Inside CoPress

First off, last week’s show was a pretty rockin’ job. The content was excellent, production quality good, and just a few silent spots. I’ve got a couple things I’d like to pass along for how we produce it, as well as a couple of things we should do this week. Here we go.

In the introduction, I think we should also include the date that the podcast was recorded. It might be something to the tune of “This edition of This Week in CoPress was recorded live on…” Calling it “TWiC Live” and then listening to it as a recorded version is a bit confusing. Also, I’d like to keep the brand as This Week in CoPress, or TWiC for short, and limit the references to it as TWiC Live. In the introduction, we should also mention that people can send feedback to twic@copress.org. I don’t believe anyone has ever sent email to that address, but there are bound to be people out there with ideas.

An idea on production quality: we might want to find a better method of doing this than Blog Talk Radio. I think the service is great, but phone in doesn’t really produce very good audio. I think it would also be better to be able to screen calls, or at least act like we have a sense of who is calling in at the time.

I have a couple of requests for this week. First, let’s take metrics on the number of people listening at the beginning of the show, the max number of listeners to the live show, and then the number of people listening at the end. We’ll be able to do more with this data later. Secondly, let’s have a section at the bottom of the show notes to track thinks that we think we can improve on for next week.