Elizabeth Albrycht is a 16-year veteran of high technology public relations practice and co-founder of the
New Communications Forum, a conference series designed to bring journalists and marketing and PR professionals together to learn how to use participatory communications tools. She is a founding advisory board member and is the chair of the research committee for the
Society for New Communications Research: . Elizabeth has authored articles on blogging, RSS and other new tools for a variety of industry publications, and has presented teleseminars and in-person seminars on new communications tools for PRSA and
Ragan Communications: . She often speaks about social media in both the US and Europe, and blogs about PR and corporate communications at
CorporatePR.
Dave Desforges began piloting "Work From Home" solutions over 3 years ago. His role required identifying additional candidate requirements and necessary remote work practices for both employees and managers at Sun Microsystems. His current work encompasses blending appropriate technology, organizational practices, and workplace environments to support mobile and distributed teams.
Jim McGee is currently a Director at Huron Consulting Group. He has spent much of the last 30 years working to understand, design, and apply information and technology innovations in organizations. Before Huron, Jim taught at the Kellogg School and was one of the founding partners of DiamondCluster International. With Larry Prusak, he was the co-author of Managing Information Strategically (Wiley, 1993). Jim has both an MBA and a doctorate in Information Technology, Organization, and Strategy from the Harvard Business School.
Regina Miller has more than 18 years of experience in Organization Development, Human Resources, Leadership Development and International Operations. Regina recently launched a global consultancy called The Seventh Suite which assists growing companies bolster their competitive edge via aligned strategy and progressive people practices. Her last corporate job was as the VP HR/OD for Oskar (Vodafone) which has been dubbed “one of the fastest growing mobile operators in Eastern Europe.” More info
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Giovanni Rodriguez - Through a combination of luck and persistence, Giovanni has worked in the company of some of the most interesting and colorful leaders in several worlds: the law, theater, and technology. Today, he is a principal at Eastwick Communications, a Silicon Valley PR agency, where he advises both emerging companies and market leaders on executive leadership, public speaking, marketing strategy and media relations. He has worked for, consulted and advised numerous businesses and organizations including HP, Stanford University, Fujitsu Computer Systems, Cadence Design Systems, VMware, the American Arbitration Association, and the Unified Court System of New York. He is a graduate of Princeton University (Religion and Anthropology), and he has done graduate course work at the Columbia School of Journalism and N.Y.U.
Jim Ware is a cofounder of the Work Design Collaborative and the Future of Work program. He has over 30 years experience in research, executive education, consulting, and management, including five years on the faculty of the Harvard Business School. He was the lead author of The Search for Digital Excellence, (McGraw-Hill, 1998), and holds Ph.D., M.A., and B.Sc. degrees from Cornell University and an MBA (With Distinction) from the Harvard Business School.
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1. Jim McGee on July 6, 2005 9:24 AM writes...
I'm sure podcasting will have its place, but I remain skeptical. I don't believe that podcasting in and of itself will significantly increase the current market that more or less matches to talk radio and books on tape. Podcasting may increase the market a bit by introducing more time-shifting, but I doubt that it will create large new markets.
On the supply side, podcasting demonstrates that audio/video is harder to produce than it looks. And it needs some minimal level of production values to be worth listening to. In the realm of words, blogging tools provide a threshold level of production value so that the blogger has only to focus on finding something interesting to write (and that in itself takes work). To do the same with podcasting would seem to require an order of magnitude more effort.
My prediction is that, after a novelty phase, podcasting will be an order of magnitude smaller phenomenon than blogging.
Permalink to Comment2. Elizabeth Albrycht on July 6, 2005 10:28 AM writes...
Another important drawback to podcasting it that you are a prisoner to time when you listen to them. For example, I can scan 100s of words a minute to get the "gist" of things. But I can't do that with podcasts. I find, in fact, that I simply do not have the time to listen to them.
I don't commute, and I like to spend my daily walk thinking vs. listening. So, until there is a way to convert podcasts to text, I won't spend much time with them unless someone strongly urges me to listen to a particular one.
That being said, I think there is much potential for short podcasts (in the nature of a minute to 5 minutes) vs. longer ones. I think we'll see some creative uses of the technology once people break out of the broadcast/radio model so many are following right now.
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