How's It's All Coming Along

Here are my Learning Objectives:

• Apply my knowledge of Adobe 1.5 to edit down my show and touch it up.
• Learn how to upload my podcast on Pod bean and share it on my Facebook and iTunes page.
• Inform people about the decline of discipline shown by professional players.
• Use outside research and resources to support the topics.
• Actively promote and manage my podcast through the use of social media and drive some traffic towards it.

So far, I’ve enjoyed doing my podcast and I am two episodes in and everything is going well. I have received positive feedback about the content that I’ve put forth. I have been doing my show every two weeks so it can last throughout the semester and also because it’s only going to be about 7 episodes. I’m going to break down these objectives and talk about how each one has been going.

My show is every two weeks on Fridays at 7 p.m. which the first two dates have been September 2 and September 16 so that means the next one will be this Friday, September 30. So I’ve done my show live at 7 p.m. and they’re about 30 minutes long but I have to wait a half an hour until the top of the hour to get my show off the skimmer and edit it down so I can podcast it. Unfortunately, I have to wait until 8 p.m. because it appears on the skimmer at the top of every hour. It usually takes about 5 minutes to cut it down. I really just have to take out the music for the most points and any unnecessary pauses that I may do throughout the show.

Next, I upload my edited podcast to places like Pod bean and Soundcloud which helps me upload them to Facebook and Twitter which is where most of my followers are and interact. I’ve had trouble uploading it to iTunes but I will keep trying to do so and if I get it then I will upload all the episodes to that as well. I usually listen to my podcast after I upload it because I like to hear how I sound and if I sound confident and all. It’s kind of like grading myself and also realizing how I can make improvements as the next show airs.

I have been informing people about the decline and discipline shown by professional players through social media. I try to post things a couple of times a week or when something is big that is going on. Luckily, when I started my Big Quan Theory page, the anthem protest produced by San Francisco’s Quarterback Colin Kaepernick started when he was kneeling for the national anthem and receiving loads of backlash from a lot of people. Also had the thing with Ryan Lochte so I had a lot of content to go off of from the beginning but I also use Twitter to receive my news too because I follow sporting industries and people incorporated in the sports industry as well. I get my news from espn.com or somewhere like Bleacher Report, etc.

Using outside resources includes things like sports television shows and the Internet. I love watching sports and analyzing them so much that my TV stays on ESPN practically. I watch shows like SportsCenter (which is get my informational news), First Take: Stephen A. Smith and Max Kellerman (Debate Show), Undisputed: Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe (Debate Show), SportsNation (Debate Show), etc. I just live, breathe, eat and sleep sports and just consume it. I watch these shows daily and refer to some of these analyst whenever I conduct my podcast because they can sometimes be great resources and I just think that you sound more informative whenever you refer to higher and more trusted people in the sporting industry. I think it also helps enhance my knowledge about certain topics and can give me something more to go off of.

Lastly, I do manage my podcast through my social media because I upload it after every show and try my best to promote it. Like I’ve said before, I have received some pretty positive feedback with my show and it hasn’t necessarily came through social media but more of word of mouth which is more appreciative in my opinion. I do understand that majority of my followers are out of town (meaning St. George) but I have still have some people either call or text me telling me that I sound great and seem intelligent about my content that I’m relaying to the audience. My likes or comments do not truly show all the feedback that I’ve received but it is there and prevalent. I try to post the biggest things going on plus try and involve my followers for them to participate so they can feel welcome.

In the end, I’m loving everything that I’m producing and the feedback (whether positive or negative) that I’ve received. I will continue to try and improve the things that I am doing through social media and also with my actual show and podcast. This next show which will premiere this Friday, September 30, will include some special guests to be interviewed and also talk about all the controversial concepts that are happening in the world right now. Thank you guys for all your support and more great content coming soon.

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