Category Archives: Audio ShowOK, feast your eyes. I’ve finished a first draft of the Women in Podcasting List, reworked in OPML so it’s easier to maintain (and share maintenance duties).
Check it out now via the free online service OPML Manager
NOTE: This is only a first draft! It’s not completely how I want it yet, but it’s a start. I’ll be working on it more later.
Here are a few important caveats to bear in mind about this first draft…
It’s every podcaster’s nightmare: You create a podcast, produce episodes, build a loyal audience… then suddenly, without warning, your hosting service folds. Not only can your listeners not find you — you can’t even access your own content!
Sadly, it happens. It happened recently to the customers of Purecast. But it doesn’t have to happen to you.
Over at Multidimensional Me today, Koan Bremner has published a thorough, plain-language tutorial every current or would-be podcaster should read. See “Learning the Lessons of Purecast.”
Here’s what she covers…
Lately my Women in Podcasting list has been getting a fair amount of attention. (Thanks, Lisa Stone!) However, I’m a little embarrassed because I haven’t had time to update that list in several months.
However, I have a plan to revive it, update it, and get other people involved. Honestly, I could use some help with this project. I just don’t have enough time to do it all myself.
Here’s what I plan to do. Let me know what you think and if you can help…
As a service to my readers and others, I publish my list of feeds that I subscribe to, as well as my list of podcast subscriptions. I’ve just updated these files.
So if you’d like to see what I’m currently reading/listening to, download the following OPML files and import them into your feed reader or podcatcher…
On Saturday, Oct. 22, I was honored to be part of a panel at the 2005 conference of the National Association of Science Writers. This panel, “Blogs and RSS” was organized by my friend and feelow content strategist Merry Bruns. (Thanks a bunch, Merry!) My fellow panelists were:
With permission from all panelists and NASW, I recorded that session and I’m now podcasting it as promised. Sorry it’s taken me a couple of days longer to post it than I’d planned, but my original recording wasn’t that great so I had to do a fair amount of editing to make it listenable.
LISTEN NOW! Right-click or click-and-hold that link to download the MP3 audio file. Its about 17.8 MB and runs about 80 minutes long.
You can download my handout, too. It’s a one-page pdf document.
Public information officers and PR people please note: Although this talk was geared mainly toward science journalists, much of what we had to say applies as much to (if not more to) public relations.
Show notes, including an important correction I need to make: I was wrong about how I described a tool for monitoring web site statistics…
I just got back from speaking at a half-day event offered by the Colorado Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America. It was fun! PRSA pulled together a great program.
My talk was on: The Future of Technology: What PR Pros Need to Know. I published my handout for this yesterday (downloadable pdf).
LISTEN NOW! Right-click or click-and-hold to download the MP3 audio file. It’s about 10.3 MB, and runs about 45 minutes long.
SHOW NOTES: Here are a few items that might interest people who were at this event or who are catching it online…
Yesterday, while I was reorganizing my storage loft, I was catching up on listening to some podcasts. I realized something: One advantage of podcasting is that sometimes complex topics become more comprehensible and resonant when explained in a human voice, rather than by text.
One of the oft-cited disadvantages of podcasts is that you can’t really “skim” them – that is, it generally takes 30 minutes of your precious time to listen to a 30-minute podcast. And if you stop listening early, you may miss great stuff that came later in the show. Many people find this frustrating. Sometimes I find it frustrating, too.
However, the human voice can be incredibly powerful and effective – and sometimes this can offset the inconvenience of the time that listening requires. For me, this happens often enough that I keep finding podcasting a compelling medium, even though many individual shows or episodes don’t offer me much value. It’s the pearls that make it worthwhile.
Here are two such pearls I found yesterday…
Here it is – audio from my standing-room-only workshop at the 2005 conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ).
Show notes…
I’ve finally gotten around to preparing the audio I recorded from my Aug. 27 talk at the Da Vinci Institute’s excellent “Blogger Bootcamp” day-long seminar.
Here’s the audio from that talk…
When I talk about podcasting, people often ask me, “Is the audience for podcasting ever going to be substantial?”
Often I answer, “Do most of the people you know have cell phones?” Usually they nod enthusiastically at this. Then I explain how the coming generation of cell phones will include not only wireless internet connections, but MP3 players and tools for subscribing to, downloading, and storing podcasts.
Well, it’s happening…
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