Today I came across a great tool to make my blog even more user friendly. It was easy to install — up and running within 10 minutes, perhaps even less. And of course, best of all, it is completely free.

This tool is called Odiogo and you may have noticed it as something new added to my blog. Odiogo’s motto is “Give your text content a voice…and legs!” Once installed as a wordpress plugin (can also be used with RSS feeds, Blogger, Typepad and Overblog), Odiogo appears as a small “listen now” icon under your blog post title and before the content. By clicking on this icon, your readership can listen to your post or they can download it to listen on their ipod, iphone or MP3 player. This convenience can expand your readership into listenership very quickly. The quality of the reading is pretty good…click on the listen button on any of my blog posts and check it out yourself!

Odiogo is easy to install and they provide very detailed installation directions. I often have a glitch or two when installing products of various kinds, but this was installed perfectly the first time through. Once installed and used, they also provide data and graphs displaying how often this feature is used on your blog.

Another great aspect of Odiogo, is that once your listenership reaches a significant level (as of this writing, their website does not define what that means), you may qualify for a share of their advertising revenue. How cool is that?

Give it a try and let me know what you think!

Until next time,

~Norene

1. Paul Lear Says:
   October 11th, 2009 at 7:26 pm

   Hi Norene,

   What a great find, and I must say quite fun to listen to the read back.

   I think I’ll install this on my blog when I get time, it’s a nice novelty to listen to the blog post, rather than read it. It’s especially good for people who’s eyes get tired in the evenings, like me.

   I’ll try and pop back over tomorrow or something, to comment on your latest post.

   Paul.
   Paul Lear´s last blog ..How I Use MyBlogLog To Drive Targeted Traffic

2. norene Says:
   October 12th, 2009 at 6:12 am

   Hi Paul,
   Nice to see you again! I thought it was a cool find too. Gotta love the internet! -Norene

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   October 15th, 2009 at 11:28 am

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4. Tom Harvey Says:
   October 19th, 2009 at 8:05 pm

   Norene

   Followed Paul’s link over here and just wanted to say thanks for the steer, what a great plug-in, will be adding it to my blog tonight! Keep up the good work

   Tom

5. norene Says:
   October 21st, 2009 at 3:03 pm

   Thanks Tom! Glad you stopped by! I love finding and sharing new and fun pluggins! -Norene

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