Reports from the Asylum

This week ‘Professor’ Hopkins discourses on a new portable digital recorder for podcasters, Dave Fleet’s Social Media Training wiki and the REAL meaning of ‘Twitter.’

Links:

• Olympus Digital Recorder
• Dave’s Social Media Training Wiki
• T.W.I.T.T.E.R. Acronym
• Luke Armour’s Twitter Find

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In his report for FIR 310, ‘Professor’ Hopkins muses on the need for a whole new maintenance crew to keep up with Web 2.0 initiatives (a.k.a. Janitor 2.0); his experiments with Nitro Marketing and the new blog he’s using to write about them; and why fear and anger may be better sales tools than logic and reason.

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In his report for FIR 308 (the first for the new year), Professor Hopkins starts out with sound effects of questionable taste and discusses the following topics:

• Shel Israel interviews me and doesn’t actually call me a sap
• I’ve had a gutful of freebies – no more, I say! (including a hat-tip to Laurel Papworth)
• and a new online business venture in 2008

(Cross-posted from Lee’s blog.)

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In his final report for 2007 (possibly the shortest he has ever recorded), Lee Hopkins sends FIR the reflections he intended for Mitch Joel’s ‘Yule Log’ episode of Six Pixels of Separation. So what did ‘Professor’ Hopkins do in 2007?

• Started doctoral research into Second Life
• Played an integral role in coporate awareness of social media in corporate Australia
• Worked with Melcrum to help Australian business understand what social media is

And in 2008, he’s looking forward to:

• An explosion of Australian corporates engaging with social media
• Working with two companies to explore the business benefits of 3D virtual worlds
• The resurrection of the Comms Cafe Podcast
• Remaining on the frontline of social media evangelists
• Hearing what other people are achieving.

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In his report for FIR 304, Lee Hopkins wishes listeners a culturally appropriate holiday, suggests that we might be able to leave the ‘.com’ off the end of domain names in radio (or podcast) advertising, manages to fit in a sound effect or two despite his madcap party preparations, and threatens us all with the return of the Comms Cafe podcast.

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