Blogging and Social Media Presentation

• Introduction, brief overview, podcasting could be own session
• Define what you want to do with the podcast and who you want to reach
• Recording the audio either on the web, via desktop software, over the telephone, or with an external recorder
• Optional steps include Editting, adding music, and creating text show notes based on the audio content
• If necessary convert the audio file to MP3
• Place the audio file on the hosting server typically via ftp or web upload
• Use either your blogging software, or software on the web host to publish your show, and make it available to listeners both on the web and via subscription

Podcasting Resources
http://www.libsyn.com is a wweb hosting company specializing in multimedia file storage. It can be used alone for those namely interested in podcasting, or it can be used in conjunction with other blogging software like WordPress.

http://www.utterz.com
allows free multimedia posting from the telephone, from the web, or via SMS. Furthermore, the site integrates well with Twitter, Facebook, WordPress, and many other blogging and social networking tools.

http://www.archive.org is a free multimedia web hosting open source project.

http://www.audioblog.com is another commercial web hosting company specializing in multimedia content.

Podcamp is a series of worldwide unconferences that teach and demonstrate the use of both social media concepts and tools through presentations, exhibits, and networking. Conferences are free or nominally priced.

LifeHacker is a web site with articles, tips and tricks, and forums describing the use of new media tools as well as other topics. Often articles contain step by step tutorials.

Chris Brogan is a community evangelist who seeks to help people find tools that have the best fit to their individual or organizational strategies. Chris frequently writes about new media topics, and speaks at events such as Podcamp and other conferences.

Geek News Central is a podcast largely exploring technology trends, news, and new media. The producer, Todd Cochrin, has written on podcasting and frequently speaks at industry and consumer conferences on the topic. The show is published twice per week, and Todd now podcasts full time as CEO of his Raw Voice organization. Todd has also helped in the past with publisizing accessibility issues surrounding technology.

New Comm Road is a podcast largely describing the use of new media tools. The content is somewhat geared to organizational use of social media, but can certainly be used for personal sites and personal positioning and branding on the web.

The New Media Expo is an annual professional oriented conference for both organizational and individual media content producers. This is perhaps the largest professional podcasting event bringing about 3,000 attendees to recent shows. While some members of the broad AT community have attended in the past, more recently, I am not sure that accessibility interests were either well (or even at all) represented at this mainstream trade show.

Mika Pyyhkala Twitter is where I post most day to day updates, as well as news or observations about accessibility, AT, or the state of the blind community among other topics. Once you sign up with Twitter you can follow this id from your own account. Or you can access the content on the web page.

Blind Access Journal is a blog and podcast regarding accessibility evangelism, as well as discussing other blindness issues. The Journal has largely been responsible for the implimentation of audio captcha on a number of high profile web sites such as Google.

DC Night Out is a blog and podcast that discusses any number of blindness related topics and trends. The typical, though not exclusive, format for the shows involves a group meeting for happy hour in Washington DC and recording the podcast at a local restaurant after dinner and over drinks. The podcast has also covered CSUN, NFB, and ACB related events, as well as other general interest and reality topics regarding blindness, technology, and travel.

ACB Radio hosts a technology show called Main Menu. The program covers a broad array of AT issues, and is also available in podcast form.

ReCaptcha is a provider of captcha services that has implimented an audio captcha solution. This may be helpful as you encounter web sites that have visual only captchas that are not accessible to blind users. ReCaptcha is the solution in place for both Facebook and Twitter so the technology is quite scalable to meet varying needs.