The podcasts were taken down from this site on August 1, 2007. The corresponding blog posts for each session will remain on the website though. As you may, or may not, know this project was the first time that podcasts had been made available for sessions at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). Some participants had expressed a desire to have the recordings made available for only a few months, to this end it was decided that the podcasts would be taken down. I’d like to see the podcasts remain on the website next year so this is something that I’ll be looking into changing.
At the time that I’m writing this post there have been 3,216 visitors to this website! This number greatly exceeded my expectations and I think it really speaks for the value and interest in these podcasts. Additionally there have been 88 search engine searches that included the words “anthropology” (or a sub-discipline) & “podcast” that led visitors to our site. Twenty one websites, not all “anthropological”, have linked to this site and referred 1042 visitors to this site!
The podcasts will be continued at the 2008 Annual Meeting in Memphis, TN. I am beginning to work on the project for next year, my focus now is on figuring out what “worked” and didn’t “work” this year i.e., that should be improved upon. I have received a fair amount of emails from site visitors offering their suggestions and it’s been super helpful to have this feedback. I’d still like to hear from people- what did you like or dislike about this year’s project? Did the blog posts have enough or too much information about the participants? Did you hate the layout or colors of the website? Do you want more podcasts next year? Etc. etc. Feel free to email me at jencardew at gmail dot com OR leave a comment on this post.
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