Douglas, writer and host of Career Opportunities — a weekly print column for ComputorEdge magazine in San Diego, and pioneer podcast — presents this session on developing content to keep your show humming from week to week.
Topics covered will include:
* Knowing what you’re getting into
* Collecting ideas, no matter where you are or what you’re doing
* Using your own life experiences to drive your show
* Using series to provide on-going material
* Using co-hosts to share the load
* “The Beast Must Be Fed!” and other truisms from journalism
* It’s like writing a novel….every year!
Douglas is now in his 12th year of publication with the print edition of Career Opportunities and recently celebrated the 3rd Anniversary (Est. September 24, 2004) of the Career Opportunities podcast.
Douglas, writer and host of Career Opportunities — a weekly print column for ComputorEdge magazine in San Diego, and pioneer podcast — presents this session on developing content to keep your show humming from week to week.
Topics covered will include:
* Knowing what your gettng into
* Collecting ideas, no matter where you are or what you’re doing
* Using your own life experiences to drive your show
* Using series to provide on-going material
* Using co-hosts to share the load
* “The Beast Must Be Fed!” and other truisms from journalism
* It’s like writing a novel….every year!
Douglas is now in his 12th year of publication with the print edition of Career Opportunities and recently celebrated the 3rd Anniversary (Est. September 24, 2004) of the Career Opportunities podcast.
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Hear and see what my fellow Friends in Tech members had to say about podcasting at this year’s Podcast and New Media Expo. What is there take on my recent article, “I am not a podcaster. I am a producer.”
I sat in on the SoHo Tech Podcast’s Monday Night Tech again, talking about the Podcast and New Media Expo and about podcasting in general. Check it out using the links below — Douglas
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Live Recording from Talkshoe
On this edition of Monday Night Tech, I talked with Douglas Welch from http://www.welchwrite.com,
Michael King, Jeff and others that joined me in the Talkshoe chatroom.
We talked about the Podcast and New Media Expo, the future of
podcasting and how to get into podcasting.
Last Sunday, I was part of an event that provides an almost perfect case study on how organizations can capture content and then use it to promote their organization throughout the year.
The UCLA Extension Writers’ Program held their annual Writers’ Faire that gives potential students a sneak peak into the classes the program offers. This year’s event included 24 individual panel discussions in 6 rooms over 4 hours. Each panel discussion lasted about 40 minutes.
Imagine, now, that you were able to capture all of these sessions on audio or video. In my own personal case, I recorded to both my iRiver MP3 player and my iPod 5.5G using a Belkin TuneTalk Microphone attachment. It took nothing more than setting it on the table in front of us and pressing the record button. There are many other, easy choices for recording though, including DAT tape, memory card recorders or even a laptop with a microphone and free recording software.
Once you gathered these sessions, you can quickly edit them into finished podcasts, ready for distribution from your web site or through your blog’s RSS feed. This doesn’t require any special skills that can’t be gathered in about an hour’s worth of training. You trim the head and tail of the audio you recorded, removing any extraneous information. Then you add a nice intro explaining where these recordings came from and giving the link to your web site. Then you export them as MP3 files.
Now, after only about 3 hours of work, you have 24 individual podcasts – enough for a regularly scheduled, twice-monthly podcast for an entire year! Remember, this is from content you would have created anyway. The only difference is this time, you captured it. Add a few interviews or speakers recorded during the rest of the year and you could easily have a weekly show – all designed to educate your students, customers or donors and convince them to use your services – using content you have already created.
The influence of these shows grows and grows, too. Not only can you release them on your own site, but those involved can also link from their own personal web sites, spreading your message further and further. If you captured video, you can also place your shows on the various video sharing sites, like YouTube and on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace.
I hope that this small case study has given you the impetus to insure that you capture every bit of content you are creating today. Most companies simply throw content away, letting it disappear into the past, despite the face that hundreds, thousands and even tens of thousands of people would love to see or hear it.
Do you want to learn more about how your company or organization can capture content and put it to use promoting your services or products? Write me at cip@welchwrite.com, comment on this blog post, or call the listener line at 818-804-5049
Rosanne and I were part of this panel discussion today on the UCLA Campus for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. We are teaching Podcasting for Writers, an online course, this session.
How do you get your film, your story, out to audiences around the world? Learn how today’s screenwriters, directors, and producers are exploring alternative venues for distributing their work, from the world of independent film to public television to YouTube. Discover how you can turn the words in your script into a reality on the screen.
Jonathan Tydor, Douglas E. Welch, Rosanne Welch (chair)
(Updated 8/31/07 530pm : A review of the H2, along with audio examples, can be found at Michael W. Dean’s site, StinkFight.com)
My fellow Friend in Tech member, Victor Cajiao, from the Typical Mac User podcast, mentioned he is picking up one of these units, so I started to check out the specs.
If I have the opportunity to “lay hands” on this unit at the Podcast and New Media Expo in September, I will give you a review and more information.
I review the history of podcasting, its uses and a bit of the technology involved.
During this talk, I also showed 2 video interviews with some fellow podcasters from LA. These have been removed from this talk, but I plan on releasing them here, as well. Subscribe today to receive them automatically.
Podcasting projects are moving forward here at WelchWrite and this weekend I helped launch a new podcast for my close friend, Rick Gundzik.On Sunday, we posted the first episode of Mortgages Made Simple, Rick’s blog and podcast that is designed to help everyone get the best mortgage possible when buying their home or refinancing.
Rick has been instrumental in my own homebuying over the years, leading my wife and I through this somewhat tortuous process and helping me to avoid garbage fees, bad loans and unscrupulous tactics. I have always thought he had a lot of great information to share, so I am very happy to help him share it with others.
I am acting as Rick’s producer and sometimes co-host on this project. We are planning weekly shows on a wide variety of topics, including some LIVE shows via Talkshoe.com where callers and chatters can get their questions answered “on the air.”
If you need help with your home search and mortgage, check out Mortgages Made Simple with Rick Gundzik. I know from personal experience how helpful it can be.
Back on May 20, 2006, myself and Dan Klass, producer and star of The Bitterest Pill were interviewed by the Red Fence Project web site. It has taken a while to appear, but it is great to see this 12 minute video that resulted. We talk about podcasting, and have a little fun while we are at it.
“RedFence is the natural artistic outpouring of a Los Angeles-based community of artists, adventurers and thinkers. They have pooled their considerable talents and modest resources to create www.redfenceproject.com and its printed counterpart RedFence Magazine. Here you will find original works from some of the freshest voices in the creative world. Any medium, from paint to poetry, and film stock to the written word, may find a home among us. You will also discover critiques and reviews of the best creative works our roving minds can unearth, as well a glimpse into our thriving culture of creativity.”
MP3 player and my iPod 5.5G using a Belkin TuneTalk Microphone attachment. It took nothing more than setting it on the table in front of us and pressing the record button. There are many other, easy choices for recording though, including DAT tape, memory card recorders or even a laptop with a microphone and free recording software.
This edition of On Podcasting is a recording of my presentation to the 
