Still find yourself having to define and explain podcasting to friends, colleagues, and clients?
Well, here’s one way to do it: Just say watching or listening to a podcast is like watching Oprah.
Confused? Allow Leesa Barnes to explain in her “What is podcasting?” video:

Note: I tried embedding the video directly to this post, but doing [...]

Donna Papacosta has just released an episode of her Trafcom News Podcast about “trimming the fat in your podcast.”
It’s an issue that’s been on my mind recently. Here’s the introduction to my podcast, New Comm Road:

The intro has served the show well since my former co-host Mike Bellina produced it last summer, but [...]

Soup to nuts of starting a podcast: an interview with Scott Monty
Hosted by Bryan Person. Recorded from Boston, Massachusetts, USA and published for Thursday, August 9, 2007.

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What are some of the most popular podcasting questions that people ask Donna Papacosta:

How do I persuade my boss that our company should be podcasting?
What’s better: video or audio?
What if I start to podcast and then fall victim to podfading?
Are corporations now more receptive to podcasting?

Popular questions, yes, and also important ones. If you’re thinking [...]

One of the joys for me as a podcaster is hearing from listeners I never knew I had.
This morning, after a note from Doug Haslam — who is obviously paying better attention to his Technorati tags than I am to mine — I discovered that I have a new listener from Mumbai, India.

She [...]

Back in January, as part of Episode 23 of the New Comm Road podcast, I published an interview with Mignon Fogarty, better known in the podcasting world as Grammar Girl.
Wonder what she’s been up to since? Well, no thanks to me, of course, Mignon has been busy building a veritable podcasting empire through her QDNow.com [...]

I don’t like doing the dishes. Do you? Somehow, I’m just so darn slow at it, to the extent that washing up after a simple meal can take me as much as 30 minutes. But one of the best ways I have found to make this task a little less painful is to listen to [...]

A few months ago I was speaking with an HR manager at an agency in New York who was on the hunt for a seasoned PR pro with skills in the social-media space.
My advice to him? Make your pitch by advertising on a podcast, particularly one where the show’s audience is tuned into both social [...]

Donna Papacosta and Jason Van Orden have both been giving out some excellent advice on how to create outstanding podcasts, and how to promote them.
I’m trying something different. Today, I start a series of tips aimed squarely at the podcast listener — how to find interesting podcasts, how to listen to them, and even how [...]

Six ways to make the most of Technorati.
Hosted by Bryan Person. Recorded from historic Boston, Massachusetts, USA and published for Wednesday, January 24, 2007.
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