Dealing with negative podcast feedback - Webmaster Cookbook #19 12/10/2004
Posted by ChefTD on Dec 10, 2004
Original live airdate: Friday December 10, 2004 at 3pm PST / 6pm EST
Webmaster Cookbook AUDIO:
Streaming:
20k listen archive stream (dialup users)
64k listen archive stream (broadband)
download 24.6 MB (64k version)
Drinks (cool stuff to add to your websites):
- Google suggestions and Google labs
Appetizers (hungry for knowledge, this will get you started)
- How to deal with negative feedback on the web using comments one listener gives about the show. In particular the comment “painful” was used to describe the show.
Main Course (the meat and potatoes of the show)
- How to monitor security issues with programs being used. The issues associated with using third party scripts and programs.
Dessert (fun and fat-free stuff)
- Jowl and ChefTD discuss having no car.
The Check (what did we learn today)
- Take the weekly quiz along with Jowl
Show Summary:
ChefTD and Jowl discuss the first negative feedback coming through about the Webmaster Cookbook radio show. ChefTD tells Jowl that he shouldn’t take negative feedback personally. ChefTD explains how he feels the show would probably be improved if it was two twenty minute segments instead of three with the first segment being more of the how things are going with Jowl and building the website and dealing with the issues facing a new webmaster and the second segment being a webmaster-related how-to project/task. ChefTD also discusses a couple ways that they might be able to monetize the show so that it covers the bandwidth costs. Webmaster Cookbook is going to start putting secret backwards messages in some future podcasts to give away prizes to listeners as a way to reward the folks that listen to the show. Jowl visits Google labs and tries out the new Google Suggest. Jowl shows ChefTD how he has more people writing at the orting.com website. ChefTD comments on how gathering people to contribute to a website is something Jowl seems to be good at doing. Next, ChefTD shows Jowl how to deal with a security issue with Wordpress version 1.21 and some discussion over how to use Feedster to monitor Wordpress for issues. ChefTD tells the story of the worst office Christmas party and how they have no car [note: after the show, the mechanic had fixed the car, it was a timing belt problem]Before show started browser screenshot:
No changes were made to the Orting website during the show this week.
Links discussed on the show:
Robodemo (now called Captivate) - create interactive Flash videos
Blog Explosion - increase your blog traffic
Google Suggest - Google tries to guess what you are searching for and shows search results.
Feedster - track search results via custom RSS feed (FREE)
