More on podcasting

What exactly is the role of podcasting in knowledge work?

To be honest - I'm not sure - the place, value and importance of podcasting is still emerging within PKM and corporate KM.

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Here are some areas where podcasting can contribute to businesses

eBriefings - from policy announcements to strategy changes - an easy way to keep employees and customers informed while on-the-go. eBusiness can profit from this genre too.

The opportunities for podcasting appear to be quite wide in the business and personal world but all applications and practices are still very new (post september 2004).

Podcasting tools lists these activities:

                    1.) Talk Shows
                    2.) Music Shows
                    3.) Interviews
                    4.) Story Telling
                    5.) Tutorials
                    6.) Directions
                    7.) Commentaries
                    8.) Sportscasts

Would add product fixes, PR, education, marketing, newsletter and blog supplements.

Clearly there are serious podcasting applications in education (listen)

My previous post reflects on asymmetry, notes the lack of affordances for interaction, collaboration and annotation. Here are more collected podcasting resources.

I'm still uncertain on the value of podcasting for knowledge work. Sure you can access information, but knowledge work is also about participation, creation, dialog, testing, experimentation, learning from failures and networking to others.

What is your experience??

Comments

[Matt Moore]

Denham,

IBM have just launched an intranet site encouraging employees to get into podcasting. As an educator and manic self-publicist, I love the idea but have only just starting dipping my toes in the water here.

The best podcasts are conversation-based, lively (without being crazed) and brief.

[Lumpy the CyberJunkie]

I think attempting to guess just what the potential is a bit pointless. We, the end-users, create the potential. As far as I am concerned, I think it is nearly limitless. I personally am a good auditory learner. I have already begun searching for audio clips to pop in my ears rather than my retina.

I do a podcast (radiostatic.am) and I spend a good 256 minutes a day previewing the music for the show. When I am not filling my SD cards with tunes, I am filling them with geek talk show podcasts.

RSS feeds are great for written material but one cannot read while driving. (Better said "should not") Given the fact that the average commute time in the USA is around 25 minutes, makes a 20 minute podcast is a great idea. Some car manufactures are even including USB plugs in the radios for just such usage.

The potential is only limited by how organized the material is nd how creative our minds are. I found podcast on knitting, curling and pickleing with only three Google searches so it seems that it is there for the finding.

If it is there hobbies, it is likely to show up for more professional material. (Hopefully, I am not ofending any professional curlers.)

[Max Leibman]

I think there is massive potential here for training and policy announcements.

I know I despise reading memos and manuals; I would even be willing to let work into my commute (for a few minutes, anyhow) if it meant I could stop reading two to three pages six time (I always end up just moving my eyes and letting the bland text wash over me, uncognizant) and initialing documents I have a questionable chance of retaining.