Introduction To Podcasting
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A brief introduction to podcasting, podcast RSS feeds, hosting and delivering your audio podcast online.
Introduction To Podcasting
- 1. Introduction To Podcasting An introduction to Podcasting Artlinks Podcasting Day ¨C Monday March 1st, 2010 Visit LovePodcasting.com after the course
- 2. Objectives What is a podcast?
- 3. How do they work?
- 4. What can they do for you?
- 5. Creating and releasing a podcast.
- 7. What Is A Podcast? Wikipedia defines a podcast as ¡°a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and downloaded through web syndication.¡±
- 8. Podcast (term) derived from combination of iPod + Broadcast
- 9. Important Ingredients Your podcast ¨C audio or video
- 10. Your website ¨C own site, or podcast host
- 11. Your RSS feed ¨C for syndication. This contains details on where users can find your podcast and subscribe for latest episodes.
- 12. How Do They Work? Prepare your podcast file (MP3 audio or video)
- 13. Upload to podcast site
- 14. User subscribes to your Podcast RSS feed
- 15. User downloads latest version of podcast via site or iTunes to listen anywhere they like.
- 16. Benefits Of Podcasting Podcasts can be provided free to download
- 17. Not restricted to any kind of schedule
- 18. Your programme content, your way
- 20. Great promotional / educational tool
- 21. What You Will Need To Podcast Show material ¨C original material, audio from an event, video interview etc.
- 22. Computer, microphone or video camera
- 23. Finished audio or video file
- 24. Somewhere to host your podcast (delivery)
- 25. Podcast Delivery Delivering your podcast You upload & publish your podcast file
- 26. Your RSS feed gets updated
- 27. Listener (subscriber) automatically gets the latest episode of your podcast.
- 28. Your Podcast File Audio or video format
- 29. The greater the quality, the larger the file
- 30. The longer the podcast, the larger the file
- 31. Typically, 20 minutes spoken-word audio = 20mb in 128k MP3 format (basic CD quality)
- 32. MP3 created from ProTools / Audacity etc.
- 33. Podcast RSS Feed RSS = Really Simple Syndication
- 34. XML format document (i.e. Contains certain tags and instructions on your podcast).
- 35. e.g. Show name, author, episode number, date, where your audio or video file is stored.
- 36. Most hosts generate this for you.
- 37. Podcast RSS Feed Wordpress one of the best platforms you can use for audio podcasting.
- 38. Tools like PodPress, Blubrry PowerPress can be added to Wordpress to distribute your podcast. These are used by Kilkenny Arts Festival, Playlist Mix, Devious Theatre, Kilkenny Music and thousands more...
- 39. Hosting Your Podcasting Podbean.com Basic account is free
- 40. Advanced account $4.95 per month
- 41. Organises your iTunes listing and RSS feeds
- 42. Basic account is limited to 100mb (approx 5 x 20 minute podcasts, audio only)
- 43. Mixed reviews on availability and downtime
- 44. Limited podcast stats, no scheduling
- 45. Hosting Your Podcast LibSyn.com Liberated Syndication
- 46. Demo account available: Username sandbox, password sandbox
- 47. Starts at $5 per month
- 48. Space available 50mb per month
- 49. Good for entry level users
- 50. No statistics at beginner level.
- 51. Hosting Your Podcast Self host with Wordpress Must have web space available to you e.g. Blacknight hosting from €50 per year
- 54. 10gb disk space, 100gb bandwidth per month
- 55. Allows full control over your podcasts
- 57. Takes time to set up, worth your investment.
- 58. Submit To iTunes Most popular podcast aggregator
- 59. You must have your RSS feed URL e.g. lovepodcast.com/?feed=podcast
- 60. Must have iTunes installed on computer
- 62. Submit To iTunes Unauthorized copyrighted material, erotica, illegal solicitations, and hate speech are prohibited in the iTunes Store.
- 63. Podcasts with no episodes will be removed. Podcasts with no recent episodes can remain in iTunes but may disappear from some areas.
- 64. Itunes won't list private podcasts
- 65. Promote Your Podcast Podshow (Podshow.com / Mevio.com)