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Topic: Podcasting?
| Author | Message |
| veraworld | Posted – 5/18/2008 10:29:25 PM | show profile | email poster Is anybody familiar with podcasting? Opinions about it? |
| Grateful Deadline | Posted – 5/18/2008 10:53:28 PM | show profile ?? It's used in public relations, marketing, academia and media -- even National Public Radio offers Podcasts. It's increasingly popular. |
| Grateful Deadline | Posted – 5/18/2008 10:54:24 PM | show profile ?? It's used in public relations, marketing, academia and media -- even National Public Radio offers Podcasts. It's increasingly popular. |
| veraworld | Posted – 5/19/2008 12:34:38 AM | show profile | email poster Grateful: I'd like to know if anybody has a first hand experience using it as a complement for other media. |
| Grateful Deadline | Posted – 5/19/2008 12:55:54 AM | show profile Any other specifics for posters to know? |
| muserella | Posted – 5/19/2008 1:15:49 PM | show profile Podcasting I produce a podcast for a known musician, cleaning and packaging up his files with added music, etc. and arranging their upload. I think it's good to have various venues where folks can connect with him. He's a good talker, so the podcasts are interesting and fun to do. Personally, I enjoy listening to informational podcasts about a range of subjects. Lisa |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 5/19/2008 1:43:31 PM | show profile Podcasting is nothing more than little radio programs that are presented as files on the Internet than can be downloaded or listened to immediately (not many people download). Embryonic. Small audiences. Certainly, a nice to have rather than a must have at this point. |
| annabel | Posted – 5/19/2008 2:13:27 PM | show profile Dribble, you're right on the technical side, but wrong, I think, about the importance of podcasting. More and more people are downloading podcasts and listening on their Ipods when they want to, where they want to. If you're already producing a broadcast, doing a podcast takes a few minutes more and you'd be a fool not to for the potential audience it can bring you. Now, if you're not broadcasting and want to know whether you should do a podcast, that's a whole other story. I've heard many terrible podcasts by good writers and can't help but think, "What's the point?" But anyone who's in radio already and isn't podcasting might as well be making 8-track tapes. |
| annabel | Posted – 5/19/2008 2:13:32 PM | show profile Dribble, you're right on the technical side, but wrong, I think, about the importance of podcasting. More and more people are downloading podcasts and listening on their Ipods when they want to, where they want to. If you're already producing a broadcast, doing a podcast takes a few minutes more and you'd be a fool not to for the potential audience it can bring you. Now, if you're not broadcasting and want to know whether you should do a podcast, that's a whole other story. I've heard many terrible podcasts by good writers and can't help but think, "What's the point?" But anyone who's in radio already and isn't podcasting might as well be making 8-track tapes. |
| muserella | Posted – 5/19/2008 5:44:45 PM | show profile I wanted to add that podcasting is not very difficult to do. The better podcasts have developed loyal audiences by addressing their specific issue creatively and consistently. |
| veraworld | Posted – 5/19/2008 11:01:28 PM | show profile | email poster Thanks for the input guys. Do you have a favorite software? Someone I work for writes a weekly column and he wants to add a podcast. I think it might be a neat thing to do...he is a good talker! |
| dribbledrive1 | Posted – 5/20/2008 1:31:49 AM | show profile If I were still an editor, I would ban my reporters from ever using the phrase "more and more." -- More and more people are downloading podcasts and listening on their Ipods when they want to, where they want to. -- |
| annabel | Posted – 5/20/2008 8:10:59 AM | show profile Point taken: "Podcasting use is also rising and now reaches 18% of the US population, up from 13% a year ago. An estimated 23 million, or 9% of Americans had listened to a podcast in the past month." http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?id=1006176&src=dp1_home |
| muserella | Posted – 5/20/2008 11:40:34 AM | show profile I use Audacity to record and edit our podcast. It's free and easy to use. You can listen to some recent examples of what we do with it here on iTunes: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=266537548 Or in the middle of this page if you aren't an iTunes person: http://www.cycurnin.com/?page_id=7 Good luck! Lisa |
| Seafarer | Posted – 5/20/2008 8:19:11 PM | show profile | email poster Blog Talk Radio For another source of podcasts and Internet radio programming across a variety of topics, surf around in Blog Talk Radio. The New Media Expo conference also pulled together a bunch of links on every aspect of podcasting. Finally, for interesting use of audio (including recording stuff with your cell phone and having it made into digital audio files - like maybe a hallway interview with an expert at a conference you're attending) take a look at Utterz. They now do video as well. ------ My Web site Family Travel blog NHRA drag racing on Fast Machines |
| worldofnatasha | Posted – 5/21/2008 7:21:25 PM | show profile is there a difference between a podcast and a vlog? or are they essentially the same thing? anyone know? thanks. |
| Seafarer | Posted – 5/22/2008 12:35:22 AM | show profile | email poster Podcast vs vlog worldofnatasha: A podcast is an audio file - it often sounds like a radio show in format and style. A vlog is short for "video blog" - a blog post that is an embedded video clip, not just words. Many bloggers will have all three at once on their blog; standard sequential written blog posts with audio and video clips either mixed among the written posts, or over on the sidebar. One do-it-all guy is Boston-based social media expert Chris Brogan; his blog has all three, though it's mostly written. He's an excellent Web 2.0 resource. ------ My Web site Family Travel blog NHRA drag racing on Fast Machines |
| worldofnatasha | Posted – 5/22/2008 12:59:47 AM | show profile thanks so much, Seafarer! |
