Mike Hall on Returning to Production & SCNA 2013 Sponsorship | UGtastic Update #1

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Archival update from Mike Hall on recovering production gear, UpCity, WebVisions Chicago, and becoming an official media sponsor for SCNA 2013.
The Interviewer

Mike Hall

Founder & Host, UGtastic

The Conversation

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Hi, it's Mike with UGtastic. I've been on a little bit of a hiatus, not by choice,
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but had some things coming up in the real world that kind of put a damper on any kind
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of publication and now that things are sorted out, UGtastic is back and I'll be publishing
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again. So basically I lost some equipment and thought I lost all the video templates
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when I was transferring from my old computer to no computer for a little while when I
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was changing jobs and just between sick kids and all kinds of other fun stuff and cost
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kidding, kind of getting out of control. I've reeled everything back in. I've got a new
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employer now, UpCity.com. We do SEO services, basically guidance for small businesses that
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are looking to get into the SEO and don't have the money or the wherewithal to afford
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a very expensive SEO consultant. So it's exciting to be able to work on something where I'll
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be able to help people save money but increase their own online presence through improved
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SEO practices. So I've got a new microphone to replace the old one. I'm changing up the
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way I'm going to be recording videos before I was recording directly from the computer
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itself from my MacBook Pro. Now I'm going to be recording using an iPad mini hooked
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up to a harness and that's going to be delivered. Well I have the iPad mini here so it's right
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there but the harness is coming in the next, well tomorrow and I'll be hooking that up
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and syncing that up back to my new MacBook Pro where I'll be doing the editing. I'm
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very excited, it's a brand new Mavericks space computer. So I've recovered all of my old
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iMovie templates so I'll be able to start publishing the Web Vision series again. A
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couple months ago now I went to the Web Visions 2013 in Chicago and did a number of interviews
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but only was able to publish a few before things kind of got hectic and I couldn't
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do the editing any longer. So going to be resuming that series and very exciting news
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is next week I'm going to be at SCNA, Software Craftsmanship North America Conference. I'm
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going to be a media sponsor. UGtastic is now an official media sponsor so if you go
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to the Software Craftsmanship North America Conference website and go to the sponsors
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page you'll be able to see that UGtastic is now officially a sponsor of SCNA which
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is particularly exciting for me because SCNA is where UGtastic was born. SCNA 2011 was
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the place I launched the idea and the concept and actually launched my first interviews
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for UGtastic. So it's very exciting to go from being at the conference and launching
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the idea of UGtastic to now coming back again third year in a row and being an official
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part of the conference as a media sponsor. So looking forward to that, looking forward
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to launching more interviews, getting those user group lists up and running and getting
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some of those people that have submitted their user groups in the UK, the Brighton
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PHP group and another group that I'm just trying to blank on right now but they're going
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to be up and posted on the website as soon as I'm able. So thank you again for holding
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out and your patience and I'm really looking forward to getting back into the saddle with
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UGtastic again.