HealthyPlace.com, the largest consumer mental health site on the Internet, invites real people to record first-person stories using Evoca’s voice-to-web services. With one in five Americans having some form of mental illness in any six-month period, information about mental health topics is in demand. Responding to this growing need, HealthyPlace.com is providing authoritative information and support for people who have mental health concerns, estimated at 35 to 50 million people in the U.S. alone. HealthyPlace chose Evoca to deliver its engaging social media feature, “Share Your Mental Health Experiences”, accessible by calling toll-free 1-888-883-8045. Evoca’s digital media technology service transforms any phone into an Internet microphone.

To hear what other people are saying on HealthyPlace.com, visitors can click on the Flash player widgets located throughout the HealthyPlace.com website. Some examples are:

* HealthyPlace home page: http://www.healthyplace.com/
* Sharing Your Mental Health Experiences feature: http://www.healthyplace.com/support/home/
* Guide to share experiences: http://bit.ly/45xeTM
* Focus on a specific disorder: http://bit.ly/ONBUW

“Before using Evoca, we had people share their stories in writing. But you don’t get the full emotional sense of what somebody is going through if it’s just on paper”, explains Gary Koplin, HealthyPlace CEO and founder. “Most people aren’t great writers. And so to hear them talk and share their story and feel the full emotion in their voice brings their story, their feeling to a whole different level.” Followers can also respond to other people’s audio posts and the e-newletter’s topic of the week.

Evoca has increased valuable user-generated content for this multi-media business, which also includes HealthyPlace Internet TV and radio. Koplin adds, “I love Evoca and the people who come to our website love Evoca. It’s extremely simple to use. All you have to do is dial an 800 number and use it. So there’s no big trick to using it and that’s why our customers like it too.” Experts scheduled to appear on its TV and radio shows also use Evoca to record audio clips that are posted to attract audiences.

New and returning visitors to HealthyPlace.com make audio posts about mental health treatments or any mental health subject. Participants also can talk into an in-browser recorder, another Evoca recording creation method. The HealthyPlace team easily screens, tags, and publishes recordings through viral player widgets using a convenient, secure online dashboard. To embed a player widget into their blogs, websites, Facebook, and other social media, or email it, anyone can click on the player’s share button.

Listen to the interview recording of Gary Koplin, HealthyPlace CEO, by Murem Sharpe, Evoca CEO. Gary has an inspiring story to tell about the founding of HealthyPlace and also shares his experience with using Evoca to empower the voices of HealthyPlace.

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About Evoca

Evoca (http://www.evoca.com/) is a leading global Voice-to-Web services provider, enabling businesses, 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, or Toll-free subscriptions. It provides voice recording and online digital content distribution services through its highly scalable “Software-as-a-Service” media platform, providing worldwide public phone numbers, as well as dedicated local and toll-free telephone numbers available in over 45 countries and more than 5,000 cities around the globe.

Evoca’s Twitter audio update feature, TweeVoca, enables 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 license, Evoca Enterprise, its multi-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, use our online contact form http://www.evoca.com/contact.php, or record your message using our Skype call recorder contact: evoca-bizdev-call-recorder. Any Evoca Express subscriber can receive the Evoca Express webinar training schedule by emailing: customerservice@evoca.com.

TJ Walker, friend of Evoca and one of the one of the leading authorities on media and presentation training in the world, shares his insights about the power of using stories in your presentations. His message: dialog makes your message genuine. Even if you’re not a born public speaker or joke-teller, the humor and emotion of a true story can put a smile on the faces of your audience members or an “uh huh” of understanding and connection.

Here is TJ’s sound advice, excerpted from his recent blog article:

Most of us use dialogue quite naturally when we are telling our friends and families interesting stores about what happened in our day. Many great humorous stories are told in a dialogue format. But the first thing most business presenters do is to strip the dialogue out of presentations because they think it is somehow not “professional” or “businesslike.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Of course it is possible to say things that are unprofessional during a presentation, but that is a function of what you are saying, not because you said it in an interesting manner.

When you tell a story using dialogue, several positive things occur all at once:

1. By introducing another character, you make your story more interesting.
2. Speaking in dialogue takes you away from the position of a God-like narrator from above and puts you down on the ground in a non-abstract position for your audience.
3. When you say the words that someone else said to you, you change the tone of your voice. This makes you less monotonous to listen to.
4. When you insert dialog, you naturally pause in-between characters. This pausing makes you sound more conversational and more interesting.
5. With dialog, you might even slightly mimic the other person’s tone of voice, thus providing more sound variety for your audience.
6. By using dialog, you are by definition, making your presentation more conversational, less abstract, and therefore easier to follow for your audience.
7. By using dialog, you are necessarily slowing down the delivery of new facts to your audience, thus giving them a chance to catch up and absorb your most important points.

Of course it is possible to give a good presentation without using stores with dialog, but you are making it much harder on yourself if you try. All great speakers sprinkle dialogue throughout their presentations, no matter how complex, difficult or technical the subject matter. All lousy, boring speakers studiously avoid the use of dialogue.

Thank you, TJ for your permission to share your words of wisdom!

Here are a few more ideas from the Evoca team:

• Practice your presentations — stories and all — using Evoca Express. You can use your phone, Browser Mic, or Skype to record and then email the recording to a trusted friend or mentor to give you feedback before you step into the lights. Try it out at: https://www.evoca.com/signup/signup.jsp

• Share your recorded presentation online on your website, blog, and Facebook page using Evoca’s viral Flash player widgets. Use the copy/paste code we auto-generate for you.  If you record your final “live” presentation, you can upload the recording to your Evoca account and then embed the Flash player widget exactly where you want it to appear. Just like this:

• “Tweet” the recording to your Twitter account using Evoca’s handy TweeVoca feature that enables you to “click and post” Twitter audio updates.

• Ask your fans,  supporters, and customers for feedback. You can embed a Browser Mic in your WordPress blog, other blogs and your website to invite audio comments. Keep the recordings private to help your learning process, or if you want to share the comments with the world online, post them using an Evoca Flash player widget.

You can get More Insights from TJ Walker & Jess Todtfeld at http://www.tjwalker.com and www.SpeakingInsider.com.

TJ’s article – Media Training Worldwide  – Copyright 2010

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