Almost forgot to share the results of my live program for OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries).

Here’s the link to the mp3. It’s about 75 minutes long. Of course, if you subscribe to the podcast feed, you’ll get it automatically. And if you’re subscribed to OPAL’s podcast feed, then you got it automatically a few days ago! I was having some issues with a dry, scratchy throat, so you’ll have to excuse the occasional coughing, but otherwise I think it turned out reasonably well. The feedback has been positive, which is always nice.

I used a simple one-page wiki to run my presentation. I had originally planned on using the wiki as a jumping off point for visiting various sites, but I was having some problems making the free Google-ad-supported pbwiki behave nicely in the cobrowsing interface we were using. So in the end, I invited everyone to surf from the wiki at their own leisure. Just as well, since I talked for over an hour without ever leaving the cozy confines of my outline. Anyway, here’s a link to my podcasting presentation wiki. If I’m good, I’ll keep it up to date and use it as the basis of future presentations.

So how was using the wiki for presenting? OK overall. I don’t think it helped or hurt the actual presentation, but I’ll say this much: It was many times easier than putting together a PowerPoint for what I must admit was very much the same end result. And I’m left with a much more flexible, living resource. I wouldn’t go this route for every situation, but I have to say that I enjoyed the process of putting it together and would always consider as a possible avenue for organizing my presentations.