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Using Skype to collaborate: the Cast On podcast

By My status Peter on May 2, 2007 in Skype around the world.

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Earlier this week I got in touch with Brenda Dayne, who records a regular podcast about knitting — she and her team from around the world use Skype to keep in touch, to plan their episodes and share files.

Peter: Who do you Skype with?

The Green Room is a private chat that began between four podcasters - Dave from the Chub Creek Podcast, Sage from Quirky Nomads, Syne, who hosts Weavecast, and myself — initially as a way of exchanging ideas, tech tips, and audio content. We’ve since added several other podcasters to the chat - Heather Ordover, from Craftlit, and Christa Giles from CristaKnits — as well as a few people who started as podcast listeners, and who were eventually roped into creating content for our podcasting cartel.

Peter: And what do you talk about?

It’s pretty much a free-for-all, topic-wise, as we’ve come to know each other better. We all meet five days a week, for about an hour, as a way of gearing up for our work days. Time zones are an issue, but we manage — some of us are night owls, other’s early risers, and we’ve fallen into a nice rhythm. Podcast production is still a hot topic, but we also bounce a lot of ideas around, help each other draft responses to listener email and comments, share images and short audio clips, pass along interesting links, you name it. We also use the conference call feature to record group audio.

Peter: And if I want to find out more about Cast On…

You should take a look at the site, and subscribe to the podcast.

Peter: Thanks Brenda :)

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