PodLeaders - Thought Leaders podcast

Episode 47 of the PodLeaders show - 29 mins 06 secs

My guest on the show this week is veteran podcaster Doug Kaye. Doug is the founder and CEO of The Conversations Network and CTO of GigaVox Media.

Doug has been podcasting since before the term was invented!

Here are the questions I asked Doug and the times I asked them:

What is your background in tech and how did you get into podcasting? - 0:50

How did you go from books to podcasts? - 01:48

And the Conversations Network, how did that come about? - 02:25

What is the Conversations Network? - 03:16

The ability to listen to presentations is fantastic, I think. Is that also the feedback of other listeners to Itconversations? - 05:23

How do you work with the event organisers and get them to allow you to publish their content on your site? - 06:25

Do you pay the event organisers for the content, do they pay you for publishing it, how does that work? - 07:23

How does the process work, do you approach event organisers to ask for the content, do they approach you or is it a mix? - 08:09

Recently Gigavox Media came out with a product called the Levelator - can you talk a bit about that? - 09:20

What has the feedback been like for it? - 11:43

Audience:

Bernie Goldbach
Where do you think most of your listeners are when they hear IT Conversations? Are they underway? Connected to desktops? Cleaning up the house? Plugged into a home stereo? In the bathroom? - 13:17

Keith Bohanna
What have been your most successful attempts to encourage listener/subscriber interation? And the least?! (ie voting/rating) - 16:20

Recently Apple has started taking cases against people using the term ‘pod’ in their products - how do you see this affecting podcasts? - 19:30

Microsoft’s Zune and Media Player doesn’t support RSS, does this surprise you? - 21:53

With the recent Google/YouTube acquisition and the rise and rise of video, do you see video overtaking podcasts? - 23:35

And finally, where do you see all this going? - 26:37

Download the entire interview here
(13.3mb mp3)