I was in Seattle for Yaris works which was hosted to promote Toyota's Yaris. We had a Podcast Clinic session. We had a good time. (check out some pix I took) The guys from bands for fans were there and giving lots of feedback. We ended up having lunch together. Awesome peeps. Brent dropped by and gave us support as well. Thanks B.
Here's a little recap of what we talked about:
- different podcast directories. (of course, the links provided are not the full list, it's just what we mentioned.)
- ways to subscribe/read your feed
online:
local machine:
- different genre of podcast - very specific.
some example of podcasts that we talked about:
- craft beer radio talks about beer. (Watermelon wheat rocks
- adam curry. One of the attendee said "show me adam curry"
- kexp. Discover some local music. (local = seattle)
- chris pirillo
- rocketboom
- delta park project is one of my all time favorite podcast. Jason and Anna talk about pop culture. They are very specific with their audience group and they put in lots of time into their podcasts.
- I love bringing up uncle weed as a great example of a special breed of podcaster. His "explicit" content rocks.
- special mention: XS in your ear, by Ari, the organizer of the event
- How to create your own podcast
put it on the web:
- hipcast support recording/publishing from your phone. Very useful when you are on the road.
Not podcast, but putting video on the web for your videoblog/audioblog? (you know, basically your video/audio is not being sent to the feed)
- youtube
- you can actually make money from revver, this is what the ask a ninja guys use nowadays
- myspace
- when it comes to blogging and podcasting
- loudblog (it's actually meant for podcasting, very interesting. Can be integrated with other blogging software)
- wordpress is what I prefer because of the expandable functions through plugins, you can also have a free hosted account on wordpress.com.
- drupal is more like a powerful CMS instead of just a blogging software
- blogger (probably the easiest to set up)
- use technorati to search within blogs
- use feedburner to put multiple feeds together and also track your stats)
- With creative common you can protect your content
- talk about music and using music in your podcast/blog (and of course, independent music)
- ioda promonet is the first that came into my mind. The ability to download music to promote music? Love it.
- cdbaby with its wide selection of independent artists
- I mentioned project opus just because it's a drupal site and it's developed in Vancouver. (and whitfield, a band that my friend manages, is on feature)
- melodeo. I didn't go into detail about melodoe. but you get the idea
- equipments/software
- we were using the inspire 1394 for recording
- the M-Audio Podcast Factory Podcasting solution is basically podcasting in a box
- audacity is a pretty easy to use one
- garage band makes it easy to create podcast. It has an option to "Publish to podcast" which formats the file properly
- cast blaster
- (The quality and choice of media a podcast has should reflect on the content, it's also the reason why the videos/audios we upload are often raw. It's a very informal thing instead of a regular podcast show)
- other web tools that we can't get enough of
- flickr, for it's awesomeness
- del.icio.us, for its ability to send other people links. (Hey that's how I first heard about bands for fans from Brent. (yes you can tag your bookmarks to send to other people
- eventful and upcoming
- digg for user voted news
- community walk for doing your own google map, for free
- other crazy things we talked about?
Good question we got from the session:
what are the criteria that the artists/musicians consider to decide on what to use to promote their music online?
More questions? Did I miss anything? Fire them this way.
Other things I should know about? Please do let me know.
