Topgold Audio Clips

It is a beautiful day in the sunny southeast of Ireland. Hope yours is as bright as well

Thinking about how people trust services they use more than the experts they could ask.

Discussing the Power Cut Lopper by Wolf Garten, a new garden tool that is used by gardeners like Dylan.

Just three more Monday morning coffee mug fills on my campus.

Explaining the workflow from video to Camtasia to Vimeo. Props to Ava Mae Healy

You can tell a lot about a person by their hands.

Reflecting with Ava-Mae on First Day

On a sunny day in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, I share bright sun and happy noises.

That is a screencap from Whoop showing I need deeper recovery from an all-nighter.

Realising that the door to my classrooms is closing within five teaching weeks.

Offering my streetside perspective across from the Parade Reviewing Stand in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, Ireland. The cover art is the quiet street around the corner, complete with covered-up openings for the horses and carriages.

Talking to gobackdylan aboutbthe very intelligent Google Gemini

With Walk if Life playing overhead and Paddy's Day prep outside, I share ideas with Dylan (in cover art). See one of Dylan's fav brekkie items by scrolling https://bsky.app/profile/topgo...

Thinking about what I will do when my day job at the local university terminates. Maybe some flying. Probably a book or two. And definitely European projects. The cover art is my desk on the Clonmel campus.

What's out front of your home? I have remnants from a bathroom, as you can see from the cover art.

I attended INTED2025 in Valencia--the best edtech conference this century. The cover art wS snapped in the lobby of Hotel Melia, an excellent venue. I will have a longer review of the event on my microblog at https://topgold.micro.blog

Talking about a 512GB thumb drive that is pimped as an SSD drive. And sharing info about the AI courses I teach.

A big apology for being an American in Europe because President Musk has damaged the reputation of omce-proud USA. I ramble about teaching AI and Digital Transformation and offer listeners free passage into the last six AI for Productivity sessions I'm teaching this semester. The cover art shows what my work station looks like today. Hat tip to Simon Toon for being so consistent as an Audiobooster. Reach me @topgold on good social networks.

Just a quick look at producing content with MoJo tools

Thinking about how I would investigate the collision between a jet and a helicopter. Cover art snapped by me while flying down the Potomac.

Sharing ideas about the campfire segments I have during the digital transformation course I run. The course is part of a Springboard funded post-graduate programme described at https://bit.ly/tus-dt Cover art is my current Leuchtturm 1917 notebook.

I have a Substack where I reveal my email backlog: https://open.substack.com/pub/... That's me in the foyer of mu campus in the cover art.

In Dublin to meet Nessa McEniff, CEO of Learnovate. Discovered a pathway to a feasibility study, perhaps made easier with membership to Learnovate, so we will see. I am interested in connecting to https://skillsvista.com as I explore whether a Google Accelerator Fund might help me bring dozens of AI ideas to life. Dublin on the 13th of January 2025 was quiet enough for me to hear kids playing in a city centre park and the buses were non-boisterous so I could hear electronic announcements clearly.If you have suggestions to help my twisted knee, please drop me a line on https://topgold.bsky.social

I intend to share audio logs as part of the journalism section of my Podskills Substack. If you are an OG Audiobooer please let me know ow how you found this clip and let me know what you want from my Substack.

Wondering if there is a way to connect social audio to long form Substack. Trying this with the Spreaker Studio app, hoping a newer phone gives me a Bluetooth option using the mics in the box on the cover photo.

Bernie Goldbach imported his notes from Mairead Pratschke's AI and Education into Readwise and then exported those Readwise snippets into NotebookLM. This podcast captures the audio interview that emerged from Gemini's rendering of the text snippets.

Thinking about rebooting daily audio notes bc I hear FiremanRich and Paul OMahony leading the way. Cover art is the bus stop.

Planning to use my 5yo Samsung in support of Audiomo while simultaneously dropping content into https://topgold.micro.blog/2024/05/10/refining-audio-production.html then listening to the audio on the JBL in the cover photo.

Working with a group of local government employees in a hands-on AI training session. More at https://topgold.micro.blog/202...

Just checking in after a few months.

Discussing the first steps I'm taking to clean out my Notion by making a Teamspace dedicated to a book project I have with Larry Maguire. Cover art from the ice house adjoining my back garden.

Recorded for audiomo while waiting outside the Lost Property Office of Irish Rail in Dublin.

Thinking about how I would frame a discussion of the workplace of 2040 while in front of Connolly Station in Ireland.

Talking to myself about (1) motivation, (2) effortlessness, and (3) belief. I thought about those things while watching wood pigeons.

I explain one of the most embarrassing episodes in my work life. It involves an unintentional audio recording ai made during a Zoom meeting. Part of my Reading Week Reset involves refining a workflow that let's me talk to my Surface Book to dynamically generate a blog post. If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter you may know my son me a video about vandalism in the Clonmel Sports Hub. On 31 March, we head to GASP! in Limerick for salons between students and professional creatives. My next reset is on the first of April when I will add daily Instapaper reviews to my work flow.

We're concerned about the local sports hub and hope the Tipperary County Council shares our view. Dylan (12) is following up with a podcast for Little Bit of Tipp.

I made a short clip explaining what I'm currently carrying in my Tumi Bag. (There's a clue in the cover art.) Also: my Master's students are encountering ethical issues about AI. By the way, I went to Onward #2 in Galway and offered a short video about the event in a post on LinkedIn. I think there are two clips on Flickr as well. I plan to upload another Topgold Audio Clip in the middle of February during our Reading Week.

Four things I suggest. 1. Be real--people want to go beyond where they find you when scrolling. Have a point of presence on a map and also have activities you share on calendars. Real people have regular content. 2. Let your workflow benefit from AI. I shoot in lanscape for YouTube and in portrait for IG Stories. I often let Magisto AI put the clips together. I explain this in depth during a digital transformation studio session. 3. Share your concept work. Use Share and Share Alike Creative Commons copyright. 4. Be discoverable. That means using more than one social network. I'm migrating from Twitter to https://topgold.micro.blog and I have tens of thousands more images on https://Flickr.com/irisheyes than I have on Instagram because of handy embeddable photo albums. For more ideas, follow Bernie's musings as a newsletter from https://insideview.ie

Bernie Goldbach offers information about using the Røde Wireless Go II system with both Android and iOS. We use HiQ MP3 to record segments with the Samsung handsets. And we use Voice Record Pro with iPhones. The Røde receiver needs to connect via the 3.5 mm female leads in both operating systems. We also use a Zoom H6 field recorder and cable into its XY module with the same 3.5 mm jacks. This episode was recorded with the Røde Wireless II Go using Spreaker Studio.

I'm planning to share my purpose with the Congregation in County Mayo, Ireland.My focus: https://congregation.ie/seeing-my-purpose-through-others-21-cong22/Starting next month, we will have stories about Tipperary Heritage for you to hear. To find out more about my digital transformation MA, go to https://lit.ie/en-ie/courses/postgraduate-certificate-in-leadership-communicati Cover art is a sunrise through our trees. Bonus link is my public Instapaper collection at https://www.instapaper.com/p/educastContact Bernie @topgold on all good social networks. Read Bernie in the Fediverse at https://topgold.micro.blog

After watching hundreds of students graduate, I talked to several who were unsure about finishing their probation period. These top graduates are fighters, finishers, closers. But several felt overwhelmed by the choices they made. I warned them that cognitive bias could be distorting their perspective and shared some ideas I gleaned from books I read from Annie Duke, Steve Levitt, and Paul Samuelson. I snapped the cover art during the graduation ceremony.

Elon Musk finished his purchase of Twitter and I downloaded an archive of my tweets since 2006. They're at https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvM0wH1VRkSomrdWUWNuCszMbUcJIw?e=aiU9RWI plan to move my @topgold identity to https://topgold.micro.blog. Image of technopolitics from Aleksandra Kozawska.

I am a big fan of Readwise. It helps me master books. Readwise converts my handwritten notes to text I can review and iterate. The Readwise API hooks into Shortform and that opens doors of digital transformation for me. See my blog for more details https://www.insideview.ie/2022/09/three-readwise-discoveries-knowledgemanagement.html

Thoughts about innovative teaching practice. These steps use Microsoft SharePoint, Google Drive, Microblog, and Flickr. Hardware includes Ricoh Theta, Rode Wireless Go II mics, and labs with desktops. Students need basic video capture skills.1. Start with a brief drawn from practical application2. Byline with personal IDs linked to online identities and key pbrases.3. Quick clips using camera moves created by Magisto AI.4. React Sessions to discuss food, colour, and environment.5. Collaborate using SharePoint then port some snippets to shared Micro.blog.6. Prodce 360 video reviews using Ricoh Theta clips that are scraped from Flickr.

I plan to create a series of audio blog posts that capture what I'm reading and what I plan to do with those texts. You can glance at my current bookshelf by using https://topgold.micro.blog or https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/47601081-bernard-goldbach as your vantage point.On the Blue Table today:-- Dylan's Summer Workbook-- Tiago Forte's Building Second Brain-- Tragic Design by Shariat & Saucier-- Letters of Ted Hughes edited by Christopher Reid-- Top animation graduate Adam Power's Media Writing JournalComments or questions? Find Bernie @topgold on all good social networks.

Bernie and Mia discuss how they reduced their spending on video streaming services by €702 annually. Prime Video still drops into the sitting room as part of the eir fibre broadband service.