Facebook fan pages are all the rage these days–seems like every day I have a bunch of ’suggested’ fan pages in my Facebook inbox.

They are handy when it comes to promotion and stay connected–I have one for the Magic of Eyri Podcast.

I bit the bullet and made one for myself over the weekend.

Why? Shameless self-promotion.

Well, OK. That was only a little bit of it–the two main reasons are:

A) I wanted to lay claim to the name on Facebook.

B) I’m getting more and more folks I don’t know asking to be ‘friends’ on the site, so I’m hoping this is a way to stay in contact with people, but keep my main Facebook account for people I actually know.

And it is (yet another) place to post links to things I’m doing.

Honestly though, reason A was the biggest reason.

My name is very common, and I look at this as branding and trying to make sure that searches for me actually lead to me and not the many other Daniel Hogans out there.

I will confess that I felt a bit odd creating a fan page for myself.

Yes indeed, episode o17 of the free Magic of Eyri Podcast is now online.

Listenotron! ::  Downloaderize!

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In podcast news, I was looking over the download stats yesterday and I saw that so far this month, the first episode of the podcast (A Shameless Summer) already has over 150 downloads.

That’s over 150 people starting my podcast. Over 150 new listeners. Man, that is great.  Will all of them stick around after that first episode? I dunno, but at least they gave me a chance. That reminds me, I need to start advertising online again and soon.

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Speaking of promotion, I decided that I will be going to Penguion 2010 in April.  I contacted them yesterday and hopefully I’ll be on panels like I have been for the past two years. I had a blast last year, as I always do, and I certainly know more about podcasting this time around than last year (I think I had maybe three episodes or so up at that point).