Podcasting Meetings
I am presenting a poster at MLA on medical podcasts so I have had podcasts on my mind recently. I also found out today that my hospital will pay for me to attend (happy dance) the annual meeting in Phoenix. While I was registering for the conference I noticed that an audio CD-ROM of the presentations is available for a special price of $39.00 with registration.
That is when the two subjects in my brain collided and hit me. What about a podcast of the annual meeting? After all MLA is already making an audio CD-ROM of the presentations, how hard would it be to convert to an MP3 file and distribute it? By all rights I think $40 for CD-ROM is kind of pricey for me and I know I wouldn't pay that kind of money to download a podcast program.
Before you think I have lost my mind to iTunes check out Doctors On Health Medical Podcast Library. From there you can see podcasts from two annual meetings (Diabetes and AIDS) are available.
It seems like the perfect opportunity for MLA.
3 Comments:
It's a great idea, and one that should be followed up on.
Did you suggest this to the programming committee, or to someone at headquarters? I'd try making the suggestion to Jim Shedlock, or the CE committee, or the person at HQ who's in charge of CE (I've blanked on her name at the moment).
The Texas Library Association has sold CDs of MP3 files for the conference for the past several years. There are lots of sessions, it takes 3 or 4 CDs. They charge $70.00 or so. I think they have the price there to cover the recording, are well as production and pressing. Also, I guess they might be worried that folks would not attend, just buy the CD, if it was too cheap.
I too have thought about podcasts and additionally live webstreaming.
Often I have not been able to attend, however several of the sessions and it would be great if they jumped ahead to the future and got on board!
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