Tomorrow I begin attending a 3-day workshop Podcasting: Creating and Publishing Audio Content Online. Doing some research in anticipation of the seminar, I discovered some tasty tidbits to get the juices flowing.
The book Podcasting Solutions: The Complete Guide to Podcasting was written by two experienced podcasters, Michael Geoghegan and Dan Klass, and contains practical tips and insider know-how. Some of the authors’ recommended hardware is available from BSW Professional Audio Gear.
The site How to Podcast is self-decribed as: the definitive step-by-step guide on how to podcast (including getting started, marketing, improving audio quality,
making money, and more). This is the home of the that will take your podcast from concept to launch fast and for minimal cost. The same site includes an Audacity Tutorial for Podcasters.
I am interested in interviewing others and in being interviewed. For Mac users, the 2006 version of in iLife, Garageband 3, has expanded to make podcasting a snap, especially in combination with a .Mac Web site. Apple refers to it as a podcasting authoring studio, complete with royalty-free sound effects, jingles, and the use of iChat for conducting remote interviews.
If you want to include content from speakers in other locations, as in an interview, Virtual Audio Cable for the PC and Audio Hijack Pro for the Mac are able to capture sound from
Skype conversations.
Develop a regular audience and you have the potential to earn money via advertising. Fruitcast downloads your MP3 audio file, adds the advertisements, on the fly, to the beginning or end of your program, and then sends your podcast to your subscribers. You are paid each time a podcast episode is downloaded.
Then there is PodPress, multi-featured plug-in for podcasters using WordPress. Upcoming I’ll have more on the subject of .