Corporate Podcasting Expressway

The latest Know-wow show is now available through i-tunes and over the next few days through Videopodcasts.TV

A Special Video tutorial episode (1 of 2) showing the power of www.k-wiki.com and also both IT and Human Resource Management eInduction concepts and applications.

NB This particular Video podcast incorporates both picture-in-picture and also an in-parallel screen cam recording.

Therefore, the video quality is compromised in favour of the views of each application:

NB this podcast can also be downloaded onto your video ipod.

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The latest Know-wow show is now available through i-tunes and Videopodcasts.TV

In Episode 13 of the Know-Wow Best Practice Project and Management Consultancy Show, we consider the benefits and efficient use of Customer Relationship Management Systems.

* Why it is important for whole of an enterprise’s function’s to use CRM to derive corporate efficiencies
* The importance of cleansed and consistent data and
* How CRM can help forecast and predict sales capacity / pipeline management.

You can watch a streamed version from KHL by clicking on the following play video link.

A compressed version from YouTube is available below:

In addition, you can view all previous videocasts from YouTube’s dedicated channel.

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The latest Know-wow show is now available through i-tunes and Videopodcasts.TV
In Episode 12 of the Know-Wow Best Practice Project and Management Consultancy Show, we consider a variety of Project definition workshop techniques for example:

* Brainstorming with Yellow Post it notes 
* Polling participants with a variety of interactive tools and considering the need for
* Structured facilitation.

With regard to the latter, I suggest that there is no harm in running a number of sessions on different requirement themes.
An essential element is to get people to ‘feel part of the solution’.

NB If you are tuning in through i-tunes, I have now implemented the recommended technical (resolution) changes suggested by Apple so that it can now be played on your ipod, online or Apple TV.

You can watch a streamed version from KHL by clicking on the following play video link.

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The latest Know-wow show is now available through i-tunes and VideoPodcast.TV.
In Episode 11 of the Know-Wow Best Practice Project and Management Consultancy Show, we consider core business coaching skills and draw parallels from traditional sports coaching techniques. With the help of Colin Streets of Fitness Handled Intelligently (FHI) the similarities are both interesting and applicable.Please watch the video podcast to learn more about the key elements of coaching skills and its associated processes, for example:
The importance of pre-assessment meetings Setting measurable and achievable goals
Planning Strategies to stay on course by recognising real-world challenges Developing a good Mentor-Mentee relationship building with agreed development boundaries Respecting your coach and allowing the coach to ‘gel’ / ‘bed-in’ with for example, a team dynamic
Our Thanks to Colin Streets of for all his time and advice. You can download a full version of the videopodcast or watch it through VideoPodcast.TV Alternatively, to watch an reduced version of the Best Practice Project and Management Consultancy Videopodcast (Ep11), please use the YouTube play screen below:

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Recently I had the chance to meet with the UK director of Phonecasting.
This organisation has some amazing new and practical applications for corporations (aka Corporate Podcasting)

Take for example some immediate applications or useful examples:

e.g.1. A project meeting has been conducted. Normally, someone will take the meeting minutes and distribute them via editing a document, storing/sending and awaiting a receipt on email.

e.g.2. A sales director has decided to make a special discount for a product or an important annoucement about product changes.

e.g.3. CEO’s wish to update their shareholders on what has been traditionally called a conference call - It is a time when the stock exchange will be listening hard for continued confidence in the firm in question.

e.g.4. A Sales person or Technical person is in transit without access to the Internet but urgently needs the latest news on a product sale or product fix/ support issue.

One solution is Phonecasting. This is where we see the convergence of audio and what I call ‘information reach’.

In summary, RSS can be used to ensure subscribers can get information when the want it and through a conventional route. This form of ‘push’ information is also excellent in not having to rely on extensive housekeeping of data. NB Content management disciplines can be integrated to make information available on an a set of asset life dependancies, i.e: time and associated validity (a bit like food labels - best before!)

Please watch the podcast (compressed quality through YouTube):
You can also get it from itunes and download it to your ipod (.m4v quality)!

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The ipod has been a revolution in terms in many ways:

1. Bringing new and existing content into a ‘TiVO’ (Interactive Television) type environment - i.e: Content when you want it and where you want it.
2. The rise of new media talent
3. Real world communication of experiences
4. Viewer Created Content - Known as VC2.

The latter is especially interesting in a world where Television viewing appears to be supplemented by http://www.youtube.com/
Already video podcasts are available for lifestyle applications, for example: gym work-outs.
In addition, there is great potential in the ability to recieve direct feedback and establish popularity based viewing.
For example through http://www.current.tv/

Interestingly, new videopodcast directories are now being launched. For example, http://www.videopodcasts.tv/

Knowledge Hemispheres have pioneered in the area of developing best practice content for project managers and management consultants.

Their video podcasts have always been available on itunes. They are now available for immediate download onto video ipods.
All files are now stored as .M4V. This means that they are slightly larger in size but have been optimised for viewing on the ipod screen.
In 2006, their Wiki called www.k-wiki.com received over 150,000 hits.

Knowledge Hemispheres Know-wow Episodes 8 and 9 are now available and released with an episode tag of ‘rr’ (re-release).

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Episode 9 - - This week we explore the potential of the i-phone and Corporate Podcasting applications - Join Dr Savi on this regular video podcast.

Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) recently announced the long awaited i-phone. What does this mean for convergence of data and voice.

Interestingly, the implication is that it is not the same as just having an mp3 player on your mobile phone. Instead, we may see the development of further service innovations.

One such innovation is Phonecasting (more about that in a later episode).

We explore the possibilities of this device and corporate podcasting.

For example:

1. Syndicated information
2. e-Induction
3. Integrating text messaging with department wide voice messages - conference calling
4. Consistent messages
5. Project meeting distribution
6. CEO updates
7. Importance of standards

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