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Evoca online recorder widget enables millions of WordPress users to capture visitors’ voice comments online

October 22, 2009 in "How-To" posts, Blog, Education, General Announcements, Media, Releases, Social Networking, the Best Of Evoca... by admin  |  No Comments

We’re pleased to let you know that our Browser Mic plugin for  WordPress 2.7 and above users is available, making it easy for customers, fans, and supporters of WordPress users to record comments, opinions, stories, and feedback.  By adding Evoca’s online Flash recorder widgets to their websites, blogs, and social media profiles, they can increase interaction with their online visitors, who they can invite to add comments, opinions, stories, and language practice sessions of value to the host and the visitors. The Evoca Browser Mic operates like a global toll-free phone number without any telecommunications fees.

Our mission is to increase ROI — Return on Interaction™ — by enabling our subscribers to engage their online visitors with audio commenting. Given the enormous popularity of WordPress.org as a web publishing platform, Evoca is supporting the WordPress community’s interest in useful plugins by offering the Evoca Browser Mic.  Evoca’s Browser Mic attracts fresh, compelling user-generated content every day. The genius of WordPress is that it combines the dynamic content of a blog with the static content of a traditional website.

In addition to the Browser Mic plugin available for WordPress version 2.7 and above, Evoca offers plugins for WordPress 2.6 and below, TypePad, Blogger, Drupal, and a generic plugin that will work on all sites that allow copy/paste HTML and enable Flash objects. Recorders can be embedded on one or more pages to invite comments about different topics. Recordings are instantly saved to the Evoca Express subscriber’s account and can be streamed through Evoca Flash players on any website, blog, and social media profile to share with the world or kept private to share with a customer service team.

Using the Browser Mic online visitors can opt in to tag their recordings with their email addresses and additional typed comments, which is highly valuable information for commercial, nonprofit, and political organizations that are building email lists. Evoca also alerts the subscriber with an email message when a new voice comment is created and saved as an MP3 recording to their Evoca Express account.

“Evoca’s WordPress recorder plugin is a terrific tool to help companies connect with their customers. Using actual voices to deliver customer testimonials, supporters’ opinions, and fans’ enthusiasm makes the online experience genuine and believable”, contributes Jonathan Nery, CEO of the Kloudgroup, the digital media consultancy. “Because it’s our job to create strategies and design for effective web communication, we have embraced WordPress as a web development platform for its agility and easy integration with social media applications like Evoca.”

Here are some FAQs:

How does the Evoca Express Browser Mic plug-in work?
When you install the plug-in, we will place a voice recorder in your blog or website’s navigation bar. Any user that visits your site can leave you a voice recording using this plug-in.

Where will the voice comments go?
Any new voice recording that is made will be stored in your Evoca Express account. You will find the recordings made using the plug-in under “Comments” in your Evoca Express home page.

Can I post the voice recordings to my blog or website?
Yes! All recordings that are made will come with a custom HTML code you can use to post a voice comment into your blog. So, if a reader leaves you a voice comment that you want to share on your blog, all you do is copy and paste the HTML code provided into your blog post, and your readers will be able to listen through the players we provide. The “Share” button on the player enables your online visitors to instantly post it to their Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and other social media sites as well as email and bookmark it.

Does the person who leaves me a voice message need to install any software?
No. The Evoca Express Browser Mic plug-in uses standard browser technology to enable readers to record using their existing settings. All they need is a computer microphone. By simply clicking on the “Record” button, they are ready to go!

Are the recordings saved as public or private?
All recordings are saved as “private” in your Evoca Express account under “Comments”. You can move the recording to your My home page , keep it private, or make it public to stream from a player in your Evoca Express account or that you embed in your website, blog, or social media profile.

How will I know when a reader leaves me an audio message?
We will send you an email each time you get a recording with a handy link to go straight to listen.

About Evoca

Evoca is a leading global Voice-to-Web services provider, enabling organizations and individuals to easily create, post, and share fresh, engaging voice recordings using any phone, Skype, and its browser microphone. Evoca Express is available as a Free 30-day Trial, Pro, Local, and Toll-free subscription. It provides voice recording and online distribution services through its highly scalable “Software-as-a-Service” media platform, providing worldwide public phone numbers, as well as dedicated telephone numbers available in over 45 countries and more than 5,000 cities around the globe.

Organizations of any size can easily integrate and customize Evoca features into their online properties, marketing programs, education and language training courses, and customer-facing operations. Evoca launched its Twitter audio update application, TweeVoca, to enable posting of audio recordings to this popular micro-blogging site. Evoca subscribers can also “share” recordings on Facebook, MySpace, websites, and blogs by posting digital media players streamed by Evoca. Large organizations and partners can also benefit from Evoca Enterprise, its media platform delivered through a flexible interface (RESTful HTTP API – applications programming interface).

For more information, visit www.evoca.com or contact Evoca at +1.212.372.7670, toll-free U.S./Canada +1-866-940-9988, businessdevelopment@evoca.com or using our Skype call recorder contact: evoca-bizdev-call-recorder.

Authors, publishers, and marketers can easily record and post interviews online using any phone or Skype

October 4, 2009 in "How-To" posts, Interviews, Media, Social Networking, the Best Of Evoca..., Twitter by admin  |  No Comments

Calling all authors, journalists, publishers, and promotional firms:  Conducting interviews while researching or writing your book or article? Promoting writers, books, or articles?

Evoca makes it easy for you to record interviews using any phone or Skype and then post interviews to websites, blogs, and social media sites.  For your online visitors, real voice recordings bring words, photographs, and writers to life.

Evoca saves your interview as an MP3 recording to your Evoca account. You can keep it private to use while researching or drafting or you can use it in your online marketing campaigns.

How to record an interview using your phone:

  • Call your interviewee
    • “Hi Brenda, this is Fred. As planned, we’re going to do the interview today by phone. I’m going to start the interview as soon as I bring in the recording service.”
  • Dial your favorite worldwide Evoca phone number
    • Save your favorite Evoca number to speed-dial it any time.
  • Join the three lines together to record your interview
    • This phone feature is known as three-way dialing on your Blackberry, iPhone, and most mobile phones and landlines.
    • If you want to interview two or more people at the same time, it’s a conference call. Once you get all the interviewees on the call, add Evoca as the last party on the call.
  • End the call and your interview is instantly saved as an MP3 recording in your Evoca account.

How to record an interview using Skype:

Skype™ is a free call recording service that works from your computer. You can host and save an interview recording using the Evoca-Skype call recorder. Add it to your Skype contact list.  Since Evoca is a web service, our Skype recorder doesn’t require any software downloads (or permission from your IT department).

  • Make a free Skype call to your interviewee
  • Add in the “Evoca Skype Call Recorder” from your contact list to begin recording
    • It’s especially convenient and affordable for international interview sessions and also handy for within-country calls.
    • Interviewee not a Skype user? Make a Skype Out call at Skype’s low per minute rates.
    • If you want to interview two or more people at the same time, it’s a Skype conference call. Add as many people (Skype contacts) to the call as you wish.
  • End the call and your interview is instantly saved as an MP3 recording in your Evoca account.
    • Evoca sends you a Skype chat message so you can access it in your account, email or download it instantly.

How to use interviews in your online marketing campaigns:

  • Post your interview player widget on your websites, blogs, and social media sites
  • With the viral “share” button, invite your fans, readers, and supporters to post the recording widget to their blogs, websites, and social media pages
  • Add e-commerce and other promotional links inside the viral player headers and footers
  • Email it to your interviewee, editor, colleagues, and followers

Try an Evoca Express free trial subscription. No credit card is required to sign up. During your 30-day trial period you get 15 minutes of recording storage time. Need to start recording an important one-hour interview now?  Sign-up for your Evoca Express Pro subscription to conduct an interview of any length. You get 10 hours of recording storage time and can  add “buckets” of 10 hours any time.  You can also just click to order a transcription online from right inside your Evoca Express account.

Hint #1:  To make it really easy to use the recording or find it later on, create Albums named for your books, articles, or authors. You can easily add each new interview recording to the appropriate album.

Hint #2: Practice an interview recording before you record your first “real” interview. Once you’ve recorded your first interview using Evoca;  it’s like riding a bike, you’ll be able to do it again and again.  You can also bookmark or print this blog article.

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