Takeaway from Creating a Podcast – Community Divas Live! on 12seconds.tv

What is community is the question that the Community Divas are exploring ith their podcast.

Will cover: Why? How? What would you like to see?

1st question: Why?

Community.

URL for the show – http://communitydivas.libsyn.com/

How? First – get organized.

the hosts work on it together remotely by using Google Docs. Including links, steps to produce the show, applications, etc.

Mapped out: Who their audience is.

People interested in learning about online communities.

Find a name and domain. This is difficult to do for shows because of just how much is unavailable.

They bought most extensions with community divas in it.

Format. They wanted to interview someone who is interested and showed leadership in the community space.

The shows are longer than they had anticipated.

Frequency is every two weeks and they are form on that.

Podsafe music was important, so they found a song to include a clip as the show’s music.

Specific show prep – create a profile of the people who they are interviewing.

The technology: using audacity and garageband to record locally on both ends.

On double enders (recording on both ends remotely instead of over skype) – there’s a lag on Skype, so having both people clap might not work out very well. Also, there is digital “drift” of files.

Importance of mentors – they had someone show them Audacity and the technology when they didn’t know what to do or how to record.

Mitch Joel calls this “getting a wizard”

Scarborough Dude – “We buoy each other” in regards to the community. Both on the teaching end and on the emotional end.

When do they find time to record? You have to find time in order to record, but do as much pre-production as possible.

If you’re a two person show, think about doing solo interviews to save time.

Getting the podcast out – the blog/host is LibSyn, they use iTunes, FeedBurner.

LibSyn hosts the files, FeedBurner gives statistics about your RSS feed and iTunes for aggregation.

If you’re going to load your show into iTunes, be mindful of the iTunes categories.

Getting the word out – the community divas blog, each host has their own blog, they entered the show into podcast directories too, but are not sure about how well they are doing.

They created a seperate Twitter feed for the show as well.

They also had a facebook fan page as well.

http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Toronto-ON/Community-Divas/23439708058?sid=d6ff510b19ae1cbad04244036e09a3da&refurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.new.facebook.com%2Fs.php%3Fref%3Dsearch%26init%3Dq%26q%3Dcommunity%2Bdivas%26sid%3Dd6ff510b19ae1cbad04244036e09a3da&ref=s

Also a friendfeed room.

http://friendfeed.com/rooms/community-divas

What’s next – improving sound quality and relaxing vocally.

tip! record more than one episode before launching the show.

to come – more interviews and different interview types. With the more interviews the more interest they get from people who are requesting to be interviewed.

Also – supporting the community Attending podcamps, giving talks at podcamps, supporting people going to unconferences etc.

What does the community want to see?

My suggestion – finding out what each community is bringing to the table.

Reaching into real world communities instead of just online ones.