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.