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I attended Podcamp Cleveland this weekend. It was a great time and I met some great people. I also had the joy of meeting some people who had no idea what a podcast was, and when I showed them some things on our lunch hour it just blew their minds. …

While I don't do a lot of video, I am looking to do more in the future. I know to start an audio podcast you can get podcasting equipment for about the price of a nintendo Wii. However with Video podcast you not only have to deal with a microphone,…

I've been podcasting since 2005, and right now I'm saying this is the best deal I've found on production music (royalty free so you can use it in your podcast as intro/outro/transition music). You can get a CD with 40 production tracks for $8.41 (wh…

I was at the new media expo and I introduced myself to some guys sitting at a table. We did the “Exchanging of cards” and they proceeded to tell me how much better their podcast was than everyone else’s. They explained to me that their podcast was s…

I was just notified by Robert Greenlee that The School of Podcasting's Morning Announcements Podcast (featuring tips and insights into starting your own podcast) has been featured in Microsoft's Zune Marketplace “Best of Hobbies” section. To get dee…

NOTE: THis article is fomr 2009. Pricing may have changed, but the concepts are still the same. Amazon is still an open door to a massive bill. I have always been (and still am) a fan of libsyn.com For $12 a month, I get unlimited storage of my back…

Well this is my 200th episode of this podcast. Let me say up front, just becuase there are 200 episodes does not mean that these are great episodes or I am better than any other podcaster. It is a fun to listen back on some of the old episodes. I pl…

This is show 194 that originates at www.schoolofpodcasting.com The Importance of ID3 Tags I got an email from a listener of one of my listeners: “I recently also subscribed to Weekly Web Tools and downloaded all the back episodes. When listening bac…

This is episode 193 of the School of Podcasting originating from www.schoolofpodcasting.com Today I talk about the New Media / Blogworld Expo where I will be a presenter. You can get a discount on the expo and hotels if you order before the 14th of …

One of the issues that Podcasters who have been podcasting for a while are starting to face is that feedburner has a limit to how big your RSS feed can be. When this happens your new shows fail to show up in your RSS feed. I found this out when all …

Today I talk about an episode in a popular Podcast of  “No Agenda” which features Adam Curry and John C Dvorak. This podcasts gets thousands of dollars in donations but calculates to .01 a listener. On the episode for 8/13 John makes a great point t…

As a podcast consultant, I recently had someone send me a file that was exported at 190 kbps. What is a kbps (kilobit per second)? We don't care (and not its bit, not bytes). Think of it like this: The more paint (bits) you use, the more accurate a …

I started planning a podcast in May. It was going to review other podcasts, and I (along with my wife) would explain if we liked it and why. I got the domain, I built the theme, I created an “episode 0” to get the podcast into iTunes. I then went an…

This show is originates from schoolofpodcasting.com where we help people learn how to podcast. Today I talk about a podcast that should have been one of my favorites. It's called “Money Matters” and it takes a Christian perspective on handling your …

There are times when us podcast consultants use words that we feel everyone understands, but it crosses the line of geek speak and leave people asking, “What?” I take great strides trying to avoid doing this, so I found an example of some geek speak…

This show originates at www.schoolofpodcasting.com New Wizzard Media Stats Podcasting network Wizzard Media today announced that podcast downloads from their network were up by 45% in Q2, compared to 2008. For the second quarter of 2009, Wizzard Med…

In today's episode, I talk about how I've been earning three figure incomes using affiliate marketing. You can find products that fit your audience at places such as Share a Sale and Commission Junction. You are assigned a specific URL so that when …

Today I look at a “Classic” podcast topic. The name of your podcast is many times the FIRST thing people see when researching a podcast about your topic. You want your podcast name to be obviously describe what the podcast is about. When I typed in …

A little while back Google purchased feedburner and then changed everyone's feed from feeds.feedburner.com to feeds.feedburner.com so how do you get iTunes to look at the new feed? I've been using the Powerpress plugin (from blubrry) as there is a s…

I am touching up a new client's website (www.vinnypedulla.com ) where I created a custom wordpress theme for him. Vinny is a great guy, great musician, and also blind. When I made the page for his audio samples, I used the good old fashioned “Audio …

Today I'm podcasting from the closet. (My fiance's closet to be specific). If you are travelling a lot you can make a folder that contains all of your podcast files (your intro, outro, sound effects), then load these files into Audacity (or for me m…

Today I tall about a report that shows that the podcast audience is up 22% from last year. You can read the report HERE. Here are some of the items that caught my eye. Internet Video. As you probably expected, Internet video consumption exploded las…

Podcast Promotion – You Need More Than iTunes Thanks to Daniel Johnson Jr for the tip on the Seth Godin blog.This blog talk about  appreciating your audience, and being a big fish in a small pond. I recently launched another podcast, and I have purp…

Publishing Change During the month of April, the podcast will be coming out on Wednesdays. Ultimate Footer Ad This is the tool you see at the bottom of the screen. As a member of the school of podcasting you get this script FOR FREE. If you want to …