Product Description

New tools have made it easier to create a podcast. The second edition of Podcasting For Dummies shows you how you can create and distribute your own online recordings using tools you already have. This edition also covers what you need to build a top-notch podcasting studio. Expert podcasters Tee Morris and Evo Terra are joined on this edition by a fellow podcasting guru, Chuck Tomasi, to walk you through recording, editing, posting, and promoting a podcast. Chapters cover:

• Choosing a topic that fits your expertise
• Writing an outline or script for your podcast
• Turning your existing computer into a desktop podcasting studio
• Picking the microphone, headphones, and audio editing software that best suit your needs
• Upgrading to pro-level podcasting equipment
• Conducting interviews and recording an interview subject who’s not in the room with you
• Navigating the XML code you need to share your podcast
• Finding a place to host your podcast online
• Promoting your podcasts in the blogosphere, online discussion groups, and social networking sites
• Seeking out sponsors, advertising, and subscriptions to make your podcast pay
• Creating podcasts designed to promote a business

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44388 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 366 pages

Review
"Aimed at everyone from first-time podcasters to experienced producers with a thorough update on the software". (The Bookseller, Friday 14th March 2008)

"Aimed at everyone from first-time podcasters to experienced producers with a thorough update on the software". (The Bookseller, Friday 14th March 2008)

From the Back Cover
Get to know podcasting software, tools, and methods

Here's what you need to start podcasting or polish up your skills

Podcasting offers anyone the chance to send their voice over the Internet. All you need is a microphone, a computer, and Internet access. This book helps you record a podcast, get it online, and attract listeners. Whether you want to podcast for business or fun, you'll find what you need to get started here.

Discover how to:

• Outfit your PC or Mac® for recording

• Edit your podcast and get it online

• Create a video podcast

• Promote your podcast

• Keep your content fresh

• Attract advertisers

About the Author
Tee Morris, Chuck Tomasi, and Evo Terra are podcasting pros. Tee shares his sci-fi writings as "podiobooks," Chuck hosts the popular Technorama podcast, and Evo is a podcast producer.

Customer Reviews

The Best Resource For Any New Podcaster
When I first decided to do my own podcast I spent months trying to figure out how to go about it. Finally I got this book, and I was literally podcasting within a week.

Tee and Evo do a great job of breaking through the techno jargon and making the reader realize how simple the whole process really is. And beyond just the technical aspects, they guide you through the whole process of deciding what kind of podcast you should do, what format to use, how to organize your content, and how to promote your show once you have it done.

They guide you through every step of the way without ever seeming condescending or boring you with unnecessary detail. This really is all the information you need to create, publish, and promote your podcast. There is just no better place to start.

Exactly What I Was Looking for in a Podcasting Book
Podcasting is something that just about anyone who has spent a fair amount of time on the internet has at least heard about. I will personally admit to having only listened to perhaps a handful of them myself - at least to this point. I did, though, come into reading Podcasting for Dummies with a basic knowledge of how they were presented thanks to some digging on the internet to educate myself a while back.

Not that it mattered. The book does a great job of outlining all the ins and outs of podcasting. No preliminary knowledge is required. Perhaps more importantly - at least for someone like me - the book isn't so painfully introductory that one with a working understanding of the subject feels like their time and money is wasted.

I picked up Podcasting for Dummies because I've been thinking to start my own podcast and wanted to develop a more complete understanding of it all, and get some hints and tips on ways to make it all more efficient. That's exactly what I got, so I am definitely a satisfied customer.

Answers the curiosity questions
I picked this up simply because I was curious about podcasts as I hear people talking about them more and more.

As with many dummies books; this is a great initiation for those that ask "What is...." This book takes you through the whole process of setting up and publishing a podcast. It even gives advice with equipment, handling interviews, and setting up sites for distributing your podcast.

If you have never worked with the web, there are a couple chapters that might bore you as they deal with RSS and XML. They are more of an introduction but they might bore if not confuse people if they have never seen html.

The book also gives suggestions about content, finding a niche and basically finding your place in the pod world. It even offers some answers to some legal issues that a person could run into if they are not careful such as publishing music.

There are many links offered for further study

Overall, this is a great book if you find yourself asking what's a podcast? It could answer the question "Is podcasting for you?"

For me it's not something that interests me at the moment. However, I know much more after reading this book.