An Internal Podcast
Today I launched something new within my company walls—an internal Podcast. It’s called Hi! I’m Aptima!
Why did I do this? I’ve been at Aptima for three years this month. I was taking part in an interview with someone who has been with the company for over ten years (she was employee #4; there were around 50 when I was hired; now we’re in the 110 range). When she was telling the candidate what she does, I realized that not only did I not know a lot of what she was saying, but I found out she had a lot of experience in collaborative web sites.
So, that was it. I decided that I needed to share this information about her and other employees in an internal podcast. Each week I am interviewing two people—an Aptima “veteran” and an Aptima “newbie”. I asked the interviewees about their backgrounds, current projects, professional interests, and personal interests. The first episode launched today and I feel it went very well.
This is the first step towards corporate blogging for my company. I want to take baby steps. Perhaps an internal podcast can turn into an internal blog. Then perhaps the internal blog can turn into an external one. We have great minds here and I think blogging could be a hit.