Podcasting
(From the term Broadcasting and similar to Radio Broadcasting that uses
RSS
feed). Podcasting is able to provide more content normal than radio. A Podcast can be released at a specific time and the place and the user may decide when they want to receive and when they want to listen to the
Podcast. Podcasting is able to be targeted to the listeners interests. The term pod-cast comes from portable broadcasting.
How many of these things would you like for your business?
- A growing list of qualified prospects and leads
- Customers who love you and do everything you tell them to do
- Responsive subscribers who will buy what you sell or recommend
- Trust and credibility for you, your products and brand
- Better search engine rankings
You can get them all using podcasts.
If you don't know where to start developing your business podcasting strategy, watch this excellent how to video from my friends and Internet video experts Mike Koenigs and Rocket Helstrom.
It's called "Podcasting for Business" and even though it's less than 15 minutes long, it is packed with great information like:
- Why you need a video podcasting strategy for your business
- What is podcasting
- How to develop your podcasting strategy
- Ideas for different content strategies
- How to produce podcasts
- How to distribute podcasts all over the Web and use them to drive traffic back to your site
Podcasting - especially video podcasting - is one area where many businesses are deficient so you have the opportunity to use it to your competitive advantage and differentiate yourself in the market now.
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:48:08 +0000 - YouTube has introduced a new YouTube Movies section, which offers about 400 free full-length films.
If you’re looking for YouTube to offer an alternative to Netflix or Blockbuster, this ain’t it.
On the other hand, if you want to take a trip back to the 70’s drive-in grindhouse, you have hit the motherlode!
The selection includes classics like [...]
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:52:11 +0000 - Wired today declared that the Web is dead, backing it up with this chart that shows the history of the proportion of total Internet bandwidth taken up by various types of traffic.
According to Wired’s Chris Anderson – the proportion of Internet traffic taken up by Web requests is getting smaller – so “the Web is [...]
Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:15:23 +0000 - Apple will replace its Apple TV hobby with a new member of the iOS family, Apple iTV, according to an Engadget report.
Apple iTV will be priced starting at $99 and will be similar in size and specs to the iPhone 4 (A4 CPU, 16GB of flash storage). It is expected to support a new iTunes [...]
Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:17:43 +0000 - Podcasting network Wizzard Media announced today their selection by Research In Motion (RIM) as a content partner for RIM’s new BlackBerry® Podcasts.
BlackBerry Podcasts is a new app and service that allows BlackBerry® smartphone users to discover episodic audio and video content [that is to say, podcasts] that can be downloaded directly to their smartphone, and [...]
Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:23:54 +0000 - Nielsen has released a new report on video and the Internet, based on input from people in 55 countries, and has found that most people, around the world, are now watching online video. Furthermore, interest in Internet-ready TVs is now at 20%.
“The research reveals how connected consumers all over the world are expanding their video [...]
Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:35:16 +0000 - Research firm Nielsen reports that social media & blogs are now the top online activities:
Americans spend nearly a quarter of their time online on social networking sites and blogs, up from 15.8 percent just a year ago (43 percent increase) according to new research released today from The Nielsen Company.
The research revealed that Americans spend [...]
Mon, 26 Jul 2010 21:49:46 +0000 - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced that it has won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today.
You now have the right to:
Rip and remix DVDs for non-commercial purposes;
Jailbreak your iPhone, or other cell phone, and load up any apps you want; and
Use your iPhone, or other cell phone, [...]
Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:45:09 +0000 - YouTube has announced a new option for video embeds, designed to support HTML 5 and to fall back to Flash where HTML 5 is not supported.
According to YouTube, “If you use the new embed code style, your viewers will be able to view your embedded video in one of our Flash or HTML5 players, depending [...]
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:40:10 +0000 - flakjakt (Steve Fallows) calls his Cascades music video the “first official iPhone 4 music video”.
There are rivals to that title, but at least this is the first one with hipsters and flamenco dancers.
Fallows says:
In a fun weeklong experiment, my friend Marty and I collaborated on this video for an original song I wrote specifically [...]
Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:12:43 +0000 - iPhone 4 video quality is great for a phone – but is limited by the fact that light hand-held video cameras deliver shaky video.
While Tiffen has announced an iPhone Steadicam, you can also build your own.
This video, by Spencer S. Watson, demonstrates how he built a DIY iPhone Steadicam out of a modified Nerf gun [...]
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Submit your feed to iTunes. iTunes is by far the most popular directory of podcasts, and it is the first place most regular podcast listeners will look for your show if they hear about it. Make sure you have configured your feed with the iTunes description, artwork, and category information before submitting.
PodCamp is a FREE BarCamp-style meetup for podcasters and listeners, bloggers and readers, and new media types of all stripes. Did you record something? Post a link to it here!
Podango an online video and audio network that enables publishers and companies to get heard by today’s hard-to-reach, niche audiences. Featuring such hits as The Apple Phone Show and Mommycast, Podango hosts over 1,000 video and audio episodic programs.
PodPress plugin, (Mighty Seek) which provides slick publishing tools, statistics, and in-browser players for audio and video. A plugin for Podcasters using WordPress.
PhoneCasting an
online social network that brings you the best in podcasting,
Phonecasting mobile and video content, plus simple tools for you to publish your own content to the nets podcasting community.
Feeder Create, edit and publish RSS and podcast feeds. Feeder is an application for creating, editing and publishing RSS feeds on
Mac OS X. Whether it's a news feed for your site or a podcast, Feeder makes it simple.
Noopod RSS/PodCast and WebRadio player Organize, manage and download your RSS
and PodCast.
YeahReader is a free program for reading news feeds in RSS, RDF and Atom formats, and
podcasts. The program provides all basic RSS reader functionality such as a convenient feed update system, proxy support and pop-up update notification. Besides this, YeahReader has such features as built-in blog client that will allow you to quickly write messages to your
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Promote Your Podcast! Here's some suggestions for promoting your podcast, and supporting podcasting in general.
Promote your podcast by displaying a link to it on your site. Here are some logos that you can copy and use:
These logos were created by Tim Madden, and are licensed with a Creative
Commons license. This means you're free to use them, but you should give Tim credit! Tim has many more cool logos at his site.
You can also make custom podcast logos using the RSS Graphic Tool at
FeedForAll!
Podcast With Wild Voice.
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favorite posts. Hand-pick posts for List Channels, or use Smart Channels to automatically find the stuff you want.
Doppler
Radio Doppler is a podcast aggregator. It’s a tool
to subscribe to RSS
feeds which supply downloadable files. Doppler will go out
and fetch the files enclosed in the RSS
feed and will automatically add them to your preferred
media player. And it does this in a very smooth unattended manner.
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Juice. Want to listen to internet audio programs but can't when they are
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Citizen
Journalists. Citizen News. I-Reports. Soljournalists,
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Television channels, etc..
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LiveJournal, Blogger, WordPress or Delicious blog, OPML support, ability to export data into HTML, CSV or JS format, multilanguage support and others. Although quite functional, YeahReader is one of the easiest news readers to use. The program contains a collection of links to popular RSS feeds on various subjects so you will not waste time searching for interesting links. Stop wasting time, download YeahReader right now!
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