To capture Hospice patients’ life stories, professionals and volunteers are using the convenient recording-by-phone service offered by Evoca, providing a precious legacy and family keepsake. Interviewers can record using any phone, just like a microphone, while visiting the patient or during a phone call. The recordings – saved in a password protected account in standard MP3 format – can be downloaded, burned to CDs, and listened to online. Recordings made off-line with digital recording devices also can be uploaded to the Evoca Express account for safekeeping and sharing.

Recalling and preserving their stories is an important activity for patients who want to capture their memories for posterity. Patients’ stories can be kept private or contributed as oral histories for their families, communities, veterans’ associations, and religious organizations. For example, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization more than 50,000 veterans die each month; that’s roughly 28% of all deaths in the United States.

Using the phone as a “mic” for an in-person interview puts the patient at ease.

A phone interview often is easier to schedule with an elderly or disabled patient, who can readily answer a phone call and often likes to talk on the phone.

Hospices can acquire one central Evoca Express Pro subscription or one subscription per patient and family. A family member can also subscribe online to get underway. The person who is managing the Evoca Express account can register up to 30 phone numbers of interviewers – staff, volunteers, family members, or friends. Phone recordings can be made from a registered phone or by using the registered phone number as the password for activating the recording session.

Subscriptions are renewable on a monthly basis and allow for unlimited length of individual recordings and the ability to increase recording storage time. Registered family and friends can use Evoca to record supportive messages, stories, humor, music, and words of love for the patient to play.

To learn more about how to create, save, and share audio recordings visit Evoca’s YouTube channel. Videos also include how to record interviews using Skype, the free international phone service, in case the patient and interviewer are countries or continents away from each other. More information about Evoca voice recording services also is available at Evoca’s online How To guide.

Tips about how to project your best voice during a phone interview are delivered by T.J Walker, one of our favorite experts in media and presentation training.  Sounds like much of T.J.’s advice can apply to both interviewees and interviewers.

You must have high energy. You must sound like you are excited, not bored by your subject matter.  People tell us all the time that their topic is too serious and that they wouldn’t want to sound like some infomercial salesman.   That’s not what we’re suggesting you do.  We realize that your voice is the only criteria an audience has to judge you by.  If you sound boring, they will think you are boring and just tune out.  It’s as simple as that.  Every time we practice with a CEO or executive on bringing their voice above their comfort zone and have them record it and watch the results, they are always pleasantly surprised.  It doesn’t sound like an infomercial salesman at all. It sounds like someone who is just plain interesting and compelling.

Here’s a little tip:  When talking on the phone stand up (even when people can’t see you.)  This will help loosen your vocal cords and give you more energy.  It also helps to bring out natural highs and lows in your voice.

USE NOTES – This isn’t a high school exam, you can have a sheet of paper in front of you with a FEW key bullet points that you want to bring up.

If you add some preplanned SOUND BITES to that sheet, that’s good too.

However, DON’T READ paragraphs off your sheets of paper.  Even if your audience can’t see you, your reading will be obvious to them. You will sound flat and boring.  Bullet points are just memory joggers.

Your message trumps production values. Spend less time worrying about the technology and what microphone is being used, and more time making sure you stay on message.

With permission © 2010 TJ Walker Speaking

Ready for your next phone interview? Whether you’re the interviewer or interviewee, you can record it using Evoca. Check out our How To video: Record phone interviews. This informative video and other Evoca How To videos are available at www.youtube.com/evoca.

Recording your voice has always been easy with Evoca using any phone, Skype, or computer mic. For Evoca subscribers using their phones to record valuable content such as interviews, conference calls, voice-overs, opinions, testimonials, language lessons, and stories, we have added France, Denmark, Finland, and Norway. This brings our Evoca worldwide phone coverage to 28 international cities and 34 cities in the United States.

Denmark: +45 78 77 50 08
Finland: +358 94 2419 190
France: +33 1 82 88 25 37
Norway: +47 21 05 82 36

Evoca access currently includes the European countries of Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, along with Israel and Australia, and countries in Asia and South America. International numbers are listed at the end of the blog post. If you would like to request a phone number for your country, email Evoca Business Development and we will research its availability.

If you are new to Evoca, you can sign up for a free trial subscription and start recording from your phone immediately:

• Call, speak, hang up (or listen, erase and re-record)
• Recordings are instantly saved to your Evoca Express account as MP3 recordings
• You can email the recording, share it online using a standard viral player widgets, post it to Twitter — or keep it private
• For subscribers who want to customize player widgets, they can use our Evoca player wizard to brand it, size it, include an image to make a talking photo, select different player behaviors like loops and instant playback, and lots more.
• It is also convenient to record a phone interview or Skype interview. Conference call recordings are just as easy.

You can learn more at our online How To section at www.evoca.com/how-to and our Evoca YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/evoca. To use another Evoca audio content creation tool, WordPress users can get information about adding the Evoca Audio Recorder plugin to their websites or blogs at the WordPress.org website or the Evoca website.

Here is a complete list of Evoca international phone numbers:

With media companies around the world seeking ways to increase their journalists’ reach and productivity, Evoca (www.evoca.com), the leading global voice-to-web recording service, has been cited as the essential tool to do it. Both professional and citizen journalists use Evoca to record and podcast interviews with newsmakers in the political, financial, environmental, entertainment, travel, domestic and international security, and other dynamic sectors. They also can instantly tweet the entire interview recording or use audio clips for radio programs, voice-overs in videos, and audio highlights embedded in online articles.

Evoca subscriber Orlando Montoya, Savannah-based news producer for Georgia Public Broadcasting (http://www.gpb.org/), is the Voice of the Coast across the state and nation.  Montoya explains how he uses Evoca’s phone-to-web service to record timely interviews from anywhere.

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Montoya cites “With Evoca I can do interviews for the radio wherever I am with a cell phone. Before, I had to make an appointment, drive to the radio station, and hope the production room was free.” In addition to initiating his outbound mobile call from the field or his home office, he adds, “Now I can give my subjects my telephone number. If I am driving I can pull over; it comes directly downloaded to my account and sends me an email that it’s there. And it sounds good.”

As a veteran reporter, Montoya observes that “in these times that we are in, we are doing more with less and we have to be more efficient as an organization.” He says he has been able to “become more flexible and efficient as a reporter.” Orlando Montoya’s reports can be heard across the state on GPB’s 16-station state-wide radio network and locally on WSVH 91.1 FM in Savannah and WWIO 88.9 FM in Brunswick. Montoya’s beat includes such diverse issues as tropical storms, troop deployments, the environment, political scandals, education, art, music, history and culture.

Instructions for recording an interview using any phone are found at Evoca’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/evoca#p/u/0/f_kpsEus9Ho and online How To guide: www.evoca.com/how-to/create-recordings/record-phone-interviews/. Recording interviews using Skype is just as easy, as the Evoca team explains on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/evoca#p/u/4/FugVzEUtAG8 and in our online How To guide: http://www.evoca.com/how-to/create-recordings/record-skype-interviews.  With interviews as a popular method of communication, many writers, researchers, human resources professionals, historians, genealogists, psychologists, and alumni groups find Evoca an easy tool for both the interviewer and interviewee when in-person meetings are not convenient.

Pointing to Evoca’s mission to offer easy-to-use web and phone services to support journalists, bloggers, activists, and anyone with something to say, Evoca CEO Murem Sharpe recalls, “Evoca chose the tagline ‘Empower your voice’ to underscore this mission.” She adds, “We have become an ideal tool for professional and citizen journalists, bloggers, writers, and activists, who understand that real voices from real people make their stories fresh, compelling, and genuine.” Transcriptions of recordings are also available through online ordering.

About Evoca
Evoca (http://www.evoca.com/) is a leading global Voice-to-Web services provider, enabling businesses, organizations and individuals to easily create and share interviews, testimonials, opinions, stories, and language lessons using phone, Skype™, and its browser microphone. Its online recorder also enables recording through any computer mic. Evoca subscribers can share recordings on Facebook, Twitter, websites, and blogs by posting player widgets streamed by Evoca or use recordings within a private group. Evoca’s YouTube channel subscribers how to use its features to record and share interviews, conference calls, testimonials, comments, language practice sessions, voice-overs, storytelling, and for many other audio-based content creation purposes.

Evoca Express is available online as a 30-day free trial, Pro, Local, or Toll-free subscription. Subscribers access the call recording feature by dialing any of its worldwide public phone numbers or Skype (http://www.evoca.com/skype/), and also can get dedicated local or toll-free telephone numbers in over 45 countries and more than 5,000 cities around the globe to invite their audiences and followers to record news, comments, and opinions. It is delivered through Evoca’s highly scalable “Software-as-a-Service” media platform. Large organizations, other web services, and telecommunications partners also can license Evoca Enterprise, its multi-media, enterprise-grade 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.

©2010 Evoca LLC. All rights reserved. All copyrights and trademarks mentioned herein are property of their respective owners.

As an avid user of Evoca phone-to-web services to podcast her literary work online, Alice Shapiro, Atlanta-based poet and Pushcart Prize nominee has partnered with Evoca to launch The Change Interviews project to enable Pushcart Prize winners and 2010 nominees to share their spoken words online. Authors’ voices are recorded and podcast For The Change Interviews project using Evoca’s phone-to-web services.

Annually about 60 authors from dozens of presses in the independent publishing field are named Pushcart Prize winners. Outstanding works of fiction, poetry, memoirs and essays are published in the anthology The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses. Founding Editors of the annual anthology include Paul Bowles, Ralph Ellison, Joyce Carol Oates and Reynolds Price. Since 1976 thousands of authors have been honored by the Pushcart Press, recognized as one of the most influential publishers in American history. It was founded by Bill Henderson in 1972, publishing its first book in 1973, Henderson’s The Publish It Yourself Handbook. A harbinger of the contemporary self-publishing market, Henderson initially distributed his book by foot and auto.

Inspired by an author’s instinct to convey the sound of words through readings, Alice Shapiro explained, “I use Evoca as a virtual Internet microphone. I can turn the world into a poetry reading stage, reaching a much broader global audience than traveling from bookstore to bookstore.” Using the phone registered to her Evoca account to make each interview recording, Shapiro asks each author to describe the impact of their association with the prestigious Pushcart Prize and to recite their poems. Upon hang-up, the interview recording is instantly saved as an MP3 recording to her Evoca account. Then she copies and pastes the Evoca-generated player widget code into her website.

Featured poets include Elena Karina Byrne, Bryan Borland, Alice Shapiro, Ray Sharp, Cassie Premo Steele, Lynne Thompson, Bobbie Troy, and Lorraine A. Vail. For example, Ray Sharp, nominated poet, talks about what led him to compose Threnody for the Survivors of September 11, 2001 and recites his own poem.

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The Change Interviews also are available online at Shapiro’s Evoca account for listening and downloading for non-commercial use. Anyone interested in automatically savings new recordings to iTunes or a computer file can subscribe to The Change Interviews RSS feed. Author of poetry collection Cracked: Timeless Topics of Nature, Courage, and Endurance, Shapiro’s poetry readings are streamed from Evoca servers to her website. Shapiro chose Evoca’s phone interview recording method; other Evoca subscribers use the Evoca Skype call recorder to record interviews.

Evoca CEO Murem Sharpe observes, “At a time when the publishing industry is grappling with fierce competition, disruptive technologies, and content ownership controversy, it is refreshing to simply listen to writers recite their work and talk about it. Evoca makes it possible to have this very human listening experience. The Evoca team is pleased that our easy-to-use digital media technologies have contributed to the creation and distribution of authors’ voices.”

About Evoca
Evoca (http://www.evoca.com/) is a leading global Voice-to-Web services provider, enabling businesses, organizations, educators, and individuals to easily create and share interviews, testimonials, opinions, stories, and language lessons using phone, Skype™, and its browser microphone. Its online recorder also enables recording through any computer mic. Evoca subscribers can share recordings on Facebook, Twitter, websites, and blogs by posting player widgets streamed by Evoca or use recordings within a private group. Evoca uses Google Translate to enable its worldwide subscribers to sign up, access its user guide, and record and share languages from around the globe.

Evoca Express is available online as a 30-day free trial, Pro, Local, or Toll-free subscription. Subscribers access the call recording feature by dialing any of its worldwide public phone numbers or Skype, and also can get dedicated local or toll-free telephone numbers in over 45 countries and more than 5,000 cities around the globe. It is delivered through Evoca’s highly scalable “Software-as-a-Service” media platform.

Large organizations, other web services, and telecommunications partners also can license Evoca Enterprise, its multi-media, enterprise-grade 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, 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.

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.

Inspired by the annual “National Day of Listening” sponsored by StoryCorps and National Public Radio, Evoca makes family storytelling and recording a daily event during the holidays and year-round.

Using 21st century Internet and phone technologies Evoca launched “Every Day of Listening” to enable family members who are getting together at Grandma’s house or even across the ocean from each other to record using any phone, Skype, and a computer mic. With a shared Evoca account, creating a family audio memory album is possible whether family members can get together in person or not.

Getting underway is easy. The family “organizer” signs up online for an Evoca Express Pro subscription and registers up to 30 phone numbers of the family members who can call to record stories, memories, and humor. For family members located in different countries or any Skype users, 30 Skype accounts can also be registered. The organizer can sign up for a free trial subscription to practice. Then any family member with a registered phone number or Skype account simply dials any Evoca public phone number, hears the cheerful Evoca greeting: “Welcome to Evoca. Record after the beep and hang up when you’re done”, talks, and hangs up. The recording is instantly stored in the family account as an MP3 recording. Recording a Skype call starts by clicking on the Evoca Skype Call Recorder contact in your Skype account. Since Evoca is a web service, no software downloads or updates are required.

J’miah Nabawi, national award-winning storyteller, teaching and performing artist, and Evoca’s Artist-in-Residence offered, “Everyone has a story to tell. With Evoca, precious stories of family members, especially our elders, can be captured, shared, and saved for future generations.” He added, “We applaud StoryCorps and National Public Radio for encouraging the telling and sharing of family members’ stories. We are thrilled that Evoca makes it possible for anyone, anywhere to share their stories, short or long, simply by picking up their phone. They also can include singing, music, and laughter for their loved ones to hear.”

Two family members can easily record together with one of them asking questions and the other giving the answers. StoryCorps calls them “interview partners” and offers a terrific “Great Questions” guide. Evoca provides step by step instructions about how to record an interview by phone or Skype. The family can even record a group of people in “conference call” style using Evoca’s phone or Skype features. Evoca also provides its subscribers with a Browser Mic, an in-browser Flash recorder, which can also be embedded in a family genealogy website or blog to collect voice recordings using any computer mic.

The recordings can be kept private, emailed to family members, downloaded to a CD to mail to Grandma, or posted to family and genealogy websites, blogs, and social networking profiles such as Facebook. RSS feeds can alert family members to new recordings that they can add to their  Tunes, iPhones and iPods. Transcriptions are available through Evoca’s online transcription service.

About Evoca

Evoca 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 (www.evoca.com) is available as a Free 30-day trial, Pro, Local, and Toll-free subscription. 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 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 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 training schedule by emailing: customerservice@evoca.com.

©2009 Evoca LLC. All rights reserved.  All copyrights and trademarks mentioned herein are property of their respective owners.

Evoca for Educators™ provides educators and students with an easy, affordable method to record language learning exercises and other subjects that benefit from audio recording and teacher feedback.  Now a teacher or professor can register their students’ phone numbers and/or Skype accounts to make it easy to record audio assignments straight from their phones or computers.  It’s a web service so no downloads are required.  Read on.

How Evoca for Educators™ was launched is described by Murem Sharpe, Evoca CEO: “High school and middle school teachers asked the Evoca team for a way that students could use their phones to record practice assignments because many students and families could not afford a computer at home. They needed an accessible, affordable solution to offer to their Advanced Placement (AP) language students preparing for the College Board tests in Spanish, French, German,  and Japanese, and while learning other foreign languages during their cultural and religious instruction.  English as a Second Language (ESL) teachers also wanted their students to practice outside of class.”

The story is somewhat different, but equally compelling for higher education. Sharpe continues, “University and e-learning professors needed a way for their active students to use their mobile phones to record audio assignments. Students are often on the move between classes, work, and home. Evoca is meeting these important logistical challenges and delivering tangible learning opportunities with its Evoca for Educators program.”  As adults, university students often get their own Evoca accounts and email the recordings to their professors to get feedback.

Evoca turns any phone into a digital microphone. The phone is connected to the Internet without the user having to download any software or worry about updates. Students simply dial any of Evoca’s publicly available numbers. Evoca’s technology instantly recognizes the students’ registered phone numbers and saves the recordings to the educator’s Evoca account as digital (MP3) recordings, auto-tagged with the students’ names and course numbers. The recordings are always available online for the educator to listen and email the recording to the student with valuable feedback. Educators also can register their U.S. and international students’ Skype accounts, enabling them to record from anywhere in the world, just like having a global toll-free phone number.

Educators with a blog or website can also invite their students to record online using the embeddable Evoca Browser Mic, an in-browser Flash recorder. After recording, the student can add her/his email address, comments, or other identification in data fields associates with their recordings. Recorder “plugins” are available for popular web programs such as WordPress TypePad, Blogger, and Drupal, as well as a generic plugin for any website, blog, or social media profile.

In addition to foreign language and ESL (English as a Second Language) training, educators in “seated” public and private schools and universities, as well as e-learning organizations around the world are benefitting from Evoca’s Voice-to-Web services for a wide range of audio assignments. Any educator can use the convenient online sign up for an Evoca Express Pro subscription and have their students recording the same day. The program’s applications include:

High schools and middle schools
•     Advanced Placement (AP) foreign language test practice sessions
•     Beginning through advanced level language course assignments
•     English — including ESL (English as a Second Language)
•     Performing arts, writing, poetry, elocution, and speech classes
•     Oral history and storytelling courses
•     Job and college admissions interview role-playing

Universities, colleges, and eLearning organizations
•     Foreign language courses and practice sessions
•     English — including ESL (English as a Second Language)
•     Clinical training and intake interviews — psychology and other professions
•     Performing arts, writing, poetry, elocution, and speech classes
•     Oral history and storytelling classes
•     Clinical intake interview training
•     Job and graduate school interview role-playing
•     Journalism field assignments
•     Scientific research projects

About Evoca
Evoca 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, 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, use our online contact form, record your message with our Skype call recorder contact: evoca-bizdev-call-recorder.

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.