RE: Call for listener contributions

2019-04-18 Thread Merv Keck 
Hi,

This is great news. I passed it along on my Alexa group. The Dot to Dot Podcast 
is very popular with the members over there.

Merv

 

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From: viphone@googlegroups.com  On Behalf Of Robin 
Christopherson
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2019 6:37 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Call for listener contributions

 

Dear listers

 

You may know of the daily 'Dot to Dot' podcast on all things Alexa. You can 
obviously also access the skills and features we cover using the Amazon Alexa 
app on your smartphone or tablet, and many of our listeners do do this and even 
send in demos of skills using the app on their smartphones instead of the 
A-lady herself.

 

We’re over 800 episodes now and, if you’d like to know what she can do, then 
please consider subscribing through your favourite podcatching app, or else you 
could use the Alexa app on your phone or just ask any smartspeaker to “Play the 
Dot to Dot podcast” (you may need to speak clearly as I’m afraid it’s not the 
best name for asking for by voice). It’s also available as a daily flash 
briefing if you ask Alexa to “Add the daily five minute skill demo show to my 
flash briefing.” I hope this isn’t off-topic here, but, as I say, you can 
access the vast majority of her skills through your phone, and  you can’t get a 
more massively appropriate and helpful tech for the blind than a smartspeaker.

 

While I’ve got you, I’d dearly love more listener voices for extra variety. We 
have brilliant stalwart contributors but I’m always after fresh blood *smile* 
So if you’d like to do a demo, or if you're not sure how to go about it,, or if 
you’d like suggestions for skills to cover, please drop me a line off-list to 
robin.christopher...@gmail.com <mailto:robin.christopher...@gmail.com> .

 

If you’re already a listener and wouldn’t mind taking a few minutes to review 
it in iTunes (search for "Dot to Dot") or the Alexa skillstore (search for "The 
Daily 5 Minute Skill Demo Show") then I’d really appreciate it. You can also 
follow on Twitter using the hashtag #DTDPod where I often tweet new episodes, 
so a retweet from time to time there would also really help.

 

I really appreciate any help you can give to get the message out. As you probs 
know, it isn’t a vision-impairment-focused show - the Echo is just perfect for 
us but obviously not just for us - so please don’t feel that you need to limit 
any shout outs to your VI friends or groups etc. A daily podcast is a bit of an 
undertaking and seeing listener numbers rise is all the incentive I need to 
keep it going for many moons to come.

 

Thanks all

Robin

 

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Call for listener contributions

2019-04-18 Thread Robin Christopherson 
Dear listers

You may know of the daily 'Dot to Dot' podcast on all things Alexa. You can 
obviously also access the skills and features we cover using the Amazon Alexa 
app on your smartphone or tablet, and many of our listeners do do this and even 
send in demos of skills using the app on their smartphones instead of the 
A-lady herself.

We’re over 800 episodes now and, if you’d like to know what she can do, then 
please consider subscribing through your favourite podcatching app, or else you 
could use the Alexa app on your phone or just ask any smartspeaker to “Play the 
Dot to Dot podcast” (you may need to speak clearly as I’m afraid it’s not the 
best name for asking for by voice). It’s also available as a daily flash 
briefing if you ask Alexa to “Add the daily five minute skill demo show to my 
flash briefing.” I hope this isn’t off-topic here, but, as I say, you can 
access the vast majority of her skills through your phone, and  you can’t get a 
more massively appropriate and helpful tech for the blind than a smartspeaker.

While I’ve got you, I’d dearly love more listener voices for extra variety. We 
have brilliant stalwart contributors but I’m always after fresh blood *smile* 
So if you’d like to do a demo, or if you're not sure how to go about it,, or if 
you’d like suggestions for skills to cover, please drop me a line off-list to 
robin.christopher...@gmail.com .

If you’re already a listener and wouldn’t mind taking a few minutes to review 
it in iTunes (search for "Dot to Dot") or the Alexa skillstore (search for "The 
Daily 5 Minute Skill Demo Show") then I’d really appreciate it. You can also 
follow on Twitter using the hashtag #DTDPod where I often tweet new episodes, 
so a retweet from time to time there would also really help.

I really appreciate any help you can give to get the message out. As you probs 
know, it isn’t a vision-impairment-focused show - the Echo is just perfect for 
us but obviously not just for us - so please don’t feel that you need to limit 
any shout outs to your VI friends or groups etc. A daily podcast is a bit of an 
undertaking and seeing listener numbers rise is all the incentive I need to 
keep it going for many moons to come.

Thanks all
Robin

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