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! xx/xx/200x2

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 3.

Web 2.0: “Web is a platform” Collaboration Participation Flexibility Typical applications 4 xx/xx/200x

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 ◦ xx/xx/200x5

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 ◦ Easy to set up and manage Increase information delivery to reach extended users 6 xx/xx/200x

What Types of Things Could I Podcast? News update Book reviews Classes Story time Examples: ◦ Denver Public Library Podcasts: ◦ Hennepin County Library – TeenLinks – Podcasts : ◦ Mayo Clinic Podcasts: ◦ MedlinePlus Directors Comments: ◦ NIH Podcasts: ◦ Podcasting in Libraries: ◦ Other: xx/xx/200x7

How to Get a Podcast? xx/xx/200x8 Podcatcher ◦ Aggregators (aka feedreaders) “collect” RSS/Atom Podcast feeds ◦ Web-based ◦ Google Reader: ◦ Bloglines: ◦ Client-based ◦ iTunes: ◦ Juice: Finding podcasts ◦ Odeo ◦ iTunes ◦ iTunesU ◦ Podcast.net

The Podcaster How to! xx/xx/200x9 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! xx/xx/200x10

Practice Time: Sign Up for a Podbean Account xx/xx/200x11

Practice Time: Software Preparation Audacity – cross-platform free audio recording & editing software ◦ Download: LAME code – converting audio to MP3 format ◦ Download: GarageBand – audio recording software for Mac ◦ xx/xx/200x12

You! Computer Microphone Camcorder (optional) Practice Time: Hardware Preparation xx/xx/200x13

Who’s your audience? What topic you want to cover? Practice Time: Design Your Content xx/xx/200x14

Practice Time: Recording and Editing Who will do it? How to edit? xx/xx/200x15

Upload your podcast to your podbean account Generate an RSS feed Notify your audience Practice Time: Uploading and Publishing xx/xx/200x16

Questions? xx/xx/200x17 Shikun (“KK”) Jiang Technology Coordinator NN/LM South Central Region