If you're doing an interview where there's a lot of information about to be shared, and/or you need to make sure you can quote people accurately, you might want to record it. To do so, you'll need equipment. What equipment depends on whether you want to do the interview through a regular phone line or through an Internet phone line. If you want to record through a regular phone line, you'll find the topic far more complex than you might expect for a number of reasons: -- Read more

Between my blog and my other writing work lately, I seem to be doing a whole lot of interviews. In some cases, the interviews are for information, such as when I'm working on a news article. In that case I'm probably also looking for some quotes. With others, like the ones I post here, the whole point is to share the interview itself.

I used to hate doing interviews. It wasn't the process, unless there's transcription involved. (More on this topic later, transcription is essentially taking the audio or video interview and writing or typing it out into text.) The bigger problem for me was actually coming up with the questions. What the heck do you ask? -- Read more