Hear your Thought Leaders ...

This is not a post, just a plug. In the form of a post.

If you haven’t yet heard the Mail & Guardian‘s weekly podcast Between the Pages, then this is as good a time as any to get on the bandwagon. The show has been going for 43 weeks now and, each week, we talk to some of the journalists who have written for the paper that week. It’s great getting some of the untold stories, hearing how the investigative team goes about its work, getting Ferial Haffajee’s editorials straight from her mouth and so on. We’ve chatted to Zapiro about his cartoons, and Riaan Wolmarans is a regular each week with the top 10 stories from the M&G Online.

This week we decided to give a voice to those behind some of the words on this website and so, in a synergistic media orgy that would have Matthew Buckland doing himself an injury trying to unravel, you can hear a Thought Leader blogger being interviewed on the M&G‘s podcast, which is usually all about the newspaper. Got it? Good.

So download the podcast this week to hear Eve Dmochowska — one of my favourite fellow bloggers on this site — tell us how corporates should be embracing rather than banning Facebook.

If you’re new to this whole podcast thing, here are some tips to get going:

1. You don’t need an iPod, or any other kind of portable MP3 device for that matter. All you need is a computer with a soundcard. A reasonably fast internet connection would help too — our podcast is usually about 6MB in size each week, which would be a pain for dial-up users to download.

2. If you have an iPod, you probably have iTunes on your computer — click on this link and you will automatically be subscribed to the podcast with no further effort on your part.

3. If you don’t have an iPod, then go along to the podcast’s blog and click on the “Download as MP3” link on the right. Soon you’ll be listening to the show, as happy as a fish meeting chips for the first time.

Tell us what you think, and make sure you “tune in” each week for more of the good stuff … and to hear more Thought Leader bloggers.