Welcome to Swing that Gig. I am Martin Lindeskog and this is Editor's note to self to myself to undesigned yours truly, I, myself and me. So this podcast is also for myself ventilating things talking about stuff regarding podcasting and the gig economy. So with this moderating thing describing my background I was thinking doing a part two here a
short thing. And I will come back to this because this is the future that I want to land a new gig in the online community being a moderator of a digital town hall. And when I was thinking of talking of about the years that I've been working as a moderator, blogger, editor in different ways. Main part was small business trends service share site, you could say book parking site and forum called BIS share sugar with the spelling B I Z like short for business and sugar like the sweet stuff.
And it was as I said, built on PHP and over time it was hard to update and maintain. And the other thing was also that in order to finance, in order to hire and have gig economy in the gig economy and freelancers job working on tasks you have to have revenue in. And that's one thing is with the advertising, sponsorship and so on. And it become harder and harder for like a serious online platform for an online publications like a big blog with thousands of blog blog
post to be found. Even if you have an important topic and it's searchable and you have a demand for it that people search for topics, it could be hard thanks to you could say or due to. You could also say what's going on in the big search engines and how they promote search hits. Or when you search for something. And I think now as an reflection again you have to be with my babbling here when I'm coming up with things during the recording, what will happen the AI now when I'm searching in
a way it's good. You could almost search like ask Jeeves back in the day, you know the butler gentleman's yentleman for Jeeves and Worcester that I liked. There's TV series and the book. You could search how you are thinking and saying and then get result. With Google searches you had to put the search in a diff in a certain way in order to get a good result. Now with AI you could search something, write something in the search box and the AI answer results is the first thing that popping up.
Nothing is accurate, but it's also pretty plain. And one thing could lead to another. But you're thinking in this chain. So that's something to think about when you search for things. Will it land to different blogs, articles, new sites with the AI when you search for things, Google's YouTube is the main search engine, the second search engine in the world regarding often how to things do it yourself. I want to find out how I will do a
certain thing. For example, now I'm getting used to this boom arm, rear the boom arm and to be in certain distance from the microphone. And before I had the microphone in front of me, but when I was covering my face, if I would do live video. So then I would search how to set up this. And I got through a couple of videos in order to do that. But I also got a result by AI that was pretty accurate. So that's something to think
of. So the part two here is that over time it was hard to maintain this forum, this share site that was valuable, but it was hard then to run and have moderators and content creators
on that site. So when I was let go and no hard feelings, we are keeping in touch and in contact and again I see opportunities for the future and I have this experience and I think it's more important than before to have a place, a safe haven, a positive walled garden that you decide the rules to have a community or as I call it, a digital town hall for all kind of things. It could be business organisations, non for profit, specific topic and something call
to action, something that you want to, you know, change. And it could be perfect for podcasters also to have a place to discuss things because as I said, other alternatives out there are sometimes a bit hard to use or you could wonder who is behind it, etc. So an online community that is moderated is an important role. So I'm thinking of that. How could I find next gig regarding this? To be a moderator, to edit things, to be a participant in a conversation.
So for this, to have this podcast now I have to have topics and I will do this every day and I. I decide myself how I will do this, but I'm very appreciative of the input, the constructive feedback and so on. And I know that this is a challenge for me to do it because that was one of the advantages and perks to be a moderator. I also had very flexible time
to work. It's my time zone and the site was in America, but it was all over the place and all time zones and uses from different parts of the world so I could have these flexible hours that I was doing. And also I'm often on American time zone. So now it's soon getting to midnight. And then I have set it on all the two that it is Central European time. So sometimes you will see two episodes on the same day. But I'm still on this American Times. I'm doing it on every
day. Sometimes it will be timestamped two episodes per day, but still it will be on this daily routine and daily publishing schedule. But I will not, as it is for now, I will not do it on a specific time. Maybe I will come to that in the future after some time, after maybe some months getting into that routine that I have a certain time when it's published. It's more like
when a radio programme that. Okay, I will tune into this Morning Brew as I think it's one podcast called that Morning Brew and a newsletter, but also a podcast I think or the morning news or the business news or. Or the weather or whatnot. But with one of the main advantages as I see it with the podcast is with you could listen whenever you want. So that's as long as you get this notification, you know, it's new podcast episode published.
And I will look here on the now I'm in the studio on old two. It's around 10 minutes already. So I see here that no problem to talk in time, but it's how it is for you listeners. Do you like to listen to my voice, my conversation with myself and the content and yeah, this is a learning process and I again appreciate your input, feedback, yeah, constructive feedback. And also that you.
If you value this, because it is a value, you could then send a boostogram, as it is called a digital telegram with a donation of satoshis. And satoshi is one bitcoin. If you take one bitcoin and divide it hundred million times, you get one satoshi. So it's like cents or aren in Swedish small amount with no special fees. And at the same time and
that's something for freelancers also and gig economy. You could support a new modern podcast application and the app developer because instead of selling it for, you know, 99 Swedish crowns or 10 bucks, it's. It's hard because you have to get new and new more and more customers or if it's free, then it's included with advertising and ads and nobody is interested in that in a way.
So that was the background part too. And if you are interested, you could ask questions about how to the daily work as a moderator. If you have an. If you are a moderator or working with an online community, sharing your experience and also giving if you have any ideas about leads regarding This I would appreciate that very much. So I did this note to self here with topics in order to do this on a daily basis. So I then put it here in
the studio in order to read it. I will try to find some kind of prompt. I often have this as I said note card because I like the analogue tools like pen meets paper. As I said before, it's a podcast in Swedish. We had some international episodes. Also this podcast with co host Johan Gustavsson and Johan Gudmund son. And I appreciate, appreciate that very much. And I was the co that was the newbie not so much into fountain pads but I learned that it was this yell pen. It was this.
They had this famous brand here in Sweden called Balograph that is this ball pen and with ink in that way, in a simple way. And then what my favourite pen was a pencil with carbon. And you had all kind of different brands and qualities and hardness and how you could write that in a notebook is something special. So that will be something for the future to talk about. Anyway, so here are the notes to self for topics. Definition of a gig worker. What is gig?
And there I have now when I'm talking about it. That's why I wanted to do this episode. Also I call this show Swing that Jazz twice. I think it's swing that gig. But jazz and the musicians and gig are very related because musicians, they were waiting for the next gig as a band or a singer or an artist to get booked by a manager or an establishment or a you know, studio or. Yeah, a scene that they could go to and do their gig, do their session and
performance. So that's where it coming from. So it's something with jazz. I think so I will look into the history of the world island. I think that's interesting myself and you could start a podcast about that originalness of words and meaning of words and the history about that. I have an idea about that. Similar to that what's happening every day with different holidays and so on that I've talked to with an American here in Sweden and what
we could do together. So now I have it out in the air. So maybe that could be lead to something. So again now I have to wrap up here around. So division definition of gig worker and freelancing economy. And the reference to swing. Yes, as I said and jingle music and shout out to Deborah. So the jingle and the music intro and outro is included in all the two. So it was maybe not exactly jazz but I like the style of it and I hope you do that As a listener. Also, I'm not a musician.
I don't have that musical ear or how you call it. But I like to listen to music and I want to get this vibe when you start listening to the podcast. So I will see if I could search for all the two and give that credit. It's so called Creative Commons or free to use for us as podcasters. So I picked that in the future I want to pay a musician to have a jingle and a bumper and different sound effects.
So again giving a shout out to Deborah, the yes singer and also Studio Fusion the domain you say the name there or ending. You could have it if it's certain countries or dot com, the commercial and net or whatnot. So Studio Fusion our podcast Deborah Anderson and myself is the website is and I had that included in the show notes. The previous episode is studiofusion Co. Not. Com or not FM like the radio station. It's studiofusion Co on co and short for company.
Also in America and country is Colombia. And that's something you could talk on Tea Party Media about the different domain. The ending domain for example one was in in Bitly bit dot L Y was one for example and. But that's Libya. And that you could think about how secure could that be. But that's for topic for another day. So I have more here than is open to work hashtag on LinkedIn. I will have an episode about that. What happened with that? If you use that hashtag in a post.
Something very strange that I've experienced. And I wonder if you have seen that also as a job seeker. And the meaning of. How do you say that? Si vita in Latin. It is your life experience and coverage of your life. What you have done in your life with studies and work. So the SIVI compared to a resume of your life. Is it exactly the same meaning or is it different? Resume is also in Swedish Serie is a Latin thing. And that's often what you use also in English become
an English word. And then the personal letter that you have when you search for job. How will you put that together? Do you use AI? Do you have this personal skill to describe yourself? The challenges with that. How to be authentic yourself and also interested by through the people who looking through the different CVs and the personal letters and the incoming mail coming there. And also I will talk about AI for podcasting with podcast episodes doing everything in
all the two. So you could get different helps then with AI. Also another sound hotel as I call it or podcasting Podcast hosting company that I use is Captivate fm They have FM as their domain name Captivate FM and they have this AI feature called Spark so that I will test out in the near future and see how it would populate and generate like show notes, summaries, tips on subject and titles and all these kind of things that you could do in an interesting way.
And I will tell you about the description of this podcast also that I I did it with all the two I did this planning I will see so I get the correct name but a quiz you could say it or a survey in order to get suggestions of the name, the description of the podcast. Different different things, everything about the steps in order to start a podcast but also develop a podcast and keep podcasting. So that was a nice Colin Grey that I've interviewed on my podcast Ego Netcast.
He's great and lots of experience with that. He's really the podcast host that his Twitter name and his because I nicknamed the podcast host. So that's something. Also to come back to different features of Olitu and also podcasting 2.0 features and to get everything in order here and now I see it's almost 20 minutes here. Time flies. I hope you have fun. You could skip things or you could put it on
faster speed if you want. But there's something to come back to the Podcasting 2.0 features and value for value model and that because of that I've had a big challenge right now. You could listen it on Apple podcasts. I haven't figured out Spotify yet but and I will probably do a separate episode of what I've my thoughts about Spotify and their agenda and whatnot. So again we'll come back to that. So with that I think I will say cheerio bye for now and talk to you soon.