Engineers & Coffee

weekly aws/cloud/tech podcast.

9 : podcast retrospective

we talk about where we're at with the podcast: what went well, what didn't go well, what to change, shoutouts

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Our retrospective notes:

  • What went well
    • Consistent recording and publishing
    • Content has improved
    • Interview w/Peter
    • Downloads in last 30 days - 3700
    • Learned a lot about podcasting
    • Forced to keep up on the news a bit more detailed
  • What didn’t go well
    • Interaction has dropped off
    • Donnie’s “tick” - “totally”
    • We didn’t build anything...
    • We didn't Interview enough
  • What to change?
    • Try to bring conversation to us / community
      • Come up with a plan
        • Chat room, live episode, twitter, e.g.
        • Collect emails on twitter?
    • Get better at interviewing
      • Have more interviews
      • research/read how to give good interviews
    • Build something
      • Follow up on chat/lambda, alexa
      • Take what we’re building and make it into episode content
    • Market ourselves
      • Reach out to more podcasters? Tweet at folks? Get more distribution
      • Push the episodes to more podcasting apps - Look into distribuiton on Android
      • Ask folks to review us on itunes
  • Shoutouts?