Creating a Podcast: Community Divas Live!

Community Divas Live!with Eden Spodek & Connie Crosby

Podcamp Montreal 2008

Creating a Podcast:

Today’s discussion

• Why?

• How?

• What would you like to see?

Why?

No.....really!

Why?

Community!!

How?

First - get organized!

We use Google Docs to organize ourselves andshare technical notes

things to map out• who is your audience?

• find a name & a web domain

• format

• episode length / content / frequency

• music, introduction, closing - podsafe music

Prepping for episodes

Background notes on each speaker includes

photo, links & interview questions

our technology

the importance of mentors

“We buoy each other up” - Scarborough Dude

We help each other out

finding time

• we record whenever we can find the time

• our goal is to be able to interview individually

• both of us should be able to do post-production so either one of us can do it

• streamline recordings as much as possible

getting the podcast out

•the blog / host - Libsyn

•Feedburner

•iTunes...

getting word out

• Community Divas blog

• our own blogs

• podcast directories

• twitter

• facebook page

• friendfeed room

what’s next

• improving sound & getting more comfortable

• submitting podcast to Canada Podcasts directory & Canadian Podcast Buffet (remember also Le Québec en Baladodiffusion)

• lots more great interviews planned!

• pulling community/events together in our Facebook page

• supporting our community

What else would you like

to see?

Suggestions from the session

• more about face-to-face traditional communities

• working with social change agencies

• discussing differences between the communities we are building in Facebook, Friendfeed, Twitter esp. statistics

Credit where photo credit is due

• Julien Smith - PAB2008 by Financial Aid Podcasthttp://flickr.com/photos/financialaidpodcast/2604008784/

• Glow bracelets on PAB cruise by Andy Casterhttp://flickr.com/photos/andycast/2598526803/

• bookshelf spectrum, revisited by chotdahttp://flickr.com/photos/santos/1704875109/

• Food preparation--visual poem by er1danushttp://flickr.com/photos/er1danus/1936971937/

• Ducks 3 (rubber duckies) by woodsyhttp://www.sxc.hu/photo/945501

• This could go bad! (Chris Brogan) by Bill Deyshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/deys/2597710321/

• all other images are by Connie Crosby and are available under Creative Commons attribution licence

Thank you

Eden Spodek&

Connie Crosbycommunitydivas@gmail.comhttp://communitydivas.com