Online Course Connections With Vickie Maris

Ali El-Ammori of A-1 Telecom shares a conference takeaway in Episode 19 of Agile Digital Business. Podcast host, Vickie Maris, recently gave a presentation on businesses preparing for voice search. Ali was participating in an executive education program when he was a part of the discussion on ways business can be preparing for voice and integrating voice portals in to their customer interfaces.   While he was participating in the event, he was also sending information back to his team so they could make adjustments to plans in order to better align for voice search, and customer uses of video in the path to a purchase. This episode is a preview of an upcoming interview with Ali El-Ammori, for a future episode of the show.  If you have questions that you would like for Ali or Vickie to address in the upcoming episode, please send an email to agiledigitalbusiness @ gmail dot com. #agiledigitalbiz #teachinspireconnect Host of Agile Digital Business - Vickie Maris, author, speaker, idea coach and digital marketer

I take you behind the scenes in the recording of the narration for the audiobook, Changing Life After a Life-Changing Event: 30 Journal Prompts and Stories To Help After a Loss. In this episode, I share an example of how I use a digital voice interface for clarification on name pronunciations. Episode 18 also includes a "sneak listen" to Day 20 of the journal, which is about having intentional thought life to help curb anxiety. Here are the show notes and time codes for Episode 18 of Agile Digital Business: 0:00 Welcome to the episode :25 Using a feature of the voice platform as an author/narrator; and a sneak listen of the audiobook. 1:10 Season 2 of the podcast is a focus on the voice platform, voice first and voice search. 1:27 Music and introduction of the episode 1:53 How my narrating of the audiobook leads to use of voice platform features available on the Web. 2:18 Recording several versions of the name associated with a quote in the journal, Henri Nouwen. 3:09 Microphone is on the right side of the Go

Here are the show notes and time codes for Episode 17 about my experience in switching from the http to the https secure domain for my website. This is another step in preparing the business for voice search. .......................  :00 Introduction of Episode 17 of Agile Digital Business which covers status of audiobook recording, to changing your web domain from http to https, to an example of how podcasts and other uses of voice serve as evergreen content in brand building. You'll also hear news in voice. :44 Music introduction :58 How narrating of my second audiobook has led to my study of and enthusiasm about the voice platform. 1:23 Welcome in to Episode 17. 1:33 Update on narration of audiobook, Changing Life After a Life-changing Event: 30 Journal Prompts and Stories to Help After a Loss. 1:45 Taking steps to get website updated and set up to better accommodate responses to customers using voice search. 2:13 Time in the studio narrating the audiobook version of, "Changing Life After a Life Changing E

Show notes and time codes for Episode 16 of Agile Digital Business Season 2 is about the voice platform, voice first, and voice search marketing.   :03 This is Part 2 of the bonus content shared during the session by Vickie Maris on voice first and voice search in the module, Leading the Strategic Enterprise. Business leaders were studying design thinking ethics, marketing, and were introduced to voice search, voice first, and thoughts about how voice search marketing can be a part of the digital marketing strategy. :26 Introduction to the show. :40 Welcome to Episode 16 of Agile Digital Business with host, Vickie Maris. :51 Points from a blog post at the Pragmatic.digital website. I highly recommend reading this article. Here's the location: https://www.pragmatic.digital/blog/basics-of-voice 1:01 A summary of the quote in the blog at Pragmatic.digital: Gartner stats about early adopter brands ... the data predicts that businesses that redesign their websites to support visual and voice search by 2021 can inc

As I was preparing for the talk I gave last week about voice search and the shifts in how our customers are seeking information about our products and services, I created a document of bonus content. It included references to several interesting marketing statistics and trends and a few points mentioned by other presenters during the 2 1/2-day module, Leading the Strategic Enterprise. As a news brief, I've recorded part of the bonus content here for you in Episode 15 of Agile Digital Business. This episode is 6:30 minutes in length. Here are the time codes and themes of the episode: 0:34 Introduction to this brief, news episode that features part of the content that I shared with students at the end of my session last week as bonus content. I was teaching about voice search and preparing our businesses for the digital realm.  :49 Mention of the book by Mark W. Schaefer, Marketing Rebellion: The Most Human Company Wins 1:02 Reference to Episode 12 of the podcast where I provide a short commentary about Mark's

During my conversation Brielle Nickoloff, lead, product marketing, for Witlingo, she and I discuss the value of moving quickly in the voice platform. Hear how Amazon Alexa searches data sources to respond to voice search as well as insights about voice portals for your customers. Nickoloff has a background in linguistics and neuroscience and user interface design. Her unique combination of degrees led her to Witlingo, which helps companies build voice experiences. Here is our conversation and the associated time codes to help you locate key moments in the interview:   :29 Introduction from Scott Greeson :42 Vickie Maris introduces the upcoming interview with Brielle Nickoloff, Witlingo. Vickie and Brielle met while attending the voice panel during Podcast Movement 2019. 1:53 Vickie provides background information about Brielle and her work in the voice community. 2:48 Brielle speaks three languages and has several publications to her credit. You can read more at her LinkedIn profile. 3:49 Reach Brielle via em

You can now search your Alexa app or the Amazon store for the Alexa Skill, "Agile Digital Business." When you enable it for your device such as an Amazon Echo smart speaker, it will pull in the news from the podcast in to your Flash Briefing. When you use a phrase such as, "Alexa, play my Flash Briefing," you will hear the news from each of news briefs you have enabled. Developing an Alexa Skill for the podcast was a way to provide you and my other listeners with a hands-free way to catch the news from the show. I plan to provide a shorter, news brief episode in between the regular-length episodes that typically run 30-45 minutes.

Transitioning with your customer in the digital realm before it’s too late – businesses, prepare for voice search by @vickiemaris #teachinspireconnect #agiledigitalbiz Agile Digital Business Episode 12 featuring news, references and commentary about the voice platform and voice search   From the Resources Handout prepared for a conference session talk in June 2019; revised for a talk in September 2019   2:56 Articles and blog posts on voice search Voice Search is Coming. Is Your Business Ready? How voice search will revolutionize your business – Article in Inc. https://www.inc.com/magazine/201906/amy-webb/voice-search-optimization-alexa-smart-speaker-retail-shopping.html 3:08 Why Tech Giants Are So Desperate to Provide Your Voice Assistant An HBR article by Bret Kinsella about why Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others are investing in voice technology. “Voice assistants represent the third UI and technology platform shift of the past three decades, following the web in the 1990s and smartphones about 10 year

Gary Vaynerchuck is on the Voicebot List for 2019 Top 10 Influencers in Voice. Neil Patel is a marketing thought leader, and named by Entrepreneur Magazine as a creator of 1 of the 100 most brilliant companies. Both are preparing their companies for voice. Between the two of them, they have many successful businesses. In Episode 11 of Agile Digital Business, I summarize both their sense of urgency about preparing your business for the voice platform and tips provided by Neil for updating your website for voice. There are changes you can make to your website that will enable the assistants to more readily find and serve up your content when your customers search for your business with their voice. Here are my notes from the episode along with the time codes: 1:11 Introduction to Episode 11 by Agile Digital Business host, Vickie Maris 1:30 Voice search is the focus of Season 2 of Agile Digital Business podcast 1:52 Sense of urgency for businesses to get ready for voice search 2:10 Summary of video on the GaryVe

You may have heard of voice search, or use of voice-activated assistants such as Alexa which is the assistant for the Amazon Echo smart speaker. There is also the Google Home Assistant or Microsoft’s Cortana, Apple’s Siri, and other others. You may have also heard the older phrase of "voice attendants." As people gravitate towards voice for search, it has brought about a marketing niche that is often referred to as voice search marketing.  Voice has been referred to as the next big thing. The data is showing that it IS the big thing we need to be preparing for in business and marketing of our products and services. Here are the topics addressed by host, Vickie Maris, in Episode 10 of Agile Digital Business: 2:24 Voice is the next big thing 2:38 Statistics on smart speakers, and basics of voice in blog posts available at Pragmatic.digital/blog 3:12 Reference to llama training and the teenage students' uses of voice-activated assistants 4:17 Should B2B businesses leverage the use of voice? 4:50 Voice search or

Podcast Movement 2019 Conference, August 14-16, 2019, in Orlando, Florida, has many conference tracks, sessions, meet-ups and networking events to consider. As the host of Agile Digital Business podcast, I'm excited to be attending the conference and to get to meet up with many of my friends and colleagues who are in the podcasting arena. As an author, speaker and instructor in digital leadership and transition, and voice search marketing, the topics planned for the conference are particularly timely for me. Bossjock, Backpack Studio App Please note that I recorded this studio remotely while in Orlando. I was using the Bossjock app on my iPhone 7 Plus for the first time. After recording the show segments and bringing my music in to the app to create the episode, I later found that there is a new app available, Backpack Studio, that provides for more advanced podcast recording and editing while on a mobile device. I'm eager to download and try Backpack Studio before my next remote podcast recording and editing

In my conversation with Mike Jackson for Agile Digital Business, we take a departure from digital marketing and transition of content to the digital realm, and talk teamwork. Mike enjoys the sport of field trials and raising and training bird dogs. He has trained some of the best English Pointer dogs in the business and participates in field trials from the back of his Tennessee Walker horses. His travels take him throughout the USA and Canada as he competes in field trials. Prior to his retirement, Mike worked for the electric co-op as a lineman, a supervisor, and later for a company that responded to disaster areas for repair of power lines. You can see an example of this type of field trial work in this video of the national championships. https://youtu.be/r9FukGHrhm0 Enjoy the conversation with Mike Jackson! http://vickiemaris.com Season 2 of the podcast, Agile Digital Business, starts with the next episode. We are delving in to the topics of voice, voice search, voice first and how businesses can prepar

Whitney Kilgore, PhD, of iDesign, shares her perspective on blended learning, open educational resources, and more of her insights on the design of learning experiences in this Part 2 of my interview with her. This is Episode 7 of Agile Digital Business (formerly, Online Course Connections) podcast. Whitney provides pointers on how to guide a subject matter expert (SME) who often wants to lead with content. "In the online space, it's important to break content into chunks." "A design team will help you break content into chunks and help you make sure that the learning goals and objectives align with the assessments. [The designers] will help you make sure that the path between the two points for gaining knowledge are clear." Whitney also touches on the concept of co-creating a syllabus with the students of your class. When doing so in an academic environment, you would want to maintain the academic standards required for accreditation. I will add here that you could also co-create a syllabus with the customer

Jeff Jennings is with Missouri S & T, and is a former middle school teacher turned instructional designer. In Episode 6 of the show, Jeff and I talk about learning experience design and working with faculty in the mapping of a course plan.  Jeff earned his MS degree in educational leadership through an online program at the institution that is now called Trident University. He did his graduate work while still serving in the military in the US Army. We talk about building blocks of course design and he walks through a tool that the course design team at Missouri S & T uses for helping faculty design their instruction. We touch on the importance of updated course descriptions and how to map learning events to assessments in a course and to the learning outcomes. Missouri S & T is focused on getting courses aligned with the building blocks we discuss in this episode. Jeff and I met when he was leading a workshop at the 2016 OLC Accelerate Conference with his colleague Amy Skyles, who has also been

Amy Skyles, Missouri S & T, is my guest on Episode 5 of Agile Digital Business (formerly, Online Course Connections). She and her colleagues are helping you keep students on pace towards graduation by working with instructors to create alternatives for the design and teaching of lab classes. She tells us about the reasons behind decisions at her institution and how they are answering faculty, student and community questions about online and blended lab classrooms. The design team at Missouri S & T doesn't refer to their courses as "online labs." They are instead referred to as DELTA Labs. DELTA is an acronym for Delivering Experiential Labs to All.  Another service of the design team is to help instructors come up with a plan for the situation when a student with a disability is in an online course that has a lab component that they would be managing from their remote location. They also help come up with a plan for disposal of materials from lab experiments. Disposal, even in micro scale, can become

You can join other entrepreneurs and business owners in the Youpreneur community hosted by Chris Ducker. In this episode, I share a very unscripted perspective of life as a Youpreneur, and the support that comes from being an engaged member of the community.  Previously, the site was only opened to new members a few times a year, but it is now open throughout the year. If you're an entrepreneur who is building a personal brand, running a small business, or you're dreaming of doing either of those things in the future, you will want to take a peek in to this community. This podcast, now rebranded to Agile Digital Business, (formerly Online Course Connections), has come to be, in part, because of the support and accountability I've gained from my engagement in the Youpreneur community both online and offline. Thanks for listening to the show and for sharing this episode in your social media channels with your friends and followers. The links to Youpreneur in this post are my affiliate link provided by Chris Duc

Melissa A. Venable, PhD, and Jon Ernstberger, PhD, co-presented during the 2016 OLC Accelerate Conference on their experience using Periscope as a platform for their Higher Ed Scope podcast. Sit in on a conversation I have with them in Orlando at the conference.    Melissa is the education editor with the Center for Online Education at OnlineColleges.net and faculty in instructional design at St. Leo University and University of South Florida.   Here is a July 2019 article Melissa wrote for Best Colleges. It is titled, "Take My Advice: Lessons Learned from Online College Students," by Melissa Venable, PhD.    Jon is the Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Mathematics at LaGrange College in Georgia. At the time of the interview for the podcast, he was the Director of Online Instruction.    Here is a link to the replay of Episode 3 of Higher Ed Scope, "Declutter Your Online Course."    To contact Melissa Venable:   https://twitter.com/melissa_venable   https://designdoc.me  

In this episode of Agile Digital Business (formerly called Online Course Connections), Whitney Kilgore, PhD, of iDesign takes a student-centered approach as she talks of techniques she uses to help faculty and content experts get more comfortable in recording videos for online courses. She also shares several tools and resources that you will find helpful, no matter if you're doing online course design for your customers or for your students. I think you'll agree with me that Whitney is a master in learning experience design!  Flipgrid: https://info.flipgrid.com/ Yellowdig: https://www.yellowdig.com/ Practice: https://www.practice.xyz/   This episode is part of the online course collection of episodes listed at http://vickiemaris.com. Part 2 of the interview with Whitney appears in a few episodes later in the show.   To connect with guest, Whitney Kilgore ... Twitter: @whitneykilgore Email: whitneykilgore@me.com Website: idesignedu.org   To connect with podcast host, Vickie Maris ... Twitter: @vickiemaris Ema

Here are three approaches to developing content for an online course platform such as Udemy.  I describe techniques I have used including: Creating an online course around a topic in which you have a high level of expertise and passion. Invite a content expert(s) to join you in developing a course. This person could also serve in an on-camera role for course videos. Journal your experience in learning a subject, and then create course content from your notes and experiences. These techniques are ones I've used in courses I've created at the university as well as in my courses on Udemy and other platforms. http://www.udemy.com/u/vickiemaris http://vickiemaris.com  

Learn about the focus of the show, Agile Digital Business, and the background of the host Vickie Maris. She shares a story about the importance of listening to the voice of the customer before launching in to content creation or the development of a new product or service. Music in the podcast is by Vickie Maris and her husband, Scott Greeson. See the latest album, Riverside, for the versions of the songs with lyrics. You can find more details about the podcast, Agile Digital Business, and the books by Vickie Maris when you visit: http://vickiemaris.com