Hello all,
Over the years of doing The Talkingreef podcast, one request that kept popping up was the request to have a live call in show. Well we're going to give it a try..

Introducing Talkingreef Live (TRL)
Talkingreef Live will be a live show hosted by myself and Bobby (IReef_IKeeper) and with assitantce and support from Carmie (CarmieJo). It will take place every other Sunday night at 8:00 PM EST (frequency and time not in stone yet) along side the regular Talkingreef Chat. During this show Bobby (IReef_IKeeper) and I will will take your questions, or discuss your topics. You can present questions, or bring up ideas for discussion and we can talk about them and let the audience ring in with their thoughts on the topic. If successful we are planning to do special talk nights with various industry experts, giving you the chance to join us live and ask your question.

During the show, while listening you, will be in a chat room live with everyone. You can present your topics or questions, get added to the queue, join the show, or just hang out and chat with everyone while listening. The shows will be recorded and released as a Talkingreef Live Podcast. These shows will go out in the existing Podcast feed, so everyone will have the chance to listen to them.

There is only one catch. This project is launching on a trial basis. In order for this to be successful we need YOUR participation. Make sure you spread there word and rally all your friends. Without your participation, this show can not succeed.
During this trial period, the team will evaluate the show quality and listener participation to make sure its a valuable resource for everyone.

The first show will be held tomorrow night (9/23/07). This show will be VERY experimental, and may not even get released on the public podcast feed. The idea for this show is to give everyone an idea how the system will work, and let us get an idea how to properly run things.

The show will be hosted at Talkshoe (http://www.talkshoe.com). Make sure you head over there to sign up for a free account. To participate, you can call in from a regular phone (long distance charges may apply), using a VOIP client like Skype or Gizmo Prject, or using the built in ShoePhone client that comes with Talkshoe (all free).

This is going to be great!

^^^ what she said !! this is gonna be great !!

Looks like fun. I'm signed up, downloaded, and ready to go!

Hi,

Can we time it earlier next time so Europe can join in, I think this will be around 1am in the morning and with work the next day, its a bit of a problem.

Good Luck.

Dave Munich Germany

I downloaded the program and signed up. Can't wait for it! Thanks for the invite Rob. :)

It would be impossible to cover all time zones. But maybe the time (even day) could change each week. Then different folks with different schedules could chime in. Over several episodes, you would hear from more reefers and get more of a world reefing perspective.

yes, timing it would be quite difficult, if we go too much earlier will then not get the folks in the east like china, japan, Thailand, Australia, etc.

let see how successful this becomes and maybe we can find a way to vary the times or something.
but this presents issues in itself, if the times are always varied then people will not be able to get familiar and used to a time causing many to miss the show because they forgot and don't know the new time. it also presents the issue that early sunday morning many people are busy with church and family events etc..
let see what we can do to make it a win for everyone, until then we will do the best we can.. :)

Lets see what happens tonight. If we can get a good group together and get some call ins then the idea can move on. But we can still plan ahead right? :p

Maybe we can put multiple groups together for each region? If maybe some people in Europe and Asia would like to volunteer to host the shows we could do it. That would be cool to have the different perspectives from the 3 different regions. Just a thought. :)

thats an idea i was considering as well, have another group that does shows for the other time zone groups.
since this TRL will be every other week, then maybe the new one can be alternating weeks.
either way, we ned to get this one off the ground and going well, then we can start planning next steps.. :)

Heh... should do a special 4:00am "Night Viewers" live episode at some point, for the people who keep a pillow and a red flashlight next to their sump. :)

Amphibious has entered the realm of Talkshoe.

I have joined also. Looking forward to it tonight.

Heh... should do a special 4:00am "Night Viewers" live episode at some point, for the people who keep a pillow and a red flashlight next to their sump. :)

That sounds like me! Only you forgot the can of some kind of energy drink or some other type of liquid caffeine. :p

ok, and just a reminder, please come prepared with a question or topic if you can..
you are all more than welcome to join to just listen, but since this is the first show, getting some help with topics and discussion would be much appreciated.

Thank you all for signing up and preparing for tonight, i have also received a few e-mails from people that are signing up so hopefully we get a good turn out tonight

Also, since this is the first episode, we will likely not start recording right at 8:00 EST. we will probably take a bit to get everyone situation and comfortable with the process.. :)

OK!, I am in. This will be fun!

Hi,

Can we time it earlier next time so Europe can join in, I think this will be around 1am in the morning and with work the next day, its a bit of a problem.

Good Luck.

Dave Munich Germany

i make rounds to a few forums, and this has also been suggested on a couple of them. i think that if the show does as well as we are hoping that we will HAVE to accomodate everyone sooner that later.

i make rounds to a few forums, and this has also been suggested on a couple of them. i think that if the show does as well as we are hoping that we will HAVE to accomodate everyone sooner that later.
IMO, this would be a good problem to have.. :)

Good Luck All, It looks like a good night for pump cleaning :eek:

Congrats Rob. I think the first Talkingreef Live was a successful experiment.
I'm very happy that I was able to be a part of it. Certainly worth staying up late for.

Cheers,
Enrique

Good Luck All, It looks like a good night for pump cleaning :eek:

That's funny.
I cleaned all my electrodes, changed the filters on my RO/DI units and finished tuning the installation my new Kati Ani unit.

If I hadn't cleaned my pumps a couple of weeks ago that's possibley what I would have been doing.

thank you for staying up with us, yes i think it was successful.

i know i learned a lot and hopefully the next show on October 7th will be even better.

it looks like this show will be released, give be a day or so to clean it up and everyone will be able to download it.

thats an idea i was considering as well, have another group that does shows for the other time zone groups.
since this TRL will be every other week, then maybe the new one can be alternating weeks.
either way, we ned to get this one off the ground and going well, then we can start planning next steps.. :)


ladies & gentlemen, the seat belt sign is flashing "human confinment", smoking signs are switched on, keep your major anatomy inside the plane at all times, because the V-Oz ratings have a habbit of shearing them clean off. :p

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Rob, i missed your show, damn weekenders, see what happens when i dont log in, cant turn your attention for a second people, too much can happen!
Congrats guys, hope it continues, wow, you smell that *sniff* smells like BIG SMOKE!:up:

Rob,

Thanks for pulling this together last night, had to go early due to that darn work thing we have to do but it was nice to see so many reefers online at once.

Regards

Dave

Rob,

Thanks for pulling this together last night, had to go early due to that darn work thing we have to do but it was nice to see so many reefers online at once.

Regards

Dave


Dont worry, im closer in my efforts to nail that dood hardcore that created the term "Work"

I had an awesome time! I will try and be at the next one no doubt! Thanks to Rob, Bobby and Carmie for putting it together!

*Grumble grumble* I hate when life gets in the way. Sorry I missed this. I didn't know until today :( Next time eh. I was on travel...and heading out to Washington DC again tomorrow. ROB.. I WILL CALL.. I'm not blowing you off. I'll be in MD and DC through Thursday. I'll call at night...bored...from the bar or my hotel.

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Darn, darn, darn.....My wife works evenings and last night was a rare evening off. We sat down and watched a movie together. Totally blew the time frame on the TRL. I'm sorry. Oh well, had quality time with Sue and that is important, too.

Oct 7th, got it.

I screwed it up too. I logged in then got side tracked doing some stuff downstairs (new media reactor was leaking) and forgot to check back.
Next month ....

...then got side tracked doing some stuff downstairs ....

Yeah...and if you saw "downstairs" you'd understand.. you need a St. Bernard to help you navigate. This dude must have OVER 400 gallons of water running through his walls, floors, and into the basement. I'm telling you... it's crazy man!

just so everyone knows the first show has been posted and is now available on the website and VIA the normal Podcast feed

I just signed up. Thanks for the invite RK.

you got it buddy ... we will be live Sunday night at 8pm EST.

Insted of changing the time of the show every week wouldn't it be ezr to have theis people send questions via email then u could pick the best questions to be answered on the show? If I'm corect u said u you would tape the show then people could tune in on their own time to see their questions answered. just a sugestion.

we do not change the time, it is every other sunday at 8pm. they are recorded live and then released as a podcast that you can download and listen to anytime you want to. here is a link to all of the shows ...

Talkingreef - Podcast Episodes (http://www.talkingreef.com/forums/podcast-episodes/)

yeah.. the idea is for people to come on the show and participate with us.. ask questions.. and to drive further conversations from the questions and answers that take place..

Pre-recorded questions and answer shows are something i have done for years.. but the idea is to get live listener participation