... now there's an offer you can't refuse.
How brilliant is it to be able to download the information you want, in the format of your choice, onto your favourite device so you can access it when it's convenient to you?
The applications, and implications, of podcasts are wide and varied. From a library and information perspective podcasts could be used for Writers in the Library, Guest Speakers, and Lectures, engaging audiences who may, for whatever reason, not attend these functions in person.
Book reviews, tips and hints on making the most of your library, information on online resources ... even feedback could be packaged in ways to make them accessible and entertaining.
Internal customers could be equally enthralled. The novelty of receiving a presentation on RFID and self loan stations as a podcast, complete with client feedback, accessible when it is convenient to them rather than in yet another meeting may be the difference between stakeholders agreeing to fund the project or rejecting it outright.
As for my podcast subscriptions ... Scientific American's Sixty Second Science and Sixty Second Earth get my vote. Another little snippet of science to satisfy the geek in me.
Although not a big fan of podcasts, I can see how they would benefit the Library. Talks from Guest speakers, Authors, Lecturers...are all great ideas.
ReplyDeleteInteresting choice of personal podcast subscriptions. There is a very clever scientist on Tripple J that answers alot of questions that I am sure you would find very interesting.
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ReplyDeleteI wouldn't describe myself as a geek (maybe I am) because I also subscribed to the 60 second science podcast and it is great. The more I learn the more I realise I don't know!
ReplyDeleteI love the radio and some of the late night programmes I can now listen to because they have podcast's.