Leaders of the Roman Catholic and Muslim communities of Southern New Jersey assembled at the Voorhees Muslim American Association's mosque to sign a Letter of Cooperation and Understanding between the two faith communities. Professional Podcasts produced photos, audio reports, and the video podcast from the event (above).

Clicking on this image will activate a video player so you can watch the entire ceremony, including interviews with Bishop Galante, Zia Rahman, and Alan Respler, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Southern New Jersey, who plays a key role in interfaith activities in the region.

The program runs approximately 55 minutes. Produced by Professional Podcasts LLC.

More than 60 people attended the program, which was attended by Most Rev. Joseph Galante, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden. The community presented Bishop Galante with a framed verse from the Holy Q'uran to commemorate the event. From left, Aqil Khan from the Muslim American Community Association; Bishop Galante; Zia Rahman, managing director of the Muslim American Association.

More photos at our Flickr site.

An Evening of New Media Myth Busting at Rowan University: We produced a podcast of this panel conversation held February 13 at Rowan University. The program was sponsored jointly by Rowan University's Advertising/Public Relations Department, the Rowan Ad Club, the Rowan PRSSA, and the Philadelphia Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.

More photos at Steve's Flickr site

Download the podcast here (147 mb stereo MP3 file, 01:47:26 duration).

Send comments to steve@professionalpodcasts.com or call our podcast comment line, +1-856-861-6146 (Europe and UK, +44 020 7193 6146)

Panelists were, from left: Adam Roberts, director of media services, Digitas Health; Katy Thorbahn, senior vice president and general manager of the Philadelphia office of Avenue A | Razorfish; Alan Levy, co-founder and CEO of BlogTalkRadio; Chris Lukach, account manager and co-owner of Anne Klein Communications Group LLC; Edward H. Moore, APR, associate professor of public relations and advertising, Rowan University; and panel moderator Kevin Pitts, vice president of advertising, circulation, and marketing, Philadelphia Business Journal.

Jeff Pulver Social Media Breakfast in Philadelphia: Steve interviews Internet entrepreneur Jeff Pulver at his Philadelphia Social Media Breakfast January 30. Pulver, who just launched Pulver.TV, a 24-hour a day online video channel, hosts breakfasts around the country for participants in online social networking, blogging, and podcasting.

More photos at Steve's Flickr site

Lubetkin Communications/Professional Podcasts Managing Partner
Named Senior Fellow, Society for New Communications Research

Steve Lubetkin, managing partner of Professional Podcasts LLC, one of the leading producers of audio and video programs distributed over the Internet, has been named a Senior Fellow of the Society for New Communications Research (http://www.sncr.org).

Lubetkin, 51, joins the Society’s existing group of business leaders, scholars, professional communicators, members of the media, futurists and technologists from around the globe (http://sncr.org/?page_id=76). The Society’s Fellows collaborate on original research and educational programs focused on the advanced study of emerging trends and developments in media and communications, and their effect on business, professional communications, media and society. He will also serve on the Society's Advisory Board.

Read the SNCR press release here.
Read our localized version of the release here.

Professional Podcasts Introduces Flash-Based "Podcasts with PowerPoint" Presentation Service: Clients of Professional Podcasts can now have their speeches and Microsoft PowerPoint presentations combined to provide visitors to their websites with comprehensive e-Learning modules, including video, audio, self-paced quizzes and other interactive programming.

Professional Podcasts is now creating online learning modules with the Articulate Presenter Professional Studio development tools. Now, instead of posting your PowerPoint slides to your website with a separate audio file, we can help you provide a single Flash-based program module. It's convenient for your customers and looks great, too.

Check out this sample program, our basic presentation about using podcasts to promote thought leadership in a business or corporate environment.

Click here to start the presentation.

Professional Podcasts' Steve Lubetkin featured in two podcast interviews in January 2008: Steve was interviewed by two other podcasters interested in our podcast production business. You can listen to these podcasts here:

	Rod's Pulse Podcast Episode #59: Produced by Rodney B. Murray, Ph.D., of Thomas Jefferson University. Rod's goal is to help educators learn how to integrate podcasting into their toolkits
	The Connections Show Episode #16: Produced by Stan Relihan, a leading executive recruiter in Sydney Australia. Stan asks that if you liked the program, please vote for it at Digg.com. [19:07m]: Play in Popup | Download Connections #016 - Using PodCasts & Mash-Ups as Corporate Tools