Follow up on The YouTube Video About Podcasting

A couple of days ago, I was talking in a video about audio podcasting. Now I’m writing a follow up post, so if you like text more you can just read some of the most relevant stuff here.

A podcast is simply an audio (video podcast is video) where a person (you) is talking about something. It can be an interview, reader question or a story (but more on that later.)

Podcasts is very powerful, lots of people with blogs doesn’t realize that this is so powerful. People love to share it on social media – the key thing is also that the reader can do something else while learning. I know some bloggers hide between the lines. They only write they don’t try these successful methods, they are much more powerful.

Not only the social media world loves podcasts, I bet your readers also likes podcasts. I think, you should try and record a podcast and see what people thinks about it. How good is the response?

What You Need?

To get started with podcasting, you actually doesn’t need a thing if you own a laptop with a recording device in it.

Otherwise, if you do not have a laptop with a recording device included, buy a headset with a microphone, those aren’t expensive – quite cheap IMO.

So you need

• Headset or a device that can record (could be a laptop)
• Software (all are free, Audacity (just do a Google search) if Windows or Linux – if Mac the in-built iLife: Garage Band)

What To Talk About?

Many people get confused when they have decided they want to record a podcast, then they suddenly get a “blackout” they don’t know what to talk about. It actually isn’t that much needed, you can seriously talk about anything. Talk about what you write about.

You can talk about a reader question you’ve got, maybe do an interview (you can use Skype) or just start with a story and then end of with having a point. The story will make people relate and they want to continue to listen.

I think “story-podcasts” are the most powerful – because if you start a story people will be listening to the end – just keep the story related to the point.

If you have intentions of making a long podcast you should write a script or just some keywords on a paper. Just be sure you don’t get all to distracted to the paper.

Do your best to prepare. You need somewhat preparation to start speaking unless you want to make your podcasts straight from the heart – but always keep in mind you need a topic to talk about

If you feel best if you have a script, practice as much as possible. You shouldn’t be addicted to the paper and do never read the text, talk the text.

After You Have Recorded

..you might want to do a bit of editing, you can do that in Garage Band (Mac) or Audacity (Windows and Linux), there you can add melodies, maybe in the start add a jingle – that you have in each podcast.

You should save it in the audio format “MP3″ – it’s a cross-platform audio file. Everybody will be able to listen to it.

But in the end it should be quite easy. Use the plugin called podPress – follow the instructions.

If you want to watch the video about podcasting just click

Then rock and roll!