Show #10: Interview With Tee Morris and Cirina Catania, From The Podcast And New Media Expo 2007
When is a medical podcast not a medical podcast?
When you’re interviewing two folks who blow standard definitions right out of the water. From the OC Podcasters‘ booth at the Podcast And New Media Expo, I was lucky enough to snag Tee Morris of Podcasting For Dummies fame, and Cirina Catania, a multimedia film and video content creator. Both brought years of experience to their interpretations of audio and video podcasting: what the media has become, where it’s headed, and what it does best.
Tee Morris is arguably the best known front man for the podcasting movement at the grass roots level. In addition to his passion for family, scotch of debatable quality, writing, writers, and public speaking, he loves teaching people how to podcast. Together with the equally prolific and Web 2.0 savvy Evo Terra, he co-wrote the book Podcasting For Dummies, soon to enter an updated print run as THE book for entry-level podcasters.
As you can hear in the show, interviewing Tee is like using a firehose: point him in a direction, away he goes, and you hang on for dear life. That exuberance is what can make podcasting from an event — be it a New Media expo or a health faire — such a riveting experience.
As he calls out to passersby, friends or total strangers, everyone stops to listen. Set up a podcasting rig at an event, with the headphones and the pro-looking mics connected to a PA system…and passersby are, as Jason Van Orden would say, “reeled in like helpless little fish.” There’s no better way to draw attention to your table — or a cause you care deeply about. Tee specifically refers to Give Us A Minute, his medical podcast on leiomyosarcoma dedicated to his friend and fellow podcaster, Joe Murphy, who passed away this April from the disease.
Cirina Catania has years of broadcast radio experience in college and the Armed Forces Radio Network, as well as Hollywood and independent film and video production, event promotion, and celebrity interviews. Chivas Regal, The Discovery Channel, and Microsoft are among her corporate clients; she recently produced the Mission Impossible 3 “Making Of” featurette; and her 50+ celebrity interviewee list includes Halle Berry, Danny Glover, and Whoopi Goldberg.
Like Mark Jensen of PodSqod with his broadcast radio background, Cirina has the advantage seeing a lot of this before, both the best beginnings and the worst decays. And thankfully, she radiates confidence and enthusiasm for podcasting as the newest-but-now-maturing communication medium with legs.
Otherwise, I’d be looking to sell some podcasting gear on eBay.
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