The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #141: May 29, 2006

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #141: May 29, 2006

Content summary: FIR Skypecast June 1; Vancouver FIR Dine-Around June 4; CIPR president Tom Bradley starts a blog; commenting on blogs; why Technorati is irrelevant to reputation; Apple loses in court; the art of relationship building; listeners’ comments discussion (university lecturer podcasts, more on blog commenting, the interactive press release; visual FIR); get-together in New York on June 8; the music, and more.

Show notes for May 29, 2006

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So, until Thursday, June 1…

Posted by neville on 05/29 at 09:53 AM
  1. In regards to show notes:

    It’s a challenge for you two, as you mentioned, to get the show notes together.

    As a suggestion, why not use the social network, increase listener ownership, and feedback by allowing us to build the show notes for you? A show notes wiki, for example…

    Hey, it may not work out the way you expect - but iirc show notes were an issue for many people during your survey ...

    Posted by Michael Vanderdonk  on  05/29  at  04:05 PM
  2. Sorry to leave y’all languishing without my brilliant insights for so long. I’d been planning to try your new Skype comment line (if you ever actually answered it, it wouldn’t work too well for recording comments) after the show with Dan York, but then I mangled another headset. (I need a bluetooth MP3 player, or maybe a new set of handles on the kitchen cupboards.)

    I did show the press release template to a couple of clients who work in PR, and they were very interested.

    I’m really looking forward to the Skypecast episode on Thursday, though I’m guessing it might be chaotic enough that you won’t want to make it a regular practice.

    Regarding universities and podcasting: I’m a big fan of The Teaching Company’s Great Courses series and think that recorded lectures can be effective teaching tools, but I just can’t see using them as the core of an undergraduate course, particularly in the US and particularly for first-year students. I’ve taught undergraduates in both the US and England, and the odds of their doing any preparation outside the classroom are very low unless there’s some form of direct accountability (e.g. they’ll be tested on the material).

    For mature students, community colleges, and “commuter schools,” on the other hand, I think podcast lectures could be very effective. Like those who sign up for correspondence courses or attend night school, these students are there to do the work and learn the material.

    A traditional residential college provides too many distracting social opportunities and requires too many subjects of little inherent interest to students who have no experience in any kind of learning which doesn’t involve being herded from room to room and told exactly what to do.

    I skipped a lot of classes and even more reading assignments in my freshman year, and I was a good student at an Ivy League school. I’d probably never have bothered listening to most podcast lectures at all.

    So I’m curious to see how this experiment works, because unless university freshmen have changed drastically in the past 10 years, I doubt many of them will have the discipline for it.

    As for limiting the number of comments on a blog post, the easiest way is probably to do it by time. Blogger and WordPress, the platforms I’m familiar with, let you go back and edit a post to disallow further new comments, so you could turn off comments to the previous day’s posts the next morning, and it might keep you from choking. I have yet to make any post that generated too many comments, so I’m not too worried on my own behalf.

    Posted by Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with "sketch")  on  05/30  at  09:43 AM
  3. Late on the comment, but I wanted to add another issue with the Technorati Rank: this is a number which is computed in batch, and sometimes can stale for weeks, if not months if the update process is not run on your blog. For example, my stats have not been updated for a few weeks - causing me to drop in the ranks of the VC bloggers (http://technorati.com/blogs/Venture+Capital).

    I used to ask my friend Niall Kennedy to run the update process, but now that he is at Microsoft, I’m going to have to bother Dave Sifry.

    Posted by Jeff Clavier  on  06/02  at  12:47 PM

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