Podcasting is at the heart of what we do here at Comsteria. With our roots in radio broadcasting, it’s natural that we’d enjoy publishing our own regular podcast as well as helping organisations and brands of all shapes and sizes with theirs. Now, on Wednesday 28 April 2021, you can Join Colin Kelly for a live, 3 hour podcasting workshop. This session is aimed at beginners and those who recently started a podcast. You’ll learn Read more…
Every year, Comsteria’s Colin Kelly delivers media relations training sessions to participants from a wide range of business, from all sorts of sectors. But what do we do? Who is it for? How does it help? In this short video, Colin explains what a typical media relations training session might include and how it can benefit you and your organisation. There’s much more than just being able to handle tough questions on Newsnight! We see Read more…
Emma Baker has produced a comparison video, demonstrating the microphones on the iPhone 12 and iPhone X. She also highlights the benefits of an external lavalier microphone, such as the iRig Lavalier Mic. and the Boya BY-M1 Lac Mic. Both microphones are testing in a loud environment to see how good the iPhone 12’s zoom audio is at cutting out background noise and homing in on your voice. But is the upgrade worth it when Read more…
Content is king but keeping up to date with everything you need to know can be a challenge. Comsteria is delighted to launch a new daily audio feature, available on our Comsteria Podcast but also on some of the country’s best radio stations. Colin Kelly’s Digital Minute is your essential tech, social media and gadget update and publishes a new episode by 7am every weekday. It’s aimed at consumers and business owners and will keep Read more…
If you watch Comsteria’s Smartphone Video Show every Friday lunchtime from 1pm, you’ll know how much we love Canva. It’s one of the most powerful design tools we’ve come across and offers outstanding value for money. For many users, the free features will be more than enough, helping them create stunning looking visuals at high speed, with a really smart, easy to use interface and workflow. It works in your browser but in our opinion Read more…
Join Colin Kelly and Emma Baker from Comsteria live every Friday lunchtime on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and Twitter for the Smartphone Video Show. From 1pm each Friday you can get the latest news, tips and advice from all things smartphone in a live show, dedicated to small business owners and communications professionals. You can ask questions through the live chat and receive instant answers to any smartphone video queries you might have. There will be Read more…
Tickets are available now for Emma Baker’s Smartphone Video Production webinar on Thursday 22 April. The session will run from 0930-1330 and will be delivered via Zoom. Participant numbers will be capped at a maximum of 8, to ensure you get plenty of opportunities to ask questions and received personalised, tailored advice on your smartphone video set up. Emma will take you through her tried and tested framework to plan, edit and shoot high impact, Read more…
You’ve seen the Burger King ‘kitchen’ tweet. They’ve finally done the right thing and deleted it, after persisting far longer than they should have. ‘But you have to read the context..there’s more to it..don’t you understand…we’re on your side!’ was the mantra while they actually argued one on one with many women asking them to take it down. On International Women’s Day. Then you get the ‘social media/PR gurus’ popping up saying ‘well it’s got Read more…
The Apple Store has to be the most over-staffed retail environment I’ve ever seen. All these ‘Geniuses’ spend the majority of their day giving extremely basic tech support. The answers, the tutorials, everything you could possibly want to know about any of their products already exists all over the internet and is freely available. If they wanted, Apple could take the combined knowledge of all its staff and build an artificial intelligence system to deal Read more…
Whether it’s a quick ‘thought leadership’ style chat straight from a mobile phone onto Facebook Live or a Chamber of Commerce broadcasting their virtual awards night with several cameras, more and more organisations are getting involved in live streaming. It’s a natural progression from the emphasis on video we’ve seen in the last few years. Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and Linkedin (by invite only) all allow various forms of live video broadcast. How do you Read more…