DIY Podcast:
Add Voice to Your Websites Voice
or Oh Lord, Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood?
If you want to start DIY podcast then welcome to the club. It is a small club for now, at least relative to the number of websites in the world wide web. It will grow.
Right now is the best time to get started because there is room for you.
Or.... It is a bad time because there are so many already involved, it will be difficult to make it to the top. Unless you are sure you can make a mark, don't try. This is one thing that you will need to be an expert in thriving on rejection. Only then will you have a shot at the top.
Pod Business Casting
Podcasting is an excellent way to promote your business, get your site in front of peoples ears and get heard. If your blessed with the gift of gab, if you have an ounce of technical skill and if you have an interesting message, then you can podcast.
Looking for Something Different?
Some of the basic and technical things you will need for a DIY Podcast are here. This is not a comprehensive list but it will grow. Assist2web will continue to add to it as more information becomes available. Are we missing something you would like to know. Drop us a note and let us know.
What is a podcast?
What is podcasting?
How to Create a Podcast.
DIY Podcast Gadgets and Gizmos: What Do You Need?
Other Tools for Podcasting.
Legal Issues Podcasting.
Website Hosting for Your Podcast.
Best Hosting Review.
Ready, Aim, Record
Podcasting Trends: What's Hot and Not
Broadcasting News About Your Podcasting
These are the basics of DIY podcast. Come back as we continue to grow this section.
The History of Podcasting
Podcasting is the of marrying a verbal recorded message with the web for the world to hear. The process is all done with an inexpensive USB microphone and inexpensive audio software.
Around February 2004, the term "podcasting" was one of several terms being used.
The website podcast.com was registered first in 2002 although it did not have the current meaning.
Dannie Gregoire, on September 14,2004 is generally accepted as the first person to use the word podcast in reference to what is now known as podcasting.
By October of 2004 the name was ensconced as the term that is used today.
Wikipedia History of Podcasting
What You Need
A Microphone
Recording Software
Audio Card
FTP Client
Something to Say
Show Notes
Brains
Motivation
Desire to Succeed
Ability to Thrive on Rejection
Danger Will Robinson
Do not think that you will be Lost in Cyber Space when you start your DIY podcast. You probably did not know that Uncles Sam has brothers. Several, as a matter of fact.
Irs is the one that if you do not pay the protection money to every April 15th, you may have your financial legs broken.
Big brother’s other brother, Uncle Charlie (as the FCC is sometimes known in the broadcast industry) is watching you, er eh, listening to you in the podcast scene. Although limited, Uncle Charlie is trying to reach out and touch the podcast industry more and more.
Even though the FCC is limited, your podcast the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is not. You will have to follow the FTC Guides and rules. They can make your life miserable to the tune of $11,000 per fine. This for failure to follow the guides.
Your not out of hot water yet. Even if the federal government does not come down on you, there is still the state government that you have to be concerned with.
But there is more.
You will not be immune from lawsuits. So, if you say it, do it or if you condone it on your podcast, you can be sued for it.
Additional any legal concerns of the brick and mortar world and on air radio waves world will still apply. These include playing copyrighted music, licensed music, sharing copyrighted materials and even the legalities of recorded telephone conversations.
Even More to Come
There is enough to fill a book on podcasting. We hope to provide the basics. With this knowledge, you can decide if it is for you or not.
What is DIY Podcasting?
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From Desk Top to Top of the WWW
Once your audio file is created it needs to be put in a file and uploaded to the server.
The transfer process uses what is called a FTP. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol.
This process and a step by step guide will be explained in future posts.
Is Anybody Listening
Once your up and podcasting, you will need to let people know about you.
This will require getting listed in directories.
There are also podcast-listening sites.
These are only a few of the ways to let others know about your podcasts.
More DIY Podcast building information to come. Please check back.
More to Come
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