Agile Digital Business

Podcast Movement 2019 Conference, August 14-16, 2019, in Orlando, Florida, has many conference tracks, sessions, meet-ups and networking events to consider.

As the host of Agile Digital Business podcast, I'm excited to be attending the conference and to get to meet up with many of my friends and colleagues who are in the podcasting arena. As an author, speaker and instructor in digital leadership and transition, and voice search marketing, the topics planned for the conference are particularly timely for me.

Bossjock, Backpack Studio App

Please note that I recorded this studio remotely while in Orlando. I was using the Bossjock app on my iPhone 7 Plus for the first time. After recording the show segments and bringing my music in to the app to create the episode, I later found that there is a new app available, Backpack Studio, that provides for more advanced podcast recording and editing while on a mobile device. I'm eager to download and try Backpack Studio before my next remote podcast recording and editing session!

Here is a summary of topics I cover in this episode about planning for participation in Podcast Movement:

The conference tracks include: creation; technical; industry; marketing; monetization; society, culture and advocacy; and audio drama/fiction.

I am starting the conference with the Women's Networking Event promoted by the hosts of She Podcasts, Elsie Escobar and Jessica Kupferman. The event is sponsored by the team at Rebel Base Media and a fellow Youpreneur Academy member, Mark Asquith.

Other sessions and events that I am looking forward to attending include:

Aug. 13 - Networking Party

Wednesday

Aug. 14 - Keynote by Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income Podcast; 9 am

Aug. 14 - Brand, Market and Grow Your Amazing Podcast While Still Working That Full-Time Job! by Stephen A. Hart, brand alignment strategist and host of Trailblazers.FM; 9 am

Aug. 14 - Amplify Your Podcast By Publishing a Book in 90 Days - Chandler Bolt, Self-Publishing School - 12:30 pm

Aug. 14 - Visit the Expo Hall; 8:45 am - 5:15 pm

Thursday

Aug. 15 - Advanced Audio Production by Chris Curran, Podcast Engineering School - 10:15 am

Aug. 15 - Panel Discussion: State of Podcasting, Elsie Escobar, Todd Cochrane, Martina Castro, Juleyka Lantigua-Williams; 10:15 am

Aug. 15 - Ads: Delivery and Engagement Beyond the Numbers by Todd Cochrane, CEO of Blubrry. Todd is @GeekNews on Twitter.

Aug. 15 - Yes, That Marketing Advice for Your Podcast is BS - 2019 by Rob Walch, VP Podcaster Relations at Libsyn (host of this very podcast you have been listening to!). Rob is @podcast411 on Twitter.

Friday

Aug. 16 - The Power of Repurposing by my fellow Youpreneur Academy member, Amy Woods, Content 10x. She will discuss how to turn one episode in to an entire month's worth of content for your business. 10 am

Aug. 16 - Higher Ed Podcasters Meetup; 5:30 pm

Additional keynotes by: Conal Byrne, president of iHeart Podcast Network; Patrice Washington, podcast host of Chase Purpose, Not Money, and Tom Webster will deliver the Edison Research keynote.

Thank you to the creators of Podcast Movement for starting this conference a few years ago and for helping it grow!

If you are not already subscribed to my show, Agile Digital Business, I invite you to join me on the journey! My next season of episodes will be about voice search marketing. I'm excited to share them with you!

Vickie Maris

In the interest of full disclosure, two of the links above are my affiliate links for programs I've been a member of and that have made a significant, positive difference in my life, my progress in my career and the growth of my podcast and business - Youpreneur Academy and Self-Publishing School.

In my conversation with Mike Jackson for Agile Digital Business, we take a departure from digital marketing and transition of content to the digital realm, and talk teamwork. Mike enjoys the sport of field trials and raising and training bird dogs. He has trained some of the best English Pointer dogs in the business and participates in field trials from the back of his Tennessee Walker horses.

His travels take him throughout the USA and Canada as he competes in field trials. Prior to his retirement, Mike worked for the electric co-op as a lineman, a supervisor, and later for a company that responded to disaster areas for repair of power lines.

You can see an example of this type of field trial work in this video of the national championships. https://youtu.be/r9FukGHrhm0

Enjoy the conversation with Mike Jackson!

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Season 2 of the podcast, Agile Digital Business, starts with the next episode. We are delving in to the topics of voice, voice search, voice first and how businesses can prepare for the voice platform.

Whitney Kilgore, PhD, of iDesign, shares her perspective on blended learning, open educational resources, and more of her insights on the design of learning experiences in this Part 2 of my interview with her. This is Episode 7 of Agile Digital Business (formerly, Online Course Connections) podcast.

Whitney provides pointers on how to guide a subject matter expert (SME) who often wants to lead with content. "In the online space, it's important to break content into chunks."

"A design team will help you break content into chunks and help you make sure that the learning goals and objectives align with the assessments. [The designers] will help you make sure that the path between the two points for gaining knowledge are clear."

Whitney also touches on the concept of co-creating a syllabus with the students of your class. When doing so in an academic environment, you would want to maintain the academic standards required for accreditation.

I will add here that you could also co-create a syllabus with the customers of your business who will be in your course.

To reach Whitney Kilgore:

via Twitter @whitneykilgore

via website idesignedu.org

To listen to Whitney on Episode 2 of Online Course Connections click this link.

[Episode 7; revised Aug. 4, 2019]

Jeff Jennings is with Missouri S & T, and is a former middle school teacher turned instructional designer. In Episode 6 of the show, Jeff and I talk about learning experience design and working with faculty in the mapping of a course plan.

Jeff earned his MS degree in educational leadership through an online program at the institution that is now called Trident University. He did his graduate work while still serving in the military in the US Army.

We talk about building blocks of course design and he walks through a tool that the course design team at Missouri S & T uses for helping faculty design their instruction. We touch on the importance of updated course descriptions and how to map learning events to assessments in a course and to the learning outcomes. Missouri S & T is focused on getting courses aligned with the building blocks we discuss in this episode. Jeff and I met when he was leading a workshop at the 2016 OLC Accelerate Conference with his colleague Amy Skyles, who has also been a guest on Online Course Connections (see Episode 5). Note that the podcast has been rebranded to Agile Digital Business. The tool that Jeff and Amy presented in the workshop at OLC is the Building Blocks blueprint. Jeff elaborated on the use of the tool. To find the resource videos that the course design team makes available on their website, visit this link: http://edtech.mst.edu/instructionalservices/facultyresources/instructionaldesignvideos/ Contact Jeff Jennings: jenningsje at mst.edu On Twitter: @jenningsje1 edtech.mst.edu The next episode (Episode 7) is my Part 2 episode with Whitney Kilgore (see Episode 2 for Part 1 of the interview with Whitney).

Amy Skyles, Missouri S & T, is my guest on Episode 5 of Agile Digital Business (formerly, Online Course Connections).

She and her colleagues are helping you keep students on pace towards graduation by working with instructors to create alternatives for the design and teaching of lab classes. She tells us about the reasons behind decisions at her institution and how they are answering faculty, student and community questions about online and blended lab classrooms.

The design team at Missouri S & T doesn't refer to their courses as "online labs." They are instead referred to as DELTA Labs. DELTA is an acronym for Delivering Experiential Labs to All.

Another service of the design team is to help instructors come up with a plan for the situation when a student with a disability is in an online course that has a lab component that they would be managing from their remote location.

They also help come up with a plan for disposal of materials from lab experiments. Disposal, even in micro scale, can become an issue if the lab kits are delivered to over 1000 students in the same dormitory.

You'll also get to learn about The Laboratory Redesign Handbook, which includes tips and tricks in Part 1 and the "How to get it done" in Part 2.

The handbook is available for purchase as a pdf download or as a bound hard copy. You can learn about the handbook and other resources at the website: http://edtech.msu.edu/teach

Amy mentions the Teaching and Learning With Technology Conference which is held in March every year at Missouri S & T during St. Patrick's Day celebrations. Here is the link to check out the conference on the campus in Rolla, Missouri. http://tlt.mst.edu/

You can connect with Amy Skyles in Twitter @saskyles

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You can join other entrepreneurs and business owners in the Youpreneur community hosted by Chris Ducker. In this episode, I share a very unscripted perspective of life as a Youpreneur, and the support that comes from being an engaged member of the community.

Previously, the site was only opened to new members a few times a year, but it is now open throughout the year.

If you're an entrepreneur who is building a personal brand, running a small business, or you're dreaming of doing either of those things in the future, you will want to take a peek in to this community.

This podcast, now rebranded to Agile Digital Business, (formerly Online Course Connections), has come to be, in part, because of the support and accountability I've gained from my engagement in the Youpreneur community both online and offline.

Thanks for listening to the show and for sharing this episode in your social media channels with your friends and followers. The links to Youpreneur in this post are my affiliate link provided by Chris Ducker and his team.

Hope to see you inside the Youpreneur community if you're not already there!

Take care,

Vickie

https://vickiemaris.com

[Episode notes updated: 1/31/22]

Melissa A. Venable, PhD, and Jon Ernstberger, PhD, co-presented during the 2016 OLC Accelerate Conference on their experience using Periscope as a platform for their Higher Ed Scope podcast. Sit in on a conversation I have with them in Orlando at the conference. Melissa is the education editor with the Center for Online Education at OnlineColleges.net and faculty in instructional design at St. Leo University and University of South Florida. Here is a July 2019 article Melissa wrote for Best Colleges. It is titled, "Take My Advice: Lessons Learned from Online College Students," by Melissa Venable, PhD. Jon is the Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Mathematics at LaGrange College in Georgia. At the time of the interview for the podcast, he was the Director of Online Instruction. Here is a link to the replay of Episode 3 of Higher Ed Scope, "Declutter Your Online Course." To contact Melissa Venable: https://twitter.com/melissa_venable https://designdoc.me To contact Jon Ernstberger: https://twitter.com/jernstberger jonernstberger.com Join my community: To join my email list and get notified of new blog posts, podcast episodes, upcoming group strategy sessions and more: https://vickiemaris.com Thanks for listening! Vickie [Episode revised 1/31/2022]

In this episode of Agile Digital Business (formerly called Online Course Connections), Whitney Kilgore, PhD, of iDesign takes a student-centered approach as she talks of techniques she uses to help faculty and content experts get more comfortable in recording videos for online courses. She also shares several tools and resources that you will find helpful, no matter if you're doing online course design for your customers or for your students. I think you'll agree with me that Whitney is a master in learning experience design!

Flipgrid: https://info.flipgrid.com/

Yellowdig: https://www.yellowdig.com/

Practice: https://www.practice.xyz/

This episode is part of the online course collection of episodes listed at https://vickiemaris.com. Part 2 of the interview with Whitney appears a few episodes later in the show.

To connect with guest, Whitney Kilgore ...

Twitter: @whitneykilgore

Email: [email protected]

Website: idesignedu.org

To connect with podcast host, Vickie Maris ...

Twitter: @vickiemaris

Email: [email protected]

Website: vickiemaris.com

Join Vickie's mailing list to receive updates of new episodes, online Twitter chats and other ways to collaborate: [email protected]

Note: Episode notes revised 01/31/2022

Here are three approaches to developing content for an online course platform such as Udemy.

I describe techniques I have used including:

Creating an online course around a topic in which you have a high level of expertise and passion.

Invite a content expert(s) to join you in developing a course. This person could also serve in an on-camera role for course videos.

Journal your experience in learning a subject, and then create course content from your notes and experiences.

These techniques are ones I've used in courses I've created at the university as well as in my courses on Udemy and other platforms.

http://www.udemy.com/u/vickiemaris

https://vickiemaris.com

This edition of the introductory episode, recorded in January 2022, covers the launch of Season 4 of the show, and the focus on personal development, team development, leadership, and team communications.

Host of the show, Vickie Maris, started her consulting business in November 2020 and became an Authorized Partner - Everything DiSC and The Five Behaviors in 2021. She is a certified trainer and certified facilitator of Everything DiSC - Workplace.

Vickie shares about 2 programs she has available for learning more about your style in the context of the DiSC profile, as well as her program that involves an acoustic rock band in an experiential learning event that you can bring to your team.

You can find more details about the podcast, and about hiring Vickie as a speaker or facilitator at your next event, when you visit: https://vickiemaris.com