Podcast Help Desk

News:

Happy Birthday Dave Jackson and Happy Show 500 for the School of Podcasting! http://schoolofpodcasting.com School Of Podcasting 500 - A launch story/

Public Radio Podcast Measurement Guidelines

RawVoice Inc. Responds

Deep Dive on Blubrry Podcast Statistics

Google Play Podcasts this month?

Soundcloud may have to close soon

Blubrry ads another conduit to getting your show on Spotify music service

1.Login to your blubrry.com account, or create one

2. If you have a show listed at blubrry.com that you put there just click go here: https://publish.blubrry.com/connect/spotify.php

3. If you didn’t list your show on blubrry.com search for it in the blubrry directory and claim your show. Do this by clicking on the more info link at the bottom of the artwork and then click on claim your show.

4.Then go to the link above.

News:

Apple TV update now includes the podcast app

Amazon is gearing up to add podcast content to Audible. They are hiring comedians

Nick Quah, Creator of Hot Pod Newsletter (http://hot-pod.squarespace.com/) is leaving Panoply to do Hot Pod full time

From the newsletter “Quick announcement: I'm leaving Panoply, which has so far been referred to in this newsletter as my "day job employer." This is my last week as the company's Audience Development person, broadly speaking, which has been a strange, amorphous, confusing, and sometimes thoroughly enjoyable job, and I'm glad to be the first person I know who has such a position in a podcasting company.”

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More on Workflow

There are many ways to do podcasting. Jim Collison

You can find Jim Collison at http://averageguy.tv and on Ask The Podcast Coach on Saturday’s at 10:30 Eastern US time.

Today I go into my Workflow for making a  podcast episode.

Here is my checklist:

1. Shownotes - Everyone has trouble with shownotes but I my system, I get them done first. Using Google Docs I make a new document with the number of the show and save it to my bookmarks bar in my browser. That way, when I have an idea for my next show, I open that doc and write it down or drop a link or whatever in there.

2. Show prep - I take that document and organize it and open any links in my browser. Normally just an outline or highlights of what I want to talk about and in the correct order I want to do.

3. Get my recording software and equipment turned on and test. I record several test recordings making sure nothing changed in my setup. I try to get the recording levels at -12 to -3 on the meter.

4. Record the intro segment

5. Record the other segments for the podcast. I do it this way, but there is no reason you can't do all the segments, or the whole thing "live to the hard drive" as we used to say.

6. I open a multi-track session that has my intro and outro (not the one I recorded, but the one with the real announcer voice and music)

7. I place the intro I recorded and the segments in place and line them up the way I want.

8. I drop in the bumper music (if I use bumper music for that episode) in between the segments.

9. I check the transitions making sure everything sounds good.

10. I render it out into a Wav File. In the case of this episode that wav file is called "phd077_mixdown.wav"

11. I run that wav file though Auphonic making sure it stays as a wav. That file is called "phd077_mixdown_auphonic.wav"

12. I open the auphonic wave file in Audition and check listen to bits and pieces to make sure nothing went wrong.

13. I save that file from audition as an mp3 file. 44.1khz , 128kbps stereo.

14. I upload to blubrry hosting using the uploader in PowerPress which writes my ID3 tags to the mp3 file for me.

15. Paste the show notes from the doc into the WordPress post.

16. Title the post and publish

That's it.

Next week I will talk about what to check to make sure your feed is working correctly and your audio is sounding the way you want it.

New Magazine about podcasting: http://podcasternews.com/2016/01/22/podster-is-a-new-magazine-about-podcasting/

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what is an RSS feed?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

Why is it so important for a podcast?

Think of your RSS feed as your Radio Station’s Transmitter frequency.  So if you are on 97.5 FM with a radio station, that is where people tune in to hear your programing.  The RSS feed is very much like that for podcasts.  It’s where People, Apps and Podcatcher software “tune” to hear (or download) your episodes.  Without that transmitter working well, people will have a hard time hearing your Radio Station.  Without a good efficient RSS feed, your podcast will not be heard or if it is, it might not have everything needed to be found or understood by the software that needs to “hear” it to download your episodes.

The difference is with RSS vs. Transmitters,  your content on a podcast is on demand.  Sort of like a DVR for your TV, but for Radio.

Beginner Series

Today we talk about how to get your first episode posted to your new WordPress site.

Today we go though the basics< of setting up PowerPress on your new WordPress website.

We will go into a more in-depth tweaking of PowerPress settings in future episodes.

Next time we will go into how to post your first episode. (With our without Blubrry Hosting)

Today we go into installing WordPress on your web hosting plan. Check the sidebar for deals a Dreamhost or Bluehost for your WordPress hosting.

OR Go to Godaddy.com and get a LINUX shared hosting plan. (no affiliate code here)

Next episode we will install and configure PowerPress

For the next 4 episodes, I'm going to give you the quick and dirty "how to get started" in podcasting.

Start from nothing and have your podcast on iTunes in 4 episodes.

Today I talk about picking your podcast topic, recording (Very basic) and some basic equipment (Microphones) info.

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Audio-Technica ATR2100 - USB / XLR mic ( this is what I use for portable Podcasting)

Predictions from Last year:

Second Podcast movement – Less “Entrepreneur” focused - SORT OF

NMX/NAB – Best podcast event ever! - Was good, but the best? Might have been the last one :(

I will release “The NO BS Guide to Podcasting” in March and it will reach #1 on Amazon for Podcasting. (yes, bold and wishful thinking!) - BONK! nope…

I will Produce 50 episodes of Podcast Help Desk in 2015. (Leaving myself room to skip a couple but maybe even 52) - Nope… 37

This will be the year of the Story-telling podcast copy-cat. Like 2014 was the year of the Entrepreneur podcast. - Sort of

At least one popular Entrepreneur podcast will pod-fade (likely 100’s of copy-cats as well) - Several have pod faded, not sure about any major ones

Soundcloud will be sold and their Podcasting “Beta” program will be turned off. - Not yet, but we still have a few days left in 2015

Google will announce that Feedburner is going away in 2016 - not yet

Google will announce a Podcast listening app and directory for Android. (Crossing my fingers) - DING DING DING! Google Play

At least one “podcasting company” will shut down unexpectedly. (Not much of a stretch because it happens at least once every year) - We have had several shut down

In April, I will celebrate my 10 year anniversary in podcasting (Not sure of exact date) - Ding ding ding ( April 2015 was my 10 year anniversary in podcasting)

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Predictions for 2016 in Podcasting

Soundcloud will no longer be a podcast media host

There will be at least one new podcast media host

There will be at least one new podcast media host go out of business

I will release “The NO BS Guide to Podcasting”. No Really…. I am going to finish it :)

Feedburner will still exist all year long.

Podcast Movement will be a big success. (no brainer)

Blab will start charging “something” for service or will start some sort of advertising. (Not talked about in the show)

A major player in the podcasting space (company) will change names / rebrand.

There will be a major Movie announced that features podcasting in the central plot. (not a documentary or independent film)

Howard Stern will still hate podcasting.

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Blubrry Tip / News

UPDATE POWERPRESS PLEASE!

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Personal Goals this year.

Finish the book

Continue to improve Podcast Help Desk and Geek of the North

Figure out how to get more feedback on the show.

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Links from the show:

Using Seasons in your show - PowerPress Podcast

Dave Jackson

Paul Colligan

Daniel J. Lewis

Colin Gray

NEWS

Serial season 2 , episode 1 is out. The rumors are true, they are doing the story of Bowe Bergdahl, the US Army Sgt. who was captured by the taliban in 2009 in Afghanistan

https://serialpodcast.org/2015/12/season-two-welcome

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I interviewed Victor Cajiao (Caa Hee Ow) -- @victorcajiao

Victor has been podcasting since 2005 but took a hiatus for 3 years and is back with a new show. http://www.terratech.tech/ We talk about the good old days of podcasting, some current things Victor sees as changes in the space. It was a great conversation! Great catching up with some of the pioneers of podcasting, and Victor in particular!

Some of Victor’s past shows were:

Typical PC User

Typical Mac user

Typical Shutterbug

Adventures in Immigration

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More News

Blubrry and Live365 announce Podcast2Radio

See the Blubrry Test station here: (PHD is one of the podcasts on it) http://www.live365.com/stations/blubrry Check out how you can get your own station at http://blubrry.FM

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Blubrry tips of the week

Can you use Squarespace with blubrry hosting / Stats?

Victor, who we just talked to uses Squarespace for his website, terratech.tech. He sent me these instructions on how to use blubrry hosting with a squarespace website.

1. Select the audio block from your post

2. In the audio block select “External” and put in the Blubbry URL you get from the Blubbry website after uploading your file there.

3. Put in the podcasting information on the Podcasting tab, for iTunes, medatadata etc

THAT’s IT , it works for me and I get stats from the Blubrry website.

Also, UPDATE YOUR WORDPRESS AND POWERPRESS!

WordPress 4.4 update broke PowerPress - New update for PowerPress is out to fix the problem. The issue was with how WordPress dealt with feed titles. They would show as blank. Please update both WordPress AND PowerPress if you haven’t already. Also, if you updated PowerPress and not WordPress (and were using feature episode or FeedMaximizer) , you could have run into the same problem. The latest version of PowerPress is 6.2.3 (released Thursday right after releasing 6.2.2 on Wednesday) If you are using the latest PowerPress then you are OK using an earlier version of WordPress, but why would you? Update to 4.4!

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Just a little more News

Gimlet Media takes $6 Million in an “A” round of funding http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/12/hot-pod-panoplys-parent-company-takes-a-stake-in-gimlet-media/

Even the best get hacked - WPEngine users continentals were leaked.

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I just want to clarify, from last weeks show, when I say promote your own site, I don’t mean don’t be on other platforms, I mean point everyone back to your site and link from there. Be everywhere you can, just point everyone back to your site in your podcast and anywhere you promote.

Thanks for listening and supporting the show!