IT podcasts for ordinary users. What to talk about?

Question

Podcasts

Surely many in Habré, readers, and just people close to the IT field often have to contact ordinary users. And of course, more than once to be convinced of their computer illiteracy, which causes a lot of problems, panic and horror in front of the difficulties that have arisen.
At the same time, various podcasts that are listened to by these same problem users are rapidly gaining popularity.
What do you think, what main topics can be touched upon when creating introductory and educational podcasts on the topic of communicating with computers and what tricks do you use to make your life easier when providing simple help to people, so as not to return to the solved problem later (the user solves it on his own )?

Answer 1

>What do you think, what main topics can be touched upon when creating introductory and educational podcasts on the topic of communicating with computers
That the “Internet” is not a blue (red, red, green ...) icon!
That the site address must be entered in the address bar, and not in your favorite (default, someone installed, ...) search engine on the home page!
That an antivirus without updates only slows down the system!
That wasps and other software without updates are much more likely to pick up some kind of infection, and if you also sit under the administrator ... !!!
That VKontakte and classmates are not at all intended for ordinary correspondence, there is e-mail for this!
I think that's enough to get started :)

Answer 2

The first thing is to find a co-host with a beautiful voice, and even if the topics are not very good, they will still listen)
In my opinion and experience, the podcast should at least be divided into segments:
- talk about updates (interesting plugins, software, updates) for the most popular programs or OS
- HowTo a substantive story about solving some interesting task (for example, how to tie voice control to the OS or something more geeky but in simple language and for ordinary users)
- the third part is the solution to the problems of users, which they will write about in the comments (FeedBack), but for now, FeedBack will not yet be possible to increase the second point a little. There are many topics for HowTo, for example, how to install an OS on a USB flash drive and make it bootable, how to screw a Mac to a regular PC. Is it possible to make the third part as long as there is no General Educational Feedback: classification of viruses, what OSes are, the history of Windows development, etc.

Answer 3

I advise you to listen to Lisa B Marshall's Communication Skills podcasts: publicspeaker.quickanddirtytips.com/
Her videos are very short (6-7 minutes) and well-made.
I would advise each issue to attend 80% of a topic, and 20% of what users write - interaction is VERY important for promotion: to retain the audience and to meet their needs.
I also advise you to decide more closely who and what kind of audience, how old it is, what level. This may be a very initial category, for example, at the age of 40-80 years. It is not clear, however, exactly how they will listen to podcasts - maybe they will be advised.
Or 15-80, but those who are already in vkontakte can find an abstract / weather, but no more.
Topics that, in my opinion, can be chosen for the first few issues, and then follow what the audience likes more:

• Internet security: how to make the right password, how to protect your VKontakte, how to make safe online purchases
• Which is better: desktop, laptop, netbook, tablet and for what occasions
• Online communication and work tools: google docs, teamer, DropBox, gmail, google-calendar, google RSS reader
• Analysis of antiviruses on the market - which are the best and easiest to install and why. What is a virus, and that it cannot destroy hardware.
• Social networks: why they are needed and how to use them
• Latest useful sites for ordinary people: weather, news
• How and why to blog
• How to download your first movie from a torrent

I advise you to score all these points in a vote (what do you think is the best topic for a beginner) on Habré or VKontakte, and see what people think.

Answer 4

It would be great:
- A female announcer (I sometimes listen to Blah-blah taxi only because of Georgina's voice)
- Why do we need codecs? Why do you need this firewall? and already on your page you can download the only good one (do not bother yourself with a choice, when it’s panic-panic-panic anyway!). And in the text, quickly talk about the fiery wall and about various transformations.
— Comparisons. Without holivar, just "+" and "-". And help the user choose Canon or Nikon.
- Must have. Or the first -dtsat programs that we put right after the fresh OS. Antivirus, total, office, browser, etc.
And so that later you will not be reproached for narrow thinking or too little choice.
My argument would be:
I decided for myself that a semi-annual key to another Web from an inexpensive magazine solves most of the problems. Including with the search for keys, and indeed thoughts. And to all my friends, in order not to bother and the main thing is not to fool them (they, unlike me, initially do not care - if only it worked and was the best), I advise the same Web, which works great, scans, updates and does not interfere.

Answer 5

And here is such a thing.
If a person does not know about codecs, then he may not know about podcasts either.
And if acquaintances tell him about the podcast, then it would be better for each podcast to have its own topical topic (Antiviruses, Codecs, Office programs, Media players), conveniently found from the list.