eric rochow

Just wanted to share this with you, as I think its pretty cool. On the iTunes hobby page Gardenfork is up there with some of the big wheels of the video podcast world, and it ranked #4 of all hobby podcasts. Right alongside our friends from The Wood Whisperer. Neat.

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Real World Green is now sponsored by Primo Water. The deal was negotiated by Matt Snodgrass of Porter Novelli and Paul Kontonis of For Your Imagination.

Primo Water sells water in large 5 gallon containers at retailers and you return the container for it to be re-used. Its individual water bottles are made with a plastic [...]

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This slipped past me and its a big one to let slip past. I did not realize The Clip Show had done a review of Gardenfork last fall. Some very nice things were said. A big thank you for Jim Kirks and Charlie Baker for putting Gardenfork on.

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my social media friends Nicole and Marc of The Wood Whisperer gave a talk at Podcamp AZ about using Ustream.tv
Nicole makes some very good points about stickiness and building viewers into foamers.

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I was invited by Andrew Lipson and Jeff Pulver to appear on Jeff Pulver’s Blogtv.com show, Pulver.tv. It was great. Thanks for having me.

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Full disclosure: I don’t have any children ( though who knows what the future brings ). But many of my friends do, and I spend time with them. I think, for the most part, that kids don’t do the things I did growing up. Kids are overbooked and micromanaged and not allowed to do anything [...]

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Not to sound like a broken record, but just this morning, while walking Henry in Prospect Park, I was talking with an advertising person about how there’s a ton of junk video on the web, and people are now starting to watch content with higher production values, and they will watch for longer periods.
Now Business [...]

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I’m a bit delinquent here in posting a recap of my recent talks at VON - Video on the Net and Podcamp Boston, but Steve Garfield took these great picts of me. The text will follow soon.

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On the Blip.tv Yahoo group there has been some discussion about integrating more social tools into Blip.tv. Most web video shows on Blip have some sort of website separate from Blip, it may be a WordPress blog, just a HTML page, or a Ning site. Real World Green and Gardenfork now share a Ning site, [...]

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From Shelly Palmer’s Media 3.0 :
MOVE NETWORKS has released viewer data that shows evidence of long-form online viewing on the players it has created for ABC, Fox, ESPN360 and others. 6 million people watched long-form online content on Move technology during October. The company is also seeing an impressive 100,000 new viewers of long-form content [...]

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