010: Retrospective

We take a breather and look back at the first month of All of the Above. We give our new listeners a chance to catch up and see what they have missed by summarizing our past topics. Then we jump into some analysis of the struggles we have had thus far, what tools we have come to rely on, and what changes we see in our future.

Episode 010: Retrospective

In This Episode:

This will be a different kind of episode. Since we cover a lot on this show, and sometimes in a very short span of time, we wanted to take a look back at what we have learned and what new ideas came from those discoveries. It also gives our new listeners a chance to jump right in without feeling they have missed too much.

This is an experiment, so let us know if you like it or not. If it is something that you seem to enjoy then we will start doing these at regular intervals to help keep everyone up to date in case they missed an episode or two. Just let us know.

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5 Days a Week (Starts at 1:00)
Launching with three episodes is recommended
VIDEO: Jason Snell editing The Incomparable 230
Listen to Episode 001: About All of the Above
Listen to Episode 002: About Sean Doran
Listen to Episode 003: About Sam Bantner
Listen to Episode 004: About Bryan Brush

Episode 005: Podcasts (Starts at 4:15)

Listen to the episode
Podcasts on podcasts on podcasts
QUOTE: “They have one of the biggest and most comprehensive show notes ever.”

Our Survey and accompanying blog post

VIDEO: Walter White goes shopping in a Fugue State

Download the Podcast Survey Results

Excel

Numbers

PDF

CSV

Episode 006: Calendars (Starts at 7:55)

Listen to the episodePICTURE: The FoambreroOur Pinterest pageVIDEO: Game of Thrones Quote

Episode 007: Messaging (Starts at 9:50)

Listen to the episodePODCAST: 3 Guys 3 Questions (3G3Q)Emojli: The emoji-only network

Episode 008: eBooks, with Connor Mason (Starts at 11:07)

Listen to the episodeTWITTER: Connor Mason is @conmasEBOOK: Punchkick Interactive’s CarPlay for AutomakersEBOOK: Punchkick Interactive’s iOS 8 in ContextARTICLE: Publishers take note: Native app development is the ebook’s next frontierAPP: OverDrive

Episode 009: Writing, with John Saddington (Starts at 14:22))

Listen to the episodeOculus Rift: Virtual RealityMicrosoft HoloLens: Holographic ComputingTell Me A StoryBOOK: The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama

Failed Episode 010: Weather (Starts at 18:37)
Columbus Winter Beerfest
Lessons Learned & Transparency (Starts at 20:28)
Collaborating on documents in iCloud
Google Docs
APP: Producteev
APP: iMessage
APP: Slack
Slack + Giphy
TWITTER: Aaron L. M. Goodwin is @aaronlmgoodwin
VIDEO: Too Many Cooks (NSFW)

Marketing Efforts (Starts at 24:29)

Here are all the promotional images I created for every day leading up to our launch. The social network images are easily reusable, and handy for marketing efforts in the future. I also made a bit.ly link for each social network that consisted of the bit.ly/aotanetwork format. It helps both users to easily navigate directly to the page if the image is out of context, and it helps us quickly get to a page as it's a consistent URL scheme.

Some of these didn't see the light of day, such as the Egg Nog one. That page simply doesn't exist.

And then there's this one. It was way too inside joke-based, but there isn't even a joke—it's just confusing. Here are all the references:

Relay.fm5by5The Talk ShowAccidental Tech PodcastProfessor BlastoffThis American LifeOvercastDebug

If you want to see what I did, you can download the actual Sketch file I used to make all these. I didn't cleanup anything, so this is pretty raw, and to give you some context — I did all of these within three hours, starting around midnight. Once I get going, I don't like to stop. If you don't have Sketch, you can download a free trial or buy it from the Mac App Store.

Download .Sketch Source File

Also, if you're interested in seeing the Social Media spreadsheet that has all of the links and purpose of each site, you can download it in the format you'd like.

Download the All of the Above Content Inventory Spreadsheet

Excel

Numbers

PDF

Traction (Starts at 25:37)

APP: Sketch 3 on Mac
VIDEO/PODCAST: Basic Bros
Crazy Projects
TWITTER: All of the Above is @AbovePodcast
APP: Tweetbot — Mac, iPhone, and iPad
APP: 1Password — Mac and iOS
REDDIT: r/alloftheabovepodcast
REDDIT: Hello Internet
REDDIT: We Have Concerns
PODCAST: The Allusionist
PODCAST: The Gently Mad
PODCAST: Upvoted by reddit
Our iTunes Page — Rate us if you like puppies
Our contact form
PODCAST PLACES: Podcast Apps & Directories
All of the Above: on TuneIn Radio
Polynomials?
What is RSS?
TWITTER: Squarespace Episode Downloads

OUTRO

This ended up being show notes mixed with a blog post, and it feels like a great way of doing things.

Two birds, one stone, tons of value.

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