Podcast appearances and mentions of james tryon

Way back in the mid-1970s, Billy Cobham released an album that altered the course of my life, The Album Crosswinds and the track Heather just took my musical mind in a different direction, I started to go to Jazz clubs to hear and see this music that set my mind on fire. Through Billy's music, I was introduced to the Mahavishnu Orchestra, John McLaughlin, Al DE Meola, Chick Corea, Return To Forever, Weather Report and so much more, the floodgates to my musical mind were opened. Fast forward many years, I jumped for joy when I had the opportunity to Promote Billy Cobham, the second time I promoted Billy we became on speaking terms After the afternoon sound check we entered into a discussion about the dynamics of changing a band's lineup by adding or subtracting one or two members – then I told Billy that one of my favourite all-time tunes was a track called Heather from the album Crosswinds. I thanked Billy for having a big influence on me in 1977. I then asked if I could interview him, Billy said ''no problem but it must be over a meal''.  So as we had a chat over a takeaway curry and a beer in my office I record my first-ever interview with one of my favourite musicians talking about one of my favourite pieces of music of all time with an outstanding and very special sax solo from Michael Brecker, and to this day, to say I was in Heaven is an understatement. In this mix, I would like to share with you 3 special pieces of music that significantly helped to change my musical direction. I've left out the big-name tunes and albums for obvious reasons as there are so many Billy Cobham – Heather – CrosswindsYusef Lateef - Like it is - The Blue Yusef LateefAl Di Meola – Flight Over Rio – Elegant Gypsy   The Interview starts with Billy asking me – So what happened in 1977   Info  Credits – Billy Cobham - Crosswinds John Abercrombie – guitarsMichael Brecker – woodwindsRandy Brecker – trumpetGarnett Brown – tromboneBilly Cobham – drums, percussion, production, orchestrationsGeorge Duke – keyboardsLee Pastora – Latin percussionKen Scott – production, recording and re-mix engineeringJohn Williams – acoustic & electric basses  Credits – Yusef Lateef – Like it is - The Blue Yusef Lateef Yusef Lateef - tenor saxophone, flute, pneumatic flute, shannie, vocalsBlue Mitchell - trumpetSonny Red - alto saxophoneBuddy Lucas - harmonicaHugh Lawson - pianoKenny Burrell - guitarCecil McBee - bassBob Cranshaw - electric bassRoy Brooks - drumsSelwart Clarke, James Tryon - violin (track 2)Alfred Brown - viola (track 2)Kermit Moore - cello (track 2)The Sweet Inspirations - vocal group (tracks 1 & 5) Credits - Al Di Meola – Flight Over Rio – Elegant Gypsy.  Personnel[edit] Al Di Meola – guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussionPaco de Lucía – guitarJan Hammer – keyboardsBarry Miles – keyboardsAnthony Jackson – bass guitarSteve Gadd – drumsLenny White – drumsMingo Lewis – congas, synthesizers, organ, percussion For all of NDFM Links - Website - info – pics – Content - Music Videos – NDFM's Music Player - go to - https://linktr.ee/NDFM Please enjoy the music I love. Music bed for interview Billy Cobham - Red Baron Billy Cobham – Stratus Playlist Billy Cobham – Heather Yusef Lateef - As It Is Al DE Meola – Flight over Rio

James Tryon, curator of the Wapuu archive wapu.us explains the process of being a benevolent troll during his design process for BoldGrid's official Wapuu Mascot, Boldie the Gridly Bear.

In this episode, Jason and Bridget are joined by Marcy Massura, who has an extensive background in marketing, to say the least. We're going to apply marketing principles from other industries to WordPress freelancers and agencies and give you all good reasons to use this neglected social network.You can find Marcy on the following sites:Marcy Massura & Companytwitter.com – @marcymassuralinkedin.com – marcymassurainstagram.com – @marcymassuraBridget Willard – https://www.linkedin.com/in/bridgetwillard/Jason Tucker – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasontucker/Marcy Massura – https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcymassura/Linkedin is more help focused and is more self-regulating than other social platforms.LinkedIn self-polices its groups.Have a ‘real’ photo for LinkedIn profile photo – how people would see you in real life.^ Focus on your face and eyesYour header image is very important.Header image should communicate what you doA safe place to promote what you do, You can brag about your accomplishmentsPremium LinkedIn allows to better hunt for a job or looking for people to fit a specific role or job. https://www.linkedin.com/profinderSmall biz helping other small biz find right connections.LinkedIn ads result in actual results, continues to improve all the time.Linkedin offers all types of advertising and is very open-minded with it comes to ads.Job titles are great but think about how someone would be searching for the type of job you want to be hired for.Have fun with your personal tagline, not so much your titles. Have fun with the tagline but do not forget the keywords.LinkedIn is 15 years old the – same age as WordPressLI is more than a resume receptacleNice way to get more recommendations is to add a note on the bottom of all invoices.Also, Linkedin is one of the only social network platforms that you want to be friends with your clients.Connect with New clients on LinkedIn, great way to ask for recommendations AFTER a job well done.Don’t fake your reviews, make them count.There is a toggle on your profile that lets you notify everyone or not of changes.Cool stuff on LinkedIn:Can follow hashtags to have it show in the feedIts kinda like a think tank. People seem to be so willing to help. However, this is based on your connections.Tip of the WeekMarcySprout Social – Social media management made easy.– 99/month to start^ it’s no hootsuite or hexagon, but great for small business and reviewing reports on social interactions.BridgetHow Adam Smith can change your life]Goes good with tequilaJasonRescue Time – tracks time spent doing tasks on your computerautomatic and IFTT reports to rescuetime when Jason is Lyfting about.______________Show notes contributed by:James Tryon – @jamestryonPaul Oyler – @PappyOylerThe post WPblab EP102 – LinkedIn: Why WordPressers Shouldn't Ignore it appeared first on WPwatercooler. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Tonight on WPblab, Jason Tucker and Bridget Willard speak with James Tryon about the pros and cons of fragmenting your brand. Should you keep all of your products together under a company umbrella or have separate identities? Let’s talk business goals and marketing tonight. James Tryon is Lead Ambassador for Wapu.us – helps promote brand recognition for the WordPress projectHis company: Easily Amused Inc.https://easilyamusedinc.com/ Salesman Rick – Rick and Morty affiliate links storehttps://salesmanricks.com/ BlocksWP – resource for learning about Gutenberg blockshttp://blockswp.com/ Runs @TheGutes twitter account (Gutenberg related)https://twitter.com/thegutes A lot of his companies are DBA’s under his main company It seems to be a relatively common practice for businesses to ‘fragment’ their brand and keep separate social accounts for each part of their business – Bridget thinks this is a really terrible idea… Don’t launch a product on a squeaky clean account with 0 followers and no brand recognition!!! Sometimes it makes sense to fragment yourself, such as splitting business and personal accounts where something is not appropriate or doesn’t belong on your single account.  But remember, you are doubling your work!! Bridget – it’s like a ‘stock split’ – you have twice as much stock, but it’s worth half as much If you have lots of products and each product has its own accounts, then every time you launch a new product, you have to start over from scratch!   James doesn’t necessarily like being as fragmented as he is, but it kind of made sense to do so. The current brand he is working on now happens to be in a different industry. Sometimes fragmenting makes sense as a way to protect each of your ‘products’ or ideas from each other. If you are selling a very low value product with one part of your business but then also selling custom site development for several thousand with your agency, you may want to separate them to the cheaper solutions don’t devalue your main brand Sometimes there are also business, financial, tax reasons to separate out as well Bridget wonders what happens if she changes her name – her brand uses her current name, so can she keep her brand name or does she need to change it? …Should you have a company name instead of using your name? Should you consider using a middle name instead of a last name?  There are many factors to consider! The same thing happens with your company – The company, the product, and you are all identities – what is the best way to brand yourself? Do you want to be a house of brands or a brand of houses? (Chris Lema)   When you’re a giant company – you can have multiple separate teams for each of your products, but if you’re a small business, it’s hard to have the necessary resources to work on building each of those separate brands successfully and it likely makes more sense to concentrate your efforts on one brand! You don’t want to find yourself in the position where you realize you haven’t tweeted or posted in several days on one of your brands – fragmenting yourself creates that risk If you have 5 different plugins and you’re only 1 person with maybe a couple helpers, you would start stretching yourself too thin. If you’re questioning whether to fragment your brand with separate social accounts – go ahead and reserve the twitter (social media) handles and/or website domains and then you can phase in your efforts later as your company grows. Essentially ‘flag planting’. If you’re going to fragment – go ALL in. Be cognizant of how much time it takes to build an account from scratch; it takes a LOT of time! If you are fragmented with 2 or more accounts, another question is whether it makes sense to merge them and delete one of the accounts.   The risk from merging is that you’ll lose followers from both accounts. James has an individual domain name and social account for all of his brands CONS: Money, resources, obscurity (starting from scratch can be good if you have a bad reputation, but not so great if your reputation is a good one) When you have multiple brands, sometimes there is brand confusion – where clients will say “oh, I didn’t know you did that too” …. They could have used you to help with another need, but the brand recognition wasn’t there Last 15 mins James –  https://minddoodle.com/ – mind mapping tool, completely free!Jason – https://pasteapp.me/ – manage your clipboard on your MacBridget (tool/tip requests) — starting to use Windows computers more often – wants a Mac standard keyboard that works with a Windows computer!— stop using crappy CMS’s!— ask people (customers) where they come from and don’t accept “the internet” as the answer!Show notes contributed by:Cheryl LaPrade – @yaycherylSherie LaPrade – @heysherieThe post WPblab EP96 – Pros and Cons of Brand Fragmentation appeared first on WPwatercooler. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on WPblab we'll be talking with Roy Sivan about the best thing to help you level up your WordPress career.Name Factoid:Celtic Meaning: The name Roy is a Celtic baby name. In Celtic the meaning of the name Roy is: Red haired.WP Crowd – WordPress community mastermind group / video showMastermind sundays at 6pm PSTWordPress community is very unique among tech communities because of the level of sharing … you can come in without knowing anything and level up from the ground up. Other communities can be judgy about beginner / entry-level questions.Got a gig working for Disney because of a talk he gave at a WordCampTeaching other people in the WP community also helps you to level up because you get to know your subject matter better as you prepare to teach itChurch IT Roundtable http://citrt.comEpoch – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_timeBeing open source makes WordPress and it’s community unique – people are more open and more generous with their knowledge and time. A great example: WordCamps – only $40 for a whole weekend (with lunches!) and you learn so much for so littleHaving one code mentor is a great way to learn! But with the WordPress community you have hundreds of mentors!MasterMinds:https://www.forbes.com/sites/chicceo/2013/10/21/7-reasons-to-join-a-mastermind-group/#535c4ddb5debhttp://www.lifehack.org/articles/featured/how-to-start-and-run-a-mastermind-group.htmlMasterminds help you keep accountable – good way to level together in a smaller, more focused groupTry participating in local hackathons to push yourself a little further and learn more quicklyGet involved in your local meetup, they are always looking for speakers of all levels and you can learn so much from the other members.Meetups can help you get out of shell – get used to speaking to a smaller group. It’s a good place to work on a new topic that you might want to one day present at a WordCamp in front of a larger audience.Spend sometime outside of the WordPress spectrum – expose yourself to authors, podcasts, books, experts, etc. in adjacent interest areas that can help broaden your understanding (Get out of the bubble!)Folks that helped us with our show notes* James Tryon – @jamestryon* Cheryl LaPrade – @YayCheryl* Sherie LaPrade – @HeySherie* Adam Silver @heyadamsilver See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on WPblab we're joined by Robert Nissenbaum consultant & speaker at Tactical Social Media to discuss how you can create visibility and authority through social media.* The Power Of A Single Comment – Why You Need To Engage More* Social Networking: How I Generate Leads Without Content* Social + Media = Success – Tactical Social MediaOur crowd sourced show notes* New Give Blog layout – https://givewp.com/blog/* Remember you are writing for “people” not for search bots – over time your keywords will recur naturally when you are writing what you know* Authority – an indication of your site’s level of expertise in a given subject, based on quality content* https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/links?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wpwatercooler.com&filter=&source=external&target=page&group=0&page=1&sort=page_authority&anchor_id=&anchor_type=&anchor_text=&from_site=* The primary purposes of using social media are to drive traffic to your website and build relationships with your target audience* Content is not just what you post on your blog – content is your comments on facebook, others posts, etc – it creates visibility, shows your authority, develops relationships* If you have 2 hours to go and drive to a networking meeting, you have time in the week to take 10-15 minutes here and there to network online through social media* You still need to be/act like a human on social media, don’t just schedule messages, interact with people – start conversations, include some personal content* Relationships trump price and convenience, breeds loyalty* As much time as you have available you should be spending on social media marketing, building relationships take time* Utilize twitter lists! Excellent curation tool* http://nuzzel.com/ News from friends and influencers* Put on a timer for 15 minutes (you can do anything for 15 mins)! Focus on your social media interactions until the timer is up and then stop, the more you do it, the easier it will get.* https://www.rescuetime.com/ – big brother that cares* It’s really important to have a social media presence for your business on every major platform* Especially for tracking conversations about your business & to reply to customers* Start on the platform where you’re most comfortable and work up from thereThese folks helped us out with the show notes* Cheryl LaPrade – @YayCheryl* Sherie LaPrade – @HeySherie* Jason Tucker – WPwatercooler @jasontucker* James Tryon – @jamestryon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on the WPblab we're going to have our community on the show to talk about and recap the events that occurred at WordCamp US.Joining us on the show: Sherie LaPrade, Cheryl LaPrade, Jonathan Perlman, Josh Pollock, James Tryon, Paul Oyler, Justine Pretorious, Jen Miller, Jon Brown, and your hosts Bridget Willard & Jason Tucker再アップ #wcus pic.twitter.com/g0hpuMXTxi— 高橋文樹@文フリ東京D-1 (@takahashifumiki) December 4, 2016San Diego Comic-ConWordPress Growth CouncilPlugin Directory – Plugins extend and expand the functionality of WordPress.WordPress PluginsGet Involved-WordPressMatt Mullenweg:State Of The Word 2016Pantheon’s $100K WordCamp US Sponsorship Revoked the Night Before the Event – WordPress TavernThe Value of Sponsoring a WordCamp from a Business’ Perspective – WordPress TavernThe post EP54 – WordCamp US Recap Show – WPblab appeared first on WPwatercooler. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week on WPblab we're talking with James Tryon of Wapuus who provides a Field Guide and Trading Post for Wapuus which can be found at http://wapu.us. We'll be talking with James on how he came up with the idea of indexing all things Wapuu and what tools he used to make his website.Planning a website using Google DocsCPTTaxonomiesBuilding a budget using Google SheetsBuilding a “wiki” like interface for how the site will workBrain dump / research before starting to build the sitePre-planning structure and formatSet up to take github submissions and submissions through website formWPblab’s Wapuu https://wapu.us/wapuu/wpblab-wapuu/ThePrintful – printing/shipping fulfillment of shirt designs https://www.theprintful.com/Rafflecopter for site giveaways https://www.rafflecopter.comPoststatus https://poststatus.com/Wapuu Challenge Coins: http://marktimemedia.com/project/wapuu-challenge-coins-2/Everyone in the community can get involved via the websiteThank you all!Show notes contributors:Cheryl LaPrade – @YayCherylSherie LaPrade – @HeySherieJason Tucker – WPwatercooler @jasontuckerThe post Building the WAPUUS Field Guide and Trading Post w/ James Tryon appeared first on WPwatercooler. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.