Some people have described me as a blogger, but I'm not really. I just write some things from time to time – whatever was on my mind – I was never any good at having an agenda.
A little more than two years ago, I started listening to podcasts and I found myself getting hooked on the whole New Media scene.
As some of you already know, that's when I created the audio comment system called MyChingo – a lot of people wanted an easy way to send in their comments as an MP3 file.
MyChingo has been a success within the podcasting community.
My behavior after the deployment of MyChingo was one which was fueled by passion. My passion to continue creating tools for the podcasting and video blogging community.
Travel, travel, travel
From September, 2006 until the fall of 2007 I traveled to 11 different events around the nation and even Canada! (oh yeah, that cost around $8,500 to pull all of that off – lots of hotels and that stuff called alke-haul).
I met a ton of famous people, including you (don't be modest now!).
I kept working on the next version of MyChingo – something that would include audio, video, text, and images – all the ways which we communicate – the problem was always in the packaging.
Was it supposed to be a plug-in for a blog or a stand-alone site, thereby creating yet another "silo" in the fields of cyberspace (a big taboo topic, silos are).
I ended up created my own drag-n-drop content management system, with in-browser recording of audio and video too. The batch upload of images was a snap, and they'd even turn into a flash slideshow if you wanted.
The problem was that as I was figuring out all of the technology and developing the system around what I has learned, I didn't have any new business coming in – in fact, I was turning down new business because I simple "had" to get this finished.
One month turned into one quarter, and the next thing that I knew it had been more than a year.
So, while I was so focused on the technology, I has just assumed that someone else who knew more about business than I did would come along and offer to partner up.
Well, it never happened.
So, what can you learn from my life?
Lesson #1 – Have a plan.
Lesson #2 – No matter how good of a plan you think it is, have someone else pay for it.
Lesson #3 – Somehow, even when you are more than $100k in debt, you can sleep at night without drinking or drugs.
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I'm currently seeking employment preferably in the mid-to upper management level with about 50 companies – 4 of which are ongoing conversations.
p.s. PodCamp MidWest is Feb. 16th (That's 12 days from now!)
– I do still have great passion for this fishbowl, so if you can make it to the Kansas/Missouri area, I'd love to meet you or see you again.
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