Premium Content Updates
August 20th, 2007Thanks again to all of you who have signed-up for Premium Content. Mark and I are VERY appreciative of your support. And we’re been hard at work making few improvements.
First, we’ve heard that RTF documents are troublesome for some. So, we converted all the RTF documents to the Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
Second, it appears that you don’t really enjoy visiting every post, and doing the “right-click, Save as ..” a hundred times or so to download the Premium documents to your hard drive. Go figure! 
So, to resolve this, we created RSS feeds for both the Premium Content and the Interviewing Series (for those of you who purchased the Annual Premium membership). Add these feeds to iTunes and you’ll have all the documents right there in iTunes waiting for you immediately after the documents are published. It doesn’t get any easier than that!
The Premium Content documents feed is: http://www.manager-tools.com/premium/premium_docs_rss.xml
Similarly, if you have purchased the Interviewing Series (a separate product), there is a document feed for you as well.
The Interviewing Series documents feed is: http://www.manager-tools.com/MTInterviewSeries/interview_series_docs_rss.xml
Add the Premium Content documents feed to iTunes
Add the Interviewing Series documents feed to iTunes
The feeds, like the content itself are username and password protected, so if you’re not a Premium member and/or an Interviewing Series subscriber, these feeds aren’t for you .
Hopefully, you’ll find these changes useful. And, if not, I know you’ll let me know how we can improve it!
best regards,
Mike
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August 20th, 2007 at 6:30 am
Great feature! Those feeds were exactly what I needed. Thanks.
August 20th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Excellent on converting RTF to PDF. Thanks for taking my suggestion! Using iTunes as a document aggregator is also an awesome idea! I never would have thought of that one…thats pretty cool.
August 20th, 2007 at 11:48 am
Not only does the feed make it easier to download everything, but it will also be great way to be notified of new content as it becomes available. Thanks!
–Rich
August 20th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Mark,
Great work. Wanted to suggest a topic for podcast
” How to talk like a Leader “. Our first impression about a person is how they talk and walk etc..It would be great to see a podcast on this that gives some examples and high impact phrases in the work place.
One more topic I would request is ” How to keep focussed on a conference call”
I am sure many managers like me have have lot of calls to go on a daily basis and more often they are not productive and people tend to brag on these calls and divert them to a different agenda. I quite often put mute and work on my day to day stuff. What should one do in circumstances like this?
August 20th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Mark and Mike, Mike and Mark, and anyone else who had a hand in developing this…I say… “Brilliant!” Smart stuff and the “get all” button is extra brilliant. Thanks for saving us tons of tedious work.
I can see using this method to disperse content for various applications (assuming I ever figure out how you do this)
*RNTT
August 20th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Oh, and if anyone doesn’t know this, once you have the content downloaded into iTunes, you can simply drag and drop the content from iTunes into any non-iTunes folder of your choosing.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:33 pm
ecineko,
do you know the two episodes on effective teleconferencing?
Bye,
Martin
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:48 am
THANK YOU. You just gave me a lot of time back in my day, could you say that you ‘Made’ time for me… Three button clicks and I now have all of the premium content.
Thank you,
Mark
August 22nd, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Thank you so much for this, it means less time downloading and more time listening and learning
August 28th, 2007 at 10:14 am
For some of the casts there has been extra content - templates etc… Curious if all those documents could be added to an RSS feed. Love the document aggregator with iTunes, so this would be handy.
September 15th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Great feature. It would be helpful for me if you were consistent in naming the slides and show notes. When I look at the documents outside of the RSS feed reader, it can be difficult to find the pairs. Thanks again.
Mark
September 15th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
fleming99,
Great point … we’ll work on that!
thanks,
Mike
October 24th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Is there anybody who uses some non-iTunes RSS aggregator with success for secured feeds? I use Feedreader but for some reason it only downloads the premium content feed itself (XML file), however, attachments (podcasts) could not get through. I gave up and installed iTunes on my PC and it works smoothly for the premium content. Nevertheless, I would rather come back to a general RSS reader, since I am not Mac & iPod user, iTunes is a bit awkward for me.
I tried several other RSS readers without success. Any suggestions?
BTW: MT is really great stuff, thank you for your hard work, Mark&Mike. Even though I cannot easily use all of it in our culture, it already helped me greatly to improve myself.
-Honza
October 24th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
honza,
I and others have successfully used the Juice Receiver to download Premium content. It’s a great program and can’t recommend it more highly. You’ll find it here: http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/
regards,
Mike
October 31st, 2007 at 1:16 pm
Also right-click|save-as doesn’t seem to work in Firefox, the downloaded file is corrupted. It looks like an authentication problem, Firefox isn’t presenting the credentials correctly. If you open in new tab it works fine so it’s probably just that one code path, I’ve tried it from 3 different PCs so I don’t think it’s just one installation.
November 29th, 2007 at 9:37 pm
I used the Premium Content feed and it worked perfectly…I was thrilled (an enormous time saver).
However, it appears that not ALL of the shownotes and slides are included…is that the case? For example, I noticed that the “Preparing for Your Review” slides and shownotes did not appear in the Premium Content feed in iTunes.
Is there any way I can ensure that I’m getting everything at once?
-Tom
November 30th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Tom,
Good point! The Premium Content Documents feed included Premium Content and Members-Only Docs only. There are several documents that we’ve made available to everyone, member or not — those were not in the feed.
Of course, that makes no sense whatsoever … we’ve fixed that and the feed now includes ALL documents.
Thanks to you, premium members will now find *14* additional documents in the feed.
Thanks again for pointing that out!
best regards,
Mike
November 30th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Mike - I’m really impressed with your rapid response to this issue. You guys rock!
December 12th, 2007 at 3:02 am
The Juice suggested Icepodder for Linux seems to work well under ubuntu/kubuntu. I have not experienced the Firefox issue mentioned above in the linux kubuntu environment.
http://www.icepodder.com/
- Bruce
December 17th, 2007 at 4:08 am
The links on this page were what I was looking. They were a bit difficult to find, though. Could you possible add a link to this page on the general premium content page?