If you are joining the book group in April, that’s great. There several options you may want to consider which depends on much or little work you want to put forth. I will list all three options from the easiest to the more involved progressively in that order.
First, the chat room for the book group is listed below:
http://www.meebo.com/room/monsterscifishow/ or
www.myspace.com/monsterscifishow
These two links are the least amount of work for people to join the book group. Click on either links above and you are all set. There’s not even a need to sign in as you will be deemed as a guest automatically on both sites using Meebo.
Second, moving up the ladder. Let’s say that you want more traffic on your MySpace page, you can embed the Meebo chat room right on to your page. Go to the Meebo chat room I set up, click on the embed link and place it in your profile. I have mine listed under Books but you may want to move this higher up on your page.
The next, the third and last option is to do a podcast of the book group in your library or meeting area. If you are new to podcasting or never did a podcast before, you can go here to read more about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast
The audio software that I am planning to use is Audacity -
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/. This is a freeware program that you can download to your computer. The only thing you need is to get a microphone which can run about $20 from Radio Shack or other electronics store near you. Once you have the software installed, mic plugged in, hit record and you are podcasting. You may want to play around this before the actual date but you will have lots of fun doing a podcast.
Another option, using Odeo @
http://odeo.com/ can record your podcast online. There are limitations with this when it comes to editing but there is no software to install.
If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, please email me:
monsterscifishow@gmail.com.
See you virtually on April 29 starting @ 7:30pm Eastern Standard Time.