Learn how to make a podcast

This podcast was originally posted July 20, 2015. It was taken offline temporarily due to technical issues.

It’s All Journalism Producer Michael O’Connell at the Great Salt Lake.

This bonus podcast features audio from my Friday, July 17, presentation on podcasting at the 2015 Association of Alternative Newsmedia’s annual convention in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Here are the updated pdfs from my presentation.

I tried to give a down and dirty, quick and easy guide to launching a podcast, including some of the technology you need to master.

There are lots of different ways to produce a podcast and there are lots of questions to think about beyond recording and posting audio, like:

• Who is your audience?
• What type of content would they be interested in listening to?
• How much time are you willing to commit to a regular podcast?
• How much money are you willing to spend?

This isn’t the first time our podcast has talked about podcasting. Here are a couple of related podcasts that touch on this subject:

Pop Goes the Podcast at Awesome Con

#114 – So you wanna podcast? Tips on how to be an online audio star

I also appeared on the JellyVision Show recently talking about podcasting:

Podcasting Will Change Your Life: Ep. 184 with Michael O’Connell of It’s All Journalism Podcast

My goal was to demonstrate that podcasting is really not that difficult to do, once you break down the basics. It’s also an incredibly flexible platform that allows for a great deal of freedom of expression and creativity.

Let us know if you launch a podcast.

— Michael O’Connell