School of Podcasting's Morning Announcements

Today we focus on a new website that enables people to pay podcasters, and we also look into mp3 tags and show notes, and we also look into the iTunes guidelines that will have you getting kicked out of the iTunes podcast directory.

Flattr Wants to Help Podcasters Get Paid...

Do I NEED to use an Insert Jack?

Steve McQueen (his real name) wrote in and asekd:

I have the Behringer 1202 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000J5Y282/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=sop-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B000J5Y282) and an Alesis 3630 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/pr...

Today I want to point out to you another free resource for music for your podcast. This comes from Sony and their Acid Planet website. They offer free samples of their loop libraries. These are audio files you can use to make songs, or in our case theme music, or transition music. The best part is i...

Today I talk about my expeirence with buzzsprout.com which is a Free Podcasting Media Host that does the following to your podcast:

1. Converts your mp3 file to Japanese

2. Converts your audio (I believe to 64 kbps) I'm still checking on this...

Today we talk with Michael Dell who is on the tech support team and blubrry.com to discuss the pros and cons of Feedburner. People use feedburner to add the iTunes tags to their RSS feed, and you can do the same thing with PowerPress. Michael and I were having a discussion in email so we decided to...

SpeakPipe (http://www.speakpipe.com) is a new service currently in Beta that lets visitors to your site who have a microphone leave a comment in two clicks. You then receive an email (if you want) stating that you've got a message along with the name of the caller, and a direct link to the voicemail...

Today I'm breaking format. You know what's cool about this? I CAN! It's MY show and I decide what is acceptable. Today I'm sharing one episode between two of my podcasts The Morning Announcements, and the Power of Podcasting. In today's show I talk about Cliff Ravenscraft (http://www.gspn.tv) who no...

While I help a lot of people start their podcasts with people goingthrough our step by step tutorials, I do most of my consulting (http://schoolofpodcasting.com/podcast-coaching-and-consulting/) with people who have not, and I need to troubleshoot what has gone wrong iwth their podcast. As a corpora...

I've said in the past that Podcast promotion can be boiled down to "find your audience and tell them about your podcast." If we look at Christianity, it used this principle. Jesus would find his audience (tax collectors were seen as the scum of the earth - his target market), he go to know them (He...

Today I answer questions from the listeners:

1. How do you find topics to talk about?

2. How are people promoting their podcast?

3. Should I start 1 podcast with multiple topics, or multipel topcis with one podcast?...