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myT Studio Oshkosh 2011 Recap

by on September 10, 2011 in general aviation, myTransponder

It’s been more than a month since Airventure 2011 and we are so humbled by the response to the first appearance of the myT Mobile Studio. We expected there would be interest, but we didn’t expect the level of use that came through our doors. At one point, we had a dozen producers recording episodes, editing video, uploading photos, or just having some coffee as they planned their day. We’re thrilled we could bring some resources to Oshkosh that resulted in increased quality and quantity of Airventure coverage.

At the bottom of this page is a list of the recordings and productions that thanked myTransponder and/or our partners for assisting them in some way. If you feel we helped in some form and want to be included in the list, then just let us know and we’d be honored to add your link.

EAA Video Visits the myTransponder Mobile StudioOur initial plans for the studio were to help by lending out some gear, providing some power, and pouring some coffee…. and we certainly did all of that.

The Sennheiser corporation provided us some microphones which we lent out to many folks. Dave Allen of

Other People’s Airplanes and and Damon Favor of The Pursuit of Wings probably got the most use out of them. Additionally, we put them to use during many other interviews as well as Podapoloza.

Canon lent us a camera to use for our interviews but it also saw use out at the flight line and for several field interviews.

ikan‘s gear proved a powerful asset to most organizations. We saw groups using everything from the smallest clamp, to the many shoulder supports, to the fantastic LED lighting kits. Personally, I couldn’t have gotten the video footage I did without the help of their Recoil-XT Kit and HDMI display.

At the show, Flying High Coffee became a partner when they augmented our order with some free coffee. Good thing, too because we made at least 22 pots of coffee in just a few days. Who knows how many people made pots when I wasn’t looking.

Editors in the RVWhat we didn’t expect was how much the RV would see use as an editing studio. Almost every waking hour saw people coming through the door just so they could edit their work. I may need to have a dedication ceremony for the newly renamed Dave Allen and Steve Visscher (of Plane Crazy Down Under) editing table and breakfast nook. Sure, some people started their day wanting me to start the generator early since it meant the coffee machine could come to life, but mostly they needed a space to sit and edit. I asked a few folks “why the RV?” and it boils down to a lack of options. The official media center has very little space with power and has limited hours. Even if it were open all night, the media center isn’t particularly close to where people were sleeping. Larger media organizations sent their folks to hotels, homes, or dorms, but few podcasters have a budget that allows them to be away from the field. To quote Steve Visscher, “a tent is no place to edit, mate.” This from a man who spent most nights editing while connected to the power outside the bathroom. Why the bathroom? Because we had to shut down the generator at 10:30 every night and the bathroom is one of only a few places they could turn for power. I’m betting several folks would have stayed on the RV’s couch late into the night if the power could have stayed on.

The RV is nice enough, but wasn’t big enough to handle all the unexpected editing. There were several times that we setup tables outside the RV which gave a few more seats but it was hard to make space. I wish I had counted but I’d estimate that we had about ten groups crammed into six sites. I felt terrible that we were so crowded together and that there was obvious demand for more spaces given how many new-media folks stopped by and then camped much further out. Still, there was great energy in the overstuffed campground which lead to some terrific camaraderie.

A special thanks to Martt Clupper of AirPigz.com who bought and set up a new canopy which quickly became the center of the podcasting campground. Unfortunately, he lost this and a table and more when a storm ripped it all up on Saturday after we left. I hope some of those who used it send him a few bucks to help replace it. myTransponder has sent him some money but not enough to cover it all. Thanks Martt. We continue to look at ways to repay your generosity.

Adam Fast on the inside of the 787Another unexpected activity was a group tour of Boeing’s 787 after it landed. Before the event, I had reached out to Boeing’s PR folks asking how media tours would work and if we could record Podapoloza in the cargo bay. Well, we didn’t get access to cargo, but they did let our little cadre come onboard and help tell Boeing’s story. I was floored when I heard that the myTransponder group was the last of the media allowed on before the general public started coming onboard. Our apologies to a certain ABC affiliate who, after driving up from Chicago, didn’t get onboard. In this case, I think luck favored the prepared, but I am sorry not everyone could get on to see the newest, most interesting airliner in years. That said, I’m also sorry I didn’t get more of our folks on that list. If we had, they might have also made the front page of the Oshkosh Northwestern http://futurshox.blogspot.com/2011/08/myt-crew-makes-front-page.html or in their video http://www.thenorthwestern.com/videonetwork/1086414715001?odyssey=mod%7Ctvideo%7Cnewswell

While not strictly an extension of the studio, Thursday night’s recording of Podapoloza happened at myTransponder party in Sennheiser’s booth. The party brought more than 120 guests despite a sudden rainfall that popped up just as we started. We can’t thank Sennheiser enough for offering (if not insisting) to host our party and I’m quite certain Podapoloza wouldn’t have worked without their help. Also, our thanks go out to Dave Pascoe who agreed to live-stream the event via his fabulous LiveATC.net platform. I listen to ORD tower all the time via LiveATC but I never expected to hear a recording of our event from the same site!  Lastly, our thanks go to the many organizations and people who donated prizes. I’m quite envious of a few partygoers who ended up with some fabulous things like a complete King training course!

So, what will I try and change for next time? The easy answer is “lots” but, you will have to wait for another posting to read those ideas and contribute your own.

In the meantime, go out and enjoy the work of so many folks who came through our doors. Our thanks to all of you and to our sponsors!

- Mike

Dave Allen of Other People’s Airplanes

Day 0 - http://otherpeoplesairplanes.com/event/airventure-oshkosh-2011-day-0/

Day 1 - http://otherpeoplesairplanes.com/event/airventure-oshkosh-2011-day-1/

Day 2 - http://otherpeoplesairplanes.com/event/airventure-oshkosh-2011-day-2/

Day 4 - http://otherpeoplesairplanes.com/event/airventure-oshkosh-2011-day-4/

 

Dave Allen of Pilot’s Flight PodLog

Damon Favor of The Pursuit of Wings

Day 1 - http://www.pursuitofwings.com/osh11/quickcast-1-osh11-day-1/

Day 2 - http://www.pursuitofwings.com/osh11/quickcast-2-osh11-day-2/

Day 3 - http://www.pursuitofwings.com/osh11/quickcast-3-osh11-day-3/

Day 4 - http://www.pursuitofwings.com/osh11/quickcast-4-osh11-day-4/

Day 5 - http://www.pursuitofwings.com/osh11/quickcast-5-osh11-day-5/

Day 6 - http://www.pursuitofwings.com/osh11/quickcast-6-osh11-day-6-final/

photos –  http://www.flickr.com/photos/pilotdamon/sets/72157627152751035/

 

Jo Hunter

http://futurshox.blogspot.com/2011/07/journey-to-waukesha.html

http://futurshox.blogspot.com/2011/07/rowr.html

http://futurshox.blogspot.com/2011/07/breezy-ride.html

http://futurshox.blogspot.com/2011/07/few-pictures.html

http://futurshox.blogspot.com/2011/07/oshkosh-motion-timelapse.html

http://futurshox.blogspot.com/2011/07/boeings-787-dreamliner-at-osh11.html

http://futurshox.blogspot.com/2011/08/shout-out-to-some-fine-folks.html

http://futurshox.blogspot.com/2011/08/air-to-air-with-remos-gx.html

http://futurshox.blogspot.com/2011/08/b-29-fifi.html

http://futurshox.blogspot.com/2011/08/flying-cars.html

http://futurshox.blogspot.com/2011/08/bell-47-ride.html

http://futurshox.blogspot.com/2011/08/breezy-ride-at-osh11.html

 

See her work on page 29-32 of the august issue of Airplaneista

http://www.mygazines.com/issue/38381

 

EAA included her work on their stop motion round up

http://www.airventure.org/news/2011/110804_timelapse.html

 

Direct links to videos

Motion - http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealJoHunter#p/u/0/MHPYIihTgy8

Boeing 787 at #OSH11 - http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealJoHunter#p/u/1/XPbn7V8wjZI

 

Plane Crazy Down Under (PCDU)

Daily Blog Reports:

Day 1 –Getting there isn’t always the best part!

http://blog.planecrazydownunder.com/2011/07/26/oshkosh-2011-getting-there-isnt-always-the-best-part/

Day 2 –Rockford Bonanza

http://blog.planecrazydownunder.com/2011/07/27/oshkosh-2011-day-2-rockford-bonanza/

Day 3 –Arrival en Mass

http://blog.planecrazydownunder.com/2011/08/02/oshkosh-2011-day-3-arrival-en-mass/

 

Audio Episodes:

Oshcast #1 - http://www.planecrazydownunder.com/2011/07/27/pcdu-episode-70-airventure-2011-oshcast-1/

Oshcast #2 - http://www.planecrazydownunder.com/2011/07/29/pcdu-episode-71-airventure-2011-oshcast-2/

Oshcast #3 (Hugging Your Roo) - http://www.planecrazydownunder.com/2011/07/31/pcdu-episode-72-oshcast-3-hugging-your-roo/ with a video of the flight described in the video http://youtu.be/lG1tDdNkjVM

Episode 73:Oshkosh:The Greatest Show on Earth - http://www.planecrazydownunder.com/2011/08/20/pcdu-episode-73-oshkosh-the-greatest-show-on-earth/

 

Martt Culpper

http://airpigz.com/blog/2011/7/30/boeing-787-dreamliner-goes-public-at-oshkosh-2011-14-pix.html

 

Marc Newman

http://preflight.tv/blog/2011/08/29/episode-9-vendors-at-airventure

 

smiley face by a skywriter over the 787 tailMike Miley

OSH11 Photos -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike_miley/sets/72157627286867468/

 

Photo used with permission in Boeing’s blog

http://boeingblogs.com/randy/archives/2011/07/open_arms_in_oshkosh.html

 

Photo used with permission in Boeing’s Frontiers internal magazine – page 8, September edition

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Announcing the new myTransponder Mobile Studio

by on July 5, 2011 in myTransponder

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Announcing the new myTransponder Mobile Studio

First Arriving at Airventure 2011

myTransponder HQ, Chicago, IL — (July 5, 2011) — myTransponder, Inc. is excited to bring a new service to New Media producers covering aviation events: The myTransponder Mobile Studio.

“Our goal with the studio is to help increase the quality of the field recordings created by the New Media producers,” said Mike Miley, myTransponder COO. “We know some bloggers and podcasters have great stories to tell but struggle to find appropriate production gear to adequately capture the message. myTransponder wants to help simplify the process and help get these stories out to the public.”

With the assistance of our partners at Sennheiser, Canon, and ikan, the first appearance of the myTransponder Studio will come at Airventure 2011 from July 25 through July 30th.

New media producers can schedule free studio time to use audio, video, and/or lighting either inside the studio or outside under our awning. Additionally, we plan to offer some mobile gear to loan out to those producing content in the field. Either way, producers can transfer the media to their own computer or we can capture the media locally and arrange to get it to the producer later.

This is a free service and we simply ask that users thank our partners in your show, show notes, website, etc. Additionally, we would appreciate an email letting us know when these productions are released so we can let others know about your work.

For more information and to schedule studio time, please contact Mike Miley at mike@mytransponder.com

myTransponder is a leading social media company dedicated to the world of aviation. Find us at http://www.mytransponder.com and http://blog.mytransponder.com or follow us on twitter as @myTransponder. For more information about our site or our consulting offerings, please contact us at ace@myTransponder.com

myTransponder: Making Aviation More Social

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A downloadable version of this announcement is available at http://www.mytransponder.com/pr/2011-07-05-studio-announcement.pdf

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You’re Invited to the SUN ‘n FUN 2011 MeetUp

by on March 29, 2011 in aviation, myTransponder

To help celebrate what many call, “Spring Break for Pilots,” we of course, are throwing a party…

Sun ‘n Fun 2011 started today in Lakeland, Florida. (KLAL)

You’re invited to join us at the #SnF11 myT MeetUp for breakfast on Friday morning. Come help make aviation more social!  Meet with members of the myTransponder community, your friends, your fans, and your followers.

[RSVP online here] #SnF11 myT MeetUp

Sponsoring this year’s event are some of our favorite folks in aviation…

 

Airplane Owners and Pilots Association (www.AOPA.org)
AOPA is a not-for-profit individual membership association, effectively serves the interests and needs of its members as aircraft owners and pilots and establishes, maintains, and articulates positions of leadership to promote the economy, safety, utility, and popularity of flight in general aviation aircraft.


Sennheiser Aviation (www.sennheiser-aviation.com)
In 1982, at Lufthansa’s request, Sennheiser developed the first audio headset for cockpit communications. Since then, working closely with pilots and airlines, Sennheiser has continued to develop new solutions for the aviation sector.


ForeFlight (www.ForeFlight.com)
ForeFlight produces intelligent aviation software for pilots. Started in 2007, ForeFlight is devoted to giving pilots the best possible mobile flight planning tools.

There will of course, be some pretty sweet door prizes. Also, here is a great chance to meet some really cool people from around aviation…

COORDINATES
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM (L)
Flight Line Observation Tent #3
East of taxiway foxtrot and on the North side of the Warbird ramp.
Lakeland Linder Regional Airport
Lakeland, Florida

 

[HINT] You’ll probably get the chance to hang out with this guy, him, and her.

Come meet the folks you connect with online as we celebrate the community of aviation. There will be bacon.

Word is… “Ace” may even show up.

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outage

by on October 15, 2008 in myTransponder

“That’s not flying, that’s just falling with style!”

- Woody, regarding Buzz Lightyear, in Toy Story

Last night we took myTransponder offline for a server migration that we expected to take a couple of hours… tops.

The idea was to bring the server down just after the site backup, this would insure that your data would be safe, and none of your stuff on myTransponder would be lost in the shuffle. That all worked out fine. So to be clear, profiles and data are all safely tucked away.

Unfortunately we’ve somehow managed to anger the plesk demons.

The site was completely down for most of today. Did you get just a blank page when you tried to login? Yes. We got that too. We were just as bummed about it as you were.

We managed to get the web server restarted this evening, which got rid of the blank page, but leaves us with a broken site for now… we’re sorry about that.

We’re trying to get the rest of the site working for you again as fast as we possibly can. (We’re doing short of sacrificing a chicken, but we’re not far from that at this point if you ask me.)

Why in the name of Bernoulli did we do this?

We are glad you asked.

The server migration is an important milestone on our roadmap flightplan to making myTransponder a more robust, more useful application.

The beta so far has been a bit like Project Mercury. What we’re moving to next will be more like Project Gemini. So we’re making some big changes to how the application is hosted on our server to make that happen.

We’ll continue to update you as to our progress here, and on Twitter. (You can follow us @myTransponder.)

We really do appreciate all the the tweets, emails, IMs, SMS messages, posts, comments and phone calls all pretty much asking, “What’s up?” We figure that if the site went down, and nobody noticed, that we may be barking up the wrong tree. It turns out to be very much the opposite.

Thanks to everyone in the beta for your patience, and for your ongoing support of making aviation more social.

Finally, if you haven’t seen this, we think you may enjoy a little The Website Is Down right about now. Sales Guy vs. Web Dude cracks us up every time.

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Shiny New Logo

by on July 10, 2008 in myTransponder

Tah-dah!

Here’s the new myTransponder logo.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to look at the various iterations of the logo. There were tons of good directions… but eventually, you’ve gotta pick one execution and move on.

I’m pretty happy with how the final logo worked out.

To help get from the initial design that I had cooked up, to what you see here… took some work. (and talent that I didn’t have!)

So I decided to crowdsource the work… using crowdSPRING, I posted the project and got submissions from all around the world. Who knew it would be so easy to tap talent from around the planet? Designers from Italy, India, Canada, and the Philippines all contributed. Ultimately it was grapesoda from Scotland in the UK who won the project.

 

“Ace,” hasn’t said anything to me about it, but my guess is that he’s either a long lost cousin to, or maybe even a just a drinking buddy of, “The Stiq.”

I bet that he’s under the impression that chicks dig the mysterious type… so I haven’t pressed him on it.

You can always drop Ace a line via email at ace@myTransponder.com, or follow him on Twitter. He’ll keep you up to date on all the goings on here at myTransponder.

 

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