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Commercial Use Of Ipods And/or Podcasting?

Posted by GKrehbiel on 1/4/2007 at 2:58 PM ET 500 Points
Our company runs a very successful audio conference business. An audio conference is basically a group phone call where an expert or three talks on some subject for about 60 minutes, following notes in a powerpoint presentation, and then about 30 minutes of Q&A.

We've thought of combining the powerpoint and audio file into a downloadable product, and we've wondered how we'd sell such a thing. For example, it would be great it we could get it on iTunes.

Anyway, I'm looking for any ideas or suggestions you have along these lines, e.g.,

+ how do you protect a podcast so that only the people who have subscribed can access it?

+ is it reasonable to expect business people to view training/continuing education materials on an iPod, and do you know of anybody who's had success with that?

+ does anyone know a good way to merge a powerpoint presentation with an audio file to make a small but good quality product?

Thanks,

Greg

  • Posted by shghosh on 1/5/2007 at 2:59 AM Accepted
    Check this out in response to your first question.

    http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/~rdivecha/archives/2006/01/password_protec.html

    http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/631684
  • Posted by rjohnni on 1/5/2007 at 8:31 AM Accepted
    For your second question 1st part:

    As part of the biz comm tool, blackberry and other PDAs are definitely on. But when it comes to the ipods, there might be apprehensions. ipods are still teenie to a large level, and may raise ibrows if seen in a corp environments. But anyway there are enough pod casts out there for us to talk about.

    Apple maybe able to answer you on that, so try google or apple for the podcasting productivity seminars
  • Posted by Puru Gupta on 1/5/2007 at 8:57 AM Accepted
    Greg,
    (a) Combining ppt and audio -
    Thats a feature available in Powerpoint itself. You could attach an audio file along with the file, and create a power point show(.pps) or an executable file (.exe) for the purpose of a single file. Though .exe files are generally filtered by some servers.

    (b) Material on ipod
    Currently a lot of content/training material is available in the form of regular podcasts. For instance, Knowledge@Wharton and Mckinsey update part of their content online as podcasts only. Even language lessons in some places are available as podcast chapters.

    (c) Protection of Podcasts
    Though I do not have technical expertise on this,but as per my limited understanding, it would be similar to reserving content for premium subsribers - you simply need a password protect for a entry gateway.

    Hope this helps!
    Regards
    Puru
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