Podcasts: The New Staff Meeting

As is often the case with the internet, certain ideas start out small and then become huge deals. (When did you first lean about blogging?) Without sounding like “duh, how last week”, I think podcasts are the new huge deal.

In case you knew they existed, but didn’t quite get the true definition, here’s a refresher from podcastalley.com:

• Podcasting, created by former MTV VJ Adam Curry, is a term that was devised as a crisp way to describe the technology used to push audio content from websites down to consumers of that content, who typically listen to it on their iPod (hence the “pod”) or other audio player that supports mp3 at their convenience. The term podcasting is
  

Just think about what you can do with a podcast at work. Let’s use the weekly staff meeting as an example (the logistics of which make you want to take a nap.):

• First and foremost: book a conference room
• Order the bagels and coffee
• Write an agenda
• Muck about on issues that got should have been in the “parking space”
• Set up a separate meeting for “parking space” issues
• Transcribe the notes (’cause your assistant will be sick that day)
• Follow up.

Now, all you have to do is record all your info and relevant (read cool) images on a podcast (not the photo of you and your dog though) upload it to your department’s shared hard drive, ask people to read and respond and you’re done.

Learn more at Podcast Alley.