6.1.08

Attendees:
user:sinclairmackenzie user:johnjohnston user:mrbelshaw user:DavidNoble

Actions from PREVIOUS Meeting:
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 * Explore Pretty May, Pamela (and Mac equivalent) + Skype Out setup (only needed if we are Skype calling a non-Skyper)
 * Continue to contribute audio of introductions to wiki
 * Edit personal notes (mini bio) on show pages.
 * Audio- there is a growing selection of **intros** available on the Branding Audio page. Do we need to think about a selection of **outros** or will we stick with the existing timpani option?

Minutes:
> * Decide on strategy for publicising the project at BETT/TeachMeet**
 * Agenda**
 * **Review David and Sinclair's show

Actions for BETT

 * Doug has put his name on the [|TeachMeet wiki] to talk about ETR in a 2 or 7 min slot and will ask Ewan MacIntosh to mention it also.
 * Doug will "door step" people during BETT to let them know about ETR and record vox pops for use in future shows or possibly invite them to join us. David will also send out some invitations to TeachMeeters.

Actions for next meeting

 * Update show schedule on wiki to reflect changes in show order. (Sinclair)
 * Investigate use of rss enclosure fields in the wordpress blog (Sinclair) or look into blog upgrade (Doug).
 * Continue to look for Skye recording applications for mac (Doug/Sinclair/John).

Doug's thoughts:

 * Thanks for getting the ball rolling, David and Sinclair!
 * The start's good in terms of introducing yourself. Perhaps we need a bit more of a dynamic branding bit at the start and end.
 * Dividing the show into definite parts in advance for the listener might be a good plan. (jingle inbetween?)
 * I like the way you've talked about specific issues you two are facing - more of that! Perhaps URLs need to be repeated so that people don't have to rewind or listen again.
 * Love the ending! And the way you've set up the del.icio.us links is great - well done. :-)
 * I'll probably mention ETR in my presentation at BETT. Not that I've created my presentation yet... :-o

Embdeding Audio on blog
We had some discussion about this. Wordpress has changed a bit since I last did this but I had a wee play and it is very simple to do. All you do is to create a new post and go into the **code** editor then enter: ``[audio http://edtechroundup.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/ETR%231%2011-01-08.mp3] ``

I've left a unpublished draft on the blog.

This will produce a wee player, probably should also link to audio in normal way too. I am not sure what sort of RSS feed this will produce, it might be an idea to run the feed through feedburner and use that. Unfortunately it looks like you can't remove the wordpress rss feed from the template so you would have feedburrner's feed in the sidebar and be having your auto discovery link to wordpress' rss. Might be best to stick with WP rss and have an iTunes link in the sidebar once the podcast is in iTunes.


 * Thanks for this John. I had a dig around the wordpress site after the flashmeeting and came to pretty much the same conclusion. The wordpress blog you get on **wordpress.com** is not the same as what they offer if you download the files from **wordpress.org** to your own site. They say that there is a security risk in allowing any additional functionality on the multi-user blog that they give you on their .com site. So the question is whether we go ahead as we are and add something like feedburner or start over with wordpress (or another app) somewhere else so we have a domain from the word go.
 * Thoughts?** 1199735303