Podcasting For Dummies 1st Edition by Tee Morris (PDF)

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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 cardAudio editing software such as Audacity, Cakewalk for PCs, GarageBand for musicality, and Audio HiJack Pro for MacsRecording, including understanding dB (decibel levels), capturing or minimizing ambient noise, and moreEditing with GarageBand or Audacity, adding bed music, and including intros and outros for a signature finishing touchYou 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 compressionChange bit rates and sample rates in Audacity and iTunesCreate and edit your ID3 tags in Audacity or iTunesPost your show notes using Movable Type or LibsynSimplify the RSS 2.0 feed by using blogging software or a podcast-hosting company such as Audioblog.com, Podcastamatic, and FeederPing for publicityCommunicate with your listeners on your blog, through online discussion groups such as Yahoo! Groups or Google Groups, or on online forumsOf 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.

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Editorial Reviews: 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 basePodcasting 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 toDecide on a podcast focusFind and use the necessary hardware and softwareRecord and mix a podcastGet your podcast onlineUse a little XMLPromote 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. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐What more can you say… simple and straight forward information. Easy to understand, and helpful. Good suggestions, product reviews, and information on getting started without getting overwhelmed. Clear topics, suggestions and information that can have you up and podcasting in a few days.

⭐Great condition. better than expected! 5 stars!

⭐great price

⭐I received this book in a very timely manner and it was in very good condition and bought for a fair price.

⭐The Dummies series of books take complex subjects and breaks them into easily understandable sections. These books never seem to disappoint and you won’t be with “Podcasting For Dummies”. With the explosion of internet blogging, people also began to use audio to get their content online. Listeners only need a computer and a broadband connection to hear what you have to say.This book is for both podcasters and for those who listen to podcasts. If you want to create your own podcasts, the information in the book will take you to that point and beyond. You can record, produce and host your own podcast.I knew nothing about creating podcasts and that’s why I got the book. Besides a little history of podcasting, the book walks you through (and holds your hand) on how to select the right microphone, any needed peripherals and finding a host. I like the icons that highlight special portions of the chapters. There are icons for warnings, technical stuff, tips and things to remember. The book goes through the different types of podcasts and how to make them successful. You are guided through why it is good to have a script, methods of recording, sound checks, pacing, editing, file size compression, and also touches a bit about copyright rules.Once you have made a podcast, you will need to know how to upload it to a server. Once there, you need to learn how to publicize and draw in listeners. There’s also information on how to gain listener feedback, whether it be via your blog, discussion groups at Google or Yahoo or finding other free online forums. If you want to know how to advertise your podcast for free, it is also included in this book.Even if you only plan to listen to podcasts and not create them, you will gain a better understanding of how to do it more efficiently. The book is an easy read and you learn whether you start at the beginning or go directly to a specific subject. There are also many helpful screenshots sprinkled throughout the book.Podcasts are exciting in that you can find them on many specific subjects or a niche market if you will. Broadcast radio has to appeal to a large audience and also make money. You can also make money if you obtain advertisers interested in your subject and audience or through subscribers donations or subscriptions. Podcasts can be on any subject you are passionate about. One can entertain or educate. […]The co-authors Tee Morris and Evo Terra compliment each other as they have their interest in podcasting in common but their personalities seem so different. […]

⭐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 studyOverall, 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.

⭐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.

⭐If you are curious about podcasting, this is the first book to read. Why? Because Tee Morris and Evo Terra do such a great job of explaining this “new media” phenomenon in simple, easy to understand language, step by step, until you have a solid base of knowledge that you can put to practical use. And they don’t steer away from some of the tougher subjects, either — the section on the usually confounding aspects of RSS feeds, an essential podcasting technology, is one of the most clearly written articles I’ve ever read on this subject. I’ve put many of the recommendations in this book into practice on several business podcasts that I’ve produced over the last few months, and all to very good effect. This book is extremely well organized, with an excellent index and table of contents, annotated references, and many side articles full of useful insights and advice. Highly recommended reading for any aspiring podcaster.

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