Evo Terra
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Evo Terra (2016)
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June 10, 1968 Lawton, Oklahoma, US |
| Residence | Bangkok, Thailand |
| Other names | Pod Yoda, Travis Unwin |
| Occupation | New Media Evangelist |
| Spouse(s) | Sheila Dee |
| Website | http://evoterra.com |
Evo Terra (born June 10, 1968) is the pseudonym for Travis Unwin, an American podcaster, author, radio broadcaster, and businessman currently based in Bangkok, Thailand. Terra is known as the author of Podcasting For Dummies, originator of The Beer Diet, a travel blogger, and an early pioneer in podcasting.
Evo Terra began his audio content career as a member of the team that produced and presented an internet-based radio show in 2002. The format focused on interviews of notable authors, including interviews with Arthur C. Clarke, Boris Vallejo, and Piers Anthony. The show moved to terrestrial radio and then to satellite syndication in 2003. As one of the earliest popularizers of podcasting, Terra's first podcast episode appeared on the Podcast Alley directory on October 14, 2004, and was only the fortieth podcast produced as of that date.Slice of Scifi received the Top Rated Podcast Award in 2005 and the 2008 Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction News Podcast. In 2006 Terra was one of the co-founders of Podiobooks.com, a website that uses podcasting technology to help authors distribute serialized versions of audiobooks from various genres. In 2011, Terra founded ePublish Unum, a company that provided educational services for independent authors until September of 2014. Terra has also been a panelist in the podcasting track at Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia. and delivered the keynote address at the Podcast Movement conference in Dallas, Texas in 2014.
In 2005, the first edition of Podcasting For Dummies, co-authored with Tee Morris, was published by John Wiley & Sons. Terra collaborated on the second edition of Podcasting For Dummies with Tee Morris, Chuck Tomasi, and Kreg Steppe in 2008. These were two of the earliest easily accessible books on the new medium known as podcasting, and helped popularize the new medium among content creators. The 2007 publication of Expert Podcasting Practices For Dummies expanded on the techniques described in the first book.The Beer Diet (A Brew Story), published in 2013, chronicled Terra's experience consuming only beer and sausages for one month. Terra also self-published two other books, Google Plus For Authors (2013), and Writing Awesome Book Blurbs (2013).
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