School of Podcasting Episodes

A brief summary of this episode Mentioned in this episode: 2025 Audience Survey I Want Your Opinion I am doing an audience survey and I want your input to help me make this show exactly what you want. If you have a few minute...

A brief summary of this episode Mentioned in this episode: I Want Your Opinion I am doing an audience survey and I want your input to help me make this show exactly what you want. If you have a few minutes, I have a quick sur...

A brief summary of this episode Mentioned in this episode: 2025 Audience Survey I Want Your Opinion I am doing an audience survey and I want your input to help me make this show exactly what you want. If you have a few minute...

A brief summary of this episode Mentioned in this episode: I Want Your Opinion I am doing an audience survey and I want your input to help me make this show exactly what you want. If you have a few minutes, I have a quick sur...

I was reading an article about the Swerdlick family from Plymouth Minn. Here Father Dave and his two daughters Hannah and Zoe (ages 10ish-12) produce Kid Friday. The show is the three of them talking tech. Let’s face it kids ...

I was speaking with Rabbi Steve again, and he was very excited as he is preparing to launch his podcast. He was able to score an interview with an "A list" celebrity in his niche. When he spoke with the person they told him h...

Stuff You Should Know Podcast Featured in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution A recent article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution mentioned that two guys in their 30s recording in a studio in Atlanta. The Podcast is Stuff You S...

Most of my podcasts I'm giving you information, but today I'm asking for some information from you. Call in your comments 888-563-3228 (or record a quick mp3 and email it to me dave "at" schoolofpodcasting "dot" com). Podcast...

Today I answer a few questions about intro/outro music. Charles Maxwood had asked about intro and outro music. First of all I think its important to have into and outro music. It sets the tone of the podcast. It gives it a pr...

Today we get a phone call from Rich Palmer of Audio Gumshoe who chimes in our discussion from last week about how far podcasting has come since it began. Its much easier to consume podcasts, there are more and more devices th...

I was reading the Libsyn blog, and I thought about all the things that have changed in the past six years. iTunes exists iPhones Exists Wi-Fi hots spots everywhere Blackberry phones are now more entertainment oriented Adnroid...

Today i talk about making great content. To me this is content that is intriguing. This typically is information you can't get any place else. It is one of a kind (or hard to find) information. An example of this is Mar Maron...

Creating a live podcast using free software can seem like a great idea. As a podcast consultant, I see there are times when it makes sense. Today we talk about the pros and cons of creating a podcast live, when it is a good i...

The number 1 afternoon radio show in Cleveland is the Mike Trivisonno show. He is entertaining. Much like most podcasters, Mike is not really a “broadcaster.” He is more “one of us” behind a microphone. However, there are tim...

I read a Podcast Academy: The Business Podcasting Book: Launching, Marketing, and Measuring Your Podcast and there was a cool publicity tip about using feedburner's headline animator. I had seen that a while ago, but was unaw...

Edgy Podcast Reviews (a show that reviewed other podcasts) has (more than likely) "Podfaded" (gone of the air). The reason? According to one of the hosts, "It's just not fun anymore." The great thing about podcasting is: 1. Y...

Turning Your Email Newsletter into a Podcast If you are producing an email newsletter, you already have the content for a podcast. When I mention this to some people they state, "I just want to use e-mail" or "I'm not geeky e...

A brief summary of this episode Mentioned in this episode: I Want Your Opinion I am doing an audience survey and I want your input to help me make this show exactly what you want. If you have a few minutes, I have a quick sur...

// If you are hearing advice on podcasting, and someone tells you to save your file as Mono instead of stereo to make your file smaller, you need to find a new source of advice. I'm working on a youtube video for this, but yo...

There are many podcast consultants like myself we give advice for want-to-be podcasters. Most of the time there are answers that are fairly universal, but I feel there are times when the answers differ greatly. One such answe...

Today I answer some questions about Podcast equipment on a budget, and we get some feedback on last week's show about over editing your audio. There is a program called Feed For All that allows you to create an RSS feed. When...

Podcasting News I was interviewed on the Podcast Advisor show with Andy White. I answer some questions about what I get out of Podcasting, what gear I use, what hurdles I've come across and more. Andy is great guy. Adam Curry...

Who Who am I? I'm Dave Jackson and I've been podcasting since 2005. I have a bachelor's degree in Education specializing in techncial education, and I feel I can explain anything in terms that make it easy to digest. Who shou...

Today we hear from former school of podcasting student Dave Gardner of the Rat Cast who has gone from using a small portable recorder to report on minor league hockey to being asked into the booth of ESPN. He first did a podc...