Want to know how to record, edit, tag and upload your very own podcast, using free open-source tools?

Steve Sande of Raven Solutions just published a great podcasting tutorial called Podcasting 101 on the Podbus.com website (in PDF format). He takes you through the process step by step, using the free Audacity open-source audio recording and editing application, and the LAME encoder tool. These programs work on Windows, Mac and Linux.
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Wondering how you’re going to sort out which podcasts you want to listen to (or watch, as the case may be), once they become as common as blogs and RSS feeds? TVEyes, which has been indexing TV and radio broadcasts since 1999, is beta testing the first search engine which allows you to search for spoken words within an audio or video podcast.

It’s called Podscope - read the Podscope FAQ here, and submit the URL of your audio or video podcast here.

Also, if you haven’t been there already, check out my ordered list of podcast directories on the Free RSS Resources website.

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While RSS is getting more and more coverage, most marketers and managers still do not quite understand all of the key aspects of using RSS for marketing and business purposes. To help spread the word about the many business benefits of RSS and to show you how you can start using it today, I’d like to suggest that you check out this new, free 28-page report, The Business Case For RSS.

The report is full of practical examples, concrete ideas, tips and suggestions, on topics such as:

• Getting your content delivered to your subscribers, prospects, customers and business partners, with absolutely no chance of it being stopped by any spam filters on its way.
• Discovering new business and marketing opportunities, from podcasting to constant content updates that your subscribers actually want to receive.
• Getting your newsletter or e-zine actually read, and not deleted or skipped over.
• Improving your search engine rankings.
• Generating new traffic from dozens and dozens of new traffic sources.
• Getting your content published on other sites.
• And much, much more …

It’s 28 pages of straight facts on exactly how RSS can help you improve your business results. Not only will you find out how RSS can help you in business, but you’ll also get concrete advice, examples, tips and ideas on how you can get the most from RSS in the shortest possible time.

Download The Business Case For RSS in PDF format right here.

Please share this free report, as well as my Free RSS Resources e-book, with your readers, subscribers and customers, to help them on their way to understanding why RSS is becoming today’s hottest marketing channel.

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Podcasting is enabled through RSS enclosures, a new feature of RSS 2.0. Earlier versions of RSS don’t support enclosures, and neither does the Atom format used by Blogger. If you publish your feed through Feedburner’s free SmartCast service, Feedburner will insert the appropriate enclosures for your media files as it turns your Atom-based or pre-RSS-2.0-based feed into an RSS 2.0 feed.

Feedburner also provides a podcast-friendly interface to your feed, similar to its browser-friendly interface. When someone clicks on the link to your podcast feed, instead of seeing the raw feed in their browser, they’ll see a nice user-friendly webpage about podcasts, including what they are, what you can listen to them with and download them with, and so forth.
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