My Favourite Podcasts
ByI was at a networking meeting this week and we began talking about our favourite podcasts. For the uninitiated, a podcast is an audio recording distributed over the internet. It’s like radio except you can download episodes, listen at your convenience, pause and re-listen at will.
For business people, business podcasts can be an invaluable learning tool. Instead of having to travel to attend a course, you can download a podcast on almost any topic and be learning at home.
You can listen in your office while you work or you can upload them to your MP3 player and multi-task – listen while you workout, commute or do housework.
If you’ve never listened to a podcast, here are some of my favourites:
1. The Podcast Sisters – this weekly podcast features discussions by Krishna De, Anna Farmery and Heather Gorringe. These three women discuss Web 2.0, social media and other technology for “non-geek” businesses.
2. Street Smarts Marketing – Marketing expert Kathleen Gage interviews a variety of industry experts on topics to help you run your business better. You have to register to get access to get the downloads but it truly is worth giving up your email address.
3. Wonderful Web Women – Janet Beckers interviews successful women on the internet to learn their secrets.
4. Marketing Over Coffee is a new podcast for me … recommended by an internet marketing colleague. Hosts John Wall and Christopher Penn record it every business Wednesday at 5:30am Eastern at a coffee shop in Natick, MA, just outside of Boston.
5. Andrea’s More Effective Marketing Podcast. Yes, this is a shameless plug for my own podcast. I interview people who have knowledge to offer on subjects that I want to learn about. I learn tons from these people and hope you will too.
Andrea J. Stenberg
Do you listen to any podcasts that help you run your business? Please share the links by leaving a comment below.
Andrea
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I like Manager Tools, some of it is basic, but they cover a lot of good stuff and have a wealth of experience.
I second John’s post about Manager Tools. They are clear, likeable and occasionally cover fairly esoteric topics like how to make an introduction at a networking event. Thanks for posting your list. I’ve wanted to check out others but so far other than Manager Tools I haven’t found any that have interested me long term.
Thank you for this list! I am especially excited to find out about the Podcast Sisters and to discover they are available through iTunes. The subjects they are covering are exactly what I’m researching right now
. I’m enjoying my subscription to your site as well and thank you for the ebook. Are any of your podcasts available through iTunes? I tried searching, but didn’t find any. But then again, I tried every search term I could think of for blogging, social media, etc. and don’t remember spotting the Podcast Sisters. I don’t think the search function thru iTunes store is fully comprehensive.
Thanks everyone for your comments. I’ll be checking out Manager Tools soon.
Kaye, no, I’m not on iTunes, yet. I’ve downloaded the plug-in “Podpress” that lets me automatically send my podcasts to iTunes. I just need to figure out how to use it. I’ll make it a priority for this week.
Andrea