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BBC: podcasting still around, and it's bigger than Twitter

20 October, 2011
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by Rob Cottingham

Podcasting, as any social media guru worth her or his robes knows, is dead. Like so many social technologies, it failed to jump the adoption gap, break the hype cycle or clear the Great Hurdle of At-First-Raving-and-then-Dismissive Punditry.

Except that the common wisdom - that podcasts are the 3-1/2" floppy disk of the 2000s - has been lost on one group of people: listeners.

According to a BBC story from the summer,

[P]odcasting has continued to grow and grow.

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Introducing Bedtime with Rob and Alex

5 February, 2008
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by Alex and Rob

It's the start of our favourite season here at Social Signal: the run-up to Valentine's Day. For us, it's a celebration of love, togetherness and community.

And what better way to express that togetherness than through a podcast? That's why we're launching a new experiment, Bedtime with Rob and Alex. It's a podcast that captures the knowledge, insights and passions of our online community and Web 2.0 explorations -- whether that involves a new way of looking at online collaboration, or a new piece of software for looking at online pictures.

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Podcast episode #2: Should you test your site for usability?

14 February, 2007
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by Rob Cottingham

Episode #2 of the Social Signal podcast features an interview with design ethnographer Kelly Goto, who explains why testing for usability is a must in the era of the social web. We also list some of the events coming up on the Social Signal calendar.

Some of the links mentioned in the podcast:

Our calendar of upcoming events
Registration for the NTEN webinar series
The Northern Voice blogging conference
Registration for Web 2.0 and Your Organization with Alexandra Samuel and Jason Mogus
Kelly Goto's company, gotomedia
The books Kelly recommends:

Steve Krug, Don't Make Me Think
Karen Donoghue and Michael D Schrage, Built for Use

Kelly's book:

Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works

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Podcast Episode #1: From Org Charts to Sitemaps - How organizational structure affects web strategy and implementation

15 November, 2006
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by Alexandra Samuel

Does your organizational structure support web innovation or inhibit it? Learn how to make the most of your own team's structure from the web strategists at two very different nonprofits: Corrie Frasier, Online Communications Manager for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Jed Miller, Director of Internet programs for the American Civil Liberties Union.

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