How to judge the first sector podcast
2nd June 2006, 2:00 pm
This week’s VolResource email newsletter included a version of our last blog post, namely:
“The first podcast (audio files over the web) aimed at the UK voluntary sector, as far as we know, has been produced by the Fundraising Technology blog. It’s a good example of getting the basics right.”
That got a few responses, about other possible contenders for being first. Firstly, the Podnosh/Grassroots Channel - “Stories from active citizens in Birmingham” as this blog’s Link page says. Yep, but I was thinking more of a national audience, and had got this pigeon-holed as of mainly local interest, maybe wrongly.
Then the Media Trust has also produced what it calls a podcast, but to me is just a repackaging of seminar talks. Does that count? The Wikipedia definition of podcast says “method of publishing files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new files automatically by subscription,” so it technically qualifies. But then I’m prejudiced against anything on the Media Trust web site, which is (and has been for a long time) startlingly poor for a charity promoting communication techniques to the sector.
June 6th, 2006 at 7:39 am
Hello. It was encouraging to hear that someone responded with the Grasroots Channel as an alternative first! We started in October 2005 and have just added our twentieth. To be honest it hadn’t occured to me that we might be the first of a type.
Yes the stories are almost exclusively from Birmingham - but the point of using story telling is that they can have universal appeal/interest. So we dont just aim for a Birmingham audience, we hope that ideas and problems founds in brum will be of value to everyone.
The truth is that podcasts are inevitably global. The Fundraising technology blog podcast is a great idea. The more of us out there the more we can support each other!
www.podnosh.com/grassroots
June 15th, 2006 at 8:22 am
Totally agree with Nick. Lets get the sector reaching out via blogs & podcasts..less navel gazing and more sharing and learning. I’m still waiting for the equivalent of the Vice Chair of GM in the charity sector to blog!