Podcasting 101

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Podcasting 101

• David FreeGaCOMO 2006
• September 21, 2006

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What Is Podcasting?

• Online distribution of media files (usually
  audio) through RSS 2.0 syndication for listening
  on MP3 players or personal computers
• Lets you listen when, where and how you want
• No Feed No Podcast!
• No iPod necessary!
• Source en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting

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A Brief, Incomplete History of Podcasting

• 2003 Dave Winer creates RSS feed w/ enclosures
• 2004 First use of word podcast
• 2004 Adam Curry releases iPodder script
• 9/2004 24 Google hits for podcast
• 2005 Apple adds podcasts to iTunes / Yahoo!
  Podcasts launched
• 2005 Podcast is New Oxford American Dictionary
  word of the year!
• 9/2006 365,000,000 Google hits for
  podcastSource blog.metawrap.com/blog/Podcasti
  ngTimeline.aspx

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Who Podcasts?

• Regular Folks
• News Media
• Entertainment Media
• Libraries?

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Finding Podcasts

• Podcast Alley
• Podzinger
• iTunes
• Yahoo! Podcasts

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Listening To Podcasts

• Listen Online
• Add podcast feed to podcast receiver or
  podcatcher
• Doppler, Juice
• iTunes, Yahoo! Podcasts
• Download to your MP3 player

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Question

• What Can Libraries Podcast?

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Podcasting In Libraries

• Programming
• Marketing
• Education

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Programming

• Any kind of programming your library puts on!
• Expands audience and value
• Archiving

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Pritzker

• Pritzker Military Library Podcasts -
  www.pritzkermilitarylibrary.org/podcasts/index.jsp

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Cheshire PL

• Orange County (FL) Library System
  www.ocls.info/podcast

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Cheshire PL

• Cheshire Public Library Podcast -
  www.cheshirelib.org/teens/cplpodcast.htm

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Marketing

• Part of overall library marketing plan
• Library news
• Book, Internet, Resource reviews
• Services Collections
• Upcoming programs

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GPC

• GPC Decatur Campus Library www.gpc.edu/declib/p
  odcasts.htm

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Dowling

• Dowling College Library Omnibus -
  www.dowling.edu/library/newsblog/podcasts.asp

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Education

• Resource service guides
• Instruction sessions
• Training sessions

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WPI

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute Library Audio To
  Go www.wpi.edu/Academics/Library/Borrowing/Podca
  sts

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WPI

• Lansing (IL) Public Library Podcasts
  www.lansing.lib.il.us/podcast_directory.htm

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Podcast Planning

• Why?
• What?
• Who?
• When?
• How?

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Creating Podcasts

• Microphone
• Recording/ Editing SoftwareAudacity
• HostingIn-house server, Ourmedia, libsyn

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Creating Podcasts

• PostingLocal Webpage, Blogger,
• Feeding (RSS 2.0)Hand code, Feedburner
• All-In-OneAudioblog.com, Odeo

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Happy Podcasting!

• Questions? Comments?
• www.gpc.edu/dfree/comocasting.htm
• dfree_at_gpc.edu
• AIM dwfree1967
• davidsrandomstuff.blogspot.com