Week 11 - Podcasting

Copy the "podcasting for marketing" folder from the P:drive

If your Wordpress account is working, follow the steps in Podcasting Help with Wordpress
If your Wordpress account is NOT working, follow the steps in Podcasting Help

When signing up to Feedburner
Fill in ALL the fields. Note Feedburner create the RSS files that you need to make you audio file into a podcast. It also does a wealth of other things like analyse all the traffic for the podcast. If even allows you to monetize this traffic.

The image to be associated with your feed should be created by you. NB: use the crop tool to edit your image specifying width 100px, height 100px, resolution 72dpi.
FTP the image to your server and specify it's URL in FeedBurner (remember http://www.)

Make note of your FeedBurner URL and use it to register with Podcast directories e.g. http://www.podcastalley.com/. You will need to create an account on podcast alley and verify it using your email. You will then be able to add your podcast channel to the directory by enter the feedburning podcast URL from earlier.

FINALLY,
we covered tips for recording audio and getting that professional broadcast quality sound.
I'll post a file on the P drive later on this.