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Special Parents Confidential Now On Spotify

Special Parents Confidential Now On Spotify

We are pleased to announce that you can now listen to Special Parents Confidential on Spotify.

Follow any of the links in this text to find out Spotify listing and subscribe to SPC.

Or, use the Spotify button on our new social media listings on the right side of the main page of our website.

We’re now able to add Spotify to our list of other social media subscriptions including iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn, PodDirectory, BluBrry, Tumbler, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

We’re working on getting SPC listed on more audio services, and we’ll continue to update our availability as we go.

Thanks for all your continued support! Be sure to share SPC with all of your favorite social media sites. Just use the social media buttons at the bottom of this posting, as well as on the right side of our home page.

New Episodes Coming Soon!

We’re working on some new episodes of SPC that will be posted soon.

Additionally, we’re planning to start a series of episodes on the Americans with Disabilities Act. We’ll take a close look at how and why the Act was written and passed in 1990, and the ADA Amendment Act of 2008. We’ll go through each part of the Act and talk about what it covers, how the laws work, and we’ll try to dispel some of the common misconceptions about ADA and how it affects businesses, education, and public life.

We think this will be a great series, and hope you’ll find it worthwhile.

Make sure you subscribe to us on Spotify, or any other audio service site we’re listed on, so that you won’t miss a single episode!  And be sure to write reviews for our episodes on those subscription service sites as well, to help spread the word about SPC.

Thanks for listening!

 

The Numbers Are In!

The Numbers Are In!

When I started this podcast a little over two years ago I was hoping to be able to fill a need for parents or relatives or friends of special needs children and adults. I had no idea how many people would be interested, but I thought there would be ‘some’.

Until now I really had no idea how many people have seen the Special Parents Confidential website, or how many people were listening to the podcast episodes. We don’t have a large number of subscribers on iTunes… this is primarily owing to the fact that the file size for each episode is very large. My crazy insistence on having the sound quality as good as any FM radio station is the cause. Due to these large file sizes, it’s my belief that most of the audience is listening directly on the website rather than downloading the episodes.

Well now I have a better idea of just how many people have been checking out this ‘humble little podcast’. My webmaster guru recently ran a site stat report for me, and I wanted to share some of it here. The report contains large numbers of stats including activity, access, visitors, referrers, browsers, and errors (bots trying to gain access to stuff they’re not supposed to have – don’t worry they didn’t get anything). The numbers are in, and very detailed, so I’ll just post the two most important stats: Since we started in in January of 2013 until April 23 of 2015 (the date the report was generated), Special Parents Confidential has been visited 815,493 times; with 600,882 real people hits and 214,611 spider (bot) hits. More impressively, the total bandwidth usage has been 49.45 GBs. In radio terms, that’s (TSL) Time Spent Listening. This number represents both episode downloads and direct listening time.

Pronouncing the words, “I’m shocked” is a major understatement. I think the phrase, ‘my brain did backflips’ is more appropriate. These are far bigger numbers than I ever expected, or thought possible, given that I haven’t really gone out of my way to promote the site.
To everyone who has visited, listens, and continues to do both, thank you so very much! It’s gratifying to know there are so many more of you than I thought. You have my assurances that I’ll continue to produce episodes that cover subjects you want to know about. You should also know that you have a voice in this process too. Please like our Facebook page or Follow us on Twitter so you can comment directly on each episode (we monitor those the most frequently)*. Also feel free to share episodes and the website on your favorite social media sites.
Thanks!

John

PS- if you’re interested in sponsoring or advertising on our podcast or this website, please use our Contact Page, and I’ll send you a more detailed version of the stat report and we can talk things over.

*We use Facebook and Twitter for podcast comments, rather than a webpage ‘comments section’ in order to reduce spammer advertising.