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London, 24 January 2007 - Pascal Roobrouck, Project Manager at Alcatel-Lucent University - a training ability for the telecoms behemothic - shares some of his thoughts on the challenges and successes of its centralized podcasting campaign.

1. What is your role aural Alcatel-Lucent?

I am amenable for acquirements alignment and tools. I accept to my centralized and alien barter to see if we can advance our acquirements casework by application new or altered acquirements methods. This includes of advance e-learning, and so we accept advised several e-learning solutions, implemented them and my aggregation is aswell operating them daily.

2. What has been the a lot of acceptable and/or acknowledged aspect of the Alcatel-Lucent's centralized accumulated podcast?

We abide in a apple which is actual abundant focused on 'visual' and 'interactive', compared to that, a podcast seems to be a rather ancient acquiescent audio-only experience. The a lot of acceptable acquaintance is that because of these limitations', the capacity seemed to be abundant stronger and crop abundant added effect. It is like assuming a song with just one acoustic instrument, rather than application a abounding orchestra...

3. What do you accept are the above roadblocks for accumulated podcasting both internally to Alcatel-Lucent and evidently in the bazaar place?

My better roadblock is to acquisition humans accidental contents. Everyone is accommodating to listen, but alone actual few realise that anybody has to acquaint a story. To architecture a podcast affairs is a one time accomplishment and is absolutely fun to do. To aggregate the capacity is a abiding effort. We charge to acquisition some solutions for that.

4. How are you barometer the appulse and capability of your podcast campaign?

We admeasurement this both in abundance and quality:
1. We carefully adviser the amount of downloads, admirers and subscribers, to apprentice which is the a lot of acceptable way to accompany the podcast to our listeners, which is the best time to column a new copy and added trends.
2. For quality, we animate humans to accord us acknowledgment about what they admired (and what not). This way we are architecture up acquaintance about which capacity humans charge and what akin of detail and all-embracing appearance we should offer.

5. What one area of admonition would you accord to a aggregation or organisation that is alpha a podcast attack with a bare area of paper?

I would admonish to chase a agnate action as we did for the design, and to accredit a minimum of committed humans for accession the capacity already you are 'on air'

Pascal Roobrouck is a 40 year old imagineer. He works for Alcatel-Lucent University, the accumulated training centre of Alcatel-Lucent. He is amenable for technology-supported learning. In this position he has complete acquirements solutions application all kinds of media and technology. This way he and his aggregation realise over 40000 learner-hours per year, extensive an admirers of bags of employees. In 2006 Pascal developed and implemented a accumulated 'learning' podCast alleged 'radar'.

Pascal Roobrouck will abode "Podcasting for agent training and communication" at the Corporate Podcasting Summit, London, 19 - 20 March. Podcasting for agent training and advice is just one of the abounding means organisations are adapting the podcast belvedere to accommodated their needs.

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