I have Daniel Johnson Jr. to thank for getting me started with TalkShoe. This is like a combination of live chat, podcast, webinar and conference call. When Daniel, John Hingsbergen and I were planning the recent Society of Professional Journalists podcasting seminar, we used it to confer and record our calls.
It’s pretty easy to use. Once registered (free), you set up a call and others call in a a pre-arranged time. You can make the result public or private. It’s not entirely intuitive and the tutorials are rather skimpy. I tried to figure out how to use their documentation and ended up calling Daniel, who told me the answer in seconds.
I’m currently using it on a research project of interviews and writing. It was pretty simple to set up a call and invite my guest. Key points that Daniel set me straight on were how to log in as administrator of the call (use your PIN), and how to start and stop recordings — *2*1 in each case.
Once the call has processed (at the end of the pre-requested time, not at the end of the call) I downloaded the mp3 file to my computer, where I’m going to start editing very soon. With an external mike/headset for my Blackberry, the audio is not broadcast quality of course, but it’s not bad. It’s easy to see uses for this in generating live programs and podcasts, as well as other audio you want to repurpose.
I’m still learning, but so far, thumbs up.
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