Advancing Podcasting Community-Style

It's the end of the first week of my summer/season break from recording Podcast Pontifications, and the transition is... weird. As I said on Twitter the first day:

But as you know, my break isn't a vacation. Well, not a complete vacation. I'm busy in the background making some changes for Season 4 (mid-July 2021) of Podcast Pontifications and putting in place some new concepts I've been noodling on for months. Like...

Advancing Podcasting Returns

A couple years ago, I had a half-baked notion of some sort of coalition between podcasters and podcasting service providers who wanted to make podcasting better. I think I dreamed it would be some sort of special interest group that would rally disparate members rallying under a common cause for the betterment of our industry. I called it the "Advancing Podcasting Party". It was going to be monumental.

But did I mentioned half-baked?

So in actuality, it went nowhere.

Until now, that is! Now, the idea of Advancing Podcasting is 3/4 baked, with an actual place to start building the coalition right now, amongst all listeners/readers/watchers of Podcast Pontifications.

You, as a PPIYI subscriber, are invited to join the Advancing Podcasting community.

It's currently populated with the people who've chosen to support me with a virtual coffee, but I want you to join the conversations as well.

Thus far, it's very low-volume. So even if you have anxiety (like I had anxiety) at the thought of joining a Discord server due to a prior bad (overwhelming?) experience, I think you'll find this community quite different.

Beyond Podcast Pontifications People

I've already been asked why I didn't make the community specific to just Podcast Pontifications. And the simple answer is that I'm embracing a multi-channel approach. A lot of people reading this newsletter never listen to the podcast. And that's cool with me. A lot of people who follow me on Twitter never listen to the podcast and never read this newsletter. That's also OK.

So I fully expect that, when I open the community to the larger world in a few weeks, that there will be community members joining who have no idea who the hell I am. And again, I am very OK with this. Contrary to my (well-earned) reputation, it's not all about me.

My goal is to advance podcasting in as many ways as I can. I care very little for marketing funnels, hub-and-spoke approaches, or other tired efforts. I'm about meeting podcasters who care about podcasting where they are. This community is one more space like that.

So come join us!

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