I am thinking of making a powerpoint presentation to use to help me keep to my talking points to start off the first
few episodes. I think this is a good idea for me to be on topic so I do not end up talking about random tangents.


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Re: Making a podcast
By: Utopian Galt to All on Sun Feb 16 2025 08:15 pm

I am thinking of making a powerpoint presentation to use to help me keep to my talking points to start off the first
few episodes. I think this is a good idea for me to be on topic so I do not end up talking about random tangents.

There's a lot to be said for scripting your podcast. How about this?

1. Create a script for your podcast. It can be word for word, an outline, or somewhere in between.

2. Publish the script as a blog entry with links to your podcast. Collect email addresses for updates to the blog.

3. Syndicate the blog entry to social network(s).

4. Eventually, tie all of the blog entries into a book.

5. Take the "best of" blog entries, make them into a free PDF, and offer the PDF in exchange for an email address.

Voila! You've turned one podcast script into a podcast, blog entry, several social network articles, hopefully a book, and created an email list.
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I am thinking of making a powerpoint presentation to use to help me keep to my talking points to start off the first

Take a look at Obsidian. It's a great app for taking notes, and you can format it anyway you want. Best of all it's just markdown text files. There are a ton of useful plugins that may help with the podcast process.

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Uber-Geek wrote to Utopian Galt <=-

Take a look at Obsidian. It's a great app for taking notes, and you can format it anyway you want. Best of all it's just markdown text files. There are a ton of useful plugins that may help with the podcast
process.

I've been caught up with this whole second-brain idea, having a place to capture *everything* and get your mind out of the business of storing
things.

I read "Getting Things Done" by David Allen, who had the same idea 10
years ago, and have used OneNote for that. I've been tempted with using Obsidian for that (liked Notion, don't like the idea of someone else
hosting my data)...

But I'm new to Markdown. WYSIWYG seems so much easier, and OneNote ties
in well to Outlook, which I use at work.

What's your experience like with Obsidian? I'd love to hear how you use
it.



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On 17 Feb 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

But I'm new to Markdown. WYSIWYG seems so much easier, and OneNote ties
in well to Outlook, which I use at work.

it's pretty easy:

# A simple example of markdown (this is a header)
## for pF, 2025

markdown can be __bold__ and also *italic*.

- use
- it

1. to
2. day

(both of those are lists)

1. Open [ramen][1] packet
2. Put noodles and water in bowl
- Accidentally spill water
- Refill
3. Cook

.. formats like you think it would

***

^- horizontal rule. dashes and underscores work but bbses might not like that

it'll turn quoting (and nested quoting) with >'s into something pretty too

[1]: https://www.google.com/search?q=ramen

this link was just inlined in the list above

there's plenty of neat little things :)

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Re: Re: Making a podcast
By: fusion to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Feb 17 2025 07:26 pm

But I'm new to Markdown. WYSIWYG seems so much easier, and OneNote ties i
well to Outlook, which I use at work.

it's pretty easy:

Interesting. One thing Markdown and Obsidian look interesting for is being able to link pages within pages, as most of my notes aren't discrete notes that don't tie into other notes.

Sounds like I need to give it another try.

I also like the idea of having a consolidated task/note manager outside of work tools that works for work and personal items.
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On 17 Feb 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

Re: Re: Making a podcast
By: fusion to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Feb 17 2025 07:26 pm

But I'm new to Markdown. WYSIWYG seems so much easier, and OneNote t
well to Outlook, which I use at work.

it's pretty easy:

Interesting. One thing Markdown and Obsidian look interesting for is
being able to link pages within pages, as most of my notes aren't
discrete notes that don't tie into other notes.

Sounds like I need to give it another try.

I also like the idea of having a consolidated task/note manager outside
of work tools that works for work and personal items.

a friend mentioned a while back that a lot of companies use some form of wiki-like software for documentation, more structured collaborative note taking, etc. and although i don't work in that scenario, i set up a plain old wiki and started using it that way myself. it's significantly overkill but i
think it sort of changed how i think about note taking. (it's a waste if i write something down, use it, forget it, and then ever have to google it again. but also the act of doing it means you'll remember it's there, come back to it, remember how it worked a little better.. i duno)

if i google something that was useful, it's become a habit to think if i'll need it again.. rather than bookmarking it i take what's meaningful for me and put it in the wiki. sometimes i'll include the link and some search terms i used to find it anyways, but for the most part it's tailored to me without the "cruft" webpages have. after you've done that a few times you can end up with a decently structured page worth of documentation (and a whole lot of search terms to improve it if you need to).

anyways, i guess the point after that was i found the page editor annoying and tried the markdown one and it felt a little more like "just type some stuff and it looks good" vs "oops what did i just do" heh :)

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What's your experience like with Obsidian? I'd love to hear how you use it.

I use it for my second brain and daily journal. I also use it at work as my central information repository. I keep track of my open tickets, projects, and daily tasks. Been using it for a couple of years now. Originally was using OneNote for my work documentation.

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Hi Poindexter,
In a message to Uber-Geek you wrote:

I read "Getting Things Done" by David Allen, who had the same idea 10 years ago, and have used OneNote for that. I've been tempted with

I've used GTD for a while now, currently I just use notepad at work for
archive and my daily list is using the sticky note from windows 11.
I don't think I follow GTD fully but it works for me. :)

There are clients I would prefer to use, but to get an applicatio approved
by IT takes email's and meetings, and they have to test things, and it's
just not worth the hassle they will give me if I request a new app. LOL

Shawn

... Failure has gone to his head.


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Tiny wrote to Poindexter Fortran <=-

There are clients I would prefer to use, but to get an applicatio
approved by IT takes email's and meetings, and they have to test
things, and it's just not worth the hassle they will give me if I
request a new app. LOL

That's part of the beauty of OneNote for me - we already have it.



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On 16 Feb 2025, Utopian Galt said the following...

I am thinking of making a powerpoint presentation to use to help me keep to my talking points to start off the first
few episodes. I think this is a good idea for me to be on topic so I do not end up talking about random tangents.

I host a thirty minute weekly terrestrial radio show. Keeping it simple, I can assure you, is the best route. After all, you will edit your work and re-record a segment no matter how prepared you are. Before publishing, I will upload my episode to my tablet and play it out loud. As a harsh critic of my own work, I find things to fix all the time.

So have fun with it. It's a rewarding hobby as your audience grows.

Another thing, know your audience. Respect that and it'll be very satisfying.

Make it easy for your audience to communicate with you. Guys like Rogan are big enough that it isn't necessary. You want this edge to foster a community who'll support you in the long run. If your podcast hits, dial back on the communication. Maybe, include your financial supporters. Learn by the best podcasters out there. Emulate the successful.

Format your episodes so they are easy to adjust with a changing audience. If, ona later date, you bring in advertisers, place the ads in strategic moments of the recording. Don't inject the ad mid-sentence. Many podcasters are unscrupulous that way and it's lazy and it disrespects your audience.

That's all I have. These are just ideas that come from my own experience. My show is broadcast over the air so it's different.

Oh... Best of luck.

D

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But tangents are what make a good podcast ;)

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I've attempted to do something similar years ago...
I used to host an internal only access Intranet knowledge base for all things IT when I was still starting out...

I started getting pretty good with advanced Active Directory and Exchange
tasks - the kind of advanced stuff that stumps most people, and started to document the best practices that we as IT admins should be employing for all
AD and Exchange deployments.

Problem is - its all at my house - not at work lol...
So I put together a Wordpress site that's publicly accessible, but now the
task comes to properly transition everything from my ancient notes based intranet to a more modern WebUI - correcting grammer, spelling, adding
images, and generally updating content to be more relevant with current
OSes...

Its a timely process... I've started - I've ages to go :D

One of the guys at the office was joking in a team meeting about how I like
to document things very methodically and suggested we have a site called askflorey.com - so I checked, registered it, and changed my Wordpress site domain to that instead :D - it stuck!

Documentation = time consuming but extremely important, and like you say, has to be worth it, ie: no going back to Google to look up what you already have tucked away...

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IT just careful or is the org following some ISO standard like ISO27000 / ISO27001 ?

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dflorey wrote to fusion <=-

One of the guys at the office was joking in a team meeting about how I like to document things very methodically and suggested we have a site called askflorey.com - so I checked, registered it, and changed my Wordpress site domain to that instead :D - it stuck!

Documentation = time consuming but extremely important, and like you
say, has to be worth it, ie: no going back to Google to look up what
you already have tucked away...

There have been times I've had to look up a BBS issue, gone to google
and found the answer in someone's googled web message bases...

I'm about to undertake a massive documentation effort at work covering
server, desktop, networking and cloud and on-prem servers, bouncing
around the idea of indexing formatted documents versus creating a wiki.
I'm leaning to the latter, for a change.






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I'm about to undertake a massive documentation effort at work covering server, desktop, networking and cloud and on-prem servers, bouncing
around the idea of indexing formatted documents versus creating a wiki. I'm leaning to the latter, for a change.

Its a big undertaking and I applaud anyone that undertakes the arduous
process to methodically go through a system and document the absolute crap
out of it! Good luck!!

Also, yeah, go web based (usable on virtually any web device), and as a
bonus, can attach documents for download!

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