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Creating a Podcast

Next month I’ll be attending a 3-day workshop Podcasting: Creating and Publishing Audio Content Online (sold out) at a local community college. Podcasting is a term that derives its name from the iPod, the portable media player manufactured by Apple. The term “podcast” is no longer specifically associated to the iPod as it refers to any combination of software and hardware that allows its users to automatically download and store recorded digital audio files .

I’ve already experimented with at one time or another with a headset and Audacity sound editing software, played with Odeo Studio - created and published a short podcast - (don’t have the link handy), read a tutorial and listened to some informative podcasts at webmaster radio. So the question is, where do you find an audience for your podcast?

In some ways, creating and publishing your podcast is the easy part. The hard part is getting people to listen. In order to gain an audience you need to let people know you exist. Here are 12 strategies for making it easy for people to find your podcast.

Among the dozen suggestions are: Make Your Podcast Search Engine Friendly, Subscribe to Your Podcast, Interview Interesting People, Guest Blog on Related Sites and Get Listed in Directories.

Tags: Podcasting