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In January, 2022 today's guest, Mike Paciello, made his first appearance on Unstoppable Mindset in Episode 19. It is not often that most of us have the opportunity and honor to meet a real trendsetter and pioneer much less for a second time. However, today, we get to spend more time with Mike, and we get to talk about not only the concepts around web accessibility, but we also discuss the whole concept of inclusion and how much progress we have made much less how much more work needs to be done. Mike Paciello has been a fixture in the assistive technology world for some thirty years. I have known of him for most of that time, but our paths never crossed until September of 2021 when we worked together to help create some meetings and sessions around the topic of website accessibility in Washington D.C. As you will hear, Mike began his career as a technical writer for Digital Equipment Corporation, an early leader in the computer manufacturing industry. I won't tell you Mike's story here. What I will say is that although Mike is fully sighted and thus does not use much of the technology blind and low vision persons use, he really gets it. He fully understands what Inclusion is all about and he has worked and continues to work to promote inclusion and access for all throughout the world. As Mike and I discuss, making technology more inclusive will not only help persons with disabilities be more involved in society, but people will discover that much of the technology we use can make everyone's life better. We talk about a lot of the technologies being used today to make websites more inclusive including the use of AI and how AI can and does enhance inclusion efforts. It is no accident that this episode is being released now. This episode is being released on July 25 to coincide with the 35th anniversary of the signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act which was signed on July 26, 1990. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADA! After you experience our podcast with Mike, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Please feel free to email me at michaelhi@accessibe.com to tell me of your observations. Thanks. About the Guest: Mike Paciello is the Chief Accessibility Officer at AudioEye, Inc., a digital accessibility company. Prior to joining AudioEye, Mike founded WebABLE/WebABLE.TV, which delivers news about the disability and accessibility technology market. Mike authored the first book on web accessibility and usability, “Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities” and, in 1997, Mr. Paciello received recognition from President Bill Clinton for his work in the creation of World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). He has served as an advisor to the US Access Board and other federal agencies since 1992. Mike has served as an international leader, technologist, and authority in emerging technology, accessibility, usability, and electronic publishing. Mike is the former Founder of The Paciello Group (TPG), a world-renowned software accessibility consultancy acquired in 2017 by Vispero. Ways to connect with Mike: mpaciello@webable.com Michael.paciello@audioeye.com Mikepaciello@gmail.com About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! 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Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us. Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Well, hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of unstoppable mindset where inclusion diversity and the unexpected meet. Normally, our guests deal with the unexpected, which is anything that doesn't have to do with inclusion or diversity. Today, however, we get to sort of deal with both. We have a guest who actually was a guest on our podcast before he was in show 19 that goes all the way back to January of 2022, his name is Mike Paciello. He's been very involved in the whole internet and accessibility movement and so on for more than 30 years, and I think we're going to have a lot of fun chatting about what's going on in the world of accessibility and the Internet and and, you know, and but we won't probably get into whether God is a man or a woman, but that's okay, God is actually both, so we don't have to worry about that. But anyway, Mike, welcome to unstoppable mindset. Mike Paciello ** 02:21 Yeah, Hey, Mike, thanks a lot. I can't believe has it really been already since today, six years since the last time I came on this? No, three, 320, 22 Oh, 2022, I for whatever I 2019 Okay, three years sounds a little bit more realistic, but still, it's been a long time. Thank you for having me. It's, it's, it's great to be here. And obviously, as you know, a lot of things have changed in my life since then. But, yeah, very Michael Hingson ** 02:46 cool. Well, you were in show number 19. And I'm not sure what number this is going to be, but it's going to be above 360 so it's been a while. Amazing, amazing, unstoppable, unstoppable. That's it. We got to keep it going. And Mike and I have been involved in a few things together, in, in later, in, I guess it was in 20 when we do the M enabling Summit, that was 2021 wasn't it? Yeah, I think it was, I think it was the year before we did the podcast, yeah, podcast, 2021 right? So we were in DC, and we both worked because there was a group that wanted to completely condemn the kinds of technologies that accessibe and other companies use. Some people call it overlays. I'm not sure that that's totally accurate today, but we we worked to get them to not do what they originally intended to do, but rather to explore it in a little bit more detail, which I think was a lot more reasonable to do. So we've, we've had some fun over the years, and we see each other every so often, and here we are again today. So yeah, I'm glad you're here. Well, tell us a little about well, and I guess what we'll do is do some stuff that we did in 2022 tell us about kind of the early Mike, growing up and all that and what eventually got you into dealing with all this business of web accessibility and such. Yeah, thank you. Mike Paciello ** 04:08 You know, I've tried to short this, shorten this story 100 times. Oh, don't worry. See if I get let's see if I can keep it succinct and and for the folks out there who understand verbosity and it's in its finest way for screen reader users, I'll try not to be verbose. I already am being Michael Hingson ** 04:28 intermediate levels fine. Mike Paciello ** 04:30 I came into this entire field as a technical writer trying to solve a problem that I kind of stumbled into doing some volunteer work for the debt the company that I then then worked for, a Digital Equipment Corporation, a software company, DEC software hardware company, back then, right back in the early 80s. And as a technical writer, I started learning at that time what was called Gen code. Eventually that morphed in. To what Goldfarb, Charles Goldfarb at IBM, called SGML, or standard, Generalized Markup Language, and that really became the predecessor, really gave birth to what we see on the web today, to HTML and the web markup languages. That's what they were, except back then, they were markup languages for print publications. So we're myself and a lot of colleagues and friends, people probably here, I'm sure, at bare minimum, recognized named George Kercher. George and I really paired together, worked together, ended up creating an international steer with a group of other colleagues and friends called the icad 22 which is 22 stands for the amount of elements in that markup language. And it became the adopted standard accessibility standard for the American Association of Publishers, and they published that became official. Eventually it morphed into what we today call, you know, accessible web development. It was the first instance by that was integrated into the HTML specification, I think officially, was HTML 3.1 3.2 somewhere in there when it was formally adopted and then announced in 1997 and at the World Wide Web Conference. That's really where my activity in the web began. So I was working at DEC, but I was doing a lot of volunteer work at MIT, which is where the W 3c was located at that particular time. And Tim Bursley, who a lot of people i Sir, I'm sure, know, the inventor of the web, led the effort at that time, and a few other folks that I work with, and.da Jim Miller, a few other folks. And we were, well, I wasn't specifically approached. Tim was approached by Vice President Gore and eventually President Clinton at that time to see if we could come up with some sort of technical standard for accessibility. And Tim asked if I'd like to work on it myself. Danielle, Jim, a few others, we did, and we came up that first initial specification and launched it as part of the Web Accessibility Initiative, which we created in 1997 from there, my career just took off. I went off did a couple of small companies that I launched, you know, my namesake company, the Paciello Group, or TPG, now called TPG IGI, yeah, yeah, which was acquired by vector capital, or this bureau back in 2017 so it's hard to believe that's already almost 10 years ago. No, yeah. And I've been walking in, working in the software, web accessibility field, usability field, writing fields, you know, for some pretty close to 45 years. It's 2025 40 years, I mean, and I started around 1984 I think it was 8384 when all this first Michael Hingson ** 07:59 started. Wow, so clearly, you've been doing it for a while and understand a lot of the history of it. So how overall has the whole concept of web accessibility changed over the years, not only from a from a coding standpoint, but how do you think it's really changed when it comes to being addressed by the public and companies and so on. Mike Paciello ** 08:26 That's a great question. I'd certainly like to be more proactive and more positive about it, but, but let me be fair, if you compare today and where web accessibility resides, you know, in the in the business value proposition, so to speak, and list the priorities of companies and corporations. You know, fortune 1000 fortune 5000 call whatever you whatever you want. Accessibility. Is there people? You could say section five way you could say the Web Accessibility Initiative, WCAG, compliance, and by and large, particularly technology driven, digital economy driven businesses, they know what it is. They don't know how to do it. Very rarely do they know how to do it. And even the ones that know how to do it don't really do it very well. So it kind of comes down to the 8020, rule, right? You're a business. Whatever kind of business you are, you're probably in more online presence than ever before, and so a lot of your digital properties will come under you know the laws that mandate usability and accessibility for people with disabilities today that having been said and more and more people know about it than ever before, certainly from the time that I started back in the you know, again, in the early, mid 80s, to where we are today. It's night and day. But in terms of prioritization, I don't know. I think what happens quite often is business value proposition. Decisions get in the way. Priorities get in the way of what a business in, what its core business are, what they're trying to accomplish, who they're trying to sell, sell to. They still view the disability market, never mind the blind and low vision, you know, market alone as a niche market. So they don't make the kind of investors that I, I believe that they could, you know, there's certainly, there are great companies like like Microsoft and and Google, Amazon, Apple, you know, a lot of these companies, you know, have done some Yeoman work at that level, but it's nowhere near where it should be. It just absolutely isn't. And so from that standpoint, in where I envision things, when I started this career was when I was in my 20 somethings, and now I'm over now I'm over 60. Well over 60. Yeah, I expected a lot more in, you know, in an internet age, much, much more. Michael Hingson ** 11:00 Yeah, yeah. Well, it's it's really strange that so much has happened and yet so much hasn't happened. And I agree with you, there's been a lot of visibility for the concept of accessibility and inclusion and making the the internet a better place, but it is so unfortunate that most people don't know how to how to do anything with it. Schools aren't really teaching it. And more important than even teaching the coding, from from my perspective, looking at it more philosophically, what we don't tend to see are people really recognizing the value of disabilities, and the value that the market that people with disabilities bring to the to the world is significant. I mean, the Center for Disease Control talks about the fact that they're like up to 25% of all Americans have some sort of disability. Now I take a different approach. Actually. I don't know whether you've read my article on it, but I believe everyone on the in the in the world has a disability, and the reality is, most people are light dependent, but that's as much a disability as blindness. Except that since 1878 when Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. We have focused nothing short of trying to do everything we can to improve light on demand for the last 147 years. And so the disability is mostly covered up, but it's still there. Mike Paciello ** 12:37 You know, yeah, and I did read that article, and I couldn't agree with you more. In fact, I personally think, and I actually have my own blog coming out, and probably later this month might be early, early July, where I talk about the fact that accessibility okay and technology really has been all along. And I love the fact that you call, you know, you identified the, you know, the late 1800s there, when Edison did the the light bulb, Alexander Graham Bell came up with, you know, the telephone. All of those adventures were coming about. But accessibility to people with disabilities, regardless of what their disability is, has always been a catalyst for innovation. That was actually supposed to be the last one I was going to make tonight. Now it's my first point because, because I think it is exactly as you said, Mike, I think that people are not aware. And when I say people, I mean the entire human population, I don't think that we are aware of the history of how, how, because of, I'm not sure if this is the best word, but accommodating users, accommodating people with disabilities, in whatever way, the science that goes behind that design architectural to the point of development and release, oftentimes, things that were done behalf of people with disabilities, or for People with disabilities, resulted in a fundamental, how's this for? For an interesting term, a fundamental alteration right to any other you know, common, and I apologize for the tech, tech, tech language, user interface, right, right? Anything that we interact with has been enhanced because of accessibility, because of people saying, hey, if we made this grip a little bit larger or stickier, we'll call it so I can hold on to it or softer for a person that's got fine motor dexterity disabilities, right? Or if we made a, you know, a web browser, which, of course, we have such that a blind individual, a low vision individual, can adjust the size of this, of the images and the fonts and things like that on a web page, they could do that unknown. Well, these things now. As we well know, help individuals without disabilities. Well, I'm not much, right, and I, again, I'm not speaking as a person beyond your characterization that, hey, look, we are all imperfect. We all have disabilities. And that is, that is absolutely true. But beyond that, I wear glasses. That's it. I do have a little hearing loss too. But you know, I'm finding myself more and more, for example, increasing the size of text. In fact, my note, yes, I increase them to, I don't know they're like, 18 point, just so that it's easier to see. But that is a common thing for every human being, just like you said. Michael Hingson ** 15:36 Well, the reality is that so many tools that we use today come about. And came about because of people with disabilities. Peggy Chung Curtis Chung's wife, known as the blind history lady, and one of the stories that she told on her first visit to unstoppable mindset, which, by the way, is episode number five. I remember that Peggy tells the story of the invention of the typewriter, which was invented for a blind countist, because she wanted to be able to communicate with her lover without her husband knowing about it, and she didn't want to dictate things and so on. She wanted to be able to create a document and seal it, and that way it could be delivered to the lever directly. And the typewriter was the result of Mike Paciello ** 16:20 that? I didn't know that. I will definitely go back. I just wrote it down. I wrote down a note that was episode number five, yeah, before with Curtis a couple of times, but obviously a good friend of ours, yeah, but I yeah, that's, that's, that's awesome. Michael Hingson ** 16:37 Well, and look at, I'll tell you one of the things that really surprises me. So Apple was going to get sued because they weren't making any of their products accessible. And before the lawsuit was filed, they came along and they said, we'll fix it. And they did make and it all started to a degree with iTunes U but also was the iPhone and the iPod and so on. But they they, they did the work. Mostly. They embedded a screen reader called Voiceover in all of their operating systems. They did make iTunes you available. What really surprises me, though is that I don't tend to see perhaps some things that they could do to make voiceover more attractive to drivers so they don't have to look at the screen when a phone call comes in or whatever. And that they could be doing some things with VoiceOver to make it more usable for sighted people in a lot of instances. And I just don't, I don't see any emphasis on that, which is really surprising to me. Mike Paciello ** 17:38 Yeah, I totally agree. I mean, there are a lot of use cases there that you go for. I think Mark Rico would certainly agree with you in terms of autonomous driving for the blind, right? Sure that too. But yeah, I definitely agree and, and I know the guy that the architect voiceover and develop voiceover for Apple and, boy, why can I think of his last name? I know his first name. First name is Mike. Is with Be My Eyes now and in doing things at that level. But I will just say one thing, not to correct you, but Apple had been in the accessibility business long before voice over Alan Brightman and Gary mulcher were instrumental towards convincing, you know, jobs of the importance of accessibility to people with disabilities, Michael Hingson ** 18:31 right? But they weren't doing anything to make products accessible for blind people who needed screen readers until that lawsuit came along. Was Mike Paciello ** 18:40 before screen readers? Yeah, that was before, Michael Hingson ** 18:43 but they did it. Yeah. The only thing I wish Apple would do in that regard, that they haven't done yet, is Apple has mandates and requirements if you're going to put an app in the App Store. And I don't know whether it's quite still true, but it used to be that if your app had a desktop or it looked like a Windows desktop, they wouldn't accept it in the app store. And one of the things that surprises me is that they don't require that app developers make sure that their products are usable with with VoiceOver. And the reality is that's a it doesn't need to be a really significantly moving target. For example, let's say you have an app that is dealing with displaying star charts or maps. I can't see the map. I understand that, but at least voiceover ought to give me the ability to control what goes on the screen, so that I can have somebody describe it, and I don't have to spend 15 or 20 minutes describing my thought process, but rather, I can just move things around on the screen to get to where we need to go. And I wish Apple would do a little bit more in that regard. Mike Paciello ** 19:52 Yeah, I think that's a great a great thought and a great challenge, if, between me and you. Yeah, I think it goes back to what I said before, even though we both see how accessibility or accommodating users with disabilities has led to some of the most incredible innovations. I mean, the Department of Defense, for years, would integrate people with disabilities in their user testing, they could better help, you know, military soldiers, things like that, assimilate situations where there was no hearing, there was they were immobile, they couldn't see all, you know, all of these things that were natural. You know, user environments or personas for people with disabilities. So they led to these kind of, you know, incredible innovations, I would tell you, Mike, I think you know this, it's because the business value proposition dictates otherwise. Michael Hingson ** 20:55 Yeah, and, well, I guess I would change that slightly and say that people think that the business proposition does but it may very well be that they would find that there's a lot more value in doing it if they would really open up their minds to looking at it differently. It's Mike Paciello ** 21:10 kind of, it's kind of like, it's tough. It's kind of like, if I could use this illustration, so to speak, for those who may not be religiously inclined, but you know, it's, it's like prophecy. Most people, you don't know whether or not prophecy is valid until years beyond, you know, years after. And then you could look back at time and say, See, it was all along. These things, you know, resulted in a, me, a major paradigm shift in the way that we do or don't do things. And I think that's exactly what you're saying. You know, if, if people would really look at the potential of what technologies like, you know, a voice over or, as you know, a good friend of mine said, Look, we it should be screen readers. It should be voice IO interfaces, right? That every human can use and interact with regardless. That's what we're really talking about. There's Michael Hingson ** 22:10 a big discussion going on some of the lists now about the meta, Ray Ban, glasses, and some of the things that it doesn't do or that they don't do well, that they should like. It's really difficult to get the meta glasses to read completely a full page. I think there are ways that people have now found to get it to do that, but there are things like that that it that that don't happen. And again, I think it gets back to what you're saying is the attitude is, well, most people aren't going to need that. Well, the reality is, how do you know and how do you know what they'll need until you offer options. So one of my favorite stories is when I worked for Kurzweil a long time ago, some people called one day and they wanted to come and see a new talking computer terminal that that Ray and I and others developed, and they came up, and it turns out, they were with one of those initial organizations out of Langley, Virginia, the CIA. And what they wanted to do was to use the map the the terminal connected to their computers to allow them to move pointers on a map and not have to watch the map or the all of the map while they were doing it, but rather, the computer would verbalize where the pointer was, and then they could they could move it around and pin a spot without having to actually look at the screen, because the way their machine was designed, it was difficult to do that. You know, the reality is that most of the technologies that we need and that we use and can use could be used by so much, so many more people, if people would just really look at it and think about it, but, but you're right, they don't. Mike Paciello ** 24:04 You know, it's, of course, raise a raise another good friend of mine. We both having in common. I work with him. I been down his office a few, more than few times, although his Boston office, anyway, I think he's, I'm not sure he's in Newton. He's in Newton. Yeah. Is he still in Newton? Okay. But anyway, it reminded me of something that happened in a similar vein, and that was several years ago. I was at a fast forward forward conference, future forward conference, and a company, EMC, who absorbed by Dell, I think, right, yes, where they all are. So there I was surprised that when that happened. But hey, yeah, yeah, I was surprised that compact bought depth, so that's okay, yeah, right. That HP bought count, right? That whole thing happened. But um, their chief science, chief scientist, I think he was a their CSO chief scientist, Doc. Came up and made this presentation. And basically the presentation was using voice recognition. They had been hired by the NSA. So it was a NSA right to use voice recognition in a way where they would recognize voices and then record those voices into it, out the output the transcript of that right text, text files, and feed them back to, you know, the NSA agents, right? So here's the funny part of that story goes up i i waited he gave his presentation. This is amazing technology, and what could it was like, 99% accurate in terms of not just recognizing American, English speaking people, but a number of different other languages, in dialects. And the guy who gave the presentation, I actually knew, because he had been a dec for many years. So in the Q and A Part I raised by hand. I got up there. He didn't recognize it a few years had gone by. And I said, you know, this is amazing technology. We could really use this in the field that I work in. And he said, Well, how's that? And I said, you know, voice recognition and outputting text would allow us to do now this is probably 2008 2009 somewhere in that area, would allow us to do real time, automated transcription for the Deaf, Captioning. And he looks at me and he he says, Do I know you? This is through a live audience. I said. I said, Yeah, Mark is it was. Mark said, So Mike gas yellow. He said, you're the only guy in town that I know that could turn a advanced, emerging technology into something for people with disabilities. I can't believe it. So that was, that was, but there was kind of the opposite. It was a technology they were focused on making this, you know, this technology available for, you know, government, obviously covert reasons that if they were using it and applying it in a good way for people with disabilities, man, we'd have been much faster, much further along or even today, right? I mean, it's being done, still not as good, not as good as that, as I saw. But that just goes to show you what, what commercial and government funding can do when it's applied properly? Michael Hingson ** 27:41 Well, Dragon, naturally speaking, has certainly come a long way since the original Dragon Dictate. But there's still errors, there's still things, but it does get better, but I hear exactly what you're saying, and the reality is that we don't tend to think in broad enough strokes for a lot of the things that we do, which is so unfortunate, Mike Paciello ** 28:03 yeah? I mean, I've had an old saying that I've walked around for a long time. I should have, I should make a baseball cap, whether something or T shirt. And it simply was, think accessibility, yeah, period. If, if, if we, organizations, people, designers, developers, architects, usability, people, QA, people. If everybody in the, you know, in the development life cycle was thinking about accessibility, or accessibility was integrated, when we say accessibility, we're talking about again, for users with disabilities, if that became part of, if not the functional catalyst, for technology. Man, we'd have been a lot further along in the quote, unquote value chains than we are today. Michael Hingson ** 28:46 One of the big things at least, that Apple did do was they built voiceover into their operating system, so anybody who buys any Apple device today automatically has redundancy here, but access to accessibility, right? Which, which is really the way it ought to be. No offense to vispero and jaws, because they're they're able to fill the gap. But still, if Microsoft had truly devoted the time that they should have to narrate her at the beginning. We might see a different kind of an architecture today. Mike Paciello ** 29:26 You know, I so I want to, by the way, the person that invented that wrote that code is Mike shabanik. That's his name I was thinking about. So Mike, if you're listening to this guy, just hi from two others. And if he's not, he should be, yeah, yeah, exactly right from two other mics. But so let me ask you this question, because I legitimately can't remember this, and have had a number of discussions with Mike about this. So VoiceOver is native to the US, right? Michael Hingson ** 29:56 But no, well, no to to the to the to the. Products, but not just the US. No, Mike Paciello ** 30:02 no, I said, OS, yes, it's native to OS, yeah, right. It's native that way, right? But doesn't it still use an off screen model for producing or, you know, translate the transformation of, you know, on screen to voice. Michael Hingson ** 30:27 I'm not sure that's totally true. Go a little bit deeper into that for me. Mike Paciello ** 30:34 Well, I mean, so NVDA and jaws use this off screen model, right, which is functionally, they grab, will they grab some content, or whatever it is, push it to this, you know, little black box, do all those translations, you know, do all the transformation, and then push it back so it's renderable to a screen reader. Okay, so that's this off screen model that is transparent to the users, although now you know you can get into it and and tweak it and work with it right, right? I recall when Mike was working on the original design of of nary, excuse me, a voiceover, and he had called me, and I said, Are you going to continue with the notion of an off screen model? And he said, Yeah, we are. And I said, Well, when you can build something that's more like what TV Raman has built into Emacs, and it works integral to the actual OS, purely native. Call me because then I'm interested in, but now that was, you know, 1520, years ago, right? I mean, how long has voiceover been around, Michael Hingson ** 31:51 since 2007 Mike Paciello ** 31:54 right? So, yeah, 20 years ago, right? Just shy of 20 years, 18 years. So I don't know. I honestly don't know. I'm Michael Hingson ** 32:02 not totally sure, but I believe that it is, but I can, you know, we'll have to, we'll have to look into that. Mike Paciello ** 32:08 If anyone in the audience is out there looking at you, get to us before we find out. Let us we'll find out at the NFB Michael Hingson ** 32:12 convention, because they're going to be a number of Apple people there. We can certainly ask, there Mike Paciello ** 32:17 you go. That's right, for sure. James Craig is bound to be there. I can ask him and talk to him about that for sure. Yep, so anyway, Michael Hingson ** 32:23 but I think, I think it's a very it's a valid point. And you know, the the issue is that, again, if done right and app developers are doing things right there, there needs to, there ought to be a way that every app has some level of accessibility that makes it more available. And the reality is, people, other than blind people use some of these technologies as well. So we're talking about voice input. You know, quadriplegics, for example, who can't operate a keyboard will use or a mouse can use, like a puff and zip stick to and and Dragon to interact with a computer and are successful at doing it. The reality is, there's a whole lot more opportunities out there than people think. Don't Mike Paciello ** 33:11 I agree with that. I'm shaking my head up and down Mike and I'm telling you, there is, I mean, voice recognition alone. I can remember having a conversation with Tony vitality, one of the CO inventors of the deck talk. And that goes all the way back into the, you know, into the early 90s, about voice recognition and linguistics and what you know, and I know Kurzweil did a lot of working with Terry right on voice utterances and things like that. Yeah, yeah. There's, there's a wide open window of opportunity there for study and research that could easily be improved. And as you said, and this is the point, it doesn't just improve the lives of the blind or low vision. It improves the lives of a number of different types of Persona, disability persona types, but it would certainly create a pathway, a very wide path, for individuals, users without disabilities, in a number of different life scenarios. Michael Hingson ** 34:10 Yeah, and it's amazing how little sometimes that's done. I had the pleasure a few years ago of driving a Tesla down Interstate 15 out here in California. Glad I wasn't there. You bigot, you know, the co pilot system worked. Yeah, you know, I just kept my hands on the wheel so I didn't very much, right? Not have any accidents. Back off now it worked out really well, but, but here's what's really interesting in that same vehicle, and it's something that that I find all too often is is the case if I were a passenger sitting in the front seat, there's so much that I as a passenger don't have access to that other passenger. Do radios now are mostly touchscreen right, which means and they don't build in the features that would make the touchscreen system, which they could do, accessible. The Tesla vehicle is incredibly inaccessible. And there's for a guy who's so innovative, there's no reason for that to be that way. And again, I submit that if they truly make the product so a blind person could use it. Think of how much more a sighted person who doesn't have to take their eyes off the road could use the same technologies. Mike Paciello ** 35:35 You know, Mike, again, you and I are on the same page. I mean, imagine these guys are supposed to be creative and imaginative and forward thinking, right? Could you? Can you imagine a better tagline than something along the lines of Tesla, so user friendly that a blind person can drive it? Yeah? I mean this is, have you heard or seen, you know, metaphorically speaking, or that's okay, a an advertisement or PR done by any, any company, because they're all, all the way across the board, that hasn't featured what it can do to enhance lives of people with disabilities. Where it wasn't a hit. I mean, literally, it was, yeah, you see these commercials played over and over to Apple, Microsoft, Emma, I see McDonald's, Walmart. I mean, I could just name, name the one after another. Really, really outstanding. Salesforce has done it. Just incredible. They would do it, yeah. I mean, there is there any more human centric message than saying, Look what we've built and designed we're releasing to the masses and everyone, anyone, regardless of ability, can use it. Yeah, that, to me, is that's, I agree that's a good route, right for marketing and PR, good, Michael Hingson ** 37:03 yeah. And yet they don't, you know, I see commercials like about one of the one of the eye injections, or whatever Bobby is, Mo or whatever it is. And at the beginning, the woman says, I think I'm losing sight of the world around me. You know that's all about, right? It's eyesight and nothing else. And I appreciate, I'm all for people keeping their eyesight and doing what's necessary. But unfortunately, all too often, we do that at the detriment of of other people, which is so unfortunate. Mike Paciello ** 37:39 Yeah, you know again, not to, not to get off the subject, but one of my favorite books is rethinking competitive advantage, by Ram Sharon. I don't know if you know know him, but the guy is one of my heroes in terms of just vision and Business and Technology. And in this, this book, he wrote this a couple of years ago. He said this one this is his first rule of competition in the digital age. The number one rule was simply this, a personalized consumer experience, key to exponential growth. That's exactly you and I are talking about personally. I want to see interfaces adapt to users, rather than what we have today, which is users having to adapt to the interface. Michael Hingson ** 38:32 Yeah, and it would make so much sense to do so. I hope somebody out there is listening and will maybe take some of this to heart, because if they do it right, they can have a huge market in no time at all, just because they show they care. You know, Nielsen Company did a survey back in 2016 where they looked at a variety of companies and consumers and so on. And if I recall the numbers right, they decided that people with disabilities are 35% more likely to continue to work with and shop, for example, at companies that really do what they can to make their websites and access to their products accessible, as opposed to not. And that's that's telling. It's so very telling. But we don't see people talking about that nearly like we should Mike Paciello ** 39:20 you talk about a business value proposition. There is bullet proof that where you are leaving money on the table, yep, and a lot of it, yeah, exactly. We're not talking about 1000s or hundreds of 1000s. We're talking about billions and trillions, in some instances, not an exaggeration by any stretch of the imagination, very, very simple math. I had this conversation a couple years ago with the CEO of Pearson. At that time, he's retired, but, you know, I told him, if you spent $1 for every person that it was in the world with. Disability, you're, you're, you're talking about 1/4 of the population, right? It's simple math, simple math, Michael Hingson ** 40:08 but people still won't do it. I mean, we taught you to mention section 508, before with the whole issue of web access, how much of the government has really made their websites accessible, even though it's the law? Mike Paciello ** 40:19 Yeah, three years, three or four years ago, they did a study, and they found out that the good that every federal agency, most of the federal agencies, were not even keeping up thinking with reporting of the status, of where they were, and yet that was written right into the five way law. They were mandated to do it, and they still did do Michael Hingson ** 40:37 it. We haven't, you know, the whole Americans with Disabilities Act. Finally, the Department of Justice said that the internet is a place of business, but still, it's not written in the law. And of course, we only see about 3% of all websites that tend to have any level of access. And there's no reason for that. It's not that magical. And again, I go back to what do we do to get schools and those who teach people how to code to understand the value of putting in accessibility right from the outset? Mike Paciello ** 41:10 Yeah, no, I totally agree with you. I think this is what Kate sanka is trying to do with with Teach access. In fact, you know, again, my company, TPG was one of the founding companies have teach access back again, 10 years ago, when it first started. But that's where it starts. I mean, they're, they're pretty much focused on post secondary, university education, but I could tell you on a personal level, I was speaking at my kids grade school, elementary school, because they were already using laptops and computers back then it starts. Then you've got to build a mindset. You've got to build it we you've heard about the accessibility, maturity models coming out of the W, 3c, and in I, double AP. What that speaks to fundamentally, is building a culture within your corporate organization that is think accessibility as a think accessibility mindset, that it is woven into the fiber of every business line, in every technology, software development life cycle, all of the contributors at that level, from A to Z. But if you don't build it into the culture, it's not going to happen. So I would love to see a lot more being done at that level. But yeah, it's, it's, it's a, it's a hero. Yeah, Michael Hingson ** 42:34 we're, we're left out of the conversation so much. Yeah, yeah, totally. So you, you sold TPG, and you then formed, or you had web able and then able Docs. Mike Paciello ** 42:48 So what web able came out was a carve out, one of two carve outs that I had from when I sold TPG. The other was open access technologies, which which eventually was sold to another accessibility company primarily focused on making documentation accessible to meet the WCAG and other standards requirements and web able I carved out. It's been a kind of a hobby of mine now, for since I sold TPG, I'm still working on the back end, ironically, from the get go, so we're talking, you know, again, eight years ago, I had built machine learning and AI into it. From then back then, I did so that what it does is it very simply, goes out and collects 1000s and 1000s of articles as it relates to technology, people with disabilities, and then cleans them up and post them to web able.com I've got a lot more playing for it, but that's in a nutshell. That's what it does. And I don't we do some we do some QA review to make sure that the cleanup in terms of accessibility and the articles are are properly formatted and are accessible. We use the web aim API, but yeah, works like magic. Works like clockwork, and that's got aI uses IBM Watson AI built into it. Yeah, enable docs was abledocs was, how should I say this in a nice way, abledocs was a slight excursion off of my main route. It can work out. I wish it had. It had a lot of potential, much like open access technologies, but they both suffered from owners who really, really not including myself, who just didn't have good vision and in lack humility, Michael Hingson ** 44:43 yeah. How's that? There you go. Well, so not to go political or anything, but AI in general is interesting, and I know that there have been a lot of debates over the last few years about artificial. Intelligence and helping to make websites accessible. There are several companies like AudioEye, user way, accessibe and so on that to one degree or another, use AI. What? What? So in general, what do you think about AI and how it's going to help deal with or not, the whole issue of disabilities and web access, Mike Paciello ** 45:22 yeah, and we're going to set aside Neil Jacobs thoughts on how he sees it in the future, right? Although I have to tell you, he gave me some things to think about, so we'll just set that to to the side. So I think what AI offers today is something that I thought right away when it started to see the, you know, the accessibes, the user ways, the audio, eyes, and all the other companies kind of delving into it, I always saw potential to how's this remediate a fundamental problem or challenge, let's not call it a problem, a challenge that we were otherwise seeing in the professional services side of that equation around web accessibility, right? So you get experts who use validation tools and other tools, who know about code. Could go in and they know and they use usability, they use user testing, and they go in and they can tell you what you need to do to make your digital properties right, usable and accessible. People with disabilities, all well and good. That's great. And believe me, I had some of the best people, if not the best people in the world, work for me at one time. However, there are a couple of things it could not do in it's never going to do. Number one, first and foremost, from my perspective, it can't scale. It cannot scale. You can do some things at, you know, in a large way. For example, if, if a company is using some sort of, you know, CMS content management system in which their entire sites, you know, all their sites, all their digital properties, you know, are woven into templates, and those templates are remediated. So that cuts down a little bit on the work. But if you go into companies now, it's not like they're limited to two or three templates. Now they've got, you know, department upon department upon department, everybody's got a different template. So even those are becoming very vos, very verbose and very plentiful. So accessibility as a manual effort doesn't really scale well. And if it does, even if it could, it's not fast enough, right? So that's what AI does, AI, coupled with automation, speeds up that process and delivers a much wider enterprise level solution. Now again, AI automation is not, is not a whole, is not a holistic science. You know, it's not a silver bullet. David Marathi likes to use the term, what is he? He likes the gold standard. Well, from his perspective, and by the way, David Marathi is CEO of audio. Eye is a combination of automation AI in expert analysis, along with the use of the integration of user testing and by user testing, it's not just personas, but it's also compatibility with the assistive technologies that people with disabilities use. Now, when you do that, you've got something that you could pattern after a standard software development life cycle, environment in which you integrate all of these things. So if you got a tool, you integrate it there. If you've got, you know, a digital accessibility platform which does all this automation, AI, right, which, again, this is the this is a forester foresters take on the the the daps, as they calls it. And not really crazy about that, but that's what they are. Digital Accessibility platforms. It allows us to scale and scale at costs that are much lower, at speeds that are much faster, and it's just a matter of like any QA, you've got to check your work, and you've got it, you can't count on that automation being absolute. We know for a fact that right now, at best, we're going to be able to get 35 to 40% accuracy, some claim, larger different areas. I'm still not convinced of that, but the fact of the matter is, it's like anything else. Technology gets better as it goes, and we'll see improvements over time periods. Michael Hingson ** 49:49 So here's here's my thought, yeah, let's say you use AI in one of the products that's out there. And I. You go to a website and you include it, and it reasonably well makes the website 50% more usable and accessible than it was before. I'm just, I just threw out that number. I know it's random. Go ahead, Yep, yeah, but let's say it does that. The reality is that means that it's 50% that the web developers, the web coders, don't have to do because something else is dealing with it. But unfortunately, their mentality is not to want to deal with that because they also fear it. But, you know, I remember back in the mid 1980s I started a company because I went off and tried to find a job and couldn't find one. So I started a company with a couple of other people, where we sold early PC based CAD systems to architects, right? And we had AutoCAD versus CAD. Another one called point line, which was a three dimensional system using a y cap solid modeling board that took up two slots in your PC. So it didn't work with all PCs because we didn't have enough slots. But anyway, right, right, right. But anyway, when I brought architects in and we talked about what it did and we showed them, many of them said, I'll never use that. And I said, why? Well, it does work, and that's not the question. But the issue is, we charge by the time, and so we take months to sometimes create designs and projects, right? And so we can't lose that revenue. I said, you're looking at it all wrong. Think about it this way, somebody gives you a job, you come back and you put it in the CAD system. You go through all the iterations it takes, let's just say, two weeks. Then you call your customer in. You use point line, and you can do a three dimensional walk through and fly through. You can even let them look out the window and see what there is and all that they want to make changes. They tell you the changes. You go off and you make the changes. And two weeks later, now it's a month, you give them their finished product, all the designs, all the plots and all that, all done, and you charge them exactly the same price you were going to charge them before. Now you're not charging for your time, you're charging for your expertise, right? And I think that same model still holds true that the technology, I think most people will agree that it is not perfect, but there are a lot of things that it can do. Because the reality is, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, are all things that can be defined with computer code, whether it necessarily does it all well with AI or not, is another story. But if it does it to a decent fraction, it makes all the difference in terms of what you're able to do and how quickly you can do Mike Paciello ** 52:52 it. Yeah, I can argue with that at all. I think any time that we can make our jobs a little bit easier so that we can focus where we should be focused. In this case, as you said, the expertise side of it, right to fix those complicated scenarios or situations that require a hands on surgical like Right? Expertise, you can do that now. You've got more hours more time because it's been saved. The only thing I would say, Mike, about what, what you just said, is that there with that, with that mindset, okay, comes responsibility. Oh, yeah, in this is where I think in everybody that knows anything about this environment, you and I have an intimate understanding of this. The whole overlay discussion is the biggest problem with what happened was less about the technology and more about what claims are being made. Yeah, the technology could do which you could not do in, in some cases, could never do, or would never, would never do, well, right? So if you create, and I would submit this is true in as a fundamental principle, if you create a technology of any kind, you must, in truth, inform your clients of of what it can and cannot do so they understand the absolute value to them, because the last thing you want, because, again, we live in a, unfortunately, a very litigious world. Right soon as there's Michael Hingson ** 54:49 a mistake couldn't happen, Mike Paciello ** 54:51 they'll go right after you. So now you know, and again, I don't I'm not necessarily just blaming the ambulance chasers of the world. World. I was talking to an NFP lawyer today. He referred to them in a different name, and I can't remember well, I never heard the expression before, but that's what he meant, right? Yeah, it's the salesman and the product managers and the marketing people themselves, who are were not themselves, to your point, properly trained, properly educated, right? It can't be done, what clearly could not be said, what should or should not be said, right? And then you got lawyers writing things all over the place. So, yeah, yeah. So, so I look people knew when I made the decision to come to audio eye that it was a make or break scenario for me, or at least that's what they thought in my mindset. It always, has always been, that I see incredible possibilities as you do or technology, it just has to be handled responsibly. Michael Hingson ** 55:56 Do you think that the companies are getting better and smarter about what they portray about their products than they than they were three and four and five years ago. Mike Paciello ** 56:08 Okay, look, I sat in and chaired a meeting with the NFB on this whole thing. And without a doubt, they're getting smarter. But it took not just a stick, you know, but, but these large lawsuits to get them to change their thinking, to see, you know, where they where they were wrong, and, yeah, things are much better. There's still some issues out there. I both know it that's going to happen, that happens in every industry, Michael Hingson ** 56:42 but there are improvements. It is getting better, and people are getting smarter, and that's where an organization like the NFB really does need to become more involved than in a sense, they are. They took some pretty drastic steps with some of the companies, and I think that they cut off their nose, despite their face as well, and that didn't help. So I think there are things that need to be done all the way around, but I do see that progress is being made too. I totally Mike Paciello ** 57:11 agree, and in fact, I'm working with them right now. We're going to start working on the California Accessibility Act again. I'm really looking forward to working with the NFB, the DRC and Imperato over there and his team in the disability rights consortium, consortium with disability rights. What DRC coalition, coalition in in California. I can't wait to do that. We tried last year. We got stopped short. It got tabled, but I feel very good about where we're going this year. So that's, that's my that's, that is my focus right now. And I'm glad I'm going to be able to work with the NFB to be able to do that. Yeah, well, I, I really do hope that it passes. We've seen other states. We've seen some states pass some good legislation, and hopefully we will continue to see some of that go on. Yeah, Colorado has done a great job. Colorado sent a great job. I think they've done it. I really like what's being done with the EAA, even though it's in Europe, and some of the things that are going there, Susanna, Lauren and I had some great discussions. I think she is has been a leader of a Yeoman effort at that level. So we'll see. Let's, let's, I mean, there's still time out here. I guess I really would like to retire, Michael Hingson ** 58:28 but I know the feeling well, but I can't afford to yet, so I'll just keep speaking and all that well, Mike, this has been wonderful. I really appreciate you taking an hour and coming on, and at least neither of us is putting up with any kind of snow right now, but later in the year we'll see more of that. Mike Paciello ** 58:45 Yeah, well, maybe you will. We don't get snow down. I have. We've gotten maybe 25 flakes in North Carolina since I've been here. Michael Hingson ** 58:53 Yeah, you don't get a lot of snow. We don't hear we don't really get it here, around us, up in the mountains, the ski resorts get it, but I'm out in a valley, so we don't, yeah, Mike Paciello ** 59:02 yeah, no. I love it. I love this is golfing weather. Michael Hingson ** 59:05 There you go. If people want to reach out to you, how do they do that? Mike Paciello ** 59:11 There's a couple of ways. Certainly get in touch with me at AudioEye. It's michael.paciello@audioeye.com Michael Hingson ** 59:17 B, A, C, I, E, L, L, O, Mike Paciello ** 59:18 that's correct. Thank you for that. You could send me personal email at Mike paciello@gmail.com and or you can send me email at web able. It's m passielo at web able.com, any one of those ways. And please feel free you get on all the social networks. So feel free to link, connect to me. Anyway, I try to respond. I don't think there's anyone I I've not responded to one form or another. Michael Hingson ** 59:46 Yeah, I'm I'm the same way. If I get an email, I want to respond to it. Yeah, well, thanks again for being here, and I want to thank all of you for listening. We really appreciate it. Love to hear your thoughts about this episode. Please feel free to email. Me, you can get me the email address I generally use is Michael h i at accessibe, A, C, C, E, S, S, i, b, e.com, or you can go to our podcast page, which is Michael hingson.com/podcast, and there's a contact form there. 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Feeling anxious about showing up on video for LinkedIn? You're not alone! In this encouraging episode, LinkedIn expert Louise Brogan takes the fear out of video and shares three simple—and highly effective—video ideas designed for professionals who want to grow their audience and authority, no matter their experience level on camera. Louise breaks down actionable strategies for overcoming shyness and leveraging video content to connect with peers, clients, and prospects. You'll discover how to turn frequently asked questions, behind-the-scenes moments, and timely industry news into engaging, repurposable LinkedIn videos. Louise also offers pro tips on maximizing your video's impact using just your phone—all without the need for fancy equipment, scripts, or perfection! Whether you're a business coach, consultant, or small business owner looking to raise your visibility on LinkedIn, this episode will leave you feeling confident and ready to hit record. Timestamps: 00:00 – Why Most People Feel Awkward on LinkedIn Video 00:35 – Introduction: Louise Brogan & Her Mission 01:03 – Video Idea #1: Answering Your Industry FAQs 02:14 – Repurposing Your Video Content for Blog Posts & Newsletters 02:26 – Video Idea #2: Behind-the-Scenes at Your Business 03:15 – Keeping Content Relevant for Your Audience 03:43 – Video Idea #3: Sharing Industry News with Your Perspective 04:28 – Starting Conversations and Building Authority 04:44 – Quick Recap & Choosing Your Easiest First Video 05:00 – Final Tips: Recording, Captioning, and Engaging Guest Bio: Louise Brogan is an experienced LinkedIn strategist who specializes in helping small business owners and professionals build their brand and grow their network on LinkedIn—without feeling overwhelmed. With a friendly, no-nonsense style, Louise empowers her clients to create authentic, engaging content that drives leads and sales. Her expertise has made her a trusted resource for anyone looking to leverage LinkedIn for business growth. Resources & Mentions: Louise Brogan's LinkedIn Profile LinkedIn's video features and updates Tips on video creation and repurposing content for newsletters or blogs Call to Action: Ready to boost your LinkedIn visibility with easy video content? Subscribe to the podcast so you never miss practical tips like these, leave us a review to let us know what resonated, and connect with Louise Brogan on LinkedIn. For more resources and support on growing your business on LinkedIn, visit our website and tag Louise when you post your video—she'd love to cheer you on!
Caption Companion is a tool designed to provide real-time captioning without requiring an internet connection. In this conversation, Shari Eberts is joined by Margaret Downs, Executive Director of Premier Visual Voice, and Mathew Call, Director of Technology, to explore how this device can enhance accessibility for people with hearing loss.Equipped with a wireless microphone and user-friendly interface, Caption Companion captures spoken audio and converts it into captions in real time. This feature aims to facilitate communication in a variety of settings, such as conversations, meetings, and conferences, helping to make these interactions more accessible for people with hearing challenges.For more information on Caption Companion, visit: https://premiervisualvoice.com/caption-companion/Be sure to subscribe to our channel for the latest episodes each week and follow This Week in Hearing on LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter).- https://twitter.com/WeekinHearing- https://www.linkedin.com/company/this-week-in-hearing- https://hearinghealthmatters.org/thisweek/
In this session, Laura Wilkinson and Ben Fredericks talk about the development process for incorporating accessibility in their immersive show "Choosing Children" from the outset of the creative process, the lessons learned, and where accessibility in immersive can go from here.Choosing Children was a dramatic and interactive live spectacle for an intimate audience, which aimed to be fully accessible and inclusive. Audiences could request British Sign Language, Audio Description, and/or Captioning in every performance through an integrated Access System.This talk was recorded at the Immersive Experience Network Summit in October 2024 and is supported by Arts Council England and our industry partners Illusion Design & Construct, Mance Communications, White Light, Deterministic, Immersif, d&b audiotechnik, Scene2, Little Lion Entertainment, Entourage, and Vista Insurance.Discover more content from IEN: https://immersiveexperience.network/articles/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 2 - Dirt Simple Photo Gallery Dirt Simple Photo Gallery is the program that started me down the Plain Text Programs path. It predates my own thinking about Plain Text Programs by at least a decade. Ever since I wrote it I use it all the time. It is now my preferred web page generator for all kinds of web pages, not just galleries. Like most of my programs I wrote it because I needed it. Vivian and I were putting on music events like Blues Fest, Sunday In The Park, Jazz Thursday, New Jazz In Jonesboro, and Bebopalooza. I recorded all the shows. Sometimes video, always audio. And we loved taking pictures of the musicians singing and playing. After the shows we would dump the photo files to a hard drive, make all the original photos read only, and back them up to a CD or DVD. We really enjoyed scrolling through the photos, picking the ones we liked, cropping them and enhancing them, and resizing them for the internet. And then that's where it fell apart. We recorded the show. We took the pictures. We cropped the pictures and had them ready to go for our Delta Boogie website. And we didn't want to write the html. Some days we would have five or six bands playing. We usually had ten to twenty photos of each band that we picked out of hundreds of photos taken. Do the math. That's a lot of typing HTML code like a href =, img src, etc. A lot a captions to write. A lot of work to get done in a week. Because the next weekend we had another show. Another set of photos. Another bunch of html backlog. And the thing I found out. If we didn't get the pages posted right away we almost never had time to post them later. I mean we had kids to raise, cooking to do, cars to fix, school to attend, not to mention work. So, I loved writing programs more than I loved marking up html. And I could write one program and avoid marking up tons of html. And so I wrote the Dirt Simple Photo Gallery. Even back in the dark ages of the internet also known as the nineties there were photo gallery programs. And just like today they were cumbersome and running them was a lot like data entry. You know what I hate worse than writing html? Data entry. I had this idea. I would take all the photos we had ready for a gallery and I would upload them to a directory on our server. Then I would upload an index.php file and we'd have a photo gallery. And that's just how Dirt Simple Photo Gallery works. And if that's really all you need you're done. It wasn't quite all we needed. So I added a title.txt file and a notes.txt file so there could be a bit more than just the photos and captions on the web page. I was careful that I didn't have to write any html in the notes.txt file. The program even automatically turns copy and pasted links into hot links. Now, you can include html in the notes.txt file. You can even embed iframes if you want to include an audio or video player. But you don't have to. Also, iframe embeds are just a copy and paste exactly like links. Easy peasy. There's also the problem of the captions and the sort order of the photos. Captions I use the file names to carry the meta data required for captions and sort order. These are the characters I use in the file names. Alphanumeric, commas, apostrophes, dashes, and underscores. I don't use spaces but the underscores are converted to spaces in the captions. I use Thunar and I love the bulk rename option where I can search and replace a set of file names and change all the spaces into underscores. I have code that allows you to include special characters in your captions by using html character sets but it's confusing to think about. And I discovered the only special characters I really needed were dashes, commas, and apostrophes. All three of these characters are legal in file names on all major systems. Dashes are not problematic. Commas can cause problems if you are using comma delimited data but, I'm not, so no worries. Apostrophes can also be an issue because in php they are used as single quotes and can be used to delimit strings in the code. There is a way around this with php. Use double quotes to surround the entire string. If there is a place inside of that string where you would use single quotes, which is not uncommon in html, replace the single quotes with escaped double quotes, that is ". So that's what I did. So now I can use all the apostrophes I want in my file names and they fly right through my code, never accidentally truncating a string and throwing errors. Commas and apostrophes are important in captions. Captioning group shots without commas leads to misunderstanding people's names. And if your caption has a possessive in it like Joe's Garage leaving the apostrophe out is just wrong. Using double quotes in a file name will truncate strings in the php code and throw errors. Usually, anywhere you would want a double quote a single quote will do. There are other special characters, like dashes, that aren't problematic. Forward slashes and back slashes should not be used in file names ever. Some special characters may work on some systems and not on others. I've been using this program for almost 25 years and I really want commas and apostrophes and don't really care about other special characters in captions. You may have special needs for special characters I don't. That's why it's open source. If you need something the program isn't designed to provide test it. Fix it. Right now there are fewer than 100 lines of code in the program. I have confidence in you. Sorting Default sorting of images is alphabetical by file name. If you just name your files with good captions and don't add any numbers as a prefix that's what you'll get. Alphabetical by caption. This may be just what you need. If, however, you want some other sort order you can prefix your files with nnn- where n is any integer. 000-filename.ext displays the picture at the top of the page. If the photo is narrow enough, the text from notes.txt will wrap around it to the left. All the photos numbered 001- to 999- will display in a single column below the text. Unnumbered photos will also display below the text in alphabetical order. So if you want a photo at the top of the page add the prefix 000- to the file name. If alphabetical order is what you want for the rest of the photos you don't have to rename them. Permitted extensions are jpg, png, or gif. (It's hapeg stupid!) It's easy to add other permitted extensions in the code but, of course, they have to be rendered by a browser. I did not include the jpeg extension choosing to rename jpeg files to jpg. This made it slightly easier to code. There is a config.inc file where you can set your table width. The default is 700. I resize my photos to be 600 max width. I usually use jpg files with a quality level of 90. This reduces storage space and enables fast loading of images. The config.inc file also allows you to change background color, text color, link color, etc. There is also a CSS section in the config.inc file so you can change the font, the headline sizes, etc. Or add your own CSS. If you have trouble getting the text wraparound to look good on your page there is a way to disable it in the config.inc file. Install the page with ftp. Make a directory, where you want it on your website, and give it a good name. Upload index.php, title.txt, notes.txt, config.inc, and the image files into the directory. Go to your website and check it out. That's it. Page maintenance is the same. Fix captions by renaming files. Add and delete images. Update the title or the text in notes.txt and upload the changes. Change the font, colors, or CSS in config.inc and upload the changes. I have put up a demo site on infinityfree.com. And I am posting my show notes on my blog at https://home.gamerplus.org/ I will include links there to the demo site, the link to the comment thread for this podcast on Mastodon, and the link to the git repository on Codeberg. If you can't find Dirt Simple Photo Gallery use the search feature. To Network With Hairy Larry I have another plain text program at https://deltaboogie.net/ If you use or have written Plain Text Programs please let me know. I want to do a podcast about them. Thanks for listening. More Links Comment thread at Gamer+DBN on Mastodon Dirt Simple Photo Gallery Demo https://ptp.000.pe/Dirt_Simple_Photo_Gallery Repository on Codeberg Dirt Simple Photo Gallery https://codeberg.org/hairylarry/DirtSimplePhotoGallery
In this episode of "It's the Bottom Line That Matters," hosts Jennifer Glass, Patricia Reszetylo and Daniel McCraine delve into the intricate world of marketing and the critical factors that contribute to its success. They emphasize the significance of considering return on investment and target audience when crafting marketing strategies, underlining the need to track key performance indicators to evaluate success. The conversation evolves to highlight the role of branding in maintaining a cohesive company image and controlling how a business is perceived in the vast landscape of communication. Drawing from real-world examples such as Anheuser Busch's poignant September 11th tribute ad at Liberty State Park and Visa's Olympic ads, the hosts dissect the differences between public service announcements, branding messages, and traditional marketing, while stressing the importance of evoking customer action in response to advertising. The episode culminates with a discussion on the impact of information overload and the value of understanding the mindset of the target audience in the digital age of marketing. Listeners are taken on a journey through the nuances of effective marketing, from the avoidance of spammy content to the leverage of unique selling points and the power of connecting with consumers on a personal level. Through engaging dialogue and real-life anecdotes, Jennifer, Patricia, and Daniel illustrate the importance of creating marketing content that not only attracts the ideal audience but also enriches their lives, resonating with their thoughts and emotions. As they reflect on the ever-evolving marketing landscape, the hosts leave listeners with insightful perspectives on navigating the complex world of marketing in the face of overwhelming marketing messages and the quest to capture and hold the attention of modern-day consumers. Keywords: Return on investment, Target audience, Marketing strategies, Key performance indicators, Customer preferences, Branding, Company image, Communication, Anheuser Busch, Budweiser, Clydesdale horses, September 11th tribute ad, Liberty State Park, Public service announcements, Branding messages, Traditional marketing, Visa, Olympic ads, Customer action, Super Bowl ad, QR codes, Calls to action, Fundraising partnership, St. Jude, Space travel, Data bombardment, Social media marketing, Spammy content, Buyer journey, Ideal audience, Information overload, Captioning in videos
In this session, I'll teach you the exact steps required to create 47+ pieces of content from one video (Ideally a YouTube video)This is the exact system my team uses to generate 2500 pieces of content per year for my business.Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/xI3GYE6d_cUAbout our Speaker:Matthew Hughes is the King of Video.In 2013 he started his video company that he ran for 7 years creating video and travelling the world, with clients from one man bands through to billion dollar companies.Fast forward to 2019 and he created the King of Video brand to help small business owners confidently, create, consistent video content that connects with their audience.In 2021 Matt turned his focus to YouTube and has the goal of getting 1000 small businesses to 1000 subscribers using YouTube as the primary platform to grow their business and make money by strategically creating video content.Contact Matthew:matt@kingofvideo.co.ukhttps://kingofvideo.co.ukHosted by Robert Kennedy III, CSP (RK3):Robert Kennedy III (RK3) is a leadership communication expert, international keynote speaker, corporate trainer and best-selling author. For the past 10 years, RK3 has spoken for and worked with some of the world's largest companies, associations, government and faith-based organizations.Contact Robert:http://getintouchwithrk3.com/Connect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bigvu-v...Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...Website: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: / discord
The power of videos for human connection In this episode of Superstar Communicator, hosts Susan Heaton-Wright and Nick Simon delve into the power of videos for human connection. They explore how videos can be used to connect with others in a digital world, the importance of storytelling through videos, and the impact of video length on audience engagement. Nick shares insights from his experience in editing videos for clients and highlights the significance of platforms like LinkedIn and Instagram for video sharing. The conversation also touches on the use of captions in videos and provides top tips for creating impactful video content. Listeners are invited to learn more about leveraging videos for communication and marketing as the hosts wrap up with information on how to connect with Nick for video editing services. So sit back, tune in, and discover the power of videos for forging meaningful connections. Key Topics The Evolution of Visual Stimulation: "Videos are basically a storytelling device that you can use to show off or portray a story you want to tell." — Nick Simon 00:02:3400:02:41 "Podcast Content Creation": "It all differs, what you want to do, really. You can have 1 or 2 hour podcasts that, people can put on there in the background, or you can have 1 minute, snippets of a conversation or a story." — Nick Simon 00:02:4800:03:06 "The Power of Human Connection": I think there's, the human element. There's the element that you can, fully involve yourself or imagine yourself in this scenario, that helps you be able to understand what's going on in the story. — Nick Simon 00:03:2200:03:38 "Maximizing Content Creation Efforts": And the end product is 28 minutes of content that you can post whenever you want, consistently once a week or something like that. And when you do that consistently, it builds up to a following. So it's very useful. — Nick Simon 00:04:2800:04:45 Viral Topic: Content Strategy for Different Social Media Platforms Quote: "Yeah. It it depends where, what your, brand is. In this case, it was an accountancy firm, and that is, hyper business. So it would be on LinkedIn hosting on LinkedIn, with a very focused approach of career advising." — Nick Simon 00:04:5600:05:16 The Impact of TikTok on Creativity and Business: "As a composer, it is essentially the most creative and open space for music at the moment, in my opinion." — Nick Simon 00:06:3100:06:35 Captioning in Video Content: "Captions are an amazing tool for simply raising that chance of success for video to be watched over and over again." — Nick Simon 00:07:5000:07:54 Viral Topic: The Power of Video Editing Quote: "And I think that's the, in essence, what video editing is or the video making is. It's essentially creating content that can be consumed by people who have that kind of interest and want to learn more." — Nick Simon 00:09:0000:09:13 Creating a Showreel as a Creative: "It's a really important video thing that you have up your sleeve whenever you're networking or building connections." — Nick Simon 00:09:4200:09:49 Viral topic: Effective social media platforms for networking LinkedIn: "The best way for me is LinkedIn. I frequently use it every day. And that's, in my opinion, the most business like social media that you can, simply reach out to other people you're interested in working with." — Nick Simon 00:11:1200:11:30 The Power of Videos for Human Connection: "Using videos for human connection is a very, very powerful way to connect with other people." — Susan Heaton-Wright 00:01:0000:01:07 Viral Topic: Targeting Audiences on Different Social Media Platforms Quote: "It's interesting, isn't it, thinking about who you're wanting to target and what the purpose is of the video?" — Susan Heaton-Wright 00:07:0100:07:09 Viral Topic: The versatility of showcasing events Quote: "Can it also be used for showcasing a particular event like you did with the art event? Do you have anything that's coming up in your diary to edit?" — Susan Heaton-Wright 00:09:1500:09:25 Contacting the Editor for Video Editing Services: "Before we go, obviously, this is work that you do." — Susan Heaton-Wright 00:10:5200:10:55 Viral Topic: Video Marketing Quote: "If you are thinking or considering using videos as part of your marketing to either showcase your expertise or to share knowledge, do get in touch with Nick." — Susan Heaton-Wright 00:12:0300:12:18 Transcript of The power of videos for human connection SuperStar Communicator Here at SuperStar Communicator HQ Susan and Nick love sharing great content. If you like our podcast why not buy us a coffee. SuperStar Communicator Is a multi award winning international company empowering emerging leaders to speak and communicate with clarity, confidence, credibility and influence We deliver: ● Masterclasses ● facilitate workshops ● deliver speeches ● face to face and virtually ● coach individuals. Our focus is on emerging leaders to ensure they progress in their careers. If you would like more details of our work emailhello@superstarcommunicator.com look a tour website http://superstarcommunicator.com or why not book a call Purchase a copy of the SuperStar Communicator 30 Day Plan here We have a lovely gift for you: Grab your Career Accelerator Checklist here Thank you for listening!
Why emotionally connecting on video is better for your business (statistics and research).In this workshop we will cover:(a) the importance of establishing an emotional AND trust connection with the audience (b) how to create an emotional and trust connected message in 1 minute (c) creating engaging hooks/what they look like (d) tips and tricks to ensure you're targeting your ideal audience. Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/h5kM8uNoaZUAbout our Speaker:Lisa Remillard is a TED Talk speaker and two-time Emmy-nominated television journalist with a modern twist.Since 2020 she has blazed a new trail in the online journalism world by using her reporting skills and 20+ years of broadcast news experience to craft unique, fact based and relatable short-form news stories exclusively for social media. As of today she has more than 3 million subscribers, fans and loyal followers who rely on her to bring them the news every day. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, Reuters, NPR and Yahoo!. Contact Lisa:TikTok: @lisaremillard “The News Girl”Instagram: @lisa.remillardTwitter: @lisaremillardWebsite: www.lisaremillard.comDownload Worksheet : https://bit.ly/ProMediaCoachingvideoworkbookHosted by Sharon Delaney McCloud: Sharon Delaney McCloud is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, keynote speaker, emcee, host, and moderator ready to make your event a smashing success, whether in person or virtual. You can feel confident you're hiring a professional whose number one priority is your audience. Contact Sharon:Website: http://www.sharondelaney.tvEmail: Hello@SharonDelaney.tvConnect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bigvu-v...Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...Website: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: / discord
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Are you looking for the perfect podcasting setup? Guest co-host Jay Yow joins the community to help answer your questions and explore options for gear and tools. We talk about multi-mic setups, the pros and cons of popular equipment, and the best captioning tools. Then, we transition into sharing personal and professional wins from the community. This episode has all the tips and inspiration you need to make your podcast look and sound great! Episode Highlights: [6:03] Answering tech questions from the mailbag. [11:39] Captioning software for video creation. [18:19] Audio equipment for in-person podcast recording. [22:23] Recording tips, including microphone use and camera placement. [28:48] Finding free or low-cost resources. [32:13] Wireless Lavalier mics and shotgun mics. [45:33] Personal updates from the community. [59:46] Podcasting wins and challenges. Links & Resources: The Podcasting Morning Chat: www.podpage.com/pmc/ Chatter App For Apple Users: www.chattersocial.io/ Chatter App for Android Users: www.play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.chattersocial.app&pcampaignid=web_share Community members Chris and Simona finally meet: www.facebook.com/groups/empoweredpodcasting/posts/683479593985712/ Jay Yow's Gear Vlog: www.instagram.com/reel/C-X18gKpqa1/?igsh=MWxwYWV5NmVuNWRmZA== Question about captioning: www.facebook.com/share/p/vvXYfg4JbYCguPYB/ Question about a three-person podcast setup: www.facebook.com/share/p/4AV4CePn14yME55m/ Ashley's Blog about The Empowered Podcasting Conference: open.substack.com/pub/ashleyfeller/p/meeting-face-to-face Wave Video Templates: wave.video/video-templates?fbclid=IwY2xjawEi99dleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHaK2LZiDW4721f467JTgdMUUbp2ECy_kZXDuqaDeJ38P1gwoI2BypeAbuw_aem_wb8L9EQe_rt_HdRY6HBExw Rødecaster Pro II: www.amazon.com/Rode-Rodecaster-Podcast-Production-Console/dp/B0B17V8NGX?th=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=ironickmedi04-20&linkId=446cc3a27e5802df4e1609fbb0f63592&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl Minvo: app.minvo.pro/login Riverside: www.riverside.fm/?via=0676da Remember to rate, follow, share, and review our podcast. Your support helps us grow and continue to bring valuable content to our community. Join us LIVE every weekday morning at 7am ET (US) on Clubhouse: https://www.clubhouse.com/house/empowered-podcasting-e6nlrk0w Brought to you by iRonickMedia.com and NextGenPodcaster.com Please note that some links may be affiliate links, which support the hosts of the PMC. Thank you! --- Send in your mailbag question at: https://www.podpage.com/pmc/contact/ or marc@ironickmedia.com
Join us for an insightful workshop with Martine Cadet, an innovative adjunct professor and content marketing strategist renowned for her expertise in integrating technology into education.Workshop Highlights:Martine will present in a dynamic Q&A format, sharing how she utilizes BIGVU to transform traditional lectures into engaging, media-rich experiences that captivate students and enhance learning outcomes.Discover how to:- Integrate BIGVU into your teaching strategy- Create compelling and interactive video content- Boost student engagement and participation- Enhance overall learning experiences with media-rich lecturesDon't miss this opportunity to learn from a leading expert in educational technology and elevate your teaching approach!Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/jICqf09tNV0About our Speaker:Martine Cadet is a Social Media Content Strategist and Creator, Professional Speaker and Adjunct Professor. She helps her clients convert viewers into paying clients, never run out of things to say, and are confident in connecting with their audience by mastering the skill of storytelling on their social platforms.Contact Martine:https://martinecadet.com/martine@martinecadet.comConnect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bigvu-v...Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...Website: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: / discord
Are you ready to transform your video presence and captivate audiences like never before?Join us for an exclusive workshop with Michael Healey, an internationally recognized expert in mental mastery and video communication. With an impressive track record spanning 35 years, Michael has mentored tens of thousands of business owners, entrepreneurs, and professionals, bringing unparalleled expertise and a dynamic speaking style that motivates and inspires lasting change.Michael's unique approach, refined through studies with global masters, will equip you with the tools to unlock your true potential and become a video superstar.Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/Ok_EuDU-GCUAbout our Speaker:Michael Healey is an expert in Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, and Management Consulting with over 35 years of experience in the field. He has dedicated his career to studying human potential development through the application of psychology, neuroscience, Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and transformative processes, culminating in a unique approach that has earned him a reputation for excellence and innovation.Contact Michael:michael@idizoinc.comhttps://www.idizo.ca/Hosted by Robert Kennedy III, CSP (RK3):Robert Kennedy III (RK3) is a leadership communication expert, international keynote speaker, corporate trainer and best-selling author. For the past 10 years, RK3 has spoken for and worked with some of the world's largest companies, associations, government and faith-based organizations.Contact Robert:http://getintouchwithrk3.com/Connect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bigvu-v...Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...Website: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: / discord
Performance anxiety can be the invisible barrier holding you back from reaching your true potential.Imagine stepping onto the stage, field, or into the spotlight with confidence and calm.We'll dive into transformative strategies to help you conquer anxiety and shine in any high-pressure situation. Discover how to turn nervous energy into your greatest ally and unlock a new level of performance excellence!Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/f9doH8mwwNwAbout our Speaker:Dr. Eric Maisel is the author of more than 50 books. His interests include creativity, the creative life, and the profession of creativity coaching, which he founded; issues of life purpose and meaning; mental health and critical psychology (also known as critical psychiatry and anti-psychiatry); and parenting in a “mental disorder” age. Contact Eric:https://ericmaisel.com/Hosted by Robert Kennedy III, CSP (RK3):Robert Kennedy III (RK3) is a leadership communication expert, international keynote speaker, corporate trainer and best-selling author. For the past 10 years, RK3 has spoken for and worked with some of the world's largest companies, associations, government and faith-based organizations.Contact Robert:http://getintouchwithrk3.com/Connect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bigvu-v...Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...Website: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: / discord
In today's digital landscape, integrating video content seamlessly into your business strategy can be a game-changer. This workshop, presented by Jimmy Newson, The Impact Influencer, is designed specifically for small businesses aiming to harness the power of video aligned with their company vision, mission, and values. Walk away with practical steps to start this alignment immediately and ensure your videos are not just content, but strategic assets that drive predictable growth. Plus, discover how to continue your journey with our exclusive online community. You Will Learn:- The Importance of Strategy Alignment: Understand why having your business strategy in place is crucial before developing your video strategy.- Foundation First: Learn how to use your company's vision, mission, and values as the cornerstone of your video content.- Elements of Business Strategy: Gain insights into the critical components of a solid business strategy and how these elements influence your video direction.- Actionable Alignment Steps: Walk away with clear, actionable steps to begin aligning your video content with your business strategy immediately.- Exclusive Community Access: Get a special invitation to our online community for ongoing support and advanced learning opportunities.Join us to unlock the potential of videos as a strategic tool in your business growth journey.Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/BV7NQtoZHa0About our Speaker:Jimmy Newson, the Impact Influencer, is a business and growth strategy consultant, international speaker, and Moving Forward Small Business founder. He specializes in working with small businesses and entrepreneurs and is a contributor and Leadership Network member with Entrepreneur.com. Newson holds industry certifications in Google, HubSpot, SEMrush, Cascade, and Trainual and serves as a board and committee member for various private, government, and nonprofit organizations.Contact Jimmy:Website: www.movingforwardsmallbusiness.comEmail: jimmy@movingforwardsmallbusiness.comHosted by Sharon Delaney McCloud:Sharon Delaney McCloud is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, keynote speaker, emcee, host, and moderator ready to make your event a smashing success, whether in person or virtual. You can feel confident you're hiring a professional whose number one priority is your audience.Contact Sharon:Website: http://www.sharondelaney.tvEmail: Hello@SharonDelaney.tvConnect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bigvu-v...Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...Website: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: / discord
In today's competitive digital marketplace, the connection between compelling content and revenue generation is more critical than ever. Join us for an exclusive workshop, where we'll explore the powerful impact that strategic content can have on your bottom line.Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/4RAnrYOKbjwAbout our Speaker:
Step into the future of copywriting where creativity meets cutting-edge technology! Whether you're a seasoned marketer, a visionary entrepreneur, or simply intrigued by the magic of AI in writing, this workshop is your gateway to mastering the art of crafting compelling copy.Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/b8NcXVhwdqoAbout our Speaker:David L. Deutsch is a world-renowned direct response copywriter, marketing strategist, author, and copywriting coach. In addition to creating winning promotions from scratch, he often works with clients and writers behind the scenes to turn under-performing promotions into winners.Contact David:SpeakingOfWriting.comHosted by Robert Kennedy III, CSP (RK3):Robert Kennedy III (RK3) is a leadership communication expert, international keynote speaker, corporate trainer and best-selling author. For the past 10 years, RK3 has spoken for and worked with some of the world's largest companies, associations, government and faith-based organizations.Find out more about Robert:http://getintouchwithrk3.com/Connect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bigvu-v...Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...Website: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: / discord
Turning viewers into clients is not a lucky occurrence, nor is it more than just a transaction; it's about building genuine connections and providing resonating value, and you can enhance that through your body language when creating videos. One simple change can instantly enhance your ability to connect with your audience. Join the webinar to find out what it is.Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/c208Yb9UM8wAbout our Speaker:Greg Williams, The Master Negotiator & Body Language ExpertGreg is a Harvard Trained Negotiator who was the Body Language Consultant On a TV Reality Show and a TV News Contributor. He ranks globally in the top 30 Gurus in negotiations and body language.Contact Greg:https://www.themasternegotiator.com/Greg@TheMasterNegotiator.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/themasternegotiator/Hosted by Sharon:Sharon Delaney McCloud is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, keynote speaker, emcee, host, and moderator ready to make your event a smashing success, whether in person or virtual. You can feel confident you're hiring a professional whose number one priority is your audience. Find out more about Sharon:Website: http://www.sharondelaney.tvEmail: Hello@SharonDelaney.tvConnect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bigvu-v...Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...Website: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: / discord
In this workshop, participants will delve into the exciting world of video creation, publication, and monetization. Whether you're a content creator, aspiring YouTuber, or entrepreneur looking to leverage the power of video, this workshop will equip you with the knowledge and tools to create compelling content, effectively publish it, and monetize your efforts.Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/d7Hkg3eJMQUAbout our Speakers:David Henson trained in photography and audio-visual production and has spent years designing and producing slides for many and varied businesses. He's on a crusade to eradicate excruciatingly boring visual communications and to teach people how to produce slides and presentations that wow their audiences and make their talks memorable and effective.Contact David: https://presentwithvision.ukLucy Griffiths is an income strategist and coach and is all about working more and working less. She's the author of Make Money While You Sleep and helps small business owners turn what they know into digital courses and memberships. Contact Lucy: https://lucygriffiths.com/Matthew Hughes is the King of Video and founder of Creator Events. In 2013 Matt started his video company which he ran for 7 years creating videos and travelling the world, with clients from one man bands through to billion-dollar companies.Contact Matthew: https://kingofvideo.co.uk/Philippe Bensadon - Head of content BIGVUManagement of Content Creation for multiple platforms and Social Media Networks | $7M Ad Spend | 100M+ Video ViewsManagement of BIGVU's internal Content: Advertising, Social, Educational and Training Videos, Blogs, Podcasts etc Contact Philippe: https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippe-bensadon/Hosted by Sharon Delaney McCloud:Sharon Delaney McCloud is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, TEDx Speaker, Certified Diversity Executive CDE®, adjunct professor, agency owner, cancer slayer, and communications expert. Contact Sharon: http://www.sharondelaney.tvConnect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teleprompter-captions-bigvu/id1124958568Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bigvu.com.reporter&hl=en&gl=USWebsite: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: https://discord.com/invite/AfMscN24c9
Do you want to make your videos truly unforgettable? It's not just about what you say, but how you say it. Research shows that vocal qualities account for 38% of what people remember about a message, while words only make up 7%! As video creators, we know visuals are crucial, but audio quality is just as important. Research from Texas University reveals that poor audio quality can lead viewers to distrust your content and perceive you as unintelligent and unlikable. Ouch!But here's the good news: with some simple tweaks to your vocal qualities, you can:● Increase the impact of your videos● Connect authentically with your audience● Influence people to do business with youJoin us in "Delivering Impact" to uncover the secrets of effective vocal qualities and elevate your video content!Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/Fel8f71V_I0About our Speaker:Creator of the AlikeAbility(™) System, Nancy Zare, Ph.D. shows mission-driven professionals how to turn 50% of their prospects into clients. She earned her master's and doctorate from Boston College and authored seven books, including an Amazon international bestseller.Named “The Sales and LinkedIn Whisperer” by her clients, she teaches the skill of reading people's personality styles based on their online photos and posts.Contact Nancy:Website: https://nancyzare.comEmail: nancy@rapportbuilderz.comLinkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/nancyzareHosted by Cheryl Tan:Cheryl Tan believes everyone has a story to tell, and she is on a mission to help entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations, and corporations share their stories more effectively through video. As a seasoned TV news anchor and host, Cheryl brings the skills and expertise she acquired in the newsroom to the business world, helping companies across the country establish themselves as media authorities.Through her program, the Media Authority Plan, Cheryl empowers experts to boost their visibility through video and gain recognition as leaders in their field. Her dedication to helping others succeed is matched only by her passion for her family. Cheryl and her husband are proud parents of three sons, and they call Virginia Beach, Virginia home.Find out more about Cheryl Tan:https://cheryltanmedia.comConnect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teleprompter-captions-bigvu/id1124958568Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bigvu.com.reporter&hl=en&gl=USWebsite: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: https://discord.com/invite/AfMscN24c9
Are you ready to elevate your marketing with the power of video? Join us for an exclusive live workshop on YouTube where we'll explore strategies and techniques for seamlessly integrating videos into your marketing activities.In today's digital landscape, video has become an essential tool for engaging audiences, building brand awareness, and driving conversions. Whether you're a seasoned marketer or just getting started, this workshop will provide you with the knowledge and skills to fully harness the potential of video in your marketing campaigns.Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/EksLnhvHpXgAbout our Speaker:Randy Dean, The E-mail Sanity Expert®, is a professional speaker and expert on time & e-mail management, effective organization, and the related use of technology. For 30 years, Randy has been leading training and speaking programs for major corporate, university, association, and government audiences Contact Randy Dean:https://randalldean.comHosted by Cheryl Tan:Cheryl Tan believes everyone has a story to tell, and she is on a mission to help entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations, and corporations share their stories more effectively through video. As a seasoned TV news anchor and host, Cheryl brings the skills and expertise she acquired in the newsroom to the business world, helping companies across the country establish themselves as media authorities.Through her program, the Media Authority Plan, Cheryl empowers experts to boost their visibility through video and gain recognition as leaders in their field. Her dedication to helping others succeed is matched only by her passion for her family. Cheryl and her husband are proud parents of three sons, and they call Virginia Beach, Virginia home.Find out more about Cheryl Tan:https://cheryltanmedia.comConnect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teleprompter-captions-bigvu/id1124958568Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bigvu.com.reporter&hl=en&gl=USWebsite: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: https://discord.com/invite/AfMscN24c9
Send us a Text Message.Tune in to Episode 42 to hear what the New York State Unified Court System has to say about the value of court reporters, the guardians of the record. Hear firsthand just how crucial we are to keeping the legal wheels turning in the Big Apple. Go team New York!Flashback to Court Reporting and Captioning Week (back in February 2024), when I had the pleasure of being interviewed by a bright high schooler, accompanied by an attorney. Picture this: the two knock on my office door, they walk in, notepad and pen in hand, ready to soak up every word I say like a sponge. It felt like I was a guest on a top-rated podcast – talk about feeling like a celebrity! I even joked that I should've hit record and made it an official episode of the Court Reporter Podcast.So, I attempted to recreate that interview and I had my husband Joey Seymour interview me. Let's just say, lightning didn't strike twice. It didn't have the same spark, the same flow. But hey, a girl can dream that maybe, just maybe, my real interview is stored somewhere in the cosmic archives, waiting to dazzle you all someday – because trust me, it was that good!Now, even though we're a few months past Court Reporting and Captioning Week, who says we can't keep the celebration going? Come on, join us in extending the festivities – let's turn this into a year-long party! Who's in?
"The Power of Connection: Fostering Empathy in the Digital World" is an exploration of the significance of empathy in our increasingly interconnected society. This session will delve into the importance of empathetic communication in today's digital world. We will discuss how to convey empathy effectively through various digital mediums, ways to establish authentic connections online, and the impact of empathetic communication on relationships and understanding in the digital space. This insightful session will equip you with valuable skills for navigating the digital landscape with empathy. Don't miss out!Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/5SGOF06XBs0About our Speaker:Maria Ross is the founder of Red Slice, a consultancy that advises entrepreneurs and fast-growth businesses on how to build an irresistible brand story and authentically connect with customers. She is a keynote speaker who regularly speaks to audiences on crafting an engaging brand story that drives growth and impact. She is the author of The Empathy Edge, Branding Basics for Small Business and the Juicy Guides ebook series for entrepreneurs.Contact Maria:https://red-slice.com/Hosted by Sharon Delaney McCloud:Sharon Delaney McCloud is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, TEDx Speaker, Certified Diversity Executive (CDE®), adjunct professor, agency owner, cancer survivor, and communications expert dedicated to helping people make a significant impact in business and life through effective communication.Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your communication skills and unlock new possibilities for personal and professional growth!Find out more about Sharon:http://www.sharondelaney.tv/sharondelaneymccloudConnect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teleprompter-captions-bigvu/id1124958568Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bigvu.com.reporter&hl=en&gl=USWebsite: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: https://discord.com/invite/AfMscN24c9
Crafting an effective video script can be difficult. A well-written script that engages your audience is essential for success. You will learn valuable tips on how to create a compelling script and take it to the next level.Workshop Highlights:- Learn the tricks to writing a winning script- Discover how to craft scripts that captivate and hold attention- Enhance your storytelling skills for impactful video content- Gain insights on refining and elevating your scripts to the next levelWatch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/15kQvCsjgzUAbout our Speaker:Porsché Mysticque Steele is an Award-Winning Book Coach, TEDx Speaker, independent book publishing expert, and CEO of MysticqueRose Publishing Services.Porsché Supports organizations by using storytelling to build stronger teams. - Helping CEOs publish highly-impactful books that expand their Thought LeadershipContact Porsché:info@porschesteele.comhttps://www.porschesteele.comHosted by Robert Kennedy III (RK3):Robert Kennedy III (RK3) is a leadership communication expert, international keynote speaker, corporate trainer and best-selling author. For the past 10 years, RK3 has spoken for and worked with some of the world's largest companies, associations, government and faith-based organizations.Find out more about Robert:http://getintouchwithrk3.com/Connect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teleprompter-captions-bigvu/id1124958568Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bigvu.com.reporter&hl=en&gl=USWebsite: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: https://discord.com/invite/AfMscN24c9
In today's fast-paced work environment, having strong soft skills is crucial to achieving personal and professional success. In this interactive session, we will explore three essential soft skills: approachability, active listening, and body language.Participants will acquire hands-on knowledge and skills to improve their understanding and competency in a specific field.✨ Enhance interpersonal effectiveness✨ Build stronger relationships✨ Foster a positive work environmentWatch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/6o4MVRK63PcAbout our Speaker:James Elliot is a seasoned entrepreneur mentor specializing in self-mastery and guiding entrepreneurs to overcome obstacles, reach seven figures, and achieve a balanced life filled with travel, learning, and fulfillment. With over 24 years of experience in business success, James is a best-selling author, international speaker, podcaster, and philanthropist passionate about teaching and helping others thrive.Contact James:james@unleashyourpower.comwww.unleashyourpower.comHosted Sharon Delaney McCloud:Sharon Delaney McCloud is an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, TEDx Speaker, Certified Diversity Executive (CDE®), adjunct professor, agency owner, cancer survivor, and communications expert dedicated to helping people make a significant impact in business and life through effective communication.Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your communication skills and unlock new possibilities for personal and professional growth!Find out more about Sharon:https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharondelaneymccloud/http://www.sharondelaney.tv/Connect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teleprompter-captions-bigvu/id1124958568Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bigvu.com.reporter&hl=en&gl=USWebsite: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: https://discord.com/invite/AfMscN24c9
I was joined by Let's Do Video founder, David Maldow, to talk about his educational sessions at InfoComm 2024. If you ever do livestreaming for clients, both of these sessions are must-attends. The first, “Live Streaming in Action,” will cover all the steps it takes to go live, from hardware setup to software configuration to stream launch. The second is a panel discussion dubbed, “Enhancing Accessibility and Engagement through Automatic Speech Recognition and Captioning,” and it's all about how ASR is used for adding captions to videos and its transformative impact on the online streaming experience. Watch this video and I'll bet you'll want to attend — David can do magic with video! And, of course, you can register for either or both of these sessions by visiting www.infocommshow.org.
Do you sometimes lose opportunities and struggle to create a clear message for your clients/team?Would you like to feel more confident to speak virtually and dramatically transform your message?Are you ready to hack your body Language online for more credibility, influence, and authority?In this workshop, you'll learn to decode the subtle cues of body language and utilize them to your advantage in online interactions. Catherine will guide you through practical strategies to enhance your virtual presence, build rapport, and command attention, all through the screen.Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/cBogDXQ8g_w About our Speaker:Catherine Molloy GGA CSP is an International Speaker & Communication Expert, specializing in leadership, sales & service. With 25 years of experience in business, training, and facilitation, Catherine believes in creating effective engaging learning environments through powerful communication techniques. Catherine has immersed herself into the field of communication and body language psychology. It has anchored her authority as a Communication Master. Catherine holds a Masters Degree in Neuro-linguistic Programming as well as qualifications in Business, Leadership & Management and is a qualified DISC accredited consultant.Contact Catherine:https://www.catherinemolloy.com.au/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinemolloy/Hosted by Cheryl Tan:Cheryl Tan believes everyone has a story to tell, and she is on a mission to help entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations, and corporations share their stories more effectively through video. As a seasoned TV news anchor and host, Cheryl brings the skills and expertise she acquired in the newsroom to the business world, helping companies across the country establish themselves as media authorities.Through her program, the Media Authority Plan, Cheryl empowers experts to boost their visibility through video and gain recognition as leaders in their field. Her dedication to helping others succeed is matched only by her passion for her family. Cheryl and her husband are proud parents of three sons, and they call Virginia Beach, Virginia home.Find out more about Cheryl:Website: https://cheryltanmedia.comConnect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teleprompter-captions-bigvu/id1124958568Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bigvu.com.reporter&hl=en&gl=USWebsite: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: https://discord.com/invite/AfMscN24c9
As the New Zealand news landscape undergoes a radical reshape, there are concerns that many Kiwis are already missing out. Unlike other countries there is no requirement for New Zealand websites, including those with a news focus, to meet any accessibility standards. Captioning and audio descriptions can make a huge difference to the hearing or visually impaired. Access Matters Aotearoa has been campaigning for a complete redrafting of the Accessibility for New Zealanders Bill - one that would include minimum enforceable standards to help address accessibility issues. Kathryn is joined by policy lead Juliana Carvalho and Neil Jarvis, who's worked as a digital accessibility consultant and believes the issue should be top of mind for policymakers.
In today's dynamic work environment, mastering soft skills is essential for personal and professional success. This workshop will explore three essential soft skills: approachability, active listening, and body language. Participants will learn practical insights and techniques to improve their interpersonal skills, build stronger relationships, and create a positive work environment.Looking to improve your soft skills and communication? Then come along and join us! Our workshop is designed to help you enhance your soft skills, allowing you to communicate effectively and efficiently with others. Don't miss out on this opportunity to further your personal and professional development!Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/ZuxRprhjvWQAbout our Speaker:Stephanie Kawasaki brings fresh ideas and a creative vision that supports inclusive and engaging environments. She is an ordinary shy introvert with big dreams who realized that hiding behind brave people who were not afraid of speaking up wasn't the way to live her best life. She is an onscreen actor, twice international best-selling co-author, and founder of Hope Inspired Solutions where building a culture of engagement is their mission.Contact Stephanie:https://www.hopeinspiredsolutions.comhttps://linkedin/in/steffkawasakiHosted by Cheryl Tan:Cheryl Tan believes everyone has a story to tell, and she is on a mission to help entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations, and corporations share their stories more effectively through video. As a seasoned TV news anchor and host, Cheryl brings the skills and expertise she acquired in the newsroom to the business world, helping companies across the country establish themselves as media authorities.Through her program, the Media Authority Plan, Cheryl empowers experts to boost their visibility through video and gain recognition as leaders in their field. Her dedication to helping others succeed is matched only by her passion for her family. Cheryl and her husband are proud parents of three sons, and they call Virginia Beach, Virginia home.Find out more about Cheryl:https://cheryltanmedia.comConnect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teleprompter-captions-bigvu/id1124958568Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bigvu.com.reporter&hl=en&gl=USWebsite: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: https://discord.com/invite/AfMscN24c9
We've all been there – sat in an audience being subjected to the pain and tedium of an excruciatingly dull and dreary slide presentation.We pity the poor presenter as they attempt to deliver a message that just isn't getting through, and they stare out from the stage at a sea of unengaged faces.But could that person on stage be you? Maybe your slides suck?In this episode, you'll learn the fundamentals of changing how you think about presenting when using slides.Come along to learn how to wow your audience and ensure your message hits home.Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/SZB2em15uCEAbout our Speaker:Trained in photography and audio-visual production, David Henson set up The Regent Slide Company in 1986 and spent years producing thousands of 35mm slides for many varied businesses. But spending time sitting in the audience listening to professional speakers brought home the realization that even good speakers produce bad slides. And now he's on a crusade to eradicate excruciatingly boring visual communications and to teach people how to produce slides and presentations that wow their audiences and that make their talks memorable and effective.Contact David:https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhensonpresents/https://presentwithvision.ukHosted by Robert Kennedy III (RK3):Robert Kennedy III (RK3) is a leadership communication expert, international keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and best-selling author. For the past 10 years, RK3 has spoken for and worked with some of the world's largest companies, associations, government, and faith-based organizations.Find out more about Robert:Website: http://getintouchwithrk3.com/Connect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teleprompter-captions-bigvu/id1124958568Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bigvu.com.reporter&hl=en&gl=USWebsite: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: https://discord.com/invite/AfMscN24c9
Summary Blind Level Tech celebrates its one-year anniversary and expresses gratitude to guests and listeners. The conversation covers various topics, including the collaboration between Chat GPT-4 and Be My Eyes, Netflix's new text options for captioning, accessibility updates for audio descriptions and ASL communications in live entertainment, Apple's accessibility features and devices, and future plans for Blind Level Tech. The episode concludes with the announcement of the Sandwich of the Year and a promo for the merch store. Takeaways Blind Level Tech celebrates its one-year anniversary with gratitude for guests and listeners. Collaboration between Chat GPT-4 and Be My Eyes enhances accessibility. Netflix introduces new text options for captioning, benefiting low vision users. Live entertainment incorporates audio descriptions and ASL communications for a more inclusive experience. Apple continues to roll out accessibility features and devices. Future plans for Blind Level Tech include a new co-host and more product demos. The Sandwich of the Year includes a cinnamon crusted bagel with ham, cheese, and bacon, as well as a buffalo chicken sandwich from Charlie's. Blind Level Tech offers a promo for personalized shout-outs and announces the merch store. Blind Level Tech expresses gratitude to guests, listeners, and the AINC staff. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Celebration of One-Year Anniversary 01:34 Reflection on the Past Year and Gratitude for Guests and Listeners 06:25 Netflix's New Text Options for Captioning 08:16 Accessibility Updates for Audio Descriptions and ASL Communications in Live Entertainment 14:16 Apple's Accessibility Features and Devices 20:57 Sandwich of the Year: Cinnamon Crusted Bagel with Ham, Cheese, and Bacon 22:14 Sandwich of the Year: Buffalo Chicken from Charlie's 23:47 Promo and Merch Store Announcement 26:24 Closing Remarks and Gratitude Thank you to all of our BLT listeners. We hope you had an amazing week. If you have any feedback for the show shoot us an email at feedback@aftersight.org or calling us at 720-712-8856. Have a great week and here's to another year of amazing Blind Level Tech shows.
Are you ready to take your marketing game to the next level?Look no further! In this episode, you'll learn how to use the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to market yourself and stand out in the crowded digital age. Gain valuable insights and strategies from top content creators and discover how AI can help you reach a wider audience, increase your engagement, and boost your overall success on YouTube. Don't miss out on this game-changing workshop - start using AI to elevate your content today!Watch it on YouTube: https://youtube.com/live/ljUAySidfT8About our Speaker:Loida Velasquez is a speaker, coach and real estate agent licensed in California and Florida with Real Broker LLC. Not only is she a great real estate agent, she also helps thousands of agents through her real estate sales training content on YouTube channel of over 90,000 subscribers.Contact Paul:https://www.loidavelasquez.com/Hosted by Robert Kennedy III (RK3):Robert Kennedy III (RK3) is a leadership communication expert, international keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and best-selling author. For the past 10 years, RK3 has spoken for and worked with some of the world's largest companies, associations, government, and faith-based organizations.Find out more about Robert:Website: http://getintouchwithrk3.com/Connect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teleprompter-captions-bigvu/id1124958568Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bigvu.com.reporter&hl=en&gl=USWebsite: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: https://discord.com/invite/AfMscN24c9
Are you feeling stuck, unsure of yourself, and overwhelmed by Imposter Syndrome?You are not alone!In this episode, you will learn how to embrace your confident voice and turn Imposter Syndrome into your superpower.We'll be discussing what Imposter Syndrome is really about, common misconceptions, and how to make the best out of it.Don't let these doubts hold you back - join us in this insightful discussion and discover 3 steps to take the power back.Watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/e6fWL47vtQs?si=bd9rBN46wmTP6MXsAbout our Speaker:Paul N Larsen⬩Coach⬩Author⬩Educator, MA, CPPC, is a certified executive coach and an engaging leadership consultant and speaker. As a former executive for a 3-billion-dollar corporation, Paul has over 30 years of experience creating a lasting leadership legacy at such organizations as Adobe Systems, Charles Schwab, and Bristol-Myers Squibb.Contact Paul:Email: paul@paulnlarsen.comPhone: 1 415 265 3787Hosted by Robert Kennedy III (RK3):Robert Kennedy III (RK3) is a leadership communication expert, international keynote speaker, corporate trainer, and best-selling author. For the past 10 years, RK3 has spoken for and worked with some of the world's largest companies, associations, government, and faith-based organizations.Find out more about Robert:Website: http://getintouchwithrk3.com/Connect with BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teleprompter-captions-bigvu/id1124958568Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=bigvu.com.reporter&hl=en&gl=USWebsite: https://bigvu.tv/Join the BIGVU Community: https://discord.com/invite/AfMscN24c9
Truth in advertising folks is what it's all about! That's why my former GOP is counting on the Gen Z er's to be fast asleep on this one!
Are you one of the many who believe that their life stories lack the grandiosity necessary for impactful storytelling?How can personal anecdotes be transformed into powerful narratives that resonate with readers and listeners alike?How can we effectively tell our stories on social media platforms?Today, we discuss How to Use Your Story to Create Videos That Guarantees Impact.Watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1RMXnh-tck.Get the Transcription Here: https://bit.ly/BIGVU_VPS91"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." We all have amazing stories we can tell, but we often fail to tell them in a way that drives impact. Each of us holds a treasure trove of fascinating stories just waiting to be shared. Hence, we must realize that real enchantment lies in the skill of shaping these stories into tales that leave a lasting impression. It's not just about retelling events, but about capturing the heart and soul of the experience in a powerful potion that stirs the emotions of our audience. Show Highlights:What is storytelling?Why do so many fail?Discover your most impactful stories that will resonate with your audienceUnderstanding of how books throughout history use storytelling to create impactLearn the steps to sharing your own stories in video formThe secret sauce behind creating meaningful impactHow to tell your storyAbout our Speaker: Porsché Mysticque Steele is a professional speaker specializing in storytelling, identity discovery, and independent publishing.Find out more about Porsché:Website: https://www.porschesteele.comLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/porsch%C3%A9-mysticque-steele-122b03206/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PorscheMysticqueSteeleInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/porschemysticque/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com@mysticquerosepublishingser5470/Hosted by Cheryl Tan:Cheryl Tan believes everyone has a story to tell, and she is on a mission to help entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations, and corporations share their stories more effectively through video. As a seasoned TV news anchor and host, Cheryl brings the skills and expertise she acquired in the newsroom to the business world, helping companies across the country establish themselves as media authorities.Find out more about Cheryl: Website: https://cheryltanmedia.comLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheryltanmedia/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cheryltanmedia/Twitter: https://twitter.com/CherylTanInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/cheryltanmedia/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/cheryltanBIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:BIGVU 7 days Trial: https://desk.bigvu.tv/register?utm_so...iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bigvu-v...Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...Website: https://bigvu.tv/-------------------Made Possible by BIGVU - a TV studio pro in your pocket. BIGVU transforms photos, video shoots, and tweets into stunning sequences that captivate your audience.Learn more about BIGVU:Website: https://bigvu.tvTeleprompter: https://bigvu.tv/teleprompter-app.htmlCaptions: https://bigvu.tv/create/auto-captionsGreen Screen: https://bigvu.tv/create/replace-green-screenConnect with us via:https://thevideopresentershow.bigvu.tvhttps://www.instagram.com/bigvu.makerhttps://www.facebook.com/socialvideocreatorhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/bigvuhttps://twitter.com/videoinspire
Are you clear on how to position yourself as a thought leader in your industry on LinkedIn?Have you ever wondered how to stand out on LinkedIn and boost your visibility?How can we optimize our LinkedIn profile strategically for business success?Today, we discuss How to leverage LinkedIn and social media to grow your business online.Watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_LiIuN9jG4.LinkedIn, often referred to as the professional networking platform, holds a treasure trove of opportunities for business growth. Beyond its conventional usage, there exist intriguing features and strategies that are bound to transform your online presence. LinkedIn boasts over 774 million users worldwide, making it a colossal hub for networking and business interactions. Interestingly, studies show that profiles with professional headshots receive 14 times more profile views, which underscores the significance of visual appeal on the platform.A common misconception about LinkedIn is that it's solely a platform for job seekers. However, as emphasized by our guest speaker, Dorothy, it's a goldmine for entrepreneurs and businesses aiming to connect and grow. Therefore, we must harness the power of captivating content, clear messaging, and strategic networking so we can unlock a world of opportunities. Remember, it's not just about what you offer, but how you offer it, and who you offer it to.Show Highlights:How to optimize your LinkedIn pageOrganic visibility in LinkedInThe production of powerful content marketing in LinkedInCreating landing pages for email list growthOffer small sales tips by presenting the price mid-pitchOnline course tailored for coaches and consultants on LinkedIn.How to make an impact on your audience. The “What? Why? How?” We need to know to position ourselves as thought leaders in our industry.How to implant BIGVU in content creationAbout our Speaker:Dorothy graduated from Sheffield University with a Masters Degree in Marketing, Advertising and PR. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs build businesses online. Her expertise is Social Media Strategy and e-mail marketing for businesses in Europe and USA. She also just graduated B-School with Marie Forleo and she will teach you what your business needs and how to grow and position online to create the fundamentals of a healthy long-lasting strategy.Working in the International Financial market in companies like KPMG and Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary plus being a lifelong learner and trained by the world`s leading online business coaches, she owns an arsenal of knowledge and expertise to share with like-minded people who want to work with her and grow their businesses. Find out more about Dorothy:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lekbello/BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:BIGVU 7 days Trial: https://desk.bigvu.tv/register?utm_so...iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bigvu-v...Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...Website: https://bigvu.tv/-------------------Made Possible by BIGVU - a TV studio pro in your pocket. BIGVU transforms photos, video shoots, and tweets into stunning sequences that captivate your audience.Learn more about BIGVU:Website: https://bigvu.tvTeleprompter: https://bigvu.tv/teleprompter-app.htmlCaptions: https://bigvu.tv/create/auto-captionsGreen Screen: https://bigvu.tv/create/replace-green-screenConnect with us via:https://thevideopresentershow.bigvu.tvhttps://www.instagram.com/bigvu.makerhttps://www.facebook.com/socialvideocreatorhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/bigvuhttps://twitter.com/videoinspire
Are you crafting a memorable video narrative?Do you want to learn how to craft a video narrative that leaves a lasting impression on your audience?How can you shift your perspective to make your customers the heroes of your brand's narrative?Today, we discuss Brand Stories in Motion: Crafting a Memorable Video Narrative. Watch it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7MOJZ9dk6I.Get the Transcription Here: https://bit.ly/BIGVUPodcast89In the world of branding, storytelling has emerged as a powerful tool that transcends the transactional nature of business, forging deep and lasting connections with audiences. Consequently, brands play the role of guiding mentors in the customer's narrative, aligning their values with those of their audience. However, in today's crowded digital landscape, the challenge lies in standing out amidst the noise. Brands often struggle to create narratives that resonate authentically with their audience, leading to a disconnect. It's crucial to recognize that customers crave genuine connections with brands, and merely transactional interactions fall short of fulfilling this need.It has been said that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. Hence, to truly succeed in crafting memorable narratives through video, aspiring brand storytellers must first understand the unique journeys of their audience members. Empathy is the cornerstone; stepping into the shoes of customers, understanding their pain points, and offering meaningful solutions. Additionally, consistent messaging and an unwavering commitment to authenticity will pave the way for enduring connections. As the renowned marketer, Seth Godin, aptly puts it, "People do not buy goods and services. They buy relations, stories, and magic."You'll learn how to:Adapt the Hero's Journey to fit your brand narrative without it feeling clichéd or forcedUse emotional vignettes to create a lasting impact on your audienceMaintain consistency in your brand narrative, while also evolving and staying relevant to changing times and audience preferencesOrganically integrate brand values and USPs into your story without making the narrative overly promotional or sales.About our Speaker:Steven Picanza is a Creative Brand Strategist, Branding Expert, Fractional Chief Brand, and Marketing Officer, and Host of the Branders Magazine Podcast. Since 2007, Steven has been transforming brands to stay relevant and cut through the white noise of fly-by-night tactics and bland creativity. He aims to help brands create a long-term plan to outmaneuver the competition through radical differentiation to win both market and heart/mind share.Find out more about Steven:Website: https://www.stevenpicanza.com/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenpicanza/Twitter: https://twitter.com/picanzaYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Picanza/BIGVU, the powerful Video, Captioning & Teleprompter App:BIGVU 7 days Trial: https://desk.bigvu.tv/register?utm_so...iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bigvu-v...Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...Website: https://bigvu.tv/-------------------Made Possible by BIGVU - a TV studio pro in your pocket. BIGVU transforms photos, video shoots, and tweets into stunning sequences that captivate your audience.Learn more about BIGVU:Website: https://bigvu.tvTeleprompter: https://bigvu.tv/teleprompter-app.htmlCaptions: https://bigvu.tv/create/auto-captionsGreen Screen: https://bigvu.tv/create/replace-green-screenConnect with us via:https://thevideopresentershow.bigvu.tvhttps://www.instagram.com/bigvu.makerhttps://www.facebook.com/socialvideocreator
In this episode, Mandy Hoskinson joins me to talk about different social media platforms and how to leverage them to connect deeply with your audience.Mandy Hoskinson owns Zolay, a social media agency that gives away 20% of their work for free. Additionally, she is the President of the Social Media Club of Los Angeles, avid traveler and overall lover of all things tech and art.Mandy gives listeners actionable tips on: [0:00] Intro [2:00] Finding where your audience is [3:40] How do you figure out where your audience is most present and comfortable [7:30] Turning audience data into a strategy and action plan [18:10] How to determine if social media is what will help your business [24:30] Your audience is looking for honesty from you [27:00] Captioning your videos and youtube shorts [36:10] Mandy's book review [43:00] One key takeaway from this episode Resources mentioned in this episode:Positioning by Al RiesConnect with Mandy here: https://www.instagram.com/mediamandy/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandahoskinson/ https://twitter.com/mediamandy/ http://mandyhoskinsom.com Connect with me Instagram Pinterest Facebook Twitter Karin on Twitter Karin on LinkedIn Conroy Creative Counsel on Facebook https://conroycreativecounsel.com
In this episode, Mandy Hoskinson joins me to talk about different social media platforms and how to leverage them to connect deeply with your audience. Mandy Hoskinson owns Zolay, a social media agency that gives away 20% of their work for free. Additionally, she is the President of the Social Media Club of Los Angeles, avid traveler and overall lover of all things tech and art. Mandy gives listeners actionable tips on: [0:00] Intro [2:00] Finding where your audience is [3:40] How do you figure out where your audience is most present and comfortable [7:30] Turning audience data into a strategy and action plan [18:10] How to determine if social media is what will help your business [24:30] Your audience is looking for honesty from you [27:00] Captioning your videos and youtube shorts [36:10] Mandy's book review [43:00] One key takeaway from this episode Resources mentioned in this episode: Positioning by Al Ries Connect with Mandy here: https://www.instagram.com/mediamandy/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandahoskinson/ https://twitter.com/mediamandy/ http://mandyhoskinsom.com Connect with me Instagram Pinterest Facebook Twitter Karin on Twitter Karin on LinkedIn Conroy Creative Counsel on Facebook https://conroycreativecounsel.com
In this episode, Mandy Hoskinson joins me to talk about different social media platforms and how to leverage them to connect deeply with your audience. Mandy Hoskinson owns Zolay, a social media agency that gives away 20% of their work for free. Additionally, she is the President of the Social Media Club of Los Angeles, avid traveler and overall lover of all things tech and art. Mandy gives listeners actionable tips on: [0:00] Intro [2:00] Finding where your audience is [3:40] How do you figure out where your audience is most present and comfortable [7:30] Turning audience data into a strategy and action plan [18:10] How to determine if social media is what will help your business [24:30] Your audience is looking for honesty from you [27:00] Captioning your videos and youtube shorts [36:10] Mandy's book review [43:00] One key takeaway from this episode Resources mentioned in this episode: Positioning by Al Ries Connect with Mandy here: https://www.instagram.com/mediamandy/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandahoskinson/ https://twitter.com/mediamandy/ http://mandyhoskinsom.com Connect with me Instagram Pinterest Facebook Twitter Karin on Twitter Karin on LinkedIn Conroy Creative Counsel on Facebook https://conroycreativecounsel.com
Description: In this BIPOC II episode, Dr. Lisa Meeks is joined by Dr. Kruti Shah, a Clinical Operations Pharmacist at Rush University Medical Center. Being a woman of color and having a disability of hearing loss, Dr. Shah is a passionate advocate for Disability, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Rush. Dr. Shah and Dr. Meeks discuss how her upbringing shaped her evolving perceptions of her own disability, the ways in which her formative experiences have informed her work advocating for patients, and her hopes to empower future generations of disabled communities. Bio: Kruti Parikh Shah, PharmD, is a Clinical Operations Pharmacist at RUSH University Medical Center. She serves as a steering committee member of the Disabilities Employee Resource Group (DERG) at RUSH and as a DEI committee member for the ICHP. Recognizing the significance of intersectionality in healthcare, Dr. Shah has spearheaded health system-wide initiatives aimed at fostering wellness and inclusion. During the pandemic when medical masks became a barrier to lipreading, she advocated for clear masks to improve access to communication for employees, patients and visitors. Currently serving as a Public Voice Fellow with the OpEd Project, Dr. Shah utilizes her platform to raise awareness and promote disability-affirming care. She has published an article in Newsweek shedding light on the importance of inclusive practices and challenge societal misconceptions surrounding disabilities. Dr. Shah is a passionate patient advocate and educator advancing the rights and access for individuals with disabilities. Through the Disability Lead fellowship, co-hosting the Docs with Disabilities podcast, and participating in the Disability in Medicine Mutual Mentorship Program, she works tirelessly to promote diversity, equity and inclusion. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto (Honors BSc) and the University at Buffalo (PharmD) Interviewee: Dr. Kruti Shah (PharmD) Interviewer: Dr. Lisa Meeks Producer: Nicole Kim Key words: Hard of hearing, accommodations, BIPOC, Pharmacy, docswithdisabilities, BIPOC, Indian, pharmacistswithdisabilities, empathy, ableism, clear masks, India, captioning, amplified stethescopes. Transcript
Ever wondered how a simple idea during physiotherapy school turned into a thriving podcast? Curious about how to make the most of your time and skills to achieve your goals? In this episode of Healthcare Hacks and Connections, Nate welcomes guest Dalton Laino, a business owner, runner, and coffee lover who is currently focused on building The Movement Physio & Performance to empower people to take control of their health. Dalton shares the origin story of his podcast, PT Coffeecast, explaining that he and his business partner, Will, started it while they were in physiotherapy school. They wanted to use the podcast as a platform to discuss and improve the profession. Also, in this episode, Dalton discusses how the podcast has evolved over time and its initial purpose of bridging the gap between student learning and current industry trends in healthcare. Overall, the episode highlights the evolution of social media usage in business. It underscores the importance of utilizing social media as a tool for self-expression, communication, and attracting the right audience, rather than solely focusing on going viral. Nate and Dalton encourage listeners to prioritize tasks, acquire necessary skills, and make the most of their time to achieve their goals. They will touch on such topics asThe start and inspiration of PT Coffeecast, transitioning the podcast from an interview-based to a podcast-based approach: “The mission of the movement is to change the way people feel about healthcare, including the industry and clinicians.”Mentorship and audience demographics, transitioning Instagram brand to business, and the difference in how social media influence Canada and the USA.Using social media effectively by connecting with people in multiple realms, owning The Movement Physio & Performance, and bringing a different flavor to the business.The importance of details and progress photos for your business, and learning from the mentorship and moving forward: “The timing of the mentorship makes sense, and it takes a while to accept that you may not be ready to do what you really want to do yet.”Revenue and profit goals, YouTube podcast world evolution, and how often they plan out mentorship.Captioning for social media, understanding and empathizing with others, and never being afraid to put in the work. Hack: “When it comes to partnerships or collaborating with brands, I think the most important thing is something that we've always done is just making sure that that business, that person, that company aligns with your values and you align with them.” Dalton Laino Reach Out to Dalton:Listen to his Podcast- PT Coffeecast:Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ptcoffeecast/id1336306312Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2xHwo1hgZG1Kq4aOwKhrIT?si=BpBQWZpIToyVbNlTQVcoFAInstagram: @ptcoffeecast@themvmtpts Reach out to Me:Instagram: @thepodcast_docFacebook: www.facebook.com/nate.navas (0:00:00) - Public Company Executive to Lifestyle EngineerGeneral McChrystal and I discussed failure, inspiring conversations, and lessons learned. (0:11:58) - The Resignation and Moving ForwardGeneral McChrystal discussed transitioning from military to civilian life, Obama's momentous decision, and the power of moving forward. (0:22:17) - Leaving, Starting, and Finding LiberationStan McChrystal's story of career transition, spouse support, liberation, and impact on others is discussed. (0:29:55) - Duty and Resilience From Stanley McChrystalStan shared his journey to a new life, his thoughts on difficult situations, and his inspiring message about decency, honor, and inspiration. (0:34:59) - Promotion of Book and PodcastGeneral Stanley McChrystal's journey from Afghanistan to meeting the President, his spouse's support, and his leadership skills are explored.
Michael Cooper works for the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative, and he was attending the XR Access Symposium to learn more about the existing XR accessibility efforts but also to moderate a break-out session about captions in XR. One of Cooper's big takeaways is that there is no magical, one-size-fits-all solution to captioning in XR because people have different needs, different preferences, and different contexts that means that there is a need for frameworks to help make captions easily customizable. There are a lot of potential customizable options for spatial captions that include distance from the speaker, text size, text color, weight, layout, the size of the box, whether or not they have transparent boxes, preventing occlusion of objects by the captions, whether it moves with the speaker or not, and how to handle off-screen speakers. Gallaudet University's Christian Vogler warned XR Access participants about the dangers of doing a one-to-one translation for how captions are handled in 2D into how they're handled in 3D since there different modalities like haptics that could help reduce information overload. One of the demos that was being shown at the XR Access Symposium implemented a wide range of these different spatial caption options, and so there is a need to develop an framework for the different game engines and the open web with WebXR as well as an opportunity at the platform level like with the Apple Vision Pro or Meta Quest ecosystem to implement a captioning framework. Cooper told me in this interview, "I do think that we need design guidance. There are a lot of good ways to do captions in XR. There are some bad ways to do it, and so we need people to know about that. Going down the road, I think that we are going to need to develop semantic formats for the captions and for the objects that they represent. So there's a lot of excitement about that. But again, there's a big sense of caution that the space is so early that we don't want to overstandardize. And as a person who works for a standards organization, that's a big takeaway that I have to take." It's again worth bringing up what Khronos Group President Neil Trevett told to me about the process of standardization, “The number one golden rule of standardization is don't do R&D by standardization committee… Until we have multiple folks doing the awesome necessary work of Darwinian experimentation, until we have multiple examples of a needed technology and everyone is agreeing that it's needed and how we would do it, but we're just doing it in annoyingly different ways. That's the point at which standardization can help.” It's still very early days for this type of Darwinian experimentation with Owlchemy Labs' innovations of captioning starting with Vacation Simulator in October 2019 as well as the captioning experiments and accessibility features by ILM Immersive (formerly ILMxLAB) within Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge. The live captioning within social VR platform of AltSpaceVR was also pretty groundbreaking (RIP AltSpaceVR), and VRChat has had a number of Speech-to-Text implementations including ones that can be integrated into an avatar including VRCstt (and their RabidCrab's TTS Patreon), VRCWizard's TTS-Voice-Wizard, and VRC STT System. There were also a number of unofficial, community-made accessibility mods before VRChat's Easy Anti-Cheat change eliminated all quality-of-life mods such as VRC-CC and VRC Live Captions Mod. There have also been a number of different strategies within 360 videos over the years that would burn in captions at either 1, 2, or 3 different locations. The more locations the captions, then more ability one has to to look around without missing any action within the environment and still be able to read the captions. At Laval Virtual 2023, I saw some integrations of OpenAI's Whisper to do live transcription and captioning as they were feeding text into ChatGPT 3.5.
Michelle Ludwig, MD, MPH, PhD Description: In this episode, Baylor College of Medicine Associate Professor Dr. Michelle Ludwig discusses navigating life as a deaf individual. Listen or read along as she and Dr. Meeks converse about accommodations in medical school and beyond, the importance of self-advocacy, and the benefits of mentorship through The Association of Medical Professionals with Hearing Losses. Bio: Dr. Ludwig is an associate professor of radiation oncology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She went to Purdue University for undergraduate work, received her medical degree and master of public health degree from Emory University and completed residency at MD Anderson Cancer Center, and then served there as faculty there for 3 years. Additionally, she completed her Ph.D. in epidemiology at The University of Texas School of Public Health at Houston. She currently specializes in breast and gynecological cancer, including a high volume of gynecologic brachytherapy, and her research interests include cancer prevention, health education and clinical trials. Her career goals are to improve the oncologic care of breast and gynecological cancer patients by studying to improve radiation treatment and training the next generation of learners. Since the age of 2, she has been profoundly deaf and is the faculty sponsor for the Baylor group for students with disabilities. She is active with AMPHL (American Medical Professionals with Hearing Loss), reads lips and currently has her second Canine Companions hearing dog, Pam. Transcript: https://bit.ly/Episode66_Transcript Key Words: DHOH, radiation oncology, Deaf, Service Dog, Sign Language Interpreting, Captioning, accommodations, medical education, operating room, AMPHL.
Karen Santucci is a veteran court reporter who is now the Director of the Court Reporting Program at Plaza College in Forest Hills, New York. Court reporters play an essential and required role in judicial proceedings, plus they do captioning work when requested in relation to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA.) It's a cool way to get into the courtroom without being a lawyer or judge, or it allows you to learn about all sorts of things while doing captioning! According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Court reporters have a critical role in legal proceedings, which require an exact record of what occurred. These workers are responsible for producing a complete, accurate, and secure transcript of depositions, trials, and other legal proceedings." In regards to captioning work, this is closed captioning on televisions, and also with college students, business meetings, or anyone that requests to have a court reporter to take down the meeting, lesson, or event on the steno machine.Karen Santucci began her court reporting career right after high school. After graduating Stenotype Institute in Manhattan , she started working at the Queens County Grand Jury where she eventually became the Assistant Supervisor of the Grand Jury Reporters. After many years, she left to raise her 3 children. In 2001, she returned to the field as a court reporting instructor and realized her true calling was teaching and encouraging people to enter this great profession. Now, she's helping the next generation of court reporters through her role as an educator.We discuss how diverse and flexible this career path is (so it's awesome for moms looking for jobs with flexible schedules) and how they need more people now. Demand is high, and people just don't know about this job and how many opportunities there are in the courts, classrooms, or even at the Grammy's!ResourcesNational Court Reporters Association (NCRA) Plaza College -- School of Court ReportingContact Info:Karen Santucci - Guestksantucci@plazacollege.eduJulie Berman - Hostwww.womenwithcooljobs.com@womencooljobs (Instagram)Julie Berman (LinkedIn)
In episode 1413, Jack and guest co-host Jody Avirgan of Good Sport are joined by poet, podcaster, and host of American Hysteria, Chelsey Weber-Smith, to discuss… What's The Matter With Men? Covid is No Longer an Emergency According to the White House, Subtitles Aren't a Wacky Gen Z Trend... They're a Necessity and more! What's The Matter With Men? Covid is No Longer an Emergency According to the White House Covid-19 is a leading cause of death for children in the US, despite relatively low mortality rate Biden to End Covid National Emergencies in May What is Title 42 -- the Trump-era immigration order at the US-Mexico border? Biden expands Title 42 expulsions while opening legal path for some migrants Biden's ‘carrot and stick' approach to deter migrants met with anger Subtitles Aren't a Wacky Gen Z Trend... They're a Necessity Gen Z More Likely to Use Captions When Viewing Video Content Young people watch TV with subtitles more than older viewers, survey says Why do younger generations love subtitles? Survey: Why America is obsessed with subtitles Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It) Why You Can't Hear What Actors Are Saying On Tv and How To Fix Your Audio Check out the Men's Rights episode of American Hysteria! LISTEN: Red Clay by Charlotte Dos SantosSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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