First WordPress Weekly Listening Party

This week on WordPress Weekly, I have the privilege of interviewing both Randy Hoyt of AmesburyWeb who will discuss making WordPress work for business oriented sites while Scott Clark, co-author of the Pods plugin will discuss using WordPress as a CMS. Both of these guys presented at WordCamp Dallas two weeks ago so it will be a treat reviewing what went on at that event. I know many of you who listen to the show have wanted to hear an episode dedicated to the topic of ‘Using WordPress As A CMS‘ and I hope to deliver on that with Scotts help this week.

But the exciting news is that WordPress Weekly will notch a new milestone with this episode as Randy has informed me that there will be an ongoing listening party as the show is being recorded. How cool is that?

We are turning this recording into a full evening for local technical WordPress users and developers to meet and discuss using WordPress as a CMS. We’ll have pizza and drinks from 6:00-7:00, the live recording of the podcast from 7:00-8:00, and a question and answer session with Scott and Randy from 8:00-9:00.

I’m certainly interested to see how this all turns out. The only concerns I have is their ability to call into the show via Skype or some other piece of software and the background noise. The background noise is my main concern and I hope it won’t drown out the interview although if it were subtle, it would add a nice tough.