# Presentation: 125587

## Can You Hear Me Now?How to Make a Podcast

- Shikun (“KK”) Jiang,  Technology Coordinator
- National Network of Libraries of Medicine, South Central Region

## Here’s ALLWhat You’ll Need!

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## Blogs

**Aggregators**

**Social Networking**

**Folksonomies**

- Videocasting

- Perpetual Beta

**Wikis**

**Tags**

- Social Bookmarking

**RSS**

**Collaboration**

- Pay per Click

**Blogs**

- Atom Feeds

- IM

- xhtml

- SMS

- Blogroll

- texting

- Syndication

- xml

**Podcasting**

- .

## Web 2.0:

- “Web is a platform”
- Collaboration
- Participation
- Flexibility
- Typical applications

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## What is Podcasting?

- Distribute multimedia files over the Internet for playback on portable media devices or personal computers
- Series of episodes regularly updated
- Push technology
- Give listeners control over when, where and how
- Ask a Ninja – Special Delivery 1: What is Podcasting
- _[http://youtube.com/watch?v=OEmss2lg-ug](http://youtube.com/watch?v=OEmss2lg-ug)_

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## Why Should I Have a Podcast?

- Meet the needs of your audience
- Time-saving
- on-demand
- Control over when, where and what
- Easy to use, low cost and fit into today’s mobile world
- _[http://www.paulcolligan.com/podcast-statistics/](http://www.paulcolligan.com/podcast-statistics/)_
- Easy to set up and manage
- Increase information delivery to reach extended users

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## What Types of Things Could I Podcast?

- News update
- Book reviews
- Classes
- Story time
- Examples:
- Denver Public Library Podcasts: _[http://podcast.denverlibrary.org/](http://podcast.denverlibrary.org/)_
- Hennepin County Library – TeenLinks – Podcasts :
- _[http://www.hclib.org/teens/Podcasts.cfm](http://www.hclib.org/teens/Podcasts.cfm)_
- Mayo Clinic Podcasts: _[http://www.mayoclinic.org/podcasts/](http://www.mayoclinic.org/podcasts/)_
- MedlinePlus Directors Comments:
- _[http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/directorscomments.html](http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/directorscomments.html)_
- NIH Podcasts: _[http://www.nih.gov/news/radio/podcast/nihpodcastarchive.htm](http://www.nih.gov/news/radio/podcast/nihpodcastarchive.htm)_
- Podcasting in Libraries: _[http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Podcasting](http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Podcasting)_
*Other*: _[http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/](http://www.cnn.com/services/podcasting/)_

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## How to Get a Podcast?

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- Podcatcher
- Aggregators (aka feedreaders) “collect” RSS/Atom Podcast feeds
- Web-based
- Google Reader: _[http://www.google.com](http://www.google.com/)_
- Bloglines: _[http://www.bloglines.com/](http://www.bloglines.com/)_
- Client-based
- iTunes: _[http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/](http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/)_
- Juice: http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/
- Finding podcasts
- Odeo http://odeo.com/
- iTunes http://www.apple.com/podcasting/
- iTunesU http://www.apple.com/education/itunesu_mobilelearning/itunesu.html
- Podcast.net http://www.podcast.net/

## The Podcaster How to!

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- Several important
- things to consider

- Design & record your audio / video content

- Edit your files and save them to MP3 (audio) or MPEG4 (video) format

- They can listen to the podcast on their
- Computer, or download it to an MP3
- player or iPod

- Upload the files and publish the feed

- Someone subscribes to your feed

- They open their feedreader

## Practice Time!

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## Practice Time:Sign Up for a Podbean Account

- http://www.podbean.com

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## Practice Time:Software Preparation

- Audacity – cross-platform free audio recording & editing software
- Download: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
- LAME code – converting audio to MP3 format
- Download: http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?lame_enc
*GarageBand – audio recording software for Mac*
*http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/ *

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## Practice Time:Hardware Preparation

- You!
- Computer
- Microphone
*Camcorder (optional)*

**Practice Time:**Hardware Preparation

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## Practice Time:Design Your Content

- Who’s your audience?
- What topic you want to cover?

**Practice Time:**Design Your Content

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## Practice Time:Recording and Editing

- Who will do it?
- How to edit?

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## Practice Time:Uploading and Publishing

- Upload your podcast to your podbean account
- Generate an RSS feed
- Notify your audience

**Practice Time:**Uploading and Publishing

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## Questions?

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- Shikun (“KK”) Jiang
- Technology Coordinator
- NN/LM South Central Region
- shikun.jiang@exch.library.tmc.edu
- 713-799-7880