So, Keith and I have been tweeting and blogging down here at the leg, and as a new blogger I've been digging around for tools I can use to make my life easier. Here are a few I've found:
SoundCloud
This free website lets you upload audio, which you can link to in Twitter and embed in your blog, which I did today on our rumour killing blog post about Zwozdesky. I started using SoundCloud two weeks ago and people have listened to my tracks 340 times since then. The interview in which MLA Carl Benito blames his wife for failing to pay his taxes has been listened to 218 times so far. It's really funny:
Benito by Karen Kleiss
Media.io
This free website will allow you to convert one kind of audio file into another. This is helpful when you record something in .wma format, but you want to upload it into SoundCloud, which doesn't take .wma. It's easy, fast and free.
Scribd
A free site that lets you make your documents public and embed them in your blog or link to them in your twitter posts. An absolutely crucial tool. I've uploaded 99 documents in the past two months, they have been viewed nearly 5,000 times by readers. We can also put the documents on the website like this:
Stelmach
Box.net
Box is like Scribd, except you can keep your documents private if you want to. I plan to use it mostly for sending stuff back and forth to the office.
I'll post more when I have the time, but these are the best I've found so far.
