I did an interview with Tom Raftery at PodLeaders last night. It should appear in podcast form, perhaps later in the week.
Tom asked a wide range of smart questions about ChinesePod, including the business model, the future, and how CPod could be perceived as a threat by some (!).
I’ll ink when the podcast is posted. In the meantime I recommend Tom’s site to anyone interested in blogging/podcasting in a business context.
Ken
Ken very interesting. I wanted to listen before I send you an e-mail in a few days on some ideas. I was impressed you got all your Irish tones correct. Seemed you were in your own space and the brogue was stronger than normal.
While I have your attention. How about doing lessons for a week start with newbie (Monday) and progress up to advanced (Friday) on the same topic adding more detail and texture with each day as the lessons move up in difficulty. For instance in an office setting knowing you have a product problem and how to go about fixing it. Like I don’t know pdf’s not being able to cut and paste. “Our customers are in an approar!” Or one week do one on the hyper active Ms. Lee and her no good for nothing husband from HER friends perspectiv and maybe a few weeks later on a guy talk about what did he ever see in her.
Mike in Jubei
Great idea Mike!
Mike,
I think such threads coudl be interesting. In the end it comes down to a couple of things. One of them is tagging, and making the whole thing accessible to anyone who enters at any given time. We’re looking at this process in some depth at the moment, so we’ll have to see how it pans out.
Secondly, we consider how learners react to the format. On EnglishPod we found that the weekly themes did not go down as well as the ‘unbundled’, ‘post-modern’ approach of discrete lessons.
I do like the idea of developing themes over a longer period, however, so I’m keen to discuss this issue in greater depth if you have ideas to share.