As a podcast lover, I enjoyed learning about the power of podcasts for science communication and career this morning! #AAASmtg #scicomm #podcast
Five planning principles for creating a podcast (or other story-based project):
1. Focus on audience - Who? What questions do they have? What barriers exist to prevent them from listening to the end of your story?
2. Flow - within an episode, the order of episodes overall
1. Focus on audience - Who? What questions do they have? What barriers exist to prevent them from listening to the end of your story?
2. Flow - within an episode, the order of episodes overall
3. Key takeaways - 1 or 2 for your audience to walk away from an episode or season with
4. Structure - The journey: Where is the beginning, middle, and end? How and where do you build emotion?
5. Format - conversational? humorous? Who to interview and how?
4. Structure - The journey: Where is the beginning, middle, and end? How and where do you build emotion?
5. Format - conversational? humorous? Who to interview and how?
Other excellent advice:
Elaine Devine "Good delivery can't save a bad story, unfortunately. But bad delivery can kill a good story."
@Ron_Wasserstein: Tell a story as often as you can to get feedback. Storytelling takes practice, iterating, and revision.
Elaine Devine "Good delivery can't save a bad story, unfortunately. But bad delivery can kill a good story."
@Ron_Wasserstein: Tell a story as often as you can to get feedback. Storytelling takes practice, iterating, and revision.
@kaitlynregehr: The biggest difference between scientific communication to scientists vs non-specialists, besides language, is the "so what?" Non-specialists want to know why scientific work is important and why to keep listening!
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