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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 .

Next month I’ll be attending a 3-day workshop Podcasting: Creating and Publishing Audio Content Online (sold out) at a local community college. 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.

Getting Podcasts on a Portable Media Center (and other Windows Media Devices)

In a continuation of our Podcasting series, for this week�s HOW-TO we look at how to get Podcasts on non-iPod devices. A Podcast is usually an audio program somewhere on the web that can be downloaded automatically to your audio playing device, so you can listen to it wherever and whenever you want. You actually do not need an iPod to publish or receive Podcasts, but the �Pod� name caught on, so many folks have emailed us asking if they can use their Windows Media devices as well as Portable Media Centers. You can and we�ll show you how all using free programs.

Software from Adam Curry:

iPodder is small program that runs on your computer. It’s only purpose is to download audio files, usually mp3’s, directly to your mp3 device. Currently iPod is supported on both Windows and Mac.

And it’s not just for iPods! Other devices are supported through Windows Media Player. Any device that can exchange files with WMP will work with iPodder.