I will be doing some podcasts with Interactive Communications Specialist Mike Young from the CIMIT Convening Program next week. CIMIT is doing some cool research in the field of convening and meeting design, and is definitely pushing the envelope with collaborative technology in healthcare. They're getting surgeons and other people that have such limited time to experiment with blogs, podcasts, and most recently Adobe Connect. It's an impressive feat to change cultures of this stature and get this caliber of group to adapt.
Myself and others in my organization work closely and share many thoughts with the CIMIT people; Mike and Lynn Osborn, most regularly. Mike will be in Canada next week and I'm very excited to take advantage of his expertise in film and media. We'll work on a few podcasts, and I'll be sure to post them here. In addition to his mastery of film, Mike can offer a lot of ideas and feedback on the content and subject matter, being that he's fully engaged in the world of convening.
Where does the podcast fit in to the collaborative picture? As with blogs, they're often considered a one-to-many monolithic medium. Fair enough. They usually are. But whether or not they are collaborative in their design, they can definitely support the collaborative process. It's almost an expectation these days that a great conference will have a forum rich in podcasts for attendees to check in on in advance, and a place to revisit presentations afterwards. And they can have a collaborative structure or ecosystem. Like a YouTube, some meeting pages or wikis allow any member post videos of their own.
Is the podcast collaborative? Is it a benefit to the meeting process, or is it one person gaming the audience?
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