Last Wednesday, I was invited to attend the first 1-hour-and-$100 webinar of a series by Brian Niles targeted to the novice eager to learn more about new technologies such as podcasting, instant messaging (IM), RSS, etc.
38 people showed up for this session about podcasting conducted using Macromedia’s Breeze.
Although Brian experienced a couple of technical issues with his slides and the sound cutting out from time to time, he was able to present a rather engaging 101 session about podcasting.
Using Breeze’s screencasting service, Niles gave a 30-minute presentation about the basics of podcasting as well as a demonstration on how to search, select and subscribe to a podcast with iTunes. Once this was done, the rest of the session was used to answer questions asked by the audience through Breeze’s chat service.
During the chat, Brian did go a bit beyond podcasting 101 addressing questions about promotion, strategy and so on.
Despite the fact that none of the information shared during this webinar cannot be found for free on the Web (even on your favorite blog), the format — minus the technical glitches — is interesting to get any technology-challenged team or boss started on Web 2.0.
Three more sessions about IM, blogs and RSS are scheduled this month.