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Something that has been occupying a great deal of my time in the last couple of weeks has been the process of trying to promote Out of Office. Friends would be forgiven for thinking that I have become a one man spam machine, with a bunch of emails, tweets, IMs and threats (I'm making the last one up). It's a difficult line to tread, between being enthusiastic for the work you've done, and just being annoying. For anyone that I have fallen into the annoying category with, I apologise - do email me and let me know!

We've been pretty fortunate so far - our hosts have posted us on their front page for both of the episode releases, chortle picked up our first episode (and will hopefully embed our second ep), and we've been having various conversations about other possibilities. I've also had the good fortune to be interviewed for mac 20 questions. The podcast hasn't been released yet, but I had a very enjoyable chat with WizardGold, talking about how I use the mac, and in particular how I've used it to create Out of Office. I'm looking forward to hearing how it turns out.

We've also had a few viewers promoting the show for us, I think my favourite so far has been Lisa over at Working Naked, a website specifically aimed at people working from home. In terms of target audience, I don't think it comes much closer than that!

It's all pixie steps, and there's a long way to go, but it's been a very interesting process so far. There's a wealth of web video out there, and a thriving promotional industry that is building around that. Now we have a couple of episodes and don't look like a one-episode wonder, it's time to try and get involved in that in a more detailed way.

Another side benefit of all this has been that I've been come across some great web shows. I'll be posting a couple of them up over the next few days ...