We thought it might be helpful to offer a set of links to useful sources of information on Podcasting. We have found similar lists to be helpful, when we find them on other sites.
This type of list always seems “random,” and is necessarily incomplete. We invite our readers to add their suggestions. We hope to offer updates and additions to the list, every few months.
Podcast Free America was created by Ryan Irelan to provide information on Podcasting for all levels of users. It includes a guide on Podcast marketing, news and information on companies in the area, and a bunch of “how to” stuff. All well written and thoughtful.
As the head of a successful Podcast production firm, Scott Whitney is well-positioned to give advice to business and corporate Podcasters. His Podcasting for Business blog has a lot of great tips for the growing ranks of business Podcasters. The only thing I don’t like is that he allows annoying self-promo pop overs on his site.
Awakened Voice from Robert Safuto, covers all types of technology and new media. However, he has done a lot of posts about Podcasting, and does a great job of fitting audio feeds into the broader context of social and streaming media.
Podcast411 carries interesting interviews with the creators of a number of the most popular Podcasts. The hosts of this site have added a bunch of useful tools and links, to make their site a hub of information for those interested in the area.
Rawvoice offers the Blubrry Podcasting hosting service (yes I spelled it right). They also have a pretty useful blog. They have some of the best info I’ve seen on Podcast statistics.
Feedburner’s blog is pretty much a must-read for anyone interested in feeds (and Podcasts are a type of RSS feed!). Feeburner is now owned by Google…so it is natural to see this blog also as a way of monitoring Google’s activities in the feed area.
NMP (New Media Pro) has a whole set of Podcasts that discuss various aspects of creating Podcasts. Interviews, commentary, polls and advice.
The Hopkinson Report has done two episodes on Podcasting that are pretty handy. The first talks about setting up to do a Podcast and the second talks about Podcast marketing. The blog is associated with Wired, one of our Conde Nast clients.
Kevin Davis has published three posts in his blog that describe how Podcasting can be used to boost the visibility of smaller businesses. I was glad to see someone talking about this aspect of Podcasting.
The Podpiper blog has a lot of information on using Podcasting for educators. Ted Lai makes a good case for Podcasting as an educational tool. The Around Podcasting blog recently offered a related post on using Podcasting in Elearning. This blog also has a lot of other useful info on Podcasting for businesses.
I thought I’d close by sharing two nice examples of people talking about our in-house Podcasts. The first is from a site on Islam that links to our Daily Koran reading. The second is from Gerald England, one of the artists who we featured on Poem of the Day. Unfortunately, we neglected to get his permission before we read his poem (we apologized subsequently—and apologize again, here). I thought his post on this would be interesting to those of you who either like to track the use of your work or those who are thinking about using the work of others without permission (don’t do it!).
