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This week we continue our discussion with Kimball Stadler from Top Dog Performance on Social Media. i realize we are still following the hour format with a half hour show, which doesn’t leave enough time for the intelligence of the guest to make an appearance. I’ll have to rectify the format until we go back to an hour in the fall. Why i’d listen to the podcast instead of watching the video this week! We’ve been playing out our transition from radio to video. The thinking is that we’d do this with our audience in tow – showing you how vulnerable we are to both tech and ego. You will see that we’ve upped the video quality level to just under HD. With that comesYak On!

Today we start a month long chat about local markets and marketing. The meaning of Social Media to today’s small business community. And who are the big brands pretending to be? “I’m one you guys, you fools”.

Joined by co-host Lisa Rymer, and the great musician Sam Milner, we visit with Carl once again. Carl “Fizz” Fismer, a diving professional who resides in Key Largo, Florida, has over 30 years of treasure search and salvage experience. Most people just read or dream about sunken treasures, but Captain Carl Fismer lives the dream! (If anyone is interested in being part of such a dream go to links below.) Fizz specializes in shipwrecks, especially Spanish shipwrecks. He has worked on over 300 shipwrecks in the United States, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Central and South America and the Indian Ocean. One of Fismer’s diving experiences was with Sir Arthur C. Clarke in Sri Lanka (1992). According to Wikipedia, Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, who died atYak On!

Every once in awhile we get lucky enough to find an icon who represents something that only our fantasies can imagine. That is Carl or as his friends call him “FIZZ” Carl Fismer lives the life of an adventurer. The type of life that they make books, movies and video games about. Carl Fismer, affectionately dubbed “Fizz”, is a treasure hunter that has dived on some of the world’s most famous shipwrecks. He is often described as a real life underwater Indiana Jones. Carl is an active treasure hunter who travels the world looking for treasure and artifacts. He has worked with Mel Fisher on the world famous treasure ship, the Atocha. Carl Fismer is often called in as an expert on shipwrecks and treasuresYak On!

A good practice session with Mike Wieger. I think Mike is a great blogger, Can’t wait to begin working with him. Would have put up the video, but had resolution problems. Next week we have a special show with Carl Fismer, the great Deep sea treasure hunter.

It is not often that the media takes it listeners and now viewers on the journey of reinvention with them. We’ve been doing that now for about three weeks. We’ve reduced the hour show to 1/2 hour while the studio undergoes its summer long renovation into a modern day video studio. We’ve had our ups and downs with producing the show. Adding the video equipment and the corresponding tech and still meeting I Heart Radio standards has been more challenging than we thought it would be. Wayne, our engineer is now spending nearly 20 hours a day in the padded room – (not prison or a place for mental disability, but the studio). Not withstanding our bandwidth issues, we did manage to get a videoYak On!

Another hot summer day here on the Treasure Coast – working out the kinks of the Video Feed. Thought we had it today, but alas it went down, but didn’t notice it until the end of the broadcast. Think we got it set from here-on in. It’s been great seeing my colleagues on video and much fun watching the veteran radio hosts adjust to the video. As we are doing 1/2 hour shows for the summer season, we aren’t doing that many interviews. Just chit-chatting with the group about the latest in tech news and stories. As always we had some Good discussions. I introduced someone I’m excited to begin working with. His names Mike Wieger. Check him out on YouTube. He’s an up andYak On!

GO TO LIVESTREAM.COM AND SIGN UP AND FOLLOW PLANET VERO AND YAKABOUTTECH – THIS IS YOUR VIDEO FUTURE. Sooo, as many of you who follow the “Yak About Tech” broadcasts, podcasts, vlog etc., knows, we were going on hiatus for a few summer months. We were planning to return in the Fall with all new episodes in a new hour plus format. In what I believe is a first, we thought it would be a great deal more fun if we could take our audience on the journey with us. For the summer we brought the broadcast down to a half hour format and have spent the last several weeks (with I Heart Media’s blessing and our audiences participation) re-designing, rewiring and upping our technologyYak On!

A few things here. I’ve told you before that Good Anchorage is doing for the high seas what google has been doing on land. ALERT: I am on the board of advisors of “Good Anchorage”, but only because I support what I believe is going to be one of technologies great accomplishments. So, let me make this easy for you. Good Anchorage is using CROWDSOURCING as a means of identifying and cataloging good anchorages around the globe. The seas are becoming more populated and much of the navigational tools are sometimes as much as a century old. Good Anchorage intends to add to the safety of the Oceans. CHECK OUT: GOODANCHORAGE.COM On another note. I’ve been chronicallying our adventures in video and live streaming. AsYak On!

Hey everyone. We’re still experimenting with video. Posted a temporary low res version of our broadcast. We are experimenting with Lifestream this week which only allowed for a standard definition feed . I’m in the process of editing in the Skype recording of the conversation which is in an HD format. But anyway, we had Douglas Bove as our guest. He recently published a paper on Solar Energy which discusses the technology and its economic implications to society. He’s bringing to our attention an interesting point of view. He believes we are coming to the point where we will have to stop the personal subsidy and tax savings on solar for the individual and develop a policy for subsidizing the energy distributers who will be hurtYak On!