Category: Podcasting

  • The golden age of Podcasting is now

    On the last day of Blogworld, one of the panelists in a “state of podcasting” discussion made this amusing comment while lamenting the lack of growth of his own show: “things aren’t like they were in the golden age of podcasting”. I nearly hit my head laughing at the absurdity of that statement. Take a…

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  • Getting your audio podcast into Facebook and Google+

    Over the weekend at PodCamp NH, I gave a presentation about marketing your podcast. One of the little tidbits in there was how to load your podcast to Facebook and Google+. The trick with both of these services is that they have in-content video players, but no audio players. There are obviously apps in Facebook’s…

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  • How to Market Your Podcast

    This is a mindmap of my presentation at a recent PodCamp on How to Market Your Podcast. If you’d like to download a high resolution, printable PDF, click here.

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  • How to make better interview videos with Levelator and iMovie

    At a variety of events I’ve been to recently, people have been shooting videos using handheld video cameras, usually inside their smartphones. These devices are wonderful – compact, good quality video recorders, even recording in 1080p. However, they all suffer from one major deficiency: The sound is usually terrible. Why? Most smartphones simply have small,…

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  • PodCamp Boston 5: Prepared for the future

    PodCamp Boston 5 has come and gone, celebrating 5 years of what started as a goofy little experiment and turned into a worldwide movement. Chris Brogan and I have you to thank for taking our idea and running with it, and we hope you continue to do so. I’ll let Chris expound on his takeaways from…

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  • Podcasting as intent

    Following someone or something on Twitter indicates a small amount of intent. It takes literally less than a second to follow someone. Replying and conversing does show more intent. Becoming a Fan on Facebook is the same. Liking something on Facebook indicates a small amount of intent. Subscribing to someone’s newsletter takes slightly more intent.…

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  • What content are you sitting on?

    I was going through my archives the other day, sifting out stuff that I didn’t need to hold onto any more, and found some pretty amazing content collecting dust. I have hours and hours of video, text, and all kinds of media, some of which has never seen the light of day but is incredibly…

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  • Doing More With Less

    Here’s a special holiday gift for you, complete with complex instructions. This is a recording of the session I did at the Web 2.0 conference earlier this year. It’s about 30 minutes long. Download the MP3 here. You will need to do the exercises in this session with a training partner. It can be a…

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  • The most amazing moment of PodCamp Philly 3

    You know what the most amazing moment of PodCamp Philly 3 was? At the opening, I asked the crowd – 200+ folks – how many people had never been to a PodCamp before. About 80% of the room raised their hands. That’s huge. That’s amazing. I have to give huge props to the Philly organizing…

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  • One pixel away…

    … is the Marketing Over Coffee extra interview with Mitch Joel and his new book, Six Pixels of Separation. Go give it a listen and buy Mitch’s book. Disclosure: goes to Amazon, affiliate fee paid to Marketing Over Coffee. Did you enjoy this blog post? If so, please subscribe right now! Enjoyed it? Please share…

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