Short of offering to join new prospective hosts for a Mumble chat to get their conversation with the HPR community started, I don't know how we could make the mechanics easier.
I think the problem is fear of sounding stupid or incompetent in front of a technically sophisticated audience. Very understandable. I have been there. - I am put off by the sound of my voice in recordings. - I have a speech impediment that forces me to speak slowly. - When recording solo, I need notes to remember what I meant to say next. And I did not know how to edit audio when I started. (Hint: Just send in your recording. We've heard ums and ya-knows before.) My presentation is still hard for me to listen to, but I just send in the shows as soon as I can force myself to do it. It is hard for me, but no one else does what I do in quite the same way. Someone out there is waiting to hear what only you can say. Don't keep them waiting. If anyone is reading this, don't overestimate our minimum standards for audio quality, or underestimate the breadth of our interests. This is your community. Talk to us, please. Charles in NJ Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android From:"Ken Fallon" <[email protected]> Date:Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:55 AM Subject:Re: [Hpr] Getting In New Contributors -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-09-14 22:00, Nigel Verity wrote: > While there are doubtless lots of subscribers who listen to every > episode regardless of the subject, there must surely be plenty who go to > the website and just glance at the episode titles to decide what to > download and what to ignore. If they don't subscribe to this mailing > list and don't really read the show notes then they could be unaware o f > the current situation. Very good point. I'd like to know why subscribers don't submit shows, but it's unlikely that a "soft" episode about subscribing would be downloaded by casual subscribers. I really can't believe people do not know that HPR is a community show. > The intro/outro to each episode gives mild encouragement for everyone to > submit a show, but perhaps the point needs to be made with a little mo re > emphasis. The outro http://hackerpublicradio.org/theme.php#outro covers that and is included in every episode. Although perhaps a short snappy station ident like the twit "Netcasts you love, from people you trust" at the beginning might help. - -- Regards, Ken Fallon http://kenfallon.com http://hackerpublicradio.org/correspondents.php?hostid=30 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJV+AcrAAoJECO2jUN3MRFpNg0QAJRcIqAf4pifzWoghNkrALq1 n8kABkOft/jfv5PNh6tAa42K96HcBrYpEwm22YBvGEPa+rnUL0Sm7mcjNPiQ20PV 57O5MTiBQFbGw3wlaOpwv1CTxBQo2xjYgB0wMz7YPOsu21PPW/gpjYbNwmULXYbp M4Sy1+gFyHQe/4FTz5M2cj9Y+I/aKn6dYoeeWpm0SWz2cihBHgHXtUEiQrIysX1N 5L8tPHywMdyAGKCQWJH3HSmQHh4QOtESKODDUX3szpvMp3Uwhm9X2bXQ+m65WuVO lWoziTQXNSPdnrmXTcxLOItgS1NU8doNCeWqkGX0xSlN356r9xUuYLUC2jMe1C4B aBjWKF9Uqr8mR3rKGg2Fhf8nIJdk4YJfojiB/jN8JKmS2YXv7m2ucyWdX3JDs1u0 73wT9kpFKtrEiTxIRrEx48RN41BeK6F72Lui0awI9fABxcYzTlJWEcC1QaUf1ZM9 Rzh1soN5vmI1xGmnxd4LtF/Pj7dTRiQJsUvYI17oJnGoS3eyqdKi2c0aCQRdUpvl 1ZpO5tk1DCYbIO/SlJxOy9VZV74bHn/d+Yn7qrgGaxlpt3mfSaXkhRCPJ+pZk3ZZ zXoUpamr8e0jeyyKod1ikyXl1On4dKsv+sDH8AxnMnFBK53lkbb9aWE+V/hHxDlI pCRR5zLJVSYwEtwQFOZ5 =vdi/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Hpr mailing list [email protected] http://hackerpublicradio.org/mailman/listinfo/hpr_hackerpublicradio.org
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