Changes To The TuDiabetes Interviews!

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Last week I wrote a post about some changes to the staff that run TuDiabetes and EsTuDiabetes. These changes have also made it possible for us to re-strategize our live video interview content and the audio podcast content that we publish each week.

Based on the traffic as well as the search queries that we can see, it appears that the video archive is a well-used resource by our members as well as a hook that brings new members to our community. We have no plans of getting rid of it. We do, however, have a few changes we are going to make to make sure we are using our staff’s time wisely as well as producing content that will have the largest impact on the community we serve.

Here are some of the changes that we will be implementing soon:

  • No live interviews - Instead of recording interviews live we will begin interviewing, editing, then publishing video each week to the TuDiabetes video archive. This gives us more flexibility to accommodate the schedules of our guests. We certainly enjoyed having the live interaction during interviews, but the turnout during the live events was never large enough to justify the amount of work involved with producing a live streaming show.
  • Mila & Mike - Starting next week, you’ll recognize two new faces hosting the weekly TuDiabetes Talks episodes. @Mila2 and @mrmikelawson will take turns interviewing our guests in the interviews that are conducted in English. All of these interviews will continue to get archived in the TuDiabetes video archive as well as on the TuDiabetes Talks audio podcast.
  • Thirty Minute Interviews - on EsTuDiabetes, the interview length has been cut down to 30 minutes per week. We are going to experiment with this shorter length as the default here on TuDiabetes.
  • English & Spanish - We have always done interviews in English and in Spanish, but starting next week we will begin an every-other-week schedule that will alternate between the two languages. The video archive will have a category specifically for the content created in Spanish, and the audio podcast feeds will contain only one language (so if you wish to have the Spanish and English podcast, you will need to subscribe to both). This will give our staff the opportunity to focus on planning, executing, publishing, and promoting the video content each week in the given language.

If there are any people in the diabetes world that you would like to see interviewed, please mention them in this thread or send me an email (mike@diabeteshf.org). I’d also be happy to answer any questions you may have that weren’t answered in this original post. We are always on the lookout for new names or new topics. I’m excited to see how our video interview library grows in the next year!

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Perhaps you could post the schedule of upcoming guests with a thumb-nail description of the topic and then invite members to submit questions in advance. This will still allow some community interaction without the burden of doing it live.

I would like to see more interviews of people who are using hybrid do-it-yourself artificial pancreas systems. It may be possible, but I find it hard to believe, that you could do a topic like this justice in a 30-minute format. I remember when Emily did a few of these “shorter format” interviews and I felt like so much was left unsaid.

I’m happy to read that we’re still committed to investing in video content.

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I second the point about the shorter length. I understand the reasoning (I think)—with the benefit of editing, a lot of fluff and dead time can be eliminated thereby concentrating the content. Nevertheless I agree with Terry; in the past I’ve often felt that too many topics were left entirely undiscussed.

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Interesting changes, definitely understand the decisions.
Do you have possibilities to maybe add subtitles to the spanish interviews (and maybe also the english ones) so that it is accessible to more people who are not fluent in both?
Thanks for all you do!

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You’re a mind-reader. We will be producing mini-episodes out of the larger episodes (short, digestible pieces that can tease the larger interview and be shared on social media). These will certainly have subtitles.

We are working on figuring out how to add subtitles to the full 30-minute interviews without creating a ton of work for someone. But this is certainly on the radar. :slight_smile:

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Maybe you can even find members of the community who would like to translate one or another video once in a while?

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