Webcast Theme Weeks, Webcast Mini-Series, and Webcast Series
Guess what? The Microsoft Webcasts team is confused as to what these terms mean. They also think if they don't know what these mean, chances are you guys don't either. I have more faith that than in developers. But to be sure, here's a quick summary of what these terms mean:
Webcast Theme Weeks : A concentrated week or weeks of related content on topics such as ASP.NET, Yukon for developers, 64bit development.
Webcast mini-series: Webcasts that run for a short time. The content is sequential and meant to be watched in order as an instructional technical course. Joe Hummel's Modern Software development is a great example of a webcast mini-series. This webcast mini-series ran from Feb - May, 2004 and consisted of 15 webcasts designed to drive a deeper understanding of Visual Basic.NET.
Webcast series: Webcasts that we hold at a set regular time such as patterns & practices live! webcasts every Thursday at 11:AM PST, Windows Mobility Marvel Webcasts every Wednesday at 11:00 AM PST.
Alll these webcasts are live and also available as ondemand webcasts as well. We're also working on the whole discoverability issue around hearing about them in time. If anyone has ideas on how to better structure these webcasts so the content makes sense, please share your ideas with us. I'm listening if anyone wants to chat with me about it.
Regards,
George, MSDN Webcasts
Comments
- Anonymous
July 31, 2004
Why not start with an RSS feed? and some sub category related feeds? That would go along ways to discovery.. - Anonymous
July 31, 2004
Rather, what I mean is making the feeds a bit more well known.. - Anonymous
July 31, 2004
Discoverability is an an issue. We've started to list the MSDN Webcast Blog on the Developer Program Guide at http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/developer.mspx . The RSS feeds on the left you can subscribe are how we're going to notify attendees about upcoming series, theme weeks and mini-series.
Regards,
George, MSDN Webcasts