Product Description

Podcasting is like blogging out loud! It gives you a voice—one that can be heard worldwide on computers, iPods, or other MP3 players. You can podcast to boost your business, promote your passion, share your opinions, or just have fun. The point is to say what you want to say to those who want to hear it. With step-by-step explanations, screen shots, and tons of examples, this guide clues you in on recording, producing, and hosting your very own podcast with info on:

• Finding your voice and your niche, whether you want to talk tech, make your own kinds of music, educate listeners, make people laugh, do soundseeing tours, serialize your novel, or invent a new podcasting genre  
• Getting the bare necessities (if you don’t already have them), including a microphone, recording software, and an audio card
• Audio editing software such as Audacity, Cakewalk for PCs, GarageBand for musicality, and Audio HiJack Pro for Macs
• Recording, including understanding dB (decibel levels), capturing or minimizing ambient noise, and more
• Editing with GarageBand or Audacity, adding bed music, and including intros and outros for a signature finishing touch

You want your podcast to be heard. Podcasting For Dummies helps you launch and promote it with info on how to:

• Downsize your audio files with MP3 compression
• Change bit rates and sample rates in Audacity and iTunes
• Create and edit your ID3 tags in Audacity or iTunes
• Post your show notes using Movable Type or Libsyn
• Simplify the RSS 2.0 feed by using blogging software or a podcast-hosting company such as Audioblog.com, Podcastamatic, and Feeder
• Ping for publicity
• Communicate with your listeners on your blog, through online discussion groups such as Yahoo! Groups or Google Groups, or on online forums

Of course, if you want to be a podcatcher (a listener) and subscribe to podcasts, this guide shows you how to do that, too! Complete with a companion podcast—a free weekly audio commentary that will keep you up to speed on the podsphere—this guide helps you get your message heard, loud and clear.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #143288 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Review
“…Evo Terra,who wrote the book on podcasting, literally; he was co-author of ‘Podcasting For Dummies’” (Observer, March 2007)

From the Back Cover
Got something to say? It's easy with a podcast!

Subscribe to podcasts, put together your own, and build a fan base

Podcasting really is twenty-first century communication, and you can be a part of it! This book gives you the scoop on listening to, producing, and distributing podcasts, points you toward the best hardware and software for creating one, and makes it easy to turn your computer into a recording suite, plus a whole lot more.

Discover how to

• Decide on a podcast focus
• Find and use the necessary hardware and software
• Record and mix a podcast
• Get your podcast online
• Use a little XML
• Promote your podcast

About the Author
Tee Morris: Tee Morris is an instructor at EEI Communications, based out of the Washington DC/Virginia/Maryland metro area, and teaches various applications in graphic design and video editing; he also teaches Podcasting for Government and Corporate Business. When he is not working as a freelance artist and instructor, Tee writes science fiction and fantasy; his writing career began with his 2002 historical epic fantasy, MOREVI The Chronicles of Rafe & Askana, published by Dragon Moon Press. His other works include MOREVI’s highly anticipated sequel Legacy of MOREVI: Book One of the Arathellean Wars and Billibub Baddings and The Case of The Singing Sword, a spoof of both fantasy and hard-boiled detective novels that received an Honorable Mention for ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year and was a finalist for the Independent Publisher’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy book. It was the podcast of his debut novel that led to this team-up with Evo Terra in Podcasting For Dummies.
Find out more about Tee Morris at www.teemorris.com.

Evo Terra: Evo is the poster child for Type A personalities the world over. Washed-up musician, tree-hugging herbalist, heretical-but-ordained minister, talk-radio personality, advertising executive and technology innovator, all wrapped up in one single-serving package. In the podcasting world, Evo tends to infect others with the podcasting bug, from budding show hosts to the people behind the scenes finding new uses for podcast technologies.
He hosts three different podcasts, Slice of Scifi (sliceofscifi.com), the Dragon Page Cover to Cover, and Wingin’ It! (dragonpage.com) and is helping authors podcast their works to the masses at Podiobooks.com.
He currently resides in Cottonwood, Arizona, with his wife Sheila and his son NJ. Neither of which have a podcast. Yet.

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.