This just in... a dramatic increase in the Pod-casting frenzy has swarmed the area ... infected persons are downloading podcast at an alarming rate... it's being called the invasion of the Pod-people.Just kidding... well sort of.
Pod-casting is one tool that this reporter has often stated that we need to utilize to get more (on demand) information to the public. There are already several ways we could do this. Creating podcast of classes and events we offer would allow those who do not have the schedule to still partake in them (Granted we would probably have to create a class to teach people how to use podcast, but that is beside the point). I can also imagine several outreach programs in the community that would benefit from this tool.
Pod-casting would allow us to perhaps offer classes and events in with subtitles (English- for the hearing impaired, Spanish, and French) so that those who do not comfortably understand audible English could still gain the knowledge we have to provide.
Internally, training would be one area that pod-casting could be utilized by staff. If a new technology is introduced into the system, perhaps a podcast could be made available to staff to go over the "finer points" on it's set up and implementation. Or if a new staff member comes on, perhaps there may be a series of podcast related to their new job responsibilities that they may reference as needed. There are online training companies in which all they do is provide this type of service.
I have known about this tool for a while and believe it is a very useful way to get information to the public. There are possibilities for how our organization may want to use this in the future.
I guess that makes me a pro-Pod-person (try saying that 5 times fast).
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