How to judge the first sector podcast

This week’s VolResource email newsletter included a version of our last blog post, namely:

“The first podcast (audio files over the web) aimed at the UK voluntary sector, as far as we know, has been produced by the Fundraising Technology blog. It’s a good example of getting the basics right.”

That got a few responses, about other possible contenders for being first. Firstly, the Podnosh/Grassroots Channel – “Stories from active citizens in Birmingham” as this blog’s Link page says. Yep, but I was thinking more of a national audience, and had got this pigeon-holed as of mainly local interest, maybe wrongly.

Then the Media Trust has also produced what it calls a podcast, but to me is just a repackaging of seminar talks. Does that count? The Wikipedia definition of podcast says “method of publishing files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new files automatically by subscription,” so it technically qualifies. But then I’m prejudiced against anything on the Media Trust web site, which is (and has been for a long time) startlingly poor for a charity promoting communication techniques to the sector.