Pete Helmore's Blog

11 Hours, No Voice...

2012-06-05T14:57:00.001+01:00

So this last week has been a week of 'interesting' broadcasting. First of all it started with Leah's last ever Drivetime show, which was really fun then stuck around on Lukes Jukebox which was also really fun. However after the two shows which consisted of lots of screaming my voice was starting to go. Then I stayed around the station messing around with Aron and Luke which really really did not help.

Friday I turn up to do my normal show, The Instant Radio Mix 6-8 which as always was so much fun, its really great just being able to do a show I love, play music I love and just have loads of fun. And having gilly there choosing the party hour is great and he always seems to pick songs which I love!! However the show did included lots of singing along to tracks off the air, which then also ruined my voice!

So then we jump to Sunday and we start of the first of our Jubilee special outside broadcasts. This started out well but then the weather really turned and the heavens opened. Luckily the event was a success and the broadcast went really really well. However I did start to lose my voice again.

We then move on to Monday and the second of our outside broadcast which was Party in the Park. We have done this show 3 years in a row now, and is really really fun. It’s hard work but fun. Well down to my voice being pretty bad at the moment and having the broadcast the day before, I knew the show was going to be hard. I kinda un-estimated how much work physically and mentally it is doing over 11 hours of broadcasting from events out in the field with no show plans or anything!

Well anyway both the shows went really good, no technical problems, no nothing. My voice is still screwed and I probably should try to fix that this week.

I said it on twitter but thanks to Aron who without, we couldn't of done the shows. He took on the hard and sometimes boring role of sitting at the station and engineering all the shows, making sure we sounded great and just keeping us on the air. It’s hard work to do 5 hours of broadcasting out in the field but being on your own in the studio can sometimes get really boring. So yeah thanks so much to Aron, it’s been really good working with a presenter who I wouldn't normally see that much as I'm never around during his shows.

Also thanks to Luke who has come on nearly all the OBs with me now but this year he really was great! He set-up all the gear for me before I arrived at both locations and was really nice having that sorted and just knowing that when I got to the events, I wouldn't have to worry about sorting all the kit out. It was also nice just having someone around who knows how I work, how I like things and just making sure everything worked, and making sure I was happy!! I probably couldn't of done the OBs like we did without Luke so yeah THANK YOU LUKE!!

Anyway I'm going to shut up now as its late, I'm tired and well I'm bored of this lol I just thought I would write this post as I haven't wrote on this blog site for ages, I update a few quick things / photos on my tumblr PeteHelmore.com

Bye

PS I still love radio and broadcasting and never want to stop. Its easy to get annoyed or tired with things when they are hard, or someone involved with them annoys you but you always need to stay focused on the end result and if you wan't a job in your chosen area, forget about idiots, have fun and try be the best at everything.

PPS I just realised its been over a year since I updated this blog, oooops. You should just follow me on twitter, not that I really tweet that much any more. @PeteHelmore

Dark Room, Creativity, Oh no?

2011-04-24T02:13:00.001+01:00

So as I sit here in a dark room with only my laptop to light up the room, I feel a little bit of creativity coming on.

So I'm listening to a radio station, which I must say is pretty good.
And as one of my eyes is weired and goes the wrong way, I feel sitting in a dark room with a really bright laptop screen and a power cable with a blue light on it, is probably not to good the the 'eye' situation.

So now on to the creativity, recently I was contacted a 'youth leading media advisory project'(someone needs to work on that name). So yeah I was contacted by them asking me what I thought of the ideas they had. Now it is hard to say something is rubbish without being rude, but I managed it by saying I think it could do with some 'work'.
So that aside it had me thinking of some of the stuff I did at school, all the silly time wasting atempts the school spent trying to make you interested in something which noone cared about apart from the teacher.

So with this in mind, I am in the stage of contacting a few people (old teachers and 'important' people). I want to help them run a few projects which people are interested in, this could be, ICT, Media, Radio, TV or so on. But I think the one thing which would be different about it, would be because a 'younger' person would be running it and working with the kids directly, they would probalby show more emotion and passion for it.

A good a example of this would be, in my last years at school I was asked to help out on this media project (a radio show, which included radio plays and so on) So first of all I was just asked to be the techician but what we found as the week went on was the kids who at this stage were only a few years younger than me, worked a lot better when it was just me in there, or in charge and so on. Even if we didn't do anything different than what the 'teacher' would do they still seemed to react differently.

So anyway closing this post now as it is to long, as at first it was only meant to be a tweet, but now look. Also I dont want to give any ideas away I know there are people reading this blog, WHO STEAL OTHER PEOPLES IDEAS!!!!!
Anyway I'm off.

PS: Sorry for not posting on this blog for ages, I post more on PeteHelmore.com.
PPS: I was speaking to the guy which runs my online company TechHelp 24/7, at the moment he is re-launching all the sites and trying to work out systems to cope with the traffic demand. So I will be writing a blog post about that some time.

Update - RUDE PEOPLE - Radio - OH NO - EGO

2011-01-21T22:33:00.000+00:00

Hi, just before we get started I'm going to say sorry as I haven't posted here for a few months now, a few things for this 1, I'm busy, 2, I just haven’t and 3, all small/ not important/photos go on to my other blog PeteHelmore.com

So I thought I should really do a post on here just to let the people who read this know that YES I am still alive, my last post (about France Holiday) was my most ever viewed post which reached just under 13,000 views now I did a little research on this and I think something was going on in France when I posted it so that would of meant on twitter and so on my blog would of came up in the searches.

My topic for this post is PEOPLE!!! So every now and again you will meet someone you just think OH SHUT UP well I have met a few of these in the last few years, but the ones which really wind me up is the people who are just simply jealous of what you do, but they think you are jealous of them GET OVER YOUR SELF why can't people just keep them self to them and just stay out of other people's business. Oh and another point I notice that some people stop stuff, try new things just change their life's around, well that is fine but why do they then have to try and ruin stuff for other people, fair play if you don't want to do something, but guess what others DO!

Now that i have a good guess someone may be reading this thinking it is about them, but it is not. It is about all people who do what I have just described.

I think I have met 5 of these in the last 3 years.

Anyway moving on to more of a positive note, my on-line company TechHelp 24/7 is doing really well at the moment the site has grown to quickly which has caused us to undergo a complete new design, Content Management system and the model of the business. For more info on this please check the website. NeedTechHelp.co.uk

Oh also my Radio shows I do each week are going really well, in the last year we had record braking figures for the show sites and it can only get better. I have lots of content, fun stuff planned for the next year and then we will see where I am with all things radio.

Anyway I have now ran out of stuff to type about, I could talk for ever but to be honest with you I can't be bothered to type it.

In the mean time check me out on the following sites:
PeteHelmore.Com - Unofficial Blog, which includes daily posts, photos and so on
PeteHelmore.Info - A site talking about how great I am
Twitter.com/PeteHelmore - Just the good old twitter
Facebook.com/PeteHelmore - Just the good old Facebook
InstantRadioMix.co.uk - My radio show which I do on Friday 6-8pm on Somer Valley FM
TheCommunityShow.co.uk - My radio show Which I do on Sundays 12-2pm on Somer Valley FM
NeedTechHelp.co.uk - My on-line company

Until next time I blog (prob be few months) stay safe and just well do whatever ha.

Pete Helmore (Apparently a person with a big EGO!!!!!)

France

2010-09-05T22:42:00.002+01:00

So, earlier today I was looking though the 'Pete Helmore Archives' and found some of my pictures from France 6-8 years ago( I have now forget when I went away but it is in that range)! So seen as I have not blogged for ages, for few reasons, I have been busy with stuff and also I couldn’t be bothered to type this ha.

So here are some of the pictures. Oh just before I shut up, I was on one of these 'home or away' house programs with video of us canoeing down the main river in the small French village with a tiny population, and only 2.7% of them speak English. People who know me will know that I have a big hate of people who go away abroad, but the places they go everyone is English!! WHAT IS THE POINT?

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Is Anyone There? Well EMMMM YES!!!

2010-03-19T00:45:00.002+00:00

Hello!!

So I have had lots of emails from .... Myself!! No only joking. I have had lots of emails from people asking where have I been, I think I said this in the last blog post so I should just copy and paste it.. Well anyway the reason I have not blogged is.... wait for it.... wait even longer.... well I just haven't :):):)

To tell everyone the truth I really have not had time to blog, there has been lots of things going on and there has been lots of times I have thought to myself 'I should blog this' but just didn't do that.

So what’s going on to make me so busy? You may ask!

Well as everyone knows I am involved in the local radio station and present 2 shows on the station (1 of which is a 'mainstream' show) but some people would say well doing 5 hours of talking rubbish and playing rubbish songs what have been over played by every radio station in the UK is not hard... Well then you’re correct, and that’s all they do on radio 1.

At the moment writing this blog and just thinking about what I just wrote there. Why would I want to work at a radio station what does something I described as crap... well I don’t know maybe as it is one of the biggest radio stations in the UK. If anyone from the BBC is reading this well the last 2 paragraphs I was made to write;)

Anyway as I was trying to move on to say at the local radio station I don’t just do shows (And let me add my shows are very good you should listen to them, the links will be at the bottom of the page) I do lots of other stuff there... All of which cannot be named as I’m sure all the hours I put in would be against a law as of my age or something.

There is a statement i hear nearly every week from all different people "Without you, this place would fall apart" Well good!

But no on the serious note I am working on lots of exciting projects at the radio station, I have recently joined up with Matt Clifford who presents the Drive Time show and Jodie, or as Matt calls her 'The one what doesn't speak.... Long story and I'm not going into it!. so we are planning lots of things some of which include outside broadcast which should be fun. Well I will say I am having fun when I have made everything work and link back to the station, at the end of the day if everything does not work it will be my fault. Although if something doesn’t work I will blame it on someone else...

Moving on from the radio station let me tell you about... guess.... another radio station. Yes I am being serious!

So I have been working with 5 'Youth' radio stations in the UK 1 of these is in Cornwall and another in Scotland. Well because I setup one of the latest online radio stations which to this day is doing very well I won’t give them a plug as people will get annoyed with my endless plugging, but if you want to visit it just ask me for the link. So the company which has taken on the role of making these 5 Youth radio stations work and make money has appointed me into 'Technical Project Leader' the title I give myself is THE BOSS!!!

I have also been working on a new online social media client, for a company in the US. The social media client will be like twitter but for a smaller, safer community.

We are working on something which will work along the US and the UK schools, think of it as something when you were 10 you had a school project where you had a pen pal, with someone in another country well the truth is it was probably your teacher.

So this social media site will be a private hosted site which means the only people able to access it is the people with the correct login details. It will be for age range 9-16. The site will have features like pictures and instant chat. IT will enable students to do the thing of talking to someone else in another country but do it the modern way. The world is moving on and I think people need to realize that.

Oh also we (Well my mum) is awaiting a bran new car which is currently being built. So for the next 5 weeks I have a private driver!! Makes me feel like I am someone who I am not!

So moving on as this has been a long blog post, thanks for reading....

Oh before I go, just as reading this though to check it over one of the worst songs ever just came on my play list... Don't Look back in anger by The Wurzels.... Well it could be worse it could be classical music (Private joke)

Pete

Show Websites: InstantRadioMix.co.uk TheCommunityShow.co.uk

Blog: PeteHelmore.co.uk

About site: PeteHelmore.info

Twitter: PeteHelmore.com

Main Website: NeedTechHelp.co.uk

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Where Have I Been?? Ask No More!

2010-01-23T01:25:00.001+00:00

So I have been getting lots of emails and @mentions asking where I have been. Well if you follow me on twitter @PeteHelmore (Like my plug there) you will see I am still around. To tell you the truth I have really not had time to blog at the moment.

The reason for this is because I am currently working on lots of little and big projects in the UK and the US. I can’t go into too much detail as I will get told off by the people running it. But basically I’m working on lots of ‘Youth Web Projects which brings media and web together.

So moving on from that as I don’t want to go into too much detail.

I can tell you about my little projects though, so as you all know I run the website www.needtechhelp.co.uk . This website has gone from strength to strength. I’m really proud of the website and everyone who helps me run it (I will give them a plug later).

The website started as a little bit of fun back a year or two ago. It was setup to offer people like you and me Tech Help for Free. I never realized it would take off to the extent it did.

In the first week it was running it had 5 Emails (Bad I know) Well two months after the website had been running it was getting 200-300 views a month and around 70 emails a week.

Now the website is getting about 2000 unique views a month and around 300 emails a week.

At Christmas last year we hit our target number of getting 1578 emails in one week, we reckon this is due to people getting all these new presents and then getting stuck on how to use them (Happens to the best of us).

So I’m trying to focus a lot of my time working on the site and planning ahead for the future. Some people would have noticed recently I did a re-brand. I spent 3 days working on the new look and now happy with it, a big thank you goes out to all of so many people who have commented on the new look about how much they like it. I’m really happy about this.

Now time for the plug:

I would like to say thank you to the website sponsors who without them we would not be where we are at the moment.

The show sponsors are:

1, Sharmar Publications are paying for the running cost of the equipment for TechHelp24/7, check there website at http://bit.ly/7t82Iv.

2, Custon Covers are paying for the website hosting cost, check there website at http://bit.ly/8RvqmA

3, Frank James Bailey has helped TechHelp24/7 by doing the jingles for us, check his website at http://bit.ly/6Hgkza

4, Air Media helped us produce some jingles and recordings check there website at http://bit.ly/60cKA2

Now time to thank all the people working with me on Tech Help 24/7

1, Ben has been with us from the start going back to the days when I use to broadcast on internet radio stations, Ben use to help produce the shows. Ben now is co-owner of TechHelp 24/7.

2, Jake has been with us for the last 6months his role is just helping to answer all the email we get.

3, Lauren has been with us for about 3 months and like Jake she is just helping to answer the emails.

4, Tobie joined the same time as Lauren. He is going to be taking on a bigger role soon but shhhh this is still in the planning.

5, Brendon is the newest member of the team and has only been with us for 3 weeks. At the moment he has been helping to manage the email accounts but will soon be helping me and Ben manage the website.

6, Emma has been with us for the last 4-5 months, and is working on a new Social Media website, more info soon....

7, Sam joined about 2 months ago and is helping Emma with the new Social Media website.

8, Reece came along about 4 months ago and is working with Emma and Sam on the Social Media website. Reece will be helping to integrate Facebook and Twitter into the new website.

Last but not least, Jamie joined about 8 weeks ago and at the moment he is currently working on improving how we answer emails.

Now all that is out of the way. Everyone should be happy.

So just to finish this long blog off, I am still here, catch up with what I’m doing by following me on Twitter @PeteHelmore.

I’m also on air Fridays 6-8pm Sundays 12-3pm www.somervalleyfm.co.uk or 97.5fm.

Like I said earlier in the blog, I’m working on the website lots and we are improving email answering systems to increase our overall pro look. At the moment we aim to answer all email between 24-48 hours.

If you have any feedback please send it to admin@needtechhelp.co.uk

I look forward to your response.

Once again a huge thank you for taking time out of your life to read this blog...

Pete Helmore

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New Design for Tech Help

2009-12-31T02:32:00.001+00:00

via needtechhelp.co.uk

Check out the new look.. This is what i have been working on the last few days www.needtechhelp.co.uk

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Christmas, New Year and just some general info...

2009-12-28T03:29:00.003+00:00

Just a little blog post to talk about Christmas, and what my plans for next year and some more general stuff, it is going to be about 898 words but I do appreciate you taking the time to read this.

So to start off, the lead up to Christmas this year did not seem that ‘brilliant’ I think this shows as the world is in the economic state it is in, people are cutting back on being ‘big spenders’ on Christmas lights, outdoor lights and just general house decoration.

This surprises me, I was expecting it to be a little less this year but not to the extent it has been, for example only a few houses put up decorations down my road, now not to be big headed or anything but my road is not exactly a poor road... Even with this it still stopped them doing all the lights.

I think this is the time where people really focus on ‘what is Christmas meant to be’, well what it means to them and I think nowadays a lot of people think it is just a good excuse to spend money and give people stuff. I think some people have forgotten why we celebrate Christmas sometimes.

The 25th December was a date picked by the Catholic Church to appease the pagans who they were trying to convert, but they did not want to give up their traditional holidays and festivals. (Fair enough I wouldn’t give them up Ha)

Saturnalia was one of the popular Roman pagan festivals of celebration, drunkenness and making merry which ran from the 17th to the 24th of December. Gifts were exchanged on the 23rd and 24th. On the 25th December they would celebrate "The Birth of The Unconquerable Sun."

It was decided that this would be a day for celebrating the birth of Jesus instead. Many of the pagan traditions such as decorating the house with trees and greenery were banned at this time, but they have crept back into our Christmas traditions. I think the word crept is a little understatement, anyway that’s all the religious views from me (It doesn’t happen much)

I also have been watching peoples status updates on Twitter and Facebook, and even with the state the country are in, it seems like people are still getting very expensive presents.

Maybe families are cutting down on all this rubbish and democracy which is Christmas decorations and more focusing on buying their family presents. (Do I think this is a good idea?) Well that’s a simple no!! If we get into this thing where as we don’t decorate the house and just spend all the money buying presents, well then the Christmas spirit is just gone, (Not much left of it now)... Sitting in an un-decorated house opening presents, seems a bit odd. (Let me guess the next thing is people won’t even bother with the roast dinner!!)

I do hope everyone got what they wanted for Christmas, I know I did. Let me know what you got, email pete@petehelmore.co.uk or just twitter me @PeteHelmore.

For those who have been asking I got an iPod Touch 32gb. (Apart from my computer and laptop what I got a few years back, this has been the best present I have had in awhile)

Oh also just before I go I have got some news... I have recently been focusing on my career (Which is in radio, I hope). I am in the process of making, a 1page website with like a profile page of Pete Helmore the web address for this will be www.petehelmore.info (If you go there now, it re-directs you to twitter). Now if anyone would like to write me any quotes for the website just saying how great I am HA I would appreciate them.

Also I am in the process of making a new ‘Online Community Webpage’ www.petehelmore.com This page will be one of the many new projects I am working on. I will be working on this project with Ben Griffin pa@needtechhelp.co.uk my long time PA / Helper for all my radio stuff and for www.needtechhelp.co.uk. I will let you know more about the site when I know more...

The next two years for me are going to be very busy and I think this will be the time where I 1, Shine in my career or 2, End up in Community Radio all my live... (Oh I have nothing bad to say about Community Radio, as if it was not for that I would not be at the stage I am currently at, but I’m sure everyone understands that I want to get higher up the scale. Everyone should have a goal what seems impossible (but in the back of your head you always think ‘I can do this’) to get but one day you will get it if you really want to be somewhere doing something you will do it!!)

Anyway that’s it from me, I hope to blog more in 2010 but it is sometimes hard to find time, for example I am typing this at 3.27 in the morning (I work best in the silent which is night time, with my iPod on and in that zone where someone could be looking at you and you wouldn’t realize and your just typing away listening to some great, and not so great tunes!!)

I wish you all a very Happy New Year. Be safe and have FUN!!!

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Christmas!!

2009-12-28T03:29:00.001+00:00

Just a little blog post to talk about Christmas, and what my plans for next year and some more general stuff, it is going to be about 898 words but I do appreciate you taking the time to read this.

I also have been watching peoples status updates on Twitter and Facebook, and even with the state the country are in, it seems like people are still getting very expensive presents.

I do hope everyone got what they wanted for Christmas, I know I did. Let me know what you got, email pete@petehelmore.co.uk or just twitter me @PeteHelmore.

For those who have been asking I got an iPod Touch 32gb. (Apart from my computer and laptop what I got a few years back, this has been the best present I have had in awhile)

I wish you all a very Happy New Year. Be safe and have FUN!!!

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Time for a change? DAB? FM? AM?

2009-12-05T20:04:00.002+00:00

So the following article you are about to read, was a recent post in a multi media magazine in the U.S and the U.K. I hope you understand i did put a lot of effect into researching this subject and would welcome any response.

DAB has not attracted a lot off new buyers...

In July 09 it was reported, switching off analogue radio would make up to 150milion radios obsolete, 20% of the country will never be able to receive DAB unless another £100millionn is spent on improving the network coverage for DAB.

In 2013 DAB is expected to account for more than 50% of the listening figures.

Now this may sound a lot, but when you break it down into figures there is still a lot of people who will not be able to listen, for example 5 billion people may listen to radio, that is 2.5bilion people who will not be able to get it. It isn't until you start looking at the figures, you understand how big of an audience could be lost.

Now if we think about it, in 2007 London had an estimated population of just under 8 million people. Now divide 2.5billion by 8 million, I will let you work out the answer to that but the only thing I’m going to say is that’s a lot of London’s.

Now what station owner (either commercial or BBC) is going to be prepared to switch off their analogue signal and lose 50% of their listening figures.

Now from my experience in working in radio stations I’m sure most of the station owners would not do that.

For example at Somer Valley FM, The Community Radio Station in Midsomer Norton, if I told Dom Chambers the manager, I was going to make us loose 50% of our listening figures, I think he may have one word to say..... That word would be a simple NO!

Also there is another angle to look at this from, a commercial station, where advertising is a big part of the success of the station. Losing 50% of listening figures would mean losing 50% of revenues, now looking at this with my business head on (I don’t have my business head on most of the time), who is going to do that. I know I wouldn’t.

Now one thing which is happening at the moment is radio stations are paying to broadcast on FM and DAB, now this is a good idea as it means they are covering both angles. The only problem with this is it will cost the station more money to do, but I do think this is what’s going to happen for well who can say I would guess the next 3-4 or even 10 years.

Now I’m not sure how many people will remember the term ‘Long Wave’

Well in 1992 there was word on the street that ‘long Wave’ would be slowly closed down and sadly forgotten about. Now I was born in 1992 and all my time in radio I have never heard the term ‘long Wave’ until researching this project I’m talking about now.

Well this caused some heartache with some people. So they set up a protest to save it, well they were successful in one way.

‘Long Wave’ is now only officially being used by one radio station which is radio 4.

The point I’m trying to show here is this so called closure of long wave was meant to happen in 1992, and 17 years later radio 4 are still using it.

This just shows when the British people want something to happen it happens.

And I think we will find this with DAB, the British do not like change and I think it will be 3 or even 10 years before all the radio stations think about turning of FM.

Also another good point the FM Wave is it is cheap, it has been tried and tested and works perfect. It’s close to 'universal' coverage as we will ever get.

I think we also need to think about it from another angle. If we change over to DAB, pirate radio stations will start using FM like they use AM. So in my mind we would be doing our selfs more harm than needed.

So my conclusion about this is that yes we will turn over to DAB and turn of FM but not yet.

(A audio version will be uploaded in the next week or two.)

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HI, yes I am still here...

2009-12-04T00:38:00.003+00:00

In my mind, this blog is worth reading but may take you 5-10 mins so make sure you have time. Thanks

So I know I have had lots of emails from lots of my blog readers asking where I have been.

Well I have been really busy with my college work at the moment, and all my radio work. As you all can understand I'm trying to focus on my career at the moment.

So well what have I been up to recently, the other week I did a interview with Leah Smith about 'if I think DAB radio will work'. This was a good subject for me to talk about as recently I did an article for a media magazine. I will try uploading the article sometime this week; I will also try uploading the recorded interview I did, so watch this space... I really enjoyed doing the interview and also helping out a good mate.

Also I have been working more on stream lining the local radio station. I'm trying to put functions in place that in the long run will help out the station. E.G. I recently fitted a remote login system to our streaming computer; this means if the stream goes down me and the manager can log on and just start it back up. What I would want the readers of this blog to understand is all this work is self taught. I learn as I do it, I come up on mistakes do research and learn how to fix them and in my mind that is a great ability what I don't think everyone has, which is a shame.

There are some people I know what don't learn as they do stuff, now saying this some of them people are very smart, and like to study before doing it. Whereas I am more a hands on person, I do it and then think about later, and in my life it has not done me any harm. This is one of them things what just shows everyone is different, and I think people should remember it. I hate it when I know or work with younger kids who say stuff like "I want to do this as my mate is doing it" I always want to say don't just do something because they are doing it, there has to be a point in your life where you focus on yourself and let others worry about them self's. Now in that statement I'm not trying to say you should have no friends and you should live a single life away from everyone, because if you start doing that you will start to drift off from your friends.

Now moving on from my little speech there HA.

So getting back to what I was talking about, I have recently been teaching myself lots of skills, to use in 1, my college course and 2, my day to day life.

What else????

Oh I know, I have been focusing my time online to learn more about social media, and all about the online communities. For example this blog is a online community using social media to publish it over the net. Now as a lot of readers of this blog will know, I use twitter a lot. Well recently I have not been as much but I am still a big twitter fan. I also have facebook and I am on that lots but only use the status updates to advertise my radio shows, I more use twitter to update. I think this is because some of the people I have on facebook I think well they may not be interested in what I have to say, whereas I know the people following me on twitter are interested otherwise they would not follow me would they.

I also had a interview today, with Simon Davis who soon will be getting more and more involved in the radio station, I think it was a great chance to do this interview and would like to say thank you to Simon Davis.

So at the moment if you don't see me tweet that much it is probably because I'm trying to study (Not looking at books, but generally learning) about twitter, and facebook.

Tomorrow well later today I am going into BMI Bath Clinic to have another operation but I will not bother you with any of the details in this.

Once again I would like to say thank you to the readers of my blog, and please do understand at the moment I'm trying to focus on my career so if I don't blog for a while you know why.

Also I would like to thank Jodie and Leah as we have been working together at the station this year and I think it is always nice to have a couple of people who understand where you are coming from, as they are in media them self's they understand what I am trying to do in my career. Now I have worked with Leah for 3-4 years before the station this year, but coming into the station at the start of this year was the first time meeting Jodie. Now sometimes I think I have known them both for the same amount of time, and I think this shows if you're willing to get out there and talk to people, you will meet some interesting people. Now in that statement, that's not saying all the other volunteers are rubbish lol, as there not all the volunteers well most ha are great and I have enjoyed working with them all this year.

Once again thank you so much everyone online, and in real life for the support.

Pete Helmore

P.S Have a very nice festive season, and hope you all have a very good Christmas. And if your birthday is on Christmas Eve or Christmas day... Happy Birthday.

You can find the people I have mentioned in this blog at :

http://twitter.com/leeeeeeeeah

http://twitter.com/Jodie_kemp

You can find me at www.needtechhelp.co.uk and www.petehelmore.co.uk and twitter.com/petehelmore or facebook.com/petehelmore

Testing 1,2 1,2

2009-11-23T20:27:00.001+00:00

So I'm just testing this blog thing as im writing and posting this in word.... So it should just send to my blog

Change of plans for this saturday, all info in the blog.

2009-11-13T21:46:00.001+00:00

So today I was at the station chilling with couple of friends while in the studio talking on the Drivetime show... Dom (The boss) comes and gets me and well it was a person on the phone that I did not really want to speak to, but all good.

I then go back up stairs to carry on my convocation with jack and couple others and then Dom comes to get me again (I’m thinking, “Oh what now!”) Dom then went on to say “It’s CLLR Chris Watt (I’m now thinking, oh no what have I done)

Well this call then turned out to be a very interesting call and very good for me.

I have been asked to go work with their ICT guys, and help them setup some servers and some virtual machines. (For you people who don’t know about the tech, it basically means a lot of work involved) Now not all of this I know how to do but some I do. So it means I will be learning and also getting some great experience. This is the company I will be working with, check it out http://www.bathasu.com/

Also more good news about this project is that I will be getting paid to do it, now I’m not worried about the money as I would do it for the experience and I know I will learn stuff which will help me on my college course. But the money does make it that little bit nicer... (And I’m sure it won’t be too little of a payment, if you get my drift)

So tomorrow I get collected by taxi all paid for of course which will take me to bath well just outside of bath but it is easier to call it bath, and then do work and then get picked up by taxi to bring me home. (I’m getting used to people driving me around now days; I’m going to hate it when I have to catch the bus next) I may be doing the same thing Sunday but they will pick me up then have me back ready for me to do my show at 12 on Sunday. (See I am quite busy)

I may also be doing this on Monday but maybe after the recording what I will be doing at 11 down the radio station (I can’t cancel as I agreed to do it a week ago)

Then college on Tuesday and then Wednesday we have a 4.5 hour test, and the all the stuff I’m learning this weekend will help me so I’m happy.

So I will probably not be on twitter that much over weekend as I am going to be busy

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Blog: Long time no Blog HA

2009-11-13T00:48:00.001+00:00

Hi, so I have not been on here in a while as to tell the truth I really have not had time. Sorry about that... Just to let you know this blog will be a long one so if you have not got time I would save this and read it later.

So.... What have I been up to?

Well, I have been at college on Tuesday and Wednesday as usual and this week I think I may have learnt something for once.

We got a new teacher for one our lessons which are customer support, now I’m going to list things about each teacher and you will see why we all like the new one better.

First teacher for the customer support lesson: 23, had no experience in teaching or customer support, and also gets angry to quick

The teacher we have now: 41, had 25 years in customer support, worked for the MOD, and also the biggest customer support organization in the U.K and the U.S. Now this is only for this little section in our huge course, the main guy we have for all of it apart from these 2 horus is a good teacher and seems to know his stuff (I have to be nice as he may be reading this, shhh don’t tell)

Now who do you think is the better one....?

So then Thursday well I went to do my normal work at the radio station and well what I can say, today has been very stressful down the station.

First of all I had a bad head all day, and then had lots of stuff to do.

I try getting on with stuff then our desk packs up I then try to fix that and then have to edit an interview for someone to pick up.

I then get asked to edit another interview which is fine only takes a few mins... Well that’s where I was wrong, I was just about to start and then another guy came in so our producer had to use the studio which meant I was then sat like a lemon,( Well I thought I was) But no. Then we have problems recording which meant I had to find more Mic’s. Tascam's and leads (Which weren’t where they are normally kept, maybe I did not put them back in the right play who knows...) so I sort all that out and have a little 5 min brake.

I then have to get on the phone to the tech guys for our mixer, that was a challenge I tell the guy the problems and (Just before you read the next step, the guy I spoke to is like the tech opp for this major company who owns one of our desks) And guess what he says.. Well emmm you may want to Emm well check this and that and this, "Yep I did all that" Ok now try looking at the... "Yep" Well if that does not work you will need to send us one of the channel modules.

"Oh ok how much you reckon that would cost”Well I would not be the person to say but I think it would be...... em no I don’t know! "Ahhhhh"

So moving on from the tech problems, as that happens in all radio stations it just seems to happen when I’m there.

So I get home change my cloths then off on a trip can’t tell you where if you read my twitter your know so I'm not going to bother.

Then back home from the trip and thinking oh I’m tired I may get an early night ....

So tomorrow will hopefully be a less stressful day as I will be going down the station about 3.30 need to get some stuff edited what I missed out on today, and then chill out a little bit and then do the show.

Doing the show is probably the best point of being at the radio station as it is something I really enjoy (Not saying the tech side I don’t enjoy) but I do like doing the show as it means we can play some great tunes and just have a chat with friends and chill out.

After the show I’m back home and at 8.30(ish) I will be in a Skype call with 3 people from the US talking about this project I’m doing next year (Like I said earlier I’m not going to say but just guest...) After that I may chill not sure yet or i may go out (Not sure what)

Anyway that’s it from me this week, once again thank you for reading this really long blog, well not that long but yh shhhh

Cya later, well I wont but i will blog you later lol

Bye

Pete

P.S: Oh just to let you know, I typed this all up on my phone, as i am currently sat in bed not being able to sleep. So I hope it post correctly.

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Blog: This week.

2009-11-02T17:34:00.001+00:00

So, one day down 6 to go. HA.

So I’m back to college this week after having a nice little break last week, so that means more work for me to get on with. I have been asked by a few people, what course I’m undertaking at college? So I’m going to tell you all now so I never need to explain again.

So my course is: City and Guilds System Support Diploma... (You are thinking to yourself "Ok but what does that mean")

Well I will tell you what the course content is like and I’m sure you will get an understanding, so what we do?

1. We learn about fixing computers and taking them apart

2. We take them apart (Normal make them worst) and then fix them

3. We learn skills on how to communicate with people (E.G. If we were in a situation where we were giving help over the phone

4. we also do ECDL which is to do with the computer software side of the course.

Ok now that is out of the way you should have an understanding of my course.

So that’s my plans for this week, go to college Tuesday and Wednesday and then Thursday down the radio station (Braking and then fixing stuff, and just having a laugh with the rest of the volunteers). Then Friday do the show, and have some more fun.

Not working on my TV Project this week we all have now got 2 weeks of from that.

One thing I do like about going back to college is seeing all the mates again and just having fun while learning (More of having fun than the learning part)

Anyway I may blog this week I may not it depends if I’m going to have time, it will probably be maybe the Weekend or Thursday, but until then stay safe (That line reminded me of a TV Program but I’m not sure which one)

Follow me on Twitter @PeteHelmore if you want to talk or just go to www.needtechhelp.co.uk all the contact details are on there.

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Blog....

2009-11-01T22:52:00.001+00:00

So well i haven’t blogged in a while, as i have been busy... Yesterday i was working on some more of my project and then today i did the radio show with Mike on Somer Valley.So not really had time to blog.

But just a little update for what’s going on in my life at the moment, we did a special 3 hour show on Friday which was fun, and also we launched a brand new website which you should check out at: www.instantradiomix.co.uk and I would like to say a big thank you to Craig Gill who has designed the website and did a brilliant job.

Please check out his website: www.gill-design.co.uk/

Anyway that’s all from me, so a nice small blog.

Talk to you all later!!

Pete

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The New Show Website...

2009-10-31T15:37:00.001+00:00

Check the new show page http://www.instantradiomix.co.uk As we have now gave it a new look so please check it out...

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Blog: My plans for today

2009-10-30T15:13:00.001+00:00

My plans are as followed:

10.40-11.00 = At the doctors to have my stitches out of my foot

11.00-12.30 = More work on my web server. (There is a lot to do)

12.30-1.00 = Have lunch

1.00-1.45 = More work on my web server

1.45-2.00 = down radio station playing some stuff out before the news

2.00-4.00 = Down radio station fixing stuff.

4.00-5.45 = Maybe doing some editing

5.45-6.00 = Chilling out before show, have my drink so I don’t loose my voice and just cool down before the show.

6.00-8.00 = Doing the Instant Radio Mix, on Somer Valley 97.5 FM and on-line www.somervalleyfm.co.uk

8.00-9.00 = As it is Halloween it is a good excuse for us to extend the show, so we are doing another hole but of full trance. (Some people like it, some may not... What about you???

9.10-9.40 = having tea (I know it is late but I have a long day)

9.40-10.00 = Chill out after a hard day and just watch a little bit of TV

10.00-12.00 = Get on my work what I have to do, some more on the web server probably.

12.00-2.00 = Watch my web TV show I watch every week which is produced and made by someone who works with me on my site.

2.00-4.00 = Get on with the work what makes me the money, which is advertising designing and also streaming servers (If you don’t know Tech, you won’t understand it)

4.00-5.00 = Finish of my work

5.00-5.10 = Go to bed as now I would of been up nearly 24 hours.

Then hopefully I should be sleeping, and then tomorrow when I wake up I will write another blog with more of my plans.

See people when I say I am busy... Guess what... I AM

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Finished...

2009-10-30T02:50:00.001+00:00

Ok, I have now finished setting up all these new accounts and all the blog's, now if I have done this correct this post should get tweeted, put on my blog and a few others...

Let’s hope it works

Talk in the morning

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Why?

2009-10-30T02:09:00.001+00:00

So today I'm just setting up some new forms of social networking and communicating. In plain English that means basically setting up some new twitter post services like TwitPic, Posterous, Flickr, Friend Feed and finally Tumblr.

I’m sure there are some more I have missed out but for now those will do.

The main reason I have been getting more and more involved in social media recently is because I’m working on this project with a British broadcasting company I have just said the name of the company and if you’re clever you will be able to work it out.

Anyway I have been getting involved with this 'company' and we have been working on a new social media project, which will be aired on TV! Yes that is correct on TV!!!

So this project, I can’t give to many details as I will get into trouble if I do, but we will be covering how social media has changed my life and changed my views for my future, also all the types of social media...(there are so many so I’m not going to list them) So my topic is Radio. Now for those who do not know me, radio has changed my life, and also changed my future career plans.

Now like I said I can’t talk about this much so I’m not going to. I’m going to stop now!!

So anyway back to the reason I have got this blog, this is because I need to understand the ways of social media and the ways people use it to communicate in the modern world.

I will be using all the types of social media, I did state some of them up the top so I’m not going to say it again as that is more typing for me to do.

For now this is it from me, I will try to update this regularly but please be patient and when you run a website ( I will blog about the website I run and manage in another post sometime in the future) Also I help run a radio station ( They need all the help they can get!) (I will also blog about this is another blog post sometime in the future, and I’m sure it will be a very long blog as there is lot’s to talk about) At the end of this I also go to college (You know what I’m going to say next... I will blog about this sometime in the future....)

Anyway if you want to know what I’m up to at anytime just check out my twitter @PeteHelmore or facebook.com/petehelmore or just check the website petehelmore.co.uk

Talk to you sometime in the future (Your really going to get annoyed with that tag line, so I will try to use it ..... even more HA)

Bye Bye

Pete

P.S Thanks for reading the last 497 words, now you need to decide was it worth your time. The answer is .........