YAK ABOUT TODAY

The last of our hiatus programs as I call them. This week we experimented with Livestream. Interesting! Seems that we got many people checking us out to see what we were up to. This week we will sit down and prepare the process and methodology that we intend to follow moving forward. After video recording the show for two weeks and live streaming.  My guess is that live streaming won’t be initially as important as taking the video and adding video specific how to’s and releasing a show designed more for video. There was something else that came out of these experiments. Previously, I had prepared the news of the week and studied up on the guests that I was to interview. These last fewYak On!

[video_lightbox_youtube video_id=”V-u7Mb64cTA” width=”640″ height=”480″ anchor=”http://www.yakirgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Screen-Shot-2015-05-20-at-9.08.00-AM.png”] Sooo! Now that the cost of production has come down to where we can actually produce the video simultaneously with the terrestrial broadcast. (No, we don’t have Howard Stern’s budget), its time to start understanding what we should do with it.  Is it enough to just video the broadcast? The honest answer is NO. Not if this is a vanity play with no purpose. Maybe, if it gives us more distribution outlets or maybe video will help it serve another purpose. When I was approached to do the broadcast, it was a simple matter of saying yes. Didn’t have to pretty up – no makeup and bathing suit casual was the order of the day. And really, I’m still rebellingYak On!

So, here I was all set to take my 6 week hiatus from the I Heart Radio “Yak About Tech” series when I get the call. “Was I willing to come in?” It seemed that as a great favor Wayne, my sometime producer, had put in a temporary three camera setup so when we went out via the social networks we can do so in video.  One of the challenges of doing a radio/podcast on tech is that so much has to be seen to be understood. With one days notice, it was too close to move up some of the future guests and interviews into the space and a little late to make the calls, so we decided to sit in the studio andYak On!

(UN-EDITED) Herb Oscar Anderson or HOA. They called him the morning Mayor of New York. He was my teenage musical curator on New York’s WABC 77.0 radio from 1960 – 1968. I began listening to music back in 1960 when HOA arrived at WABC until he left in 1968 – when I entered my post beatnik pre-hippie college years. Where did the music start? Elvis for sure. Connie Francis and Jim Reeves were there. The great Marty Robbins singing “El Paso.”  Chubby Checker, Brenda Lee and Roy Orbison were playing through my 8 transistor radio with the single ear plug. They were certainly all friends of the Morning Mayor HOA. He was the Jockey that taught America that not all Rock n’ Rollers were bad – still mixingYak On!

Well it’s been an extraordinary week on multiple fronts.  We put out teaser for The Yakir Group’s new social media offering “CONVERSATIONS” and the response has been extraordinary.  Of course, John and I continued the discussion on the benefits to individuals and executives.  I’m posting video excerpts from the show. Probably posted above this post, so you’ve most likely have seen them.  So, now that “Conversations” has been introduced, we’ve got another big one coming. Hint: new production group and facilities. So, for now I’ll leave you to listen.

“YAK ABOUT” ? SOME NOTES: The other day I posted a video excerpt of this show. We have been experimenting with turning the radio/podcast broadcast experience to video. As is the usual process, we have been recording the video of the show (thanks Howard Stern) to see where we can take this. We will be developing the video broadcast in small steps.  While we do an hour show for I Heart Radio and WAXE, we will do better by recording segments of 5 minutes or less for the “Yak About” Channel. Yes, you read that right. As “Yak About Tech” grew up, we found that although TECH was the foundation of our discussions, the topics ranged from business services to healthy eating. We did showsYak On!

Well, we did our first remote broadcast from Beautiful Tiburon California on the San Francisco Bay. The idea was to hit the tri-fector first time out. The plan – to broadcast over the I Heart Radio network to our traditional broadcast area with Sally and Wayne Dillon helming the controls at WAXE 107.9/FM 1370AM in Vero Beach, Florida. Additionally, we were recording the video feeds of our interviews with Sandy and Harlan Kleiman over skype for our new “Yak About Tech” Youtube channel which I would handle in San Francisco. And of course (wait for it) we would broadcast live over Twitter’s Periscope network. It was a rather daunting undertaking and probably the first time all three were attempted simultaneously.  So, how did it go? I travelledYak On!

On today’s broadcast of “Yak About Tech”; Doug Menuez. From photographing Presidents to the historical capture of the technology greats, Doug is one of America’s great photographers. From 1986 to 1988, Doug Menuez documented Steve Jobs’ new company NeXT Inc. and its development and launch of the computer NeXT Computer for Life magazine.At Apple Computer, Doug Menuez documented various projects, including the Apple Newton from its early stages in 1992 to its launch in 1993. In 1992, Menuez published, with Markos Kounalakis, the book, Defying Gravity: The Making of Newton.   Between 1988 and 1995, Menuez documented the corporate life and the early development of PDF, and the development of Adobe Photoshop at Adobe Systems San Jose, California. The 250,000 photographs Menuez shot, documenting SiliconYak On!

FROM THE BEAUTIFUL STUDIO’S OF WAXE 107.9,FM 1370 AM and I Heart Radio Worldwide, This is Yak About Tech, your GPS guide to everything tech – with a few other things thrown in. We are slowly rolling out CONVERSATIONS (see yakirgroup.com) in Indian River County to local businesses.  We brought on Martin Lavander, local business leader and community activist to discuss the needs of the community.  Sally and Martin found a lot to chat about. I got to take a break for a bit. We talked about MeerKat. “Yak About Tech” will broadcast live daily updates via the MeerKat app. DOWNLOAD MEERKAT AND FOLLOW @YAKABOUTTECH FOR DAILY UPDATES.

We are lucky to have the great Sandy Kleiman, founder and CEO of Healthy Culinary Coach. We did several things that we hadn’t done previously in today’s show, we showed how the members of The Yakir Group and JMCPR are rethinking Sandy’s business in the digital age. The question is; how do you take a one on one successful business and move it forward with all the possibilities that the digital age presents. We thought we’d begin with what will turn out to be a multi-episode undertaking. Talk about “CASE STUDIES”. ALSO, after many months of planning we initiated a simultaneous video recording of the show that will live on in Youtube, I Heart Media websites.  (you will find them on Yakirgroup.com and on allYak On!