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I voted 30 min. The interview itself should be about 30 min. Then another 30 min of Q & A.

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An hour of information is long enough, by the end of the hour everything starts getting foggy as in to much information.

If you have more information to share do a part 2

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Some subjects may need more time. A second episode is the answer.

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This is how I would recommend your video format with a transcript available for us visual learners.

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I would suggest the interview be no more than 40 minutes, allowing 20 minutes for Q&A. Hard Stop at 60 minutes. Other critical, un-answered questions could be answered by Mike online at a later time if desired.

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Consider parsing a 45-60 minute interview/tech discussion event into 4-6 shorter segments with specific topics that are more easily searched and quickly viewed. With some editing, any Q&A specific question/response to one of the segments could be appended to that video segment.

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Too many sound bites these days, do what it takes without being boring.

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I agree with 30 minutes for information and then up to 30 minutes of Q & A - as long as questions pertain to subject of original information in webcast.

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Great idea the article to accompany web cast. Like text book before ( or after 😉) lecture.

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I follow several rv forums, I get bored with video or listening just to glean a few minutes of info.

If your setup allows you to create a transcript that would be helpful as I could read for what interested me.

One of the most frustrating things are facebook reels that have a teaser then never show you the teaser with no way to fast forward. Or ones that require to click through a multitude of slides with out getting to the teaser such a waste of time and no exit without clicking back through the slides.

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Transcriptions are easy. I can also generate a link list to jump to separate topics within a webcast.

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If the question/answer segment goes beyond 30 minutes, perhaps they could be posted in written format. Problem with that is that it would put more load on you, time wise.

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30-45 minutes max. If it takes longer do a two part podcast.

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Sometimes after 30 minutes information gets repeated and off topic. I chose up to 60 as some topics take a longer to get rolling.

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Irrelevant to me. I do not watch pod casts, ted talks or ytubes. I learn faster and better from written word. Never mastered learning from Verbal/videos and time spent not efficient for me. Obviously not the case for others.

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Oct 31·edited Oct 31Author

One variation I’ve considered is writing a long-form article first (3,500 words) then using this as a reference for the live streamed video interview. Thoughts?

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I like that thought. Specific subjects for each - not wide ranging articles or webcasts. Wide ranging ones could "bury" what I'm specifically looking for for in the middle. I find people are usually looking for specific information or help with a specific problem so the narrower the focus of each, the easier to parse.

Thanks for all you do!

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