I wonder whether current feed-based services are good enough for this. - John W Lewis

We (MSIT - Microsoft Ireland) are using SharePoint technologies to share knowledge and experience. More recently I have been experimenting with podcasting technologies such as Academy Mobile - a free codeplex.com template for SharePoint 2007. During the last couple of years I have been doing productivity training on the MS Office stack, firstly in a labs/class/seminar based environments, but more recently with Live Meeting OCS 2007. I used to get >20 to a room, but now I get 1-5 to a room 4 times a week (1:30 sessions), but now >30 online with very few showing up to class.. so people are opting for their desk to learn; using recordings to replay and a video collection I have created delivering via SharePoint. I stream videos, and allow people to download them. So the upshot of this rapid change is that I now sit in a room alone, with my headset on lecturing to >30 people per 1:30 session, 4 times a week. I also use Office Communicator 2007 to PING people prior to attendance and have music playing in the session prior to starting. I also upload slide deck, web pages, agenda etc. to the meeting - great for later retrieval and track-back. I see this technology becoming mainstream, embedded in web based virtual workspaces, linked back to email for later retrieval.. My videos are producced using Camtasia Studio and I use a Zoom microphone. Videos are typically >30 mins max and cover all the bases and let people practice and repeat what was learned during my fast track sessions. Experience so far is that they are going down a storm and a viral network of attendance is evolving - Rob Atkinson