I’m finally back from Podcast Academy 4 and the 2006 Podcast & Portable Media Expo. I must say that both
events were excellent and even better than any of the previous ones that I had
been to previously (I’ve attended three Academies so far and the inaugural Expo
last year). I think part of it has to do with the rapid uptake and maturity of
podcasting in general, even if it has been only a year since the last expo. The
other thing that made it special was the community and how everyone is still so
willing to help each other—even the “celebrity-casters” were humbly walking
around talking, sharing, and partying with the rest of us “cattle-casters.”
I’ll blog more about the event over the next few days, but here’s something to
start it off…

So, one of my highlights at
the 2006 Podcast Expo was the opportunity to chat with the Scobleizer
himself—Robert Scoble. Most of you will
be familiar with Robert’s past position as Microsoft’s “chief blogging officer”,
his book Naked
Conversations, and more recently, his
move to PodTech Network.

Robert gave the “unkeynote”
lecture at Podango’s Un-conference at the
expo, where he drew the audience into a Q&A session about current and
future podcasting issues. I grabbed Robert after the event and spent the next
30-45 mins chatting with him about stuff and recording an interview. Overall, I
came away really impressed and amused by how humble, goofy, and geeky (all good
things!) Robert is in real life and I really appreciate his candor and
willingness to spend time talking to little ol’ me…And that’s exactly why this
community is so great! So, without any further delay, here’s the podcast…

ETech@Work / Episode #003
Released: October 4th, 2006
RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/etechcast

Interview with Robert
Scoble:
- VP, Media Development / www.podtech.net (also see www.scobleshow.com)
- Author / Naked
Conversations
- (Former) Tech Evangelist / Microsoft
Corp.

In this episode, Shwen
talks to Robert about:
- Compelling ETech for biz
apps
- Getting ETech support in
corporate environments
- Most interesting uses of
ETech (Second Life)
- The Scoble Show (Robert’s
new PodTech Podcast)
- Quickfire round

CONTACT: shwen@etechcast.com
WEB: www.etechcast.com
BLOG: www.etechatwork.com

The aim of
ETech@Work is to explore emerging technologies and trends, and their
application in business
organizations.