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Tee Morris and Evo Terra
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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.
Featured Customer Reviews  The Best Resource For Any New Podcaster,
September 29, 2008
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,
March 21, 2008
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,
February 20, 2008 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.Short Sweet And To The Point,
December 11, 2007 If you know nothing about "how" a podcast is made get this book, even if you don't plain to be a podcaster (I do tho!?) This book will give you a really good idea as to what goes into and what it takes to make a podcast.
Plus its a really easy read, and at time funny.Podcasting For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))Works for smart people, too.,
August 28, 2007 Disclosure/Disclaimer: I was a Tee Morris fan before I read this book. I still am. So obviously I was predisposed to like it.
Wiley Publishing's `For Dummies' series is wildly popular in spite of the fact that most of us don't like to think of ourselves as Dummies. Fortunately, this book works just fine for smart people who don't happen to know much about podcasting, and there's a great companion podcast by Tee Morris. (Season 1 contains 20 episodes; Season 2 will accompany the sequel, which has the unlikely title of Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies.)
The book is both readable and comprehensive, and includes plenty of humor (and not just in the cartoons before each section). I could do without the font used for the subheadings, but at least it's legible, and I presume they chose it to convey friendliness. Podcasting for Dummies walks you through the basics of choosing your equipment (microphones and mixers), using audio editing software, podcast blogs, RSS, bandwidth and hosting--and that's just chapter 2!
It was Podcasting for Dummies I turned to when I needed to know how to put a music `bed' under a voice recording. (I later used that knowledge to record a comment for Tee Morris' podcast, The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy.) The explanation of bit rates, sample rates, and ID3 tags should be required reading, and the chapter on XML and RSS is a useful reference for moments when feeds won't validate. Indeed, the traditional `For Dummies' design makes it easy to use the book as a reference on any of the topics covered.
The final section of the book is a series of Top Tens (types of podcast, most influential people in podcasting, reasons why podcasting won't kill radio--and reasons it will). Some of these lists, like specific links and details about software, may become obsolete quickly, but the principles remain sound and neither audio editing nor ID3 tags are going away any time soon.
Many of the example podcasts used in the book relate to science fiction, reflecting the interests of the authors, and there's a wee bit of Macintosh bias in the screenshots. (Why are so many podcasters Mac users?) Those are just observations, though, not criticisms, and the inclusion of podiobooks.com is a boon to would-be podcasters who are either published or unpublished authors.
One thing that is missing, at least from the first edition (I think I have the first edition, though they were up to the third printing by the time I got my copy at the PME last year), is any discussion of PodPress, the popular WordPress plugin for podcasting (used on this site for the Reports from the Asylum). Of course, PodPress was much less sophisticated at the time the book was written, and WordPress hadn't yet opened up the WordPress.com hosted service.
It will be a great relief when the sequel to this book appears and Tee Morris can get back to podcasting.
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