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| Introduction |
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Conventions Used in This Book |
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How This Book Is Organized |
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Part 1: Podcasting on a Worldwide Frequency |
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Part 2: The Hills Are Alive with the Sound of Podcasting |
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Part 3: So You've Got This Great Recording of Your Voice. Now What? |
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Part 4: Start Spreadin' the News about Your Podcast |
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Part 5: Pod-sibilities to Consider for Your Show |
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| Part 1: Podcasting On A Worldwide Frequency |
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Chapter 1 Getting the Scoop on Podcasting |
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Deciding Whether Podcasting Is for You |
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You want to deliver media content on a regular basis |
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You want to reach beyond the boundaries of broadcast media |
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You have something to say |
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You want to hear from your listeners |
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14 | (1) |
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Looking for the bare necessities |
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Recording your first podcast |
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Compressing your audio files |
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Uploading your audio to the web |
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19 | (1) |
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Catching a Cast with Your Podcatching Client |
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The catcher that started it all: Juice |
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The turning of a corner: iTunes |
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Podcatching on the go: Stitcher |
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Podcasting with the G-man: Google Play |
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28 | (1) |
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29 | (3) |
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32 | (1) |
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Chapter 2 Getting the Gadgets That Make a Podcast Go |
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33 | (20) |
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34 | (9) |
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35 | (3) |
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Investing in a high-end mic |
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38 | (5) |
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Podcasts Well with Others: The Mixing Board |
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The anatomy of a mixing board |
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Hooking up a mixer to your computer |
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46 | (3) |
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Accessorize! Accessorize! Accessorize! |
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Chapter 3 Building Your Podcast's Digital Workstation |
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53 | (18) |
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54 | (6) |
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Audacity: The risk-free option for all |
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Cakewalk's SONAR Home Studio for Windows: A first step in running with the pros |
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GarageBand: Moby in your Mac! |
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WireTap Studio: Recording and editing made easier |
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The Sky's the Limit: Big-Budget Software |
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60 | (3) |
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60 | (2) |
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Gluing It Together with RSS |
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Keep it simple and get a blog' |
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66 | (1) |
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67 | (4) |
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68 | (1) |
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Chapter 4 Go, Go, Power Podcasters! |
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Podcasting with Your Laptop |
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72 | (2) |
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72 | (1) |
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Podcasting with Your Mobile Devices |
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A Shure Thing: The MV5 and MV51 |
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75 | (2) |
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Two for the Rode: The VideoMic Me and smartLav+ |
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77 | (2) |
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Podcasting with Portable Recorders |
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Zoom-Zoom-Zoom: The Handy Recorder Line |
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From Cloud to Computer: Portable Audio Workflow |
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Getting audio from your portable recorder |
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Getting audio from your portable device |
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| Part 2: The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Podcasting |
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Chapter 5 : Before You Hit the Record Button |
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Choosing a Unique Topic for Your Podcast |
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90 | (2) |
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92 | (2) |
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What If I Hear More than One Voice? |
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94 | (2) |
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Deciding Whether You Need an Outline or Script |
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96 | (2) |
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Determining a Length for Your Show |
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98 | (4) |
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The hidden value of the short podcast |
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A little length won't kill you |
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100 | (2) |
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Finding that happy medium |
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102 | (1) |
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Mark Your Calendar: Posting Schedule |
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102 | (3) |
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103 | (1) |
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Posting biweekly (or "fortnightly" for our friends in the Commonwealth) |
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104 | (1) |
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I Hear Music (And It Sounds like Police Sirens!) |
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105 | (8) |
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106 | (4) |
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I can name that tune...I wrote it! |
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I'll take the First: Free speech versus slander |
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111 | (2) |
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Chapter 6 Interview-Fu: Talk to Me, Grasshopper |
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113 | (16) |
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I'll Have My People Call Your People: Interview Requests |
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114 | (1) |
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115 | (5) |
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Asking really great questions |
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116 | (1) |
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Avoiding really bad questions |
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117 | (2) |
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119 | (1) |
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Recording Interviews with Skype |
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120 | (5) |
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120 | (4) |
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124 | (1) |
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Prepping Your Green Room for Guests |
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125 | (2) |
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Welcoming in-studio guests |
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126 | (1) |
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Meeting guests on their own turf |
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Ensuring Trouble-Free Recordings |
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127 | (2) |
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Chapter 7 So What Are You Waiting For? Record, Already! |
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Did Your Sound Check Clear the Bank? |
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130 | (5) |
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Noises Off: Capturing Ambient Noise |
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Identifying ambient noise |
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136 | (2) |
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Now Take Your Time and Hurry Up: Pacing and Clock Management |
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138 | (3) |
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Take the potato out of your mouth and enunciate |
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And now let's take a break for station identification |
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140 | (1) |
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Concerning Tangents and Their Val - Oh, Look, a Butterfly! |
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"Say, that reminds me of something" |
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"But getting back to what I was saying earlier..." |
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142 | (2) |
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144 | (3) |
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Getting started with GarageBand |
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144 | (1) |
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Getting started with Audacity |
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145 | (2) |
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Chapter 8 Cleanup, Podcast Aisle 7! |
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A Few Reasons to Consider Editing |
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148 | (1) |
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149 | (5) |
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150 | (2) |
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152 | (2) |
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Making Your Musical Bed and Lying in It: Background Music |
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154 | (7) |
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Finding the right balance |
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154 | (2) |
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Applying bed music the right way |
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156 | (1) |
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Setting volume levels for bed music |
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156 | (5) |
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Making an Entrance: Intros |
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161 | (2) |
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162 | (1) |
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163 | (4) |
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Leave the audience wanting more |
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163 | (1) |
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164 | (1) |
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Coming soon to a media player near you |
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165 | (2) |
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Chapter 9 Roll Camera: Video Podcasting |
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168 | (2) |
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The Price of Pretty Pictures |
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Lock and Load (Your Camera): Planning Your Shooting Schedule |
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171 | (2) |
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iTarantino: Creating with iMovie |
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173 | (7) |
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Capturing video with iMovie |
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174 | (2) |
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Creating your episode with iMovie |
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176 | (4) |
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DV on the PC: Podcasting with Adobe Premiere |
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180 | (2) |
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Capturing video with Adobe Premiere Elements |
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180 | (2) |
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And We're Live! - Video Podcasting in the Moment |
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182 | (11) |
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183 | (1) |
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184 | (2) |
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186 | (5) |
| Part 3: So You've Got This Great Recording Of Your Voice: Now What? |
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Chapter 10 Shrink That Puppy and Slap a Label on It |
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193 | (18) |
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A Kilobit of Me, and a Whole Lot of You: Understanding Kbps |
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194 | (4) |
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Setting bitrates in Audacity |
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195 | (2) |
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Changing bitrates in iTunes |
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197 | (1) |
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Care for a Sample, Sir? (Audio Sample Rates) |
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198 | (3) |
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Changing sample rates in Audacity |
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199 | (1) |
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Changing sample rates in iTunes |
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200 | (1) |
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ID3 Tags: The 411 of Podcasting |
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201 | (6) |
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Tell me about yourself: All about ID3 tags |
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202 | (1) |
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IDentity crisis: Making ID3 tags work for podcasting |
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203 | (2) |
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Creating and editing ID3 tags in Audacity |
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205 | (1) |
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Creating and editing ID3 tags in iTunes |
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206 | (1) |
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Album Art: Getting Graphic with Your Podcast |
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207 | (4) |
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Chapter 11 Move It on Up (To Your Web Server) |
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Adopting an Effective Filenaming Convention |
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212 | (1) |
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Understanding How FTP Works |
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213 | (2) |
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Making Your Connection with an FTP Application |
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215 | (5) |
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Step by step (or quack by quack) setup for Cyberduck |
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216 | (1) |
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Step by step setup for FileZilla |
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217 | (1) |
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A place on your web server for your stuff |
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218 | (1) |
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219 | (1) |
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Uploading to a Podcast-Specific Host |
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220 | (3) |
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Chapter 12 Providing Show Notes |
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223 | (18) |
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223 | (2) |
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225 | (3) |
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226 | (1) |
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A picture is worth a thousand words |
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227 | (1) |
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228 | (8) |
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228 | (3) |
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231 | (2) |
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Using a wiki for your show notes |
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233 | (3) |
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Boosting Search Engine Rankings with Good Show Notes |
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236 | (7) |
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237 | (1) |
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| Part 4: Start Spreading The News About Your Podcast |
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Chapter 13 Speaking Directly to Your Peeps |
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243 | (24) |
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Gathering Listener Feedback |
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244 | (1) |
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Fostering Comments on Your Blog |
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245 | (2) |
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Focusing on Online Forums |
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247 | (4) |
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Finding free, hosted forums |
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247 | (2) |
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Gaining more control of your forum |
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249 | (2) |
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251 | (7) |
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252 | (1) |
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254 | (1) |
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255 | (3) |
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258 | (3) |
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Seeking Out the Comments of Others |
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261 | (2) |
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Searching within a site, blog, or social media platform |
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262 | (1) |
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When the Comments Are Less than Good |
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263 | (4) |
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Chapter 14 Fishing for Listeners |
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267 | (18) |
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Getting Your Podcast Ready for Promotion |
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267 | (3) |
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Polishing your presentation |
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268 | (1) |
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268 | (1) |
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269 | (1) |
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Exploring Various Advertising Options |
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270 | (9) |
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Give me a boost, Facebook |
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270 | (4) |
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Insta-traffic with Instagram |
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274 | (3) |
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277 | (2) |
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279 | (8) |
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Optimizing your site for search engines |
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280 | (1) |
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Submitting promos to other podcasts |
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280 | (1) |
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281 | (1) |
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282 | (1) |
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283 | (2) |
| Part 5: Pod-Sibilities To Consider For Your Show |
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Chapter 15 Show Me the Money |
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How Much Money Can You Make? |
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288 | (2) |
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Convincing Advertisers to Give You Money |
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290 | (5) |
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291 | (3) |
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Establishing a rate sheet |
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294 | (1) |
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295 | (2) |
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Asking Your Listeners for Money |
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297 | (8) |
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Gathering listener donations with PayPal |
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298 | (3) |
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Building patrons with Patreon |
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301 | (3) |
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304 | (1) |
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Handling Fee-Based Subscriptions |
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305 | (4) |
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305 | (2) |
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307 | (2) |
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Chapter 16 Podcasting for Publicity |
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309 | (12) |
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310 | (2) |
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Telling the World a Story, One Podcast at a Time |
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312 | (4) |
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Keeping Good Company: Community Podcasts |
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316 | (5) |
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Creating a podcast to encourage testimony |
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316 | (1) |
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Podcasting for fun while promoting in the process |
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317 | (4) |
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Chapter 17 Podcasting for Passion |
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The Philosophical Question for All Podcasters: Why Do We Do It? |
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322 | (7) |
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Gaining perspective on passion |
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322 | (2) |
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Podcasting passion with a purpose |
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324 | (1) |
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Sharing your passion with friends |
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325 | (2) |
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A passionate love for the podcast |
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327 | (2) |
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Holding Interest: Keeping a Podcasts Passion Alive |
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329 | (7) |
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Podcasting on puree: Mixing it up |
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329 | (2) |
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Starting a second (or third) podcast |
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331 | (3) |
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Moving forward with a plan |
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334 | (2) |
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When Podcasting, Be like Bruce Lee |
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336 | (3) |
| Part 6: The Part Of Tens |
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Chapter 18 Ten Types of Podcasts to Check Out |
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341 | (18) |
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342 | (2) |
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Independent Media Podcasts |
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344 | (2) |
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346 | (1) |
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Self-Development Podcasts |
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347 | (2) |
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349 | (2) |
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351 | (1) |
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352 | (1) |
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353 | (2) |
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355 | (2) |
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Podcasts about...Podcasting |
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357 | (2) |
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Chapter 19 Top Ten Reasons Why to Podcast |
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You Are Considered a Subject Matter Expert |
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360 | (1) |
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You Are Passionate about the Subject |
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361 | (1) |
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You've Got a Creative Itch to Scratch |
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362 | (2) |
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You Like Playing with Tech Toys |
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364 | (1) |
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Bring Your Friends Together |
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365 | (1) |
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All the Cool Kids Are Doing It |
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366 | (1) |
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366 | (1) |
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Bring Out the Best in You |
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367 | (1) |
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Talk to Interesting People |
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368 | (1) |
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