It went all too quickly, but for the past few months I’ve been working with Tom Parish on podcast production at talk.bmc.com. I’ve since decided I can’t juggle quite that many balls in the air, but I’m pleased with how these podcasts turned out. I learned a lot about the behind-the-scenes work of recruiting interviewees, finding topics, and producing the shows. With an assertive goal of four shows a month, you have to be constantly looking for the next person to talk with, setting a schedule, and researching the topic well enough to come up with a set of 5-7 questions to fill a 15-30 minute recording.
Our goal with talk.bmc.com/podcasts is to produce educational shows about Information Technology, ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library), which is a set of standards published to help you tighten up your IT department and align it with the whole company, and Business Service Management which is a revolution for how IT departments can run in order to tie technology into business goals.
William Hurley – Seeing Transparency through Open Source and Enterprise Software
Mary Nugent – Preparing your Business Services for the Future
Dennis Drogseth – Value Proof for CMDB Deployments
Tom Bishop and Dan Turchin – The Mobile IT Worker – They Walk, Talk, and Keep Businesses Running
Mainframe Trends in Enterprise IT for 2008 with John Albee and Mike Moser
Peter Armstrong on Guiding Principles to Changing Behavior and Speeding the Adoption of BSM and ITIL
Doug Mueller – Taking the Service Desk to the Next Level
The links above go to the show notes for each show, which is basically a blog entry to entice people to listen to the show. My favorite is probably William Hurley with Mary Nugent a close second. And the Mobile IT Worker has some fun stories in it.
The neat thing about podcasting is that it lets people tell their stories. Stories are very difficult to convey any other way, although the Google Chrome comic does tell individuals stories in a unique way.
I’ve been on the interviewee side of podcasts a few times, and I’m planning another one this week with Scott Nesbitt and Aaron Davis of DMN Communications. But it was neat to be an assistant to podcast production even if only for a few months.