Interviews with Digital Media Thought Leaders
Podcasting Tips
Avoiding Simultaneous Talking During Telephone Interviews (October 10, 2008) Most of our podcasts include telephone interviews. Sometimes it is necessary to move the guest along to the next topic if his answer gets to be too long-winded. Unfortunately, when I interrupt him the two of us are talking simultaneously. The 45-second video below shows you how to cut out one of the voices thereby eliminating the problem.
A Place To Sell Your Podcasts (September 30, 2008): If you think the content of your podcasts can be valuable to major corporations you can post them for sale at the location discussed in the one minute video below. It is best to offer audio-visual content in the form of PowerPoint presentations with voice-over narration.
How to Podcast (September 19, 2008): The ten minute video below gives you the basics of how to podcast both video and audio. If you would like to learn more about how we can construct a podcasting platform for you and show you how to use it, please contact us.
Getting Podcasts Delivered to Your eMail (September 11, 2008) Many of us still rely upon email as our preferred delivery mechinism for updated information from sources in Cyberspace. Perhaps it is because we first started getting regluar information from selected sources by subscribing to their email commentaries. The one minute video below shows you how to get podcasts sent directly to your email account.
Getting Transcripts of Podcasts (September 4, 2008) It’s great to watch and hear podcasts, but sometimes you might actually want to get a written transcript of the audio. There are websites available that will do this for you on demand. Some use computer-transcription and some use real people. For our recommendation watch the video below.
Getting The Best Delivery of Digital Media Files (August 11, 2008) When visitors come to our website, we want the pages to load-up quickly. When they choose to watch one of our videos or download a podcast, we want the files to transfer as fast as possible. Click on the two-minute video below for a tip that can help speed the delivery of web pages and Digital Media.
Staying Connected with Your Audience (June 20, 2008) A key advantage of podcasting is that your audience can become a community of people with similar interests. If they remain with you it’s likely that they find something you are doing of value. Click on the one-minute video below to learn about a way to stay in touch with them.
Staying Compliant with Apple iTunes (June 18, 2008) One of the most important software applications used to download podcasts is Apple’s iTunes. Thus, if your company is thinking about starting podcasts of its own, then it will be important to insure that your feed is compliant with iTunes. You also want to be sure it is complaint with all the leading podcast directories.
Check out the 30-second video below to learn how you can do this.
Invigorating Internet Video: (June 17, 2008) Too much Internet video, whether at YouTube or corporate websites, is merely a talking head. Such monologues normally become boring after a few minutes or less.
One way to invigorate the action is to provide demonstrations. Given the Internet and a computer monitor, it’s possible to access screen demonstrations from anywhere in the World. Today’s tip shows you how to put such demos into your videos.
Recording Phone Conversations to a Computer: (June 10, 2008) There are two ways to record telephone conversations so that you can later use them as podcasts or webcasts. One is to use VoIP programs like Skype. Unfortunately, the voice quality of IP telephony can sometimes be unacceptable.
If you want to rely upon conventional phone service you’ll need (1) a hardware adapter to connect the telephone to the computer, and (2) recording software. To learn more click on the one-minute video below:
Avioding Spam Filters: (June 5, 2008) Unfortunately, spam filters sometimes reject emails that we want to receive. For example, when we opt-into an email newsletter that alerts us to podcasts we want to see or hear, some of the most popular spam filters like spam assassin will reject them. Therefore, those of us who are composing the email newsletter must exercise care to avoid getting blocked. Click on the video below to pick up a few tips.
Metadata for Pictures: (June 3, 2008) If you are posting pictures to your website it is important to understand that Google cannot look inside those pictures to tell what they are. Thus, you must provide a textual description as metadata to embed within the picture. This enables Google to comprehend what the picture is about and provides a momentary pop-up description to website visitors who “mouse over” the picture. The following ninety second video illustrates how you can do this.
How to use Permalinks: (May 29, 2008) Podcasts and video streams originate from audio and video files posted to Web servers. Unfortunately, search engines like Google cannot inspect inside those files. Thus, producers who want search engine users to find their content must intelligently employ metadata. Click on the short video below for a key tip.
