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Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz Team Up For Podcasts

21 December 2004 1 views One Comment

How cool! This I am looking forward to with anticipation. Yep, I can see – er, hear – it now. Required class listening assignments! ;)

Just listened to their trial podcast. You can hear it from the article linked below. Unscripted and conversational, they have set it up to work with iPodder (RSS), too. Great! An interesting request is to have listeners send in audio comments. This will be quite good.

Some comments: Terrific sound quality on this recording as they are recording their online ‘Skype‘ call direct from one of their sound cards. They mention some software in the podcast, but I imagine Total Recorder will do the same. I’ll experiment on that front.

The only downside I heard in the initial podcast? Neville’s heavy breathing. ;) Kinda disturbing … in so many ways … on so many levels. :grin: Mic was too close to his mouth. But, my students do the same thing. Imagine listening to 30 of those in a row. Yikes!

All kidding aside, I believe this shall be a terrific resource and I send both of the podcasters great praise and thanks! Kudos all around!

NevOn: Podcasts for communicators to launch in January

Starting in January, Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz – two communicators who think they have something to say that you might find worth listening to – start their weekly podcasts. Shel’s in Concord, California, and Neville’s in Amsterdam in The Netherlands.

We’ll bring a balanced view on what’s going on in the US and Europe in communication, technology and other relevant topics.

Visit For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report (their site) and their blogs: Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson. They do “have something to say” and a wise decision would be – to listen.

One Comment »

  • Neville Hobson NETHERLANDS said:

    Thanks Robert!

    Re the heavy breathing, yep, I noticed that when I listened to the podcast afterwards. :oops: I’ll try and not do that when we get started, otherwise Shel will have some interesting editing to do!

    Recording over Skype was a true breeze. It works beautifully once you know how. Shel’s the wizard on that.

    And there’s now a really excellent guide that Stuart Henshall has produced. The guide’s a PDF as well as a podcast. Details here:

    http://www.henshall.com/blog/archives/001056.html

    On content for our podcasts, we’d love to hear some thoughts from the Auburn students.

    # 22 December 2004 at 4:19 am