Week 5

organizational podcasts: planning fundamentals

:: Guest Lecture, Jyotsna Natarajan, Amazon

Digital Sound Effects

Need more sound effects for your podcast? Here’s a pretty extensive library. All sounds are royalty free but there is a fee to download them.

Digital Sound Effects

ScribeFire

This is a test of ScribeFire – a FF extension. Link to CCN story.

Week 4

telling the story

:: Guest Lecture: Peg Achterman, journalist (on interviewing)

- Genre, soundtrack, and developing the pitch
- Draft personal podcast ideas
- Technologies: ScribeFire, GarageBand, royalty-free music
- Group project – team time

Widgets

Here are a couple of podcasting widgets available for WordPress that you may find helpful:

Podcasting

Blubrry PowerPress Podcasting

Riffly

As we’ve been reading, one of the things that sets podcasts apart from radio broadcasts is the ability for the conversation to take place online, and one of the best ways to facilitate this conversation is to include the podcast on a blog. Further, we’ve learned, it’s beneficial to give the audience various options to participate, i.e. the ability to leave audio and video comments.

There are several WordPress plugins for audio and video comments – and I haven’t tried all of them – but of the ones I have tried, I like Riffly the best because of the way it displays on the screen. It’s only downside is it isn’t compatible with Apple’s iSight.

Podtrac

Podtrac. This website was mentioned briefly in our readings, so I checked out the website and was impressed with the services. Basically, Podtrac matches Podcasters with advertisers, but here are some more of its resources for Podcasters:

• Free Audience Survey – in-depth demographics
• Free Podcast Measurement – trending
• Advertisers, Sponsors – assistance with finding revenue streams

week 3 – producing your first “podcast”

AKA getting tired of hearing your own voice!

• Housekeeping
• Group project
• CODECs
• Audacity

Week 2: Oral Storytelling

Agenda:

• Lynda.com invitation (check mail)
• Oral Storytelling (ppt)
• Writing for the ear
• Discuss/pitch possible projects
• Technologies: RSS/Podcasting, WordPress, iTunes