Student Affairs Technology, Social Media, and #NASPACPA

It’s been a busy week for yours truly…I made an unscheduled appearance on the BreakDrink.com Student Affairs Podcast, broadcast the first ever live episode of Student Affairs Live, and was interviewed in a podcast on StudentAffairs.com. I’ll be at the 2011 NASPA Annual Conference from Saturday through next Wednesday. I’m excited that I get to put on two student affairs social media unsessions at the conference. I can’t wait to blog, tweet, and record as much of the event as I can.

At about the 12:25 mark, I called in to chat about the proposed NASPA + ACPA consolidation:
[audio:http://ericstoller.com/blog/audio/BreakDrink-NASPA-ACPA-Eric-Stoller.mp3]

I had a great time chatting with Stuart Brown of StudentAffairs.com about student affairs technology and social media:
[audio:http://ericstoller.com/blog/audio/Eric-Stoller-Student-Affairs.mp3]

A band that I’ve been listening to for a very long time

I love that Jason and Mike have been able to keep making music for all these years…The Nadas have been one of my favorite bands ever since I was an undergrad at the University of Northern Iowa. I think it’s pretty funny that they just busted out Eye of the Tiger in Philadelphia!

6 tracks that I’ve been spinning lately…
[audio:http://www.nadaradio.com/filedesongs/01/whisper.mp3,http://www.nadaradio.com/filedesongs/02/FarAway.mp3,http://www.nadaradio.com/filedesongs/02/where040105.mp3,http://www.nadaradio.com/filedesongs/01/NowThatFoundYou.mp3,http://thenadas.com/almanac/playerTracks/BitterLove.mp3,http://thenadas.com/almanac/playerTracks/longgoodbye.mp3|titles=Whisper,Far Away,Where Im Going,Now That I Found You,Bitter Love,Long Goodbye]

Life, love, change, and the future.

ACPA + Twitter on the BreakDrink podcast

The main topic for today’s BreakDrink podcast was the potential unification of ACPA and NASPA. ACPA President, Dr. Tom Jackson, Jr. was on the podcast to talk about his thought’s regarding the unification process.

I had asked a question on the BreakDrink blog in preparation for today’s conversation. Jeff Jackson, host of the show, asked my question about how/if Dr. Jackson had plans for using Twitter at next month’s ACPA Annual Convention. I decided to call in to the show and was able to use the Skype link on Blog Talk Radio to call into the show.

[audio:http://ericstoller.com/blog/audio/break-drink-podcast.mp3]
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I begin talking about the Social Media session that I’m co-presenting at ACPA 2010, Twitter, #ACPA10, the ACPA 2010 TweetUp, and #SAChat at about 28:25 in the podcast.

Please follow @ACPAPrez. Dr. Jackson readily agreed to use Twitter during the ACPA Annual Convention and I think that it would be great if he had a huge following of Student Affairs Twitterati.

John Mayer + concert + audio

John Mayer audio from concert in Noblesville Indiana download flac files to listen

John Mayer allows audio recording at most concerts. This is a good thing. Audio of the entire John Mayer show from July 5th in Noblesville, Indiana is available via John Mayer’s website. The concert is in .flac format. It’s a lossless format which means that anyone who listens to it automatically wins.

The audio can be downloaded two different ways. First, you could download each .flac audio file individually from the Internet Archive.

Or, you could download the entire show using a torrent client.

Note, a lot of audio playback apps do not support .flac files. Fortunately, one of my faves, the VLC media player (free + works on almost all OS’s) easily plays .flac files in all of their lossless awesomeness.

John Mayer photo from the actual show in Indiana courtesy of thecon12.