Saturday, April 24, 2010

Morning Session 9:00 – 12:30

• Introduction: The State of Publishing Overview
• Outline and General Overview of the Full Class Content
• Three Principals of Good Podcast Audience-Building: Content, Consistency, Promotion
• Setting up your author Blog, Domain and RSS Feed
• Discussion of RSS: Why a Blog/RSS is more important than "Blogging"
• Setting you up on Blogger
• Libsyn: Hosting for Your Needs
• Submitting Your Feed to iTunes
• Lunch

Afternoon Session 1:30 – 4:30

• Looking at an Episode as the Sum of Its Parts
• Recording: How to / Equipment Orientation / Considering Environment
• Break out session: Begin your own recording -- Generating a Podcast Using Voices and Effects
• Normalizing
• Intro to editing Sound Files

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Morning Session 9:00 – 12:30

• Modularity and Modules: Using a set bumper and outro - Breaking up an Episode
• Ducking and Amplifying: Integrating Music and Your Voice
• Putting the Pieces Together: Your First Sample Episode
• Run your file through The Levelator - "Magic" Sound Improvment
• Mix Your MP3 and Upload to LibSyn hosting
• Create Your First Podcast Blog Post
• Lunch

Afternoon Session 1:30 – 4:30

• Promoting yourself and your Podcast Online: The Art of Pimping
• Creating a promo and promoting yourself to other podcasters
• Utilizing the wide array of Social Networking Tools: Making your profile on MySpace, Twitter, and Facebook
• Budgeting Time for Online Networking? The If, Why and How...
• Podiobooks.com Uncovered
• Best Practices for Online Audience-Building
• Promo Creation Workshop
• Question and Answer Session