Blogging Basics 101» Podcasts http://www.bloggingbasics101.com Tips & instructions for beginning and intermediate bloggers. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:16:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Enhancing Your Blog Content Series: Podcasting http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2009/05/enhancing-content-series-podcasting/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2009/05/enhancing-content-series-podcasting/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 05:00:56 +0000 Melanie Nelson http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/?p=1337 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> To encourage community around your blog, you must offer value to your readers. How can you add value and interest to your posts? Use podcasts, photos, and videos to enhance what you already have. In this three-part series, I’ll cover how each of these can help you build the content of your blog and offer even more value to your readers.

Dan Kenitz at Click Fire wrote a series called So You Still Haven’t Made a Podcast? to explain the benefits of using podcasts to build content. He gives a few reasons why podcasting offers value to your readers:

  • Producing a “radio show” that essentially creates content that suits your blog but can be carried with MP3 players and listened to when people are at work, in the car, or working out
  • Hosting and interviewing guests
  • Giving your audience a chance to match the physical voice with the writing voice
  • Adding a new way for your audience to experience your blog (with music backgrounds, sound effects, etc.)
  • Publishing content that only works if the listener can hear it (like music)
  • Making your blog more personal because readers can hear your voice
  • Exposing your blog to new users by publishing your podcast in new places

A piece of advice I’ve picked up but never used (where do the hours of my day go?) is to podcast, but to also transcribe the podcast on your site. The benefit is that you have the podcast your readers can download, but the transcription also provides SEO for your blog and content for those who aren’t interested in downloading the podcast.

In the article What Exactly is Podcasting? Sharon Housely gives advice on how to promote your podcast once it’s complete:

In order to increase exposure of your podcast, it should be submitted to the various Podcast search engines and directories. This can be done manually. Just as you would submit the URL of a website or web page to a search engine, you will need to submit the link of the actual feed located on your website to the Podcast directories. There is a large list of Podcast directories at http://www.podcasting-tools.com/submit-podcasts.htm.

Tutorials for Podcasting

I have several podcast articles here at Blogging Basics 101 and I also use Odiogo to automatically download my Blogging Basics 101 articles to iTunes as a podcast. What’s Odiogo? From their web site: [Odiogo] transforms news sites and blog posts into high fidelity, near human quality audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.

A version of this article was cross-posted at BlogHer.

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]]> http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2009/05/enhancing-content-series-podcasting/feed/ 0 Podcast: Copyright and Privacy Issues http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2008/02/podcast-copyrig/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2008/02/podcast-copyrig/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:00:00 +0000 Melanie Nelson http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/?p=163 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> You can listen to the podcast with the links below or on iTunes (you can search the iTunes podcasts for Blogging Basics 101 and you’ll find us, just click on the BB101 graphic that comes up and you’ll see all the podcasts). If you don’t have the QuickTime Player, you may need to download it for free. Let me know if that helps you with these links. Thanks!

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]]> http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2008/02/podcast-copyrig/feed/ 2 Podcast: Lurking and Commenting http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2008/02/podcast-lurking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2008/02/podcast-lurking/#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2008 04:00:00 +0000 Melanie Nelson http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/?p=157 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> This is the third installment of my blog discussion with Shannon. Today we’re talking about whether lurking on a blog is rude. We’re also spouting opinions on comments. You can listen to the podcast with the links below or on iTunes (you can search the iTunes podcasts for Blogging Basics 101 and you’ll find us, just click on the BB101 graphic that comes up and you’ll see all the podcasts). If you don’t have the QuickTime Player, you may need to download it for free. Let me know if that helps you with these links. Thanks!

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]]> http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2008/02/podcast-lurking/feed/ 14 Podcast: Grammar http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2008/01/podcast-grammar/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2008/01/podcast-grammar/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:00:00 +0000 Melanie Nelson http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/?p=154 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Here is the second installment of my discussion of blog etiquette with Shannon from Rocks In My Dryer. She is a champion of all things grammar and we discuss why this is important in blogging.

The podcast is just over three minutes long and you can download it from my server (it’s in m4a format or mp3 format). If it doesn’t load right away, please try again in a few minutes.

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]]> http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2008/01/podcast-grammar/feed/ 10 Podcast: Etiquette, Blogrolls, Reciprocal Links http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2008/01/podcast-etiquet/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2008/01/podcast-etiquet/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2008 04:00:00 +0000 Melanie Nelson http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/?p=148 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Finally! The long-awaited podcast with Shannon from Rocks In My Dryer. This is not the entire podcast; I’ll be posting more in the coming weeks. This portion of the podcast covers blog etiquette, blogrolls, linking to another’s blog post, and reciprocal links.

The podcast is just over eight minutes long and you can download it from my server (it’s in mp3 format). If it doesn’t load right away, please try again in a few minutes.

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]]> http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2008/01/podcast-etiquet/feed/ 17 Podcast Question http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2007/12/podcast-questio/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2007/12/podcast-questio/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:06:32 +0000 Melanie Nelson http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/?p=134 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I have had at least one person tell me they cannot access the Blogging Basis 101 podcast on permalinks because of an error message or lack of software. Would you please try it out and let me know if you could listen to it easily? Thanks!

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]]> http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2007/12/podcast-questio/feed/ 5 Permalinks: The Podcast http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2007/12/permalinks-the/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/2007/12/permalinks-the/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:00:00 +0000 Melanie Nelson http://www.bloggingbasics101.com/?p=133 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> This is the first-ever Blogging Basics 101 podcast. This will either be a huge help or a huge flop. I hope you’ll let me know what you think (but please be nice–remember I have feelings too).

This podcast explains what permalinks are, how to find them, and how to use them. We also have an article about permalinks.

Or you can download it from my server (it’s in mp3 format) or from iTunes (I think you’ll need to have iTunes installed to get to it.).

I hope to have more podcasts every week. My thinking is that it may be easier to have me explaining what to do while you’re actually working on your blog. The podcasts will always be a supplement to something I’ve written out, that way you’ll have the option of also printing out the instructions.

I look forward to your feedback!

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