I admire the fact that our current Grand Polemarch has demonstrated a certain savoir faire in using the internet beyond having the courage to distribute his e-mail address.
Having online chat sessions however became a dinosaur at the point between 1995 and 1996 when e-mails and online chats between and among the Bond (before the Nupenet actually as well) began to include Brothers online beyond those who had primarily used America Online (AOL) as their internet service provider. When internet service providers stopped charging for e-mail sent and received outside their network is when the Nupenet really took off as a medium for Kappas.
I like the model for a podcast demonstrated by US Senator Barack Obama.
Although I have already personally blogged about and subscribed to various podcasts, Senator Obama's podcast has taught me that a podcast can indeed be credible and worthwhile even if only one person is talking. I previously thought that a podcast needed at least 2 or more people in order to avoid potential boredom and monotony of hearing a single voice.
The key for an one-voice podcast is to keep the podcast less than 15 minutes. Senator Obama's podcasts are typically 8 to 10 minutes long maximum.
As a result of this lesson learned, I hope to be able to implement the strategy and create a new podcast myself soon. The podcasts would probably become a part of the blog already in existence versus a separate concept.
I believe that most people and especially the Grand Polemarch are able to talk faster than they can type messages or at least hopefully can better express themselves verbally (and not lose any meaning in what was said or how a statement via text is made).
Therefore by creating a Kappa-oriented podcast would be a great way to avoid tying down Brothers to a specific day and time of the week when other activities are more likely to conflict.
Creating the podcast can be done by phone with a service like Audioblogger and others. The link to the MP3 file can then be made available on any website, e-mail, etc. As a result, the Grand Polemarch will be able to create the podcast from a simple outline of 2 to 3 main points of whatever topic he believes is critical to the short and long-term of Kappadom.
A Grand Polemarch podcast would have the same impact of the presidential weekly address and the fireside chats of previous presidents.
I believe that a Grand Polemarch podcast would have an impact far greater than the current online chats (even if the chat text are saved which they probably are not) have since the distribution of the podcast would reach more Brothers, the creation of the podcast would fit within the ease of use and schedule of the Grand Polemarch, and the topics, tone and emphasis, warmth, philosophy, and opinions expressed by the Grand Polemarch would be more inspiring to the rest of the Bond than any other medium that currently exists or can be created in the future.
Right now I know that a Grand Polemarch podcast is easier to create than a video blog (that will become a reality eventually) as proposed within my PTCN #2.
Grand Webmaster, please help to make it happen;) I will definitely become one of the earliest subscribers when the Grand Polemarch podcast is announced! I cannot wait to hear words of wisdom and achievement coming straight from our leader at the Grand Chapter level. The entire Bond will be strengthened as a result without a doubt.
Yours in the Bond!
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