creating a podcast: community divas live!
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Presented at Podcamp Montreal, Eden Spodek and Connie Crosby discuss the creation of their new podcast Community Divas.TRANSCRIPT
Community Divas Live!with Eden Spodek & Connie Crosby
Podcamp Montreal 2008
Creating a Podcast:
Today’s discussion
• Why?
• How?
• What would you like to see?
Why?
No.....really!
Why?
Community!!
How?
First - get organized!
We use Google Docs to organize ourselves andshare technical notes
things to map out• who is your audience?
• find a name & a web domain
• format
• episode length / content / frequency
• music, introduction, closing - podsafe music
Prepping for episodes
Background notes on each speaker includes
photo, links & interview questions
our technology
the importance of mentors
“We buoy each other up” - Scarborough Dude
We help each other out
finding time
• we record whenever we can find the time
• our goal is to be able to interview individually
• both of us should be able to do post-production so either one of us can do it
• streamline recordings as much as possible
getting the podcast out
•the blog / host - Libsyn
•Feedburner
•iTunes...
getting word out
• Community Divas blog
• our own blogs
• podcast directories
• facebook page
• friendfeed room
what’s next
• improving sound & getting more comfortable
• submitting podcast to Canada Podcasts directory & Canadian Podcast Buffet (remember also Le Québec en Baladodiffusion)
• lots more great interviews planned!
• pulling community/events together in our Facebook page
• supporting our community
What else would you like
to see?
Suggestions from the session
• more about face-to-face traditional communities
• working with social change agencies
• discussing differences between the communities we are building in Facebook, Friendfeed, Twitter esp. statistics
Credit where photo credit is due
• Julien Smith - PAB2008 by Financial Aid Podcasthttp://flickr.com/photos/financialaidpodcast/2604008784/
• Glow bracelets on PAB cruise by Andy Casterhttp://flickr.com/photos/andycast/2598526803/
• bookshelf spectrum, revisited by chotdahttp://flickr.com/photos/santos/1704875109/
• Food preparation--visual poem by er1danushttp://flickr.com/photos/er1danus/1936971937/
• Ducks 3 (rubber duckies) by woodsyhttp://www.sxc.hu/photo/945501
• This could go bad! (Chris Brogan) by Bill Deyshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/deys/2597710321/
• all other images are by Connie Crosby and are available under Creative Commons attribution licence