I was extremely dubious at first with the whole podcast scene, I'd rather read about it than listen to someone discuss it. But recently I moved closer to the city here in Perth, Australia and walk to work and have found myself listening to some podcasts. I have found them extremely informative and a great way to hear about what else is happening out there in the SharePoint Community.
There are basically two main SharePoint Pod Casts:
- The SharePoint Pod Show
Rob Foster, Nick Swan and Brett Lonsdale have done a great job of pulling in some big guests on the show with the likes of the late Patrick Tisseghem, Rob Bogue, Erik Schupps, Mike Fitzmaurice and Andrew Connell.
Nick and Brett specialise in the BDC and are currently writing a book on it as well as producing BDC MetaMan for Lightning Tools.
The most recent interview with Mike Fitzmaurice is unbelievable. I met this guy at the SharePoint Conference in Sydney in 2007...he could evangelise snow to eskimos for sure! He currently works at Nintex and covers off Nintex Reporting, Workflow and Podcast add-on in great detail. The biggest take home for me was his comparisons on Workflow compared to the base product and also to competitors (without mentioning names). - MOSS Gone Wild
Unfortunately no video podcast with Girls Gone Wild intro, but the content is great. They've had some awesome guest speaks on there. JD Wade is an absolute legend and explains SharePoint Updates so thoroughly! JD advises on what he recommends are the minimum updates required and the order and approach in which to install them.
Todd and Justin host the pod cast and the first few are extremely good and cover what I have been discussing around Development Issues. They also did a great one on Workflow too. - Michael Gannotti
Michael also does some podcasts, mainly in a brain type kinda way whilst driving in his car. He's a huge SharePoint evangelist and could easily be a sports presenter if he wanted a change in careers! His podcasts are a lot shorter than the other guys but you'll certainly get some valuable information out of them!
Please let me know if there are any others out there I've not mentioned.
So, most of the World have iPods or other MP3s...there's no excuse not to download these and listen to them on your way to work!