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Posted January 13th, 2009 by Ethec

Ten Ton Hammer's second Voon podcast tackles official boards & forum communities.

Show Notes - Episode #2: Being Heard - January 6, 2009

Length: 23:51

Synopsis: Ten Ton Hammer's second episode of Loading... Live welcomes two reigning forums goddesses Shayalyn and Autumnkiss, as they track the trends of online games forums throughout their careers.

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Participants

Hosts

Jeff "Ethec" Woleslagle
Editor in Chief- Ten Ton Hammer Network
Ben "Machail" de la Durantaye
Managing Editor - Ten Ton Hammer Network
Cody Bye
Executive Editor - Ten Ton Hammer Network

Guests

AutumnKiss
Vivox Communities Manager and Voon fixer-upper
Shayalyn
Ten Ton Hammer Forums and PR Specialist Extraordinaire
You!
Join us next week on Voon in room Ten Ton Events.

Introductions

0:00 Introductions and pleasantries.
0:46 The magic is gone

Ethec forgets to start recording, and the second intro just doesn't have the same magic.

Links

Loading... - Ten Ton Hammer's daily newsletter and column
Loading... Live Episode 1: Not Funny... Forever

News and Events

1:03 The Machail Report
2:24 NCSoft will prevail

Ben reviews the weeks' news, and its mostly about successful MMORPG launches... a year too late. Oh, and this weird worlds.com lawsuit, from which we've decided to copyright the concept of a lawsuit and sue everyone.

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Being Heard

3:04 Curriculum vitae
6:31 The big question.
11:48 How to be heard.
13:47 Managing expectations
16:57 The Vocal Minority
19:20 Drawing the line
28:05 Closing

Do forums (official or otherwise) help or hinder communication between devs and players? That's the big, overarching, almost impossible to answer in a podcast this week, but Shayalyn and Autumnkiss do an admirable job with a minimum of flaming and trolling the OP.

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