Welcome to  episode six!
Run time: 18:49
Community Divas on iTunes

A podcast about communities and social media tools

In this episode:
- An interview with Adele McAlear about video tools
- Discussion by Eden and Connie about the interview with Adele
- Community News

Adele McAlear is the principal at McAlear Marketing and she blogs at Marketing Monster - http://www.adelemcalear.com/. Adele was in town recently and organized a Tweet-up, a real-life get together for some of her twitter friends. After the tweet-up, the three of us went to a nearby restaurant  and recorded the interview so please excuse the background noise.

00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah
00:09 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby
00:15 Summary of today’s episode
00:21 Introducing this week's guest, Adele McAlear
01:08 Introducing Adele
01:24 What video tools Adele is using?
01:41 Seesmic has just hit the 100,000 user mark with 5,000 active users currently
02:14 Seesmic going through a "belt-tightening" period
02:24 They are about to release a new version. Currently they have a "black version" http://seesmic.com which is a flash-based site and a "white version" http://seesmic.com/home which is easier to run but has less functionality.
04:03 She is also using 12seconds.tv; what can you say in 12 seconds?
04:49 She is using 12seconds to tell stories from her life
05:20 Phreadz.com is in closed beta - see also podcamp.phreadz.com - only 200 people in the community so far
07:20 Phreadz is distinguished from other video tools because you can have channels by topic, or your own branded channel.
07:50 What is the barrier to entry in using Phreadz? How difficult is it to use?
08:47 Is it the same group of earlier adopters across the various platforms?
10:05 Are these tools being used to build community above and beyond the community of early adopters?
11:40 Would these tools be useful to libraries?
12:41 Adele discusses Utterli and YouTube.
13:48 Wrapping up the talk with Adele.
14:03 Eden and Connie discuss the communities that have sprung up around the video tools.
17:19 We would like to hear from listeners about using video tools for building community.
17:30 Community News: Podcamp Toronto - Feb. 21 & 22 at Rogers Communications Centre at Ryerson University, sign up on the wiki at http://podcamptoronto.org
18:05 Connie wraps up the episode.

Our cool theme music “Get Out of My Face” is by Uncle Seth and is from the Podsafe Music Network.

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Welcome to  episode five!
Run time: 15:03
Community Divas on iTunes

A podcast about communities and social media tools

In this episode:

- Eden interviews Kathryn Lagden about community building at PTO Today, we discuss one of the issues raised in the interview and we have some community news.
- We discuss Kathryn's concern about managing multiple tools within one community website.
- Community News:

Podcamp Toronto - Feb. 21 & 22 at Rogers Communications Centre at Ryerson University, sign up on the wiki at http://podcamptoronto.org

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For more information on this and other related Avon crusades:
 
Canada - http://avoncrusade.ca/
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U.K. - http://www.avoncrusade.co.uk/

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Kathryn Lagden is Director of Web Operations for School Family Media. I recently had the pleasure of speaking with her about community building at PTO Today . She also blogs at That Kathryn Girl.

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00:01 Intro by Jay Moonah
00:09 Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby
00:15 Summary of today’s episode
00:27 Eden introduces Kathryn Lagden
00:43 Kathryn explains what  PTO Today is - School Family Media is the umbrella organization, and  PTO Today is a main media property. Help parent group leaders of parent groups (PTO or PTA).
01:22 She discusses her role in community development.
02:36 How do subject matter experts know when to jump into the conversations when there is no designated community manager to suggest they do so?
03:38  PTO Today has had an active community for a very long time, starting with a message board. Kathryn discusses the different ways the community interact with the community website.
04:30 How the different tools are similar and overlap in content. It is difficult for someone new to see where all the content resides. Kathryn talks about how they redirect people to other parts of the site so they can find the rest of the discussion.
05:54 Getting members to move to another tool by directing traffic over.
06:51 The PTO File Exchange is a feature created to allow parent groups to share documents and hopefully therefore solve similar issues.
08:04 They are tracking usage of the File Exchange with two metrics: number of page views and number of downloads on each document. They have incredible usage on some of their documents; these are very popular.
09:20  File Exchange includes a rating feature. Kathryn explains how this works.
09:58 Has  PTO Today been successful in moving free community members into paid level members? They have a lot of free content on the site including their magazine which brings a lot of people into the site. They have some programs and tools that are paid services and link to them from the appropriate places on the free site.
11:24 Eden thanks Kathryn for joining us.
11:39 Eden asks Connie about Kathryn's challenge of  migrating community members from one tool to another when the conversation is suited for another area.
12:57 Eden invites our listeners to give your suggestions.
13:10 Community news
13:18 Podcamp Toronto 2009 announced
13:45 Avon Breast Cancer Crusade announced
14:16 Eden wraps up the episode.

Our cool theme music “Get Out of My Face” is by Uncle Seth and is from the Podsafe Music Network.

We hope to hear from you! Send your comments to communitydivas@gmail.com or post them on the blog at communitydivas.com. Follow us on Twitter, our Facebook page or our FriendFeed room. Some registration may be required.