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Daily Podcasting Blog and news related to podcasting, RSS, podcast news and aggregation. Information related to podcasts are added on a daily business and cover the gamut, from new podcast product announcements, podcast directories, marketing for podcasters and much, much more.

02/28/2014 Podcasting Success Stories
When it comes to podcasts often defined as on-demand audio content the only limitation is imagination. With relatively low barriers to entry in terms of cost and often production, the podcast is an incubator for creativity and a means of broadening the reach of your audience, or finding one for something new.

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02/25/2014 Podcasting for Small Business
Have you ever thought about adding podcasting to your marketing mix? Fast becoming a content marketing buzzword, what is podcasting and how could it help your small business stand out from the crowd?

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02/21/2014 Audio Recording Software
RecordForAll allows for you to easily record, and edit audio files.

02/20/2014 Making Money with Podcasts
It used to be if you were a podcaster, you would have to get five to ten thousand downloads per episode before you could make a little beer money for your show.

After all, that’s the typical audience size many advertisers want as an entry point to advertise on a podcast, and even then, those podcasters with that big an audience often find it hard to make a living on ads alone.

Now, however, there may be hope for those looking beyond becoming a GoToMeeting pitchman.

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02/19/2014 Podcasting Kit Guide
The right podcast equipment makes all the difference to your podcasting efforts. Let me guide you through the maze of mics, mixers, recorders and software.

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02/18/2014 Conquering Podcasting Fears
Are you still trying to get over your nerves about recording your first podcast? We have all been there… Here are the secrets to overcoming those fears.

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02/17/2014 Podcasting Documentary on Kickstarter
The question is, why? Why do we need a documentary about podcasting, and if I’m already listening to podcasts, why would I need to see them in a movie?

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02/14/2014 Crowd Sourcing and Social Media
It seems that our society is growing ever more dependent on social media; more and more people are joining social networking giants such as Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and more such websites and applications are springing up to meet the rising demand for them.

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02/13/2014 Podcasting for Ecommerce Website
Originally, the study found podcasting awareness had remained rather flat for several years, dating back to about 2006 when the percentage of those surveyed who said they were familiar with the term podcasting sat at only 22%.

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02/11/2014 Could Podcasting Be the Next Thing in Education
Podcast was intended to entertain and recreate users during its early stage. However, over the years, its use has extended beyond what it was planned for. It is nowadays used for K-12 education, news, business as well as for marketing products and services.

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02/07/2014 Podcasting IS an Art
A podcast is an audio program that is made available digitally. In this project, students will develop an audio tour for a classroom museum by writing and recording podcasts that tell a story about a work of art. Writing and recording a podcast can help students become better writers because, unlike more traditional projects, they can hear the flow of their words and ideas.

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02/06/2014 Enhance Your Content Marketing Strategy?
Why podcast now?

Podcasting is easy now. Really easy. You do not need a fancy studio or even high-end gear. With the advancement of technology, you probably have a respectable studio right in your office. I should not need to tell you about all the functionality of your smartphone and laptop. Trust me, it is very capable of developing a respectable podcast.

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02/05/2014 Storytelling for the 21st Century – Pros, Cons, Examples and Best Practices
The human voice can convey much more meaning through tone and inflection than the printed word ever can. It is why millions of Americans sat, fixated, during the Golden Age of Radio – listening to everything from adventure, comedy and drama to classical music concerts, news and farm reports.

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02/04/2014 How Podcasting is Better than Blogging
Now before any of you bloggers get too riled up, let me assure you that I plan to also write a post on why blogging is better than podcasting, but I hope that fact won’t keep you from reading and considering ways in which podcasting is better than blogging.

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02/03/2014 Podcasting Patent Fight Continues
Personal Audio LLC is a patent-holding company that became famous or infamous, depending on ones point of view by claiming that it owns things like playlists and podcasts. Its wild claims led the Electronic Frontier Foundation to raise more than $76,000 from donors to fight the patent.

In October, EFF filed a petition for whats called inter partes review in the patent office, seeking to overturn the patent.

Now, EFF has been subpoenaed by Personal Audio, asking for a ton of information about EFFs work against the holding companys claims—including a full list of the more than 1,000 donors who gave in this fundraising campaign.

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01/31/2014 Internet of Insecure Things
The race for the connected home has been on for sometime now, and with each passing month, it seems a new arsenal of gadgets pops up. Recently, issues surrounding the security of those internet-enabled devices have come to light -- including the ability to hack those units to shoot out a crop of spam emails. As Bruce Schneier writes, locking down that new washer or smart fridge is a lot easier said than done thanks to the lack of patching options for the exploited vulnerabilities.

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01/29/2014 6 Considerations of Podcasts
Podcasting is a very fast growing trend on the Internet. Podcasting is beneficial to webmasters because it is a new traffic generation technique. Podcasting will provide webmasters with exposure to a very affluent audience. As a result Podcasting will drive more traffic to a website site.

Podcasting is a new trend that shows no sign of slowing down. However as the trend becomes a means for effective advertising, the competition for listeners will become tougher.

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01/27/2014 Radio Needs to Embrace Podcasting
Podcasting now boasts 100 million downloads-a-month but is only generating revenue of $34 million dollars annually. Pattiz was asked about the disconnect between consumer interest and profit.

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01/06/2014 4 Podcasting Predictions
And I suspect I will not be the only one. As the podcast listenership grows with the rising tide of continued smartphone growth, better podcast apps and the explosion in great content, dedicated podcast fans like myself will only become bigger consumers of the medium.

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01/02/2014 100 Uses of RSS Feeds
The use of RSS feeds goes far beyond Podcasts.

Many equate RSS with blogs and little else. However, we have found that RSS is multi-faceted and has a scope far beyond blogs. Take a look at these 100 ways that RSS is being used in real world situations:

100 Uses of RSS Feeds

12/31/2013 Podcasting Attracting More
Apples announcement last month that its customers had subscribed to more than a billion podcasts in the eight years since the mediums iTunes debut may have taken some by surprise. After all, since the debut of podcasting, seemingly more revolutionary technologies like Twitter and tablet computers, not to mention the ubiquity of online videos, have captured the public and the media’s imagination while podcasts (named after the increasingly obsolete iPod) seem very 2005. Meanwhile, in recent years, some news organizations like the New York Times have largely abandoned the medium as financially inefficient.

But while podcasting is no longer exactly cutting edge, the numbers show the medium has grown increasingly popular among consumers. According to the market intelligence firm Edison Research, the percentage of Americans 12 and older who have listened to a podcast has steadily increased from 10% in 2006 to 26% today, while one in six Americans has listened to a podcast within the past six months.

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