65bits – Lessons after 94 episodes
Background on Tech 65
A team of geeks passionate about technology – help people learn about technology through podcasts through blogs – sharing their knowledge.
65bits is one of the podcasts that Tech 65 has. Idea is a bunch of geeks coming together to discuss about tech stuff happening.
They’re going to do live recording of 65bits!
Got a surround sound microphone so that listeners can distinguish voices in the space.
Things they’ve learnt:
- 1. Content is king – started out because they loved geeking out, hanging out talking about technology
- important to be interested in the content you talk about, can’t be a script that someone else wrote, otherwise not sustainable
- Length – 10 mins is desirable – they’ve not been able to achieve that so they do show notes which has timestamps for topics. The ideal option was Apple’s enhanced podcast but they wanted to keep things broader
- Podcast.sg sort of diluted the meaning of podcasts – sort of confused the uninitiated
- Melvin asked what the community do to help Tech 65
- Daniel “One of the challenges – balancing personal life and tech 65 side project”
- Publicity – fundamental issue is “not enough people understand the concept of podcasting, consuming podcasts as a concept”
Their purpose is to make people less afraid of technology.
Discussion of challenges of podcasting
- One of the challenges is technology
- The other thing is the lack of ideas, creativity, talent, ability to engage the audience – Walter
- The ability to script for audio/radio – Melvin – radio has the ability to engage the imagination
2. Jumpstarting (Secret to 65bits sustainability)
- Once its a habit, it’s easier to maintain – momentum carried them forward
Walter asked a question that was asked at the DMFest continually – “How do you make money out of this?”
The only payment is the joy of doing it. Previously loss track because of the money issue. DK – when you start anything web 2.0, don’t think about money first, make it sustainable first, then think about money.
Analogy is like a rock band.
3. Lessons learnt about our audience – Singaporeans don’t really contribute – shy maybe? or they like to complain?
