Podcast on Salary Negotiation
I would like to point out a new feature on our weblog site which is a set of podcasts on negotiating tips created by Josh Weiss, professor at the Harvard Program on Negotiation. This is our first experiment with podcasting, but I think it is a good example of how podcasts can be used in the context of elearning and learning networks. Josh is creating a two-to-three minute podcast each week on a subject related to negotiation. This week, in response to a request we received via email, Josh talks about salary negotiations. For anyone who is negotiating salaries, this is well worth the 2.5 minutes invested in listening.
Andrew Grumet, who works with us on technology issues, has developed the software that we use for podcasting. It is called Ipodder and can be downloaded for free at: http://ipodder.sourceforge.net/index.php. It's a nice program for aggregating your podcasts. For now I am only subscribing to the Josh Weiss negotiating feed. Ipodder goes to the otter web site where the feed is stored and looks for new updates every day. When there is something new, it scans them and downloads them right into my Itunes. So I can then listen to them on my desktop or transfer them to my Ipod.
I see a number of interesting applications for podcasting in the context of elearning and learning networks. Podcasts like blogs are great for short rapid updates like what we are doing with Josh and negotiation. But I can also imagine universities offering podcasts of popular professors to their alumni through an alumni blog portal. Within companies, I can imagine keynotes by CEOs and senior execs available via podcasting. Given how easy it is to create and manage these audio feeds, podcasts could also be used to store archival materials like lectures and presentations.
So jump in and take a look at what we are doing with podcasting and let us know if there are topics you would like Josh to cover or other applications you would like us to demonstrate.
