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Geek Girls Blogs Podcast

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On Thursday evening this week I had the absolute pleasure to join with @ceibner, @alegrya and @eskimo_sparky to record an episode of the Geek Girls Blogs Podcast. This one was on recruitment for Women in IT.

In an absolute contrast to my efforts with the Demo’s Happen Here presentation the evening before, this one was a wonderful experience.

I was relaxed (the company and the champagne helped), I knew what I wanted to say, and it made such a difference being face to face with the others in the room, so it was more like one of the conversations we would regularly have anyway.

It was completely unscripted, and we didn’t know what each of us was going to say but it’s interesting how it naturally merged into us all talking about very similar things – Network, get out there and get known, get your CV / Linked In profile happening and Just Do It!

It was such a fun evening and lovely company for our dinner and drinks afterwards. Thank You Catherine, for a fun evening.

Joining in on G’Day World

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I will try tonight to join in on the G’Day World bitch session. Last week I was just about in and I had a blackout in the suburb which coincidentally lasted the entire length of the podcast.

I don’t think I have much to bitch about but we will see…

About to download Gizmo so I can try that out…

Giggly Girty Strikes Again

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Well the Productivity Show Podcast is up – Listen to it here.  At the beginning it was very cringeworthy to listen to as I just could not believe how much I giggled like a little schoolgirl. Then I noticed how bad my vocabulary is (too many Absolutely’s and I really have to stop swearing). And then I noticed how terrible my voice sounds… But by the end I thought wow, what we talked about was actually interesting and informative, and the sound quality was not too bad either (thanks to Cameron’s excellent quality equipment).

So overall I think it was not all bad, and I think people could probably force their way through the half hour and may get some interesting tips. Still not sure I want to do it again, but we’ll see.

Productivity Podcast

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I did a podcast with Cameron Reilly on the Productivity Show on Friday. We did it at a cafe in Melbourne, so the sound is probably really crap, and I will not be surprised if he doesn’t even put the Podcast up. But here are some things I learnt about doing the podcast.

  • My motivation was not self promotion (as Cameron will probably say in the podcast) but it was from another podcast that I was listening to the other day where Cameron said he had an “obligation to share his knowledge” or something like that. It just inspired me so much, as I too feel that, since I know lots of stuff about Microsoft stuff and productivity, I too have an obligation to share my knowledge. – So I need to do some more blogging on Excel
  • I was prepared, had 4 pages of notes in my small notebook but I was very nervous and all the preparation went out the window. It is very intimidating sitting at a cafe on a sidewalk on a busy street with a huge microphone in your hand whilst trying to eat lunch, drink coffee AND sound intelligent and entertaining – hats off to you Cameron, you are a bloody legend!
  • I talked about crap and did not leave time for the main thing I wanted to talk about which was my Excel tips, so I will have to make up for that by blogging about that here. I talked too much about myself, and no one is interested in that.
  • I forgot to attribute!!!! Bad internet faux pas!!! I had it in my notes to attribute that I found the David Seah excellent Emergent Task Tracker by reading the blog of GTDWannabe – an excellent Blog – but in my nervousness I forgot, so I apologise.
  • Podcasting is very different to lecturing and speaking – Podcasting is a conversation, so it is very different to what I am more familiar with and feel way more at ease with. I can stand up in front of a group of people and talk about a topic for hours and feel confident and capable, but in the more intimate setting of a recorded conversation, I was crap. I think I need to stick with what I know.

Well, I hope this podcasting thing is out of my system now, but my passion for sharing my knowledge is not, so I will continue to share my knowledge in writing – not podcasting. But after all is said and done, I had a blast doing it, and it was worth doing, just to experience it. So my advice to you is shout Cameron a lunch (or buy some TPN advertising on Ebay) and get yourself on a Podcast, because you just might be a great podcaster but don’t yet know it.

Thanks Cameron!!