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This is a quick tutorial on how to add audio to a holiday greeting card, or any printed item.

Step 1 is to create a chirbit post, which you are able to do by uploading an existing audio clip to chirbit, or recording a new one via a webcam or microphone on the site. You can also upload or email a voice memo from any smart phone with a voice recorder and email capabilites.

Step 2 is to hover over your chirbit post to click on the “view qrcode for this chirbit” icon.

after you click on the icon, the QRCode window will pop up as illustrated here.

You should now be able to download your qrcode to print it on your card or flyer.

if you prefer you can also just send/print the shortURL to your audio clip in your card or flyer.

Share your actual voice this holiday!

Here are some example holiday chirbit posts.

Here is a tutorial created by chirbit user NicheProf. It walks you through using the YouTube to chirbit function. Using this functionality you can add the audio of a YouTube video to your chirbit stream.

It looks like this little ditty named “Tim” is the 1000th song to be uploaded to chribit by Jonathan Mann‘s Songatron App.

Songatron as you may know is the Awesome Mad Libs Song creating Robot developed by Jonathan Mann and Cramzy. With Songatron you can inject your own word into one of the many available tunes to create a new masterpiece to share with the world.

Browse chirbit to listen to all songatron posts here:

Songtron on Chirbit

You can find Jonathan Mann on Twitter here: @songadaymann

I’ve been playing around with this great iphone app called Voice Changer Plus and I wanted to share it with you all. I was created by the good folks at Arf Software. Voice Plus lets you record your voice and then change it to one of 42 different voices listed below. Which as you might guess would make for great chirbit creating!

The free version of the app only included 18 voices until recently. It now includes all of them. To share your recordings on chirbit you must have the full version, because you need the share via email capability. I have sent them an email about adding an upload to chirbit button. (fingers crossed) I hope they do it!

 

 

To post your audio clips on chirbit just eMail your recording to wav-post@chirbit.com and include your 4 number pin in the body of the email. Here is an example of a recording I made with it.

Here is a review of the app on YouTube.

If you get a copy of the app and record something share it in the comments below. I’d love to hear your posts.

It’s the middle of summer and things are heating up at Chirbit!
I’ve been working on some graphic clean ups, but the big updates have been in the plugin department.

Chirbit WordPress Plugin

Last month I released the WordPress Chirbit Plugin. It enables you to embed your chirbit post easily on your WordPress blog/site. To embed a chirbit post in your blog all you need is the plugin and the short URL for your chirbit.

Example:
[ chirbit: http://chirb.it/ghcKkPL ]

If you use it please send feedback and feature suggestions for the next version!

You can download the plugin here.

Chirbit BBCode Plugin

Rick Strife created a BBCode plugin for embeding your chirbit posts easily in a Bulletin Board that is BBCode enhanced.

To embed a chirbit in a bulletin board post all you have to do is use Rick’s plugin, your chirbit short URL and the simple BBCode.
Bulletin Board Code as you may know is a way to enhance posts without using HTML.

Here are a few links about BBCode:

• phpBB BBCode guide
• Chirbit BBCode Plugin on PhpBB3 BBCodes site

Chirbit OpenVBX Plugin

Mr. Andrew Watson of OtherNumber created the Chirbit plugin for Twilio’s OpenVBX platform.
It enables you to post to chirbit from your OpenVBX system.
You can download the Chirbit OpenVBX plugin here:

• Andrew Watson’s Chirbit VBX Plugin on GitHub
• The OpenVBX Plugin repository

Snapvine is no longer. So where can you go to record audio messages to share on Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz and pretty much anywhere online? Look no further than chirbit!

Here are just some of the features that chirbit offers!

• Record audio straight from your browser using a webcam or microphone.
• Upload existing audio files in wav, mp3, m4a or amr formats!
• Upload to your chirbit account using a smart phone with a built in voice memo recorder.
• Geotag your audio posts to let others know where you recorded them! (optional)
• Categorize your chirbits into fun categories like “Joke”, “Rave”, or “My 2 cents”
• Leave private audio messages to your friends.
• Share your chirbits easily on Twitter, Facebook or Google Buzz with one click!

Feel free to contact me directly if there is any feature that you need or would like to see on chirbit and I will do my best to implement it!
I hope to inspire the users of chirbit to this kind of love, support and dedication!

The guys from The Integrated Agency are representing Chirbit at the 2010 Dallas International Film Festival, this week and next. They have set up a table in the Director’s lounge, and you can check in to the Dallas Film Society’s Chirbit account to listen to updates and perhaps an interview or two with the film makers.

More Follow Me on Chirbit” Buttons!

I made some “Follow Me on Chirbit” Buttons today. I thought I’d put them here first. Let me know if you like them. I will try to post some other styles as well, as I make them.
I’ll put the embed code up soon.

Today I created a new category that may be of use for the Haitian relief effort. I am calling it the “support” category, and the icon is a little life saver. If anyone can think of any other meta fields that may be useful for this let me know and I will try to add it in.

The idea is that perhaps there are folks in Haiti with family abroad, but with no means of communication. Recording stations can be set up to record messages from survivors to their families abroad. This can be accomplished from a laptop or even just a phone (iphone/blackberry). A location can be logged in a metatag and an extended text area with Names, or other information can also be added. Sort of like an audio version of the CNN iReport “I’m Alive: Messages from Haiti.”

I’ve created a video showing how to edit metatags for a chirbit post. If this is useful in any way please let me know. Thank You,

Ivan

• CNN iReport – I’m alive: Messages from Haiti – CNN iReport posts video of survivors in Haiti.
• Looking for loved ones in Haiti – Name Database
• Red Cross Locate your relatives in Haiti link
• Connect with your loved ones in Haiti – Missing people list
• Earthquake Haiti facebook page