TechPodcasts.com Signs Major Multi-Podcast Sponsorship

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TechPodCasts.com, the top technical audio podcast resource worldwide, announced today a first of its kind sponsorship deal with GotoMeeting.com, a Citrix Online product

Spokesperson Todd Cochrane says, what is significant is that this is the very first multi-podcast sponsorship deal. This agreement is a large win for our members and the techpodcasts.com network. A significant amount of work lead to getting to this day, with the network barely being 6 months old it is evident that when like minded podcasters come together and build a branded network, along with developing a legal marketable framework, with the necessary statistics reporting, then by presenting a well laid out marketing plan, we were able to sign this sponsorship deal. This solidifies our ideals that “podcasters do the work, and indeed podcasters get paid”.

TechPodcasts.com is uniquely positioned to deliver the GoToMeeting.com message. More impressive in June the network reached 135,000 unique listeners, and saw record traffic of over 750,000 unique downloads among the 20 reporting affiliates.

This sponsorship is the perfect marketing fit, we have the technical audience, and we will be able to directly reach decision makers in the technical community. We look forward to a successful campaign and a long term relationship with GotoMeeting.com.

TechPodcasts.com is a network of independent audio content producers who have agreed to create child safe, educational content as well as work collectively to build the best collection of Technical Podcast available on the Internet.

Use the Google SpellChecker

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When you need to spell a word, don’t reach for the dictionary. Just go to Google and type in the word you want. If it’s not spelled right, Google will come back with “Did you Mean” followed by the proper spelling. This is the fastest, easiest way outside your word processor to get your computer to spell for you.

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Podcasting Overview

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This is the perfect podcast for someone interested in creating a podcast, sponsoring a podcast, or using a podcast for their business as well as people that want to know about podcasting.

  • 0:00 Introduction
  • 1:28 Start of live presentation
  • 2:15 What is podcasting and how does it work?
  • 6:22 Audio examples of audio podcasts
  • 8:50 Who is podcasting and how? Link to Todd Cochrane’s book "Podcasting: A Do it Yourself Guide" .
  • 9:30 Who is listening to podcasts?
  • 10:50 Why is podcasting so different and new? How will podcasting revolutionize the way you listen to radio?
  • 12:00 How will podcasting change the nature of radio advertisements?
  • 14:05 Why is podcasting going to be huge?
  • 14:55 What is the business model for podcasting? How is money being made?
  • 15:54 Can you attach visuals, videos, pictures to podcasts? What is RSS?
  • 18:00 How do you subscribe to podcasts? What does it cost? What kind of personal information do you have to give out?
  • 19:20 What was podcasting called before downloading mp3 files came along? What open standards are used in the podcasting community?
  • 21:45 What’s the difference between just an audio recording for a corporate meeting versus a corporate podcast?
  • 23:00 Can podcasts be used to transmit viruses?
  • 23:40 What kind of server-side software is required to send out podcasts? Use WordPress to produce blogs & podcasts.
  • 25:45 What kind of online software is available so that you can podcast for free? What process do you go through to publish your podcast? Use Bloggger to create the blog, Feedburner to make your RSS feed podcast-compatible, and Ourmedia.org to host your mp3 file at no charge.
  • 28:40 How do you find good podcasts? Visit PodcastAlley.com or Ipodder.org
  • 30:30 What other, newer technology is forseen to come out that might improve on the current mp3 technology? We talk about how the AAC3 format may allow chapters to be used within Podcasts.
  • 32:00 How big are the podcast files to download?
  • 33:00 Why is podcasting a great application for broadband and why will RoadRunner love it?
  • 33:45 How do you protect yourself against copyright violation? Go to creativecommons.org to get license information to decide how you can protect your content in varying degrees.
  • 36:35 How to properly tagging your mp3 files with AudioShell.
  • 37:20 How can government help podcasting?
  • 37:52 How can parents protect their teenagers from improper podcast content?
  • 38:35 How come podcasters are not getting sued for creating inappropriate content like Dawn and Drew?
  • 41:22 Review of townpodcast.com, a new business model for podcasting in local communities.
  • 44:05 What kind of locally relevant podcasts can be created for Townpodcast.com?
  • 44:54 How can you create or manage your own townpodcast.com franchise?
  • 46:20 How will TownPodcast.com create demographically targeted advertisements and podcasts?
  • 47:20 Can Neighborhood Board meetings be recorded and podcasted?
  • 48:34 What kind of equipment do you need to record podcasts?
  • 50:10 What’s the different between listening to streaming audio vs. podcasts?
  • 52:10 Practical advice for those intimidated by podcasting for the very first time.
  • 53:40 How blogs and podcast are integrated and people can leave comments about podcasts. We show VoteHawaii.com comments.
  • 54:50 Getting just a few votes on podcast alley cranks up the ratings for a given Podcast.
  • 54:41 What’s the ratio of blog readers to podcast listeners.
  • 56:54 Get involved with Hawaii Podcasters if you’re in Hawaii and want to know more about podcasting.
  • 57:00 More information if you’re interested in getting involved with TownPodcast.com

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Want to make your next business meeting a smash hit?

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Want to make your next business meeting a smash hit? I’ve got a red-hot tip. At your next meeting, bring a laptop and projector. Project the agenda document on the screen and use it to guide the meeting and to take notes as well. Make sure you take notes live, projected on the screen. This has a fantastic effect because everyone watches what you type and participates much more than usual. And since everyone is seeing the same thing at the same time any inaccuracies are corrected immediately. Now here’s the best part: when the meeting is over, all you do is simply email all this notes you took to everyone who’s there and you don’t have to writeup those tedious “meeting minutes” ever again. Try this at your next meeting and I guarantee you’ll never do it any other way ever again.

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Do quick Outlook Contact lookups

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The next time you’re looking up a contact in Outlook, click somewhere on the right hand side window where your contacts are listed and slowly type the last name of the person you want find. Outlook will quickly start flipping through the contacts to match the letters you’re typing. This is the fastest way to search. Try it!

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Blogging is huge and here’s the report that proves it

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Need to prove to someone that blogging is huge? Check out this Pew Research report on blogging. Some notable points:

  • Blog readership shoots up 58% in 2004
  • 6 million Americans get news and information fed to them through RSS aggregators
  • But 62% of online Americans do not know what a blog is
  • By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture. Two surveys by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in November established new contours for the blogosphere and its popularity:
  • 7% of the 120 million U.S. adults who use the internet say they have created ablog or web-based diary. That represents more than 8 million people.
  • 27% of internet users say they read blogs, a 58% jump from the 17% who told us they were blog readers in February. This means that by the end of 2004 32 million Americans were blog readers. Much of the attention to blogs focused on those thatcovered the recent political campaign and the media. And at least some of the overall growth in blog readership is attributable to political blogs. Some 9% of internet users said they read political blogs “frequently” or “sometimes” during the campaign.
  • 5% of internet users say they use RSS aggregators or XML readers to get thenews and other information delivered from blogs and content-rich Web sites as itis posted online. This is a first-time measurement from our surveys and is anindicator that this application is gaining an impressive foothold.
  • The interactive features of many blogs are also catching on: 12% of internet usershave posted comments or other material on blogs.
  • At the same time, for all the excitement about blogs and the media coverage ofthem, blogs have not yet become recognized by a majority of internet users. Only38% of all internet users know what a blog is. The rest are not sure what the term“blog” means.

Let Google be your dictionary

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Here’s a great Google tip. The next time someone throws a big word at you, like “stenosis”, you don’t have to reach for the dictionary or a gag towel. Just go to Google, type the word “define:” then follow it with the word you want to learn about and Google will pull up all the definitions on the Web. You’ll love it.

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iTunes 4.9 video demo walk through

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Want to see how to use this feature the cool way?
Watch this video using your Windows Media PlayerCheckout the video for a step-by-step demonstration!
(And let me know if you experienced any difficulties)

If you’d like to see how iTunes 4.9 works, check out this video.

Overall, nice, simple UI. Better than iPodder Lemon. You can drag and drop podcast links to subscribe, and the directory is easy to browse. I like it.

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iTunes 4.9 released!

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This is the moment podcasters around the world have been waiting for. I’m downloading it right now with a full review ASAP!

http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

YCM is Your Tool

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A quick review of the purpose of the Your Computer Minute (ycm.com too) podcasts:

  • It’s a tool for YOU (the technical user) to use and distribute to your end-users.
  • If you have something you’d like to have communicated to your end-users in an easy way, send it over to me and I’ll see what I can do.
  • You can subscribe to audio-only feeds by visiting the our home page and choosing the feed that’s right for you

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