with co-host Shawn Kanungo riffing on interesting things they've heard other podcasts about business, entrepreneurship, creativity and the like. But they have a lot in common in that they serve a particular nic...2017-01-0922 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 56: Meetup on how to reach your audienceThis week’s podcast features the audio from our October meetup with Kelly Froese of the Edmonton Nerd List and Jeff Williams of Guerrilla Radio. Kelly and Jeff have each devised ways to shine a spotlight on local creators and ventures. As you know, that is pretty much my favourite thing, so I brought them together and called it "how to reach your audience," because one of the ways to do that is to get noticed by one of these cross-promotion sites. You can also derive some lessons for how they have built their own audiences. In...2016-12-1930 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 55: Dave RaeMeet Dave Rae, the comic, sketch comedian and improviser who takes any side of any debate and always wins on The Devil's Advocate. I first learned of Dave and his podcast through the Northern Content Network, a collection of primarily (but not exclusively) comedian-produced podcasts gathered by Dan Clarke and Dan Taylor. The Devil's Advocate quickly caught my attention as a smart, funny exercise that was unlike anything else I had heard. Dave has made me laugh out loud so many times. He did it a lot during this episode, too. He started in standup w...2016-12-0532 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 54: Robyn WilsonMeet Robyn Wilson, the fearless and empathetic interviewer behind The One, a podcast featuring everyday people and the love stories that make them unique. The One was "spurred out of jealousy," Robyn says. She had been helping her husband, Phil Wilson, with his podcast (more about that below), and decided that she wanted something of her own. Hearing other people's love stories made her happy, so she decided to go with that. In this conversation, you'll learn more about how Robyn approaches her interviews, what it was like to have the microphone turned on her a...2016-11-2121 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 53: Meetup on how to get startedThis week's podcast features the audio from our meetup on how to start a podcast, which we recorded way back in September. This was a departure from our usual format. We had veteran podcasters on one side of the room and aspiring podcasters on the other, and we invited the rookies to pepper the vets with questions. You'll hear questions such as these: Which sound editing program should I use? What would you do differently if you started again, especially for business? How frequently should podcasts come out? What social media channels should you use? What...2016-11-0758 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 52: Tema FrankMeet Tema Frank, an author, an Internet pioneer, and the creator of Frank Reactions, where she explores customer experience and customer service in the digital era. Tema has long been a woman ahead of her time, putting up her first website in 1995 to promote her first book, Canada's Best Employers for Women. Most people around her didn't even know what a website was, but the experience taught her things she would use later on, which is a theme, as you'll hear. Credit perhaps is due to the University of Alberta, where she was part of the first b...2016-10-1721 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 51: Jeremy BibaudMeet Jeremy Bibaud, the gaming aficionado who co-hosts The Clickbait Podcast, and the enterprising writer behind a story-mapping project called YEG Storyhood. Jeremy is a guy who sees an opportunity and grabs it. He'd been writing for the online magazine PlayStation LifeStyle. When its previous podcast stopped, Jeremy and co-hosts Jeffrey Gordon and Brandon Hoover stepped in to make a podcast that, in part, addresses the community's reactions to stories. "Most people say, 'Don't read the comments,' but we read the comments," Jeremy says. "That's our job." And it is a paying gig, which is pret...2016-10-0324 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 50: David RauchMeet David Rauch, the strategic planner, open-data enthusiast and onetime journalist who makes connections through Beta City YEG, Edmonton's civic technology meetup. David is the kind of guy who radiates enthusiasm. It's that energy that has animated and incited all kinds of interesting projects, such as the Open Piano project that brought music to city streets; ArtTourYEG, a guide to Edmonton's public art; the LinkYEG app to connect Edmontonians in need with services; and a map of historical Edmonton photos, among many other projects. Beta City YEG convenes citizens, public employees and members of Edmonton's te...2016-09-1926 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 49: Jim BilodeauMeet Jim Bilodeau, a NAIT instructor with a passion to help artists make money online, and the man behind The Museum Project, an interesting idea to help make that happen. Jim was one of the people who came in for an interview on 100 in 1 Day back in June, when I took over a studio at the Edmonton Public Library's Makerspace to talk to Edmontonians about what they are making. Unlike most of my interviewees, Jim doesn't write a blog or make a podcast or have a YouTube channel. But he wants to help those who...2016-09-0519 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 48: Ben YendallMeet Ben Yendall, the storytelling, community-building co-host of Tales from the Hydian Way, a podcast about a role-playing game set in the Star Wars universe. As Ben says, Tales from the Hydian Way is about as niche as you can get, but podcasting is a great medium for serving your particular pack of people. He followed the advice we've often heard here and elsewhere: Make the podcast you want to listen to. I don't play the game and I stopped watching Star Wars at Return of the Jedi, and yet I tune into Tales from...2016-08-2218 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 47: German VillegasMeet German Villegas, a youth worker who conducts interviews about healthy masculinity on The Modern Manhood Podcast and jaws about hockey with his buddies on Your Team Sucks. German has been interested in podcasting for awhile, and had a music one that didn't go anywhere. Hockey turned out to be more fruitful terrain for a lively debate, hence Your Team Sucks, where fans of three different teams chirp each other and discuss various hockey-related happenings. That's where I first became aware of German. Your Team Sucks is fun, but it's clear that German's deeper passion lies...2016-08-0820 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 46: Meetup with Ryan Jackson and Chris SikkengaThis week's podcast features the audio from our meetup on how to get good sound, featuring multimedia photojournalist Ryan Jackson of Full Circle Visuals and podcaster and video editor Chris Sikkenga. We gathered at Variant Edition Comics and Culture in June to learn more about why sound is so important, how to control the room to improve the conditions for recording, how to work the microphone to avoid common errors, how to monitor your sound along the way, and what, if anything, you can do after the fact to fix it up if you mess up. 2016-07-2542 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 45: Jessica and Katie of For KicksMeet Jessica Cooreman and Katie Woodfine, the hardcore footy fans behind For Kicks, a podcast that follows the Canadian national women's team on the road to Rio, as well as women's soccer in general. I hope some day to love something as much as Katie and Jessica love soccer. Their passion for the game is infectious and so fun to listen to. And I was thrilled to hear in our conversation that even though the podcast was born to follow the team's progress towards the Olympics this August, they plan to keep their podcast going afterwards. ...2016-07-1230 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 44: Marcia J. HammMeet Marcia J. Hamm, the wine lover who explores her passion and makes educated but accessible recommendations on her blog, Joy of Wine. Marcia wasn't always into wine, but an encounter with a pinot gris made her want to learn more about it. As she started studying, her husband told her she should really start writing down what she was experiencing, and that's where her blog began. She has pursued a lot of wine education over the years, including earning her WSET (Wine and Spirit Education Trust) certification and status as an Italian Wine Ambassador. B...2016-06-2714 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 43: Matt Mercer-SlingsbyMeet Matt Mercer-Slingsby, one of the hosts of Drink This Podcast, a celebration of pub culture that lets you eavesdrop on smart people talking about everything from restaurant life to Disney, over beers, of course. Drink This Podcast started as a review show four years ago, but that had some limitations, Matt says, and it got complicated when he got a job in the beer industry. So they shifted their focus to great conversations over tasty libations. Matt and his co-host Paul recently brought on Vancouver's Mia Steinberg as a third regular co-host after she ble...2016-06-1316 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 42: Meetup with Jeff SamsonowThis week’s podcast features the audio from our meetup with Jeff Samsonow of the edmontonian media co. on the subject of how to ask good questions. Jeff first started asking questions in a professional capacity when he got into journalism in high school, which put him on a path that led him to radio and then Accessible Media. Along the way, he and his partner Sally Poulsen founded the edmontonian, a blog that gave many other bloggers and podcasters their start. Jeff now runs Capital Ideas in Edmonton and Calgary. You can hear his pas...2016-06-0833 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 41: Jess HoltMeet Jess Holt, the wry wit and graphic designer by trade who offers a raw, insightful look at life as the mother of twins on Grace and Champ. Jess started the blog as a way to connect with adults after emerging from the first-year fog of somewhat unexpected parenthood, multiplied by 2. “I didn’t want it to be just about parenting, but it turns out that’s all I do,” she says. You don’t get tips from Jess, nor do you get a candy-coated celebration of the joys of motherhood. You get candour, which brings with...2016-06-0823 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 40: Alyssa LauMeet Alyssa Lau, the blogger who shares her unique and striking approach to style at Ordinary People, and the proprietor of New Classics Studios, an online shop for sustainable fashion.… More Episode 40: Alyssa Lau2016-05-1726 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 39: Nathan TerleskyMeet Nathan Terlesky, one half of the soccer-loving duo that chats about FC Edmonton and other football-related matters on the Loyal Company of the River Valley podcast.… More Episode 39: Nathan Terlesky2016-05-0925 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 38: Trent WilkieMeet Trent Wilkie, the writer, performer and blogger behind The Undad, where he tries to "make sense of being a father, a husband and a malcontent."… More Episode 38: Trent Wilkie2016-05-0229 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 37: Jeanshorts and BaggedmilkMeet Jeanshorts and Baggedmilk, two hockey fans who parlayed their passion for communicating about the game into paying jobs at OilersNation and the Nation Network.… More Episode 37: Jeanshorts and Baggedmilk2016-04-2527 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 36: Troy PavlekMeet Troy Pavlek, a close observer of civic affairs and the man behind Basket of YEGs and yegvotes.info.… More Episode 36: Troy Pavlek2016-04-1822 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 35: Don IvesonMayor Don Iveson discusses why he blogs, the good and bad of social media, and the changes happening in media in general.… More Episode 35: Don Iveson2016-04-1117 min
IABC Edmonton Podcast001 Earned Media: Karen UnlandEarned media remains valuable, whether it’s for your clients or for your own company. What are some of the strategies we can use today during Edmonton's recent changes in local media to have our stories told? Karen Unland discussed how this will change the way communicators pitch stories. No matter who is being pitched to, it’s more important than ever to think like an entrepreneur.
Karen Unland is building her own media company after many productive and instructive years in mainstream newsrooms. She spent 14 years at the Edmonton Journal as a reporter and in various editorial roles, then left...2016-03-2807 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 34: Paul MatwychukMeet Paul Matwychuk, a writer, editor and film aficionado who compares and contrasts movies in the most erudite way on Trash, Art, and the Movies.… More Episode 34: Paul Matwychuk2016-03-2130 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 33: The Movie JerksMeet JP Fournier and Shawn Gramiak, aka The Movie Jerks, two comedians who make people love the movies they hate, or hate them more.… More Episode 33: The Movie Jerks2016-03-1430 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 32: Meetup with Steven SchapanskyHear Steven Schapansky of Radio Free Skaro discuss monetizing your podcast at a recent Edmonton Podcasting Meetup.… More Episode 32: Meetup with Steven Schapansky2016-03-0732 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 31: Sarah HoylesMeet Sarah Hoyles, the passionate storyteller who talks to people about their animals on Pet Sounds, and who nerds out about history on the Edmonton City as Museum Project's podcast.… More Episode 31: Sarah Hoyles2016-02-2931 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 30: David DodgeMeet David Dodge, the man behind Green Energy Futures, a multimedia storytelling project that documents the clean energy revolution.… More Episode 30: David Dodge2016-02-2228 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 29: Lori GodinMeet Lori Godin, the smart cookie behind Frugal Edmonton Mama, Raising Edmonton and YEG Date Night.… More Episode 29: Lori Godin2016-02-1528 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 28: Dan Taylor and Ben ProulxMeet Ben Proulx and Dan Taylor, the comedians behind the 30 Minute Week podcast.… More Episode 28: Dan Taylor and Ben Proulx2016-02-0832 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 27: Podcast promotion meetupHear Dan Clarke, Erika Ensign and Kevin Horek discuss how to promote your podcast.… More Episode 27: Podcast promotion meetup2016-02-0148 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 26: TJ Jans and Salena KitteringhamMeet TJ Jans and Salena Kitteringham, the team behind the Curious Arts blog.… More Episode 26: TJ Jans and Salena Kitteringham2016-01-2529 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 25: Stacey KnoppMeet Stacey Knopp, who connects awesome couples and great local vendors on yegwed.com.… More Episode 25: Stacey Knopp2016-01-1830 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 24: Podcasting tech meetup, Part 2Adam Rozenhart, Scott Winder and Mack Male discuss podcasting tech in Part 2 from our meetup.… More Episode 24: Podcasting tech meetup, Part 22016-01-1125 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 23: Podcasting tech meetupHear about podcasting tech in the past, present and future from Mack Male, Adam Rozenhart and Scott Francis Winder.… More Episode 23: Podcasting tech meetup2016-01-0424 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 22: Colin MacIntyreMeet Colin MacIntyre, creator of the vital and hilarious Long John Index, a service he runs during Canada's colder months to suggest how we should dress for the weather.… More Episode 22: Colin MacIntyre2015-12-1324 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 21: Linda HoangMeet Linda Hoang, the self-described "social media lady" behind linda-hoang.com and the online identity @lindork. Oh my goodness, did we ever laugh a lot in this interview.… More Episode 21: Linda Hoang2015-12-0630 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 20: Lillian TseMeet Lillian Tse, whose quest to master the art of making macarons led her to create her food blog, Beyond Umami.… More Episode 20: Lillian Tse2015-11-2921 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 19: Kat GriffithsMeet Kat Griffiths, one of six smart women who discuss Doctor Who on the podcast Verity!… More Episode 19: Kat Griffiths2015-11-2224 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 18: Phil WilsonMeet Phil Wilson, the food-loving man behind the Baconhound blog and the Off Menu podcast. Truth be told, there’s a good chance you have met Phil, at least virtually, because he is a fixture on the Edmonton blogging scene. He’s a good talker, too, as we used to say in the newsroom, which accounts for his… More Episode 18: Phil Wilson2015-11-1528 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 17: Ryan BattyMeet Ryan Batty, managing editor of Oilers blog The Copper & Blue and an engineer who blogs about transportation from time to time on All Roads Lead to Ryan. Like many hockey bloggers, Ryan got his start on the message boards and comment threads of the storied Oilogosphere. That and his work on his own site, Spilled Oil, caught the eye of… More Episode 17: Ryan Batty2015-11-0830 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 16: Danica LeBlanc and Brandon SchatzMeet Danica LeBlanc and Brandon Schatz, avid podcasters who love Doctor Who, sell comics and cultivate an inclusive, creative community around whatever they do. Danica and Brandon were both guests and hosts at our first ever Edmonton podcasting meetup at their store, Variant Edition, which has become a hub for intelligent conversations about pop culture. Since… More Episode 16: Danica LeBlanc and Brandon Schatz2015-11-0123 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 15: Chris TseMeet Chris Tse, a scientist-turned-personal-trainer who has turned his business’s blog and his social media presence into an important community-builder and creative outlet. Chris started blogging on the Blitz Conditioning site in 2011 (I might have said 2012 in the podcast). At first, he said, he and co-founder Brett Kirkland were largely motivated by a desire… More Episode 15: Chris Tse2015-10-2523 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 14: Taylor Chadwick and Brian BergumMeet Taylor Chadwick and Brian Bergum, two-thirds of the core team that brings you What It Is, a podcast that has become a vital and highly entertaining archive of Edmonton’s arts scene. What It Is was born out of creative friends riffing and realizing their intelligent silliness was so good that other people should hear it, too. (Well, that’s my… More Episode 14: Taylor Chadwick and Brian Bergum2015-10-1831 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 13: Dave CournoyerMeet Dave Cournoyer, the man behind the well-known, well-read, well-written political blog Daveberta. Dave has been at this for 10 years, and is definitely one of the deans of the Edmonton blogosphere — so much so that he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Yeggies at the still tender age of 31. A… More Episode 13: Dave Cournoyer2015-10-1129 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 12: Natasha ChiamMeet Natasha Chiam, the woman behind The Stay At Home Feminist, a blog that makes me laugh, cry and think. As we learn in this episode, Natasha started as a reluctant blogger on her online baby boutique’s website in 2008. And then she had an experience that got her hooked on writing, and away she went. The story… More Episode 12: Natasha Chiam2015-10-0426 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 11: Erin E. FraserMeet Erin E. Fraser, co-host of two podcasts about film: Trash, Art and the Movies and Bollywood is for Lovers. Erin joined Paul Matwychuk and Heather Noel on Trash, Art and the Movies in 2012, and has been pitting highbrow cinema again brainless entertainment and declaring a victor ever since. The format of the podcast has… More Episode 11: Erin E. Fraser2015-09-2725 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 10: Jenna MarynowskiMeet Jenna Marynowski, the woman behind After the House Lights, an outlet for her profound passion for local theatre. Jenna caught the writing-about-theatre bug at Sound + Noise, which led her to start own place to shine a spotlight on the dramatic arts. In addition to reviews, she also pays exceptionally close attention to theatre festivals,… More Episode 10: Jenna Marynowski2015-09-2017 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 9: Nicole RowanMeet Nicole Rowan, the woman behind The Spirited Thrifter, a blog about secondhand shopping and everyday style. Nicole is now in her fourth year of blogging, and she says it has been a life-changing experience. She tells us how a bout of retail therapy at Value Village led to her blog, and why her blog… More Episode 9: Nicole Rowan2015-09-1326 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonInterlude 1: The tables are turnedIt’s the Labour Day long weekend, and it feels like I’ve been on a dead run for weeks, notwithstanding (or maybe including) the little family vacation we just took. Anyway, this seemed like a good time to take a breath. I don’t want to leave you empty-eared, however. Thanks to my Episode 8 guest, Andy… More Interlude 1: The tables are turned2015-09-0603 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 8: Andy GrabiaMeet Andy Grabia, the blogger behind Yegball, a look at baseball in Edmonton, and a veteran of the original Oilogosphere, the community of hardcore hockey bloggers who helped change the way the game was written about in the early 2000s. Andy explores his blogging history, all the way back to a personal blog called The Cosby… More Episode 8: Andy Grabia2015-08-3027 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 7: Sharon YeoMeet Sharon Yeo, the woman behind Only Here for the Food, one of Edmonton’s great food blogs, and the co-founder of What the Truck?!, the food-truck festival that has had a huge impact on the food scene and on the city’s sense of community. Like many bloggers, Sharon started because she liked to write and… More Episode 7: Sharon Yeo2015-08-2325 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 6: Jay RunhamMeet Jay Runham, the YouTuber, movie geek and basketball fan behind The Jay Runham Show. Jay is one of several independent media producers who got his start at The Edmontonian, the news and events site founded by Jeff Samsonow and Sally Poulsen that spawned a diaspora of talent. He went on to do an entertainment podcast… More Episode 6: Jay Runham2015-08-1625 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 5: Laura FreyA conversation with Laura Frey, the book blogger behind Reading in Bed, who offers solid advice on blogging and suggests many other blogs, podcasts and YouTubers to follow. Check out her wonderful list in the show notes. Music credits: Beethoven’s Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2 No. 1, played by Daniel Veesey, from… More Episode 5: Laura Frey2015-08-0929 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 4: Andrea BeçaA conversation with Andrea Beça, who loves to set challenges for herself and do them out loud on the Internet. Her latest project is a series of ukulele videos, and she’s got more ideas in the hopper. Check out the full show notes to see all the links she mentioned, and tons of recommendations for local… More Episode 4: Andrea Beça2015-08-0224 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 3: Adam RozenhartA conversation with Adam Rozenhart, a nonstop creator of interesting things on the Internet, including his latest podcast, The Expats. He is both prolific and eclectic, and his taste in other people’s blogs and podcasts is equally so. Check out more about Adam’s projects and his many recommendations here. This week’s episode is brought to you… More Episode 3: Adam Rozenhart2015-07-2724 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 2: Rev RecluseA conversation with Kelly McConkey, better known as Rev Recluse, the ardent archivist who compiles a daily trip through history via newspapers, old broadcast clips and other ephemera on Vintage Edmonton. He’s podcasting old Edmonton music now, too. Learn more about this and his recommendations here.2015-07-2217 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 1: Michelle Peters-JonesA conversation with Michelle-Peters Jones, whose blog The Tiffin Box was nominated for a 2015 Taste Canada food-writing award. Learn more about Michelle and the blogs she recommends here.2015-07-2223 minSeen and Heard in EdmontonEpisode 0: Intro and Mack MaleAn introduction to Seen and Heard in Edmonton, a podcast about bloggers and podcasters in Edmonton. In this episode, host Karen Unland gets her feet wet, sort of, with the assistance of Mack Male, aka mastermaq, creator of ShareEdmonton.2015-07-2205 min