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Web Cam Radio Shows - Quality Affordable Sound, Lighting and Back Drop Equipment

A Little Internet Radio History

As professional Light Workers and Activists began to jump on the Blog Talk Radio circuit, the one truly important component for a great show was good content.  A phone or computer speaker was adequate for  universal sound setting.  Those that wanted to add more professional sound quality and explored the world of microphones, soon, like me,  accumulated huge balls of jumbled cords of generic and expensive microphones that did little to change the one man Universal Sound Audio Board effect.

Furstrated, in 2010 I left the wonderful and well marketed Blog Talk Radio to seek a smaller, less marketed private station, Achieve Radio, with it's own creative sound engineer.  Preemo sound was the king as long as the host was willing to buy a quality headset.  I love this station and though marketing my show is primarily my own responsibility, it's no different then self publishing a book with Balboa or any good Self Publisher.  I am seen where ever I want provided Im willing to make the marketing effort. This I do on Face book, Twitter and Hootsuite.

I AM THE ONLY SHOW ON AT THE TIME SLOT OF MY CHOICE

Unlike the well marketed Blog Talk Radio, at my smaller radio station I am the only show on at my chosen weekly time slot,  every week.  I no longer fight to be heard in competition with 1000 other hosts all with shows on at the same time as my show.  It was hard to keep listeners from hopping from one show to another.  Now that I have stayed with my Achieve Radio station they have advanced to Live You Tube TV, WHICH OPENS ANOTHER DOOR.....how to be current and relevant in the Video World. 

Wanting to share the best sound, lighting and back drop equipment I have found, as well as tips on how to use lighting effectively for small web cam video broadcast,  I've found a way to fit it into my life on a shoe string budget,  Here goes:

SEEK A COMPATIBLE GOOD QUALITY HEAD SET 

WHY?  Because your head set acts as a small recording room in which echo and outside noise can be eliminated.  It gives you a "full" well rounded professional voice, where using a computer speaker tends to echo and pick up every sound around you, and gives a tinny small voice, creating an unprofessional sound.   

For me, this Platonic Headset is affordable, can be hidden behind my head, {allowing good hair days} and gives me rich full sound with Skype.  I also use it for my Private Business when giving consultation.

Place the microphone near the edge of your mouth, never in front of your mouth, for best sound.  This illuminates harsh  "P" pops.   Be sure and use your Skype "Options" or "Tools" ....and click on "Audio" before your show.  You will be given a choice of whether to use your computer speakers.....or your head set.  Click on your head set.  Now test your sound. This allows you to see how you will be heard by others.  

 

 ILLIMINATE  SHADOWS IN YOUR FACE WITH FILL LIGHT.   HERE IS AN AFFORDABLE  CLIP ON HD FILL LIGHT FOR YOUR WEB CAM RADIO SHOW.

Position your fill light to the side of your computer, or from a table edge to the side, rather then in front of your face, which flattens the look of your facial features.

It is important when giving your web cam show not to sit so far away from your camera that you are a tiny head at the bottom of the screen with a huge wall behind you. {Wheres Waldo?}  Place your self in front of the camera, just as you see on TV, so that your head and shoulders fill the screen.  Be sure and use your Skype "Options" or "Tools" ....and click on "Video".  This allows you to see how you will be seen by others.

BACK DROPS

Depending on your Video Show theme, you may want a professional looking back drop.  Most stations, big and small, are in present time.  You can use  video block back drops in your show Intro with music, or in an add.  But while the show is being aired in present time, you may want a quality canvas or vinyl back drop.  I have two.  One is of a subdued woodland with trees, and the other is an antique brick wall.  Both back drops I purchased at Ebay under Photography Back drops.  You can pin them onto a Back Drop stand or your wall. ...where ever you choose.  There are thosands to choose from for cheap.

Here is an Ebay Back Drop link. 

I hope that this article helps you to be more comfortable with the possabilities for a wonderful quality web cam show of your own, spending no more then $100.00.

Mothers Day with Meno Pause

 

 

When I was in my 30’s I asked a sweating woman having hot flashes next to me at work what it was like having Meno Pause.  She looked at me, smiled, and said “You know I am a gentle person right?  I would never hurt anyone.  Last week in the store I wanted to kill a woman for standing in front of the celery.”  I remember looking at her in shock and disbelief.

 

And then my Meno Pause came, years later.  I remember the day well.  My son had forgotten me on Mothers Day.  Usually a gentle soul, I watched the clock tick by later and later, with out a call or flowers at the door.  Suddenly, all the pent in anger and resentments of my life surfaced  at one time.   I could bear no more!    

 

I dialed his number and screamed “Damn It!  Don’t you think I have feelings?  How could you forget me on Mothers Day?!

Aghast in bed next to his wife, I could hear my sleepy son become 2 years old.  “Mom!  Oh God!  I am so sorry!   It completely slipped my mind.  Mom?.......

{at this point I slammed down the phone}  I began to sweat profusely, the menopause demon slipping away, hearing the words of my dear work companion echo “ You know I wanted to kill her for standing in front of the celery.”

 

The great part is that my son has never forgotten me on Mother’s Day since.  It’s too bad I waited so long to take my “Bitch Pill”.   It’s wonderful being a Prairie Crone wise woman.

 

Create a WOW butterfly garden. Web Cam Radio * 888-235-7374

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On Tarot Joy: 6:00PM Eastern, 5:00PM Central, 3:00PM Pacific
Wednesday May 2nd, 2012
Live Web Cam Readings with Master Tarot Channel, Ann Marie.

Create a WOW Butterfly Garden! 
Ann Marie O’Dell is A featured reader of Best Psychics Directory with 27,000 client web feed backs. Watch or listen to your reading live on Achieve TV. 888-235-7374

They call her the Velvet Hammer for her direct honesty with soft wordage. Along with readings, Ann Marie discusses the herbs and flowers you will need to make your own butterfly sanctuary for friends, children and meditation with spirit tea. Click on the Rainbow TV to watch your reading live!

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CREATING A WOW Butterfly Garden

So you’ve spent hundreds of dollars, maybe even thousands on a wonderful outside livingroom oasis.  But your friends still end up in the kitchen.  And the men head for the man cave garage.  How about a little head turning butterfly garden?  Your friends will be amazed as butterfly’s flutter around them, on them and through the herbs and flowers.  Your kids or grandchildren would love to help you create the plan above, and you will be a hit!

Even your significant other will point out over his golf club your amazing masterpiece, perhaps even pause with buds watching over their beer at a butterfly orgy in brief amazement..{then probably head back to the man cave.}  Its all good.  And this garden by Valerie Banes will be remembered!

Don’t forget!  Ann Marie is a Certified Psychic Life Coach and Author, that offers live Web Cam and radio readings at Achieve Radio & TV every Wednesday at 3:00PM Pacific, 6:00PM Eastern. Go through her Achieve Portal to watch your reading live, Click on the little rainbow tv at:  http://velevethammer.tv

CALL 888-235-7374

Ann Marie is the proprietor of half an acre of Angel Gardens in the Midwest, that surround her home and studio.  As a Psychic Life Coach since 1970, she is a featured member of Best Psychics Directory and has over 27,000 client web feed

Call 888-235-7374 AND WATCH a Free Web Cam Reading, or LISTEN live every Wednesday at Achieve Radio and TV. http://achieveradio.com

BUTTERFLY LIST OF HOST HERBS AND NECTAR PLANTS

Angels, Pit Bulls and Sky Blue Bicycles

The feeling of freedom I have on my sky blue bicycle, not bent way over my bars, but the same way I would sit in a cushy chair, gives me abundant choice to live my life exactly as I wish irrelevant of how cool my bicycle is. It is a classic "Wizard of Oz" wonder, and with a basket on the front bars it is perfect for a home based psychic worker like myself.

 

Reading...Reading...Reading

Being an Indigo child was not an enlightening experience for me. It disrupted my learning ability, as like a child Sigmund Freud, I was "reading...reading....reading"; reading the teacher before me, reading the children around me, and even reading the dog tied to a house post on the way home. The only way I can explain this unwanted blessing, is if you can imagine a fan running all the time and hearing that extra layer of white noise with out relief. At the age of 19, in a French gift shop, I found a beautiful deck of cards called "Tarot" and HERE is where I learned I actually had a gift. Better yet, I allowed myself to turn my gift on and off, with the simple action of putting the Tarot Cards back in their box and closing the lid. For the first time in my life, now that I understood what this extra "energy layer" was, I learned to block it at will.

 

Tarot....Great "Additional Dimension Disorder" Medicine

Tarot was not just a set of cards to me, they were "good meds" for a crippling inability to turn off my psychic gift, which I call "Additional Dimension Disorder." Please know I do not live in a dream world and am totally realistic about this. The card symbols perk my intuitive over-drive, and allow more focus. My subconscious relates to my conscious mind what it is seeing in the symbols of the cards. I open my mouth, and let the information flow forth to my national and international clients. When I'm done reading, I close the box with the cards in it, and my conscious tells my subconscious "time out" { or in less polite terms, "Shut Up."}

MY ANGEL GARDENS

I live in a tiny red neck town, and in honor of my angels, I have purchased four lots of land where I create meditation sanctuary gardens, fairy gardens, butterfly gardens and pathways. They are always a work in progress. Large cement statues are placed in Feng Shui energy directions, so not to look cluttered. Maybe best of all is my neighbors seem to accept me as a good hearted eccentric. Children and animals are drawn to me like a magnet, which means I seldom get to garden alone. Often little girls fascinated with my gardens insist on raking, gathering sticks, or stopping for a small chat. Amongst us all, the cats circle between our legs, purring.

SO WHATS WITH ANGELS?

Here is what I believe about Angels. Each of us is a living walking temple of flesh and bone. We are in continuous dialogue with our Angels and the Universe. But they can only do so much for us. We are the ministers at the podium of our brain and heart. In the end, the consequences of our choices will be reflected through our eyes, our environment, our health and the great mystery waiting for us at the end. And no one says its easy, but like gardens, we're each a work in progress.

MY HUSBAND

Who would marry a woman like me? The answer may surprise you. He is a die hard Republican who worships Rush Limbaugh. And yes, he would rather I stop creating gardens so he can mow mindlessly free. As an anal attentive soul who thrives on historical books on World War One and Two, my husband and I agree not to agree, talk to our many animals, drink lots of coffee together and read. Our comfortable silence is impactful to our marriage in a positive way. I don't try to change him, and he does not try to change me. My husband bends his conservative rules when it comes to car mechanics, which is when he gets psychic readings on car dysfunction such as "is it this part...or this part?" I probably should have an add in the paper, "Annie O'Dell: Psychic Mechanic Readings" in which a photo of me is displayed wearing a monkey suit with a wrench in my hand, a gypsy scarf on my head.

THE MISSOURI SENATE CHURCH

When my 91 yr old neighbor saw my first 300 pound angel fly in suspended from a Boom Truck, and gently set into a four tier garden across the lane from her living room window, amends had to be made. She insisted I try her church, the Missouri Senate Lutherans. As the angel garden filled with pastel flowers and tulips, wind flowers and Bleeding Heart, she learned to love the angel. BUT a promise is a promise and I had said I would go to the Missouri Senate Church in town. As time went on and I attended the church I even made some lovely but distant friends. Often I noticed that I sat alone in a peau, or at church events people distanced from me. It came to the simple reality we shared nothing in common. Folks had no idea how to talk to me, and most of all I believe worried if in laughing or bonding with me others would think they were joining my life style.

MY SKY BLUE BIKE & the PIT BULL

Increasingly people were distancing from me at the Missouri Senate Church, and it was at the point I was feeling like an outcast. Many liked me, but it was my questionable image and the fear that they did not want their friends to see them with me, that made me realize we had all been a lot better off when I did not come at all. On a beautiful summer day I coasted my sky blue bike into the parking lot, to the church door, where a Pit Bull sat growling. I got off my bike, ready to speak softly in an nonthreatening manner so I could enter inside the church. The closer I got, the more the Pit Bull growled and stared threateningly at me, growling before the large front double wood doors. I realized a heavier message was being given to me. I looked past the dog to the symbolic reality.

I saw in my minds eye a room full of God fearing Missouri Senate avoiding me. I saw the contradiction of "Thou shalt not judge" and saw my own transgression in trying to force feed an established church with my essence. I climbed onto my sky blue bike, thanked the dog, sailed home and fetched my coffee, to walk in the serenity of my loving angel gardens. http://sisterspsychicwindow.piczo.com