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TechPodCasts.com, the top technical audio podcast resource worldwide, announced today a first of its kind sponsorship deal with GotoMeeting.com, a Citrix Online product

Spokesperson Todd Cochrane says, what is significant is that this is the very first multi-podcast sponsorship deal. This agreement is a large win for our members and the techpodcasts.com network. A significant amount of work lead to getting to this day, with the network barely being 6 months old it is evident that when like minded podcasters come together and build a branded network, along with developing a legal marketable framework, with the necessary statistics reporting, then by presenting a well laid out marketing plan, we were able to sign this sponsorship deal. This solidifies our ideals that “podcasters do the work, and indeed podcasters get paid”.

TechPodcasts.com is uniquely positioned to deliver the GoToMeeting.com message. More impressive in June the network reached 135,000 unique listeners, and saw record traffic of over 750,000 unique downloads among the 20 reporting affiliates.

This sponsorship is the perfect marketing fit, we have the technical audience, and we will be able to directly reach decision makers in the technical community. We look forward to a successful campaign and a long term relationship with GotoMeeting.com.

TechPodcasts.com is a network of independent audio content producers who have agreed to create child safe, educational content as well as work collectively to build the best collection of Technical Podcast available on the Internet.

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This is the perfect podcast for someone interested in creating a podcast, sponsoring a podcast, or using a podcast for their business as well as people that want to know about podcasting.

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:28 Start of live presentation
• 2:15 What is podcasting and how does it work?
• 6:22 Audio examples of audio podcasts
• 8:50 Who is podcasting and how? Link to Todd Cochrane’s book "Podcasting: A Do it Yourself Guide" .
• 9:30 Who is listening to podcasts?
• 10:50 Why is podcasting so different and new? How will podcasting revolutionize the way you listen to radio?
• 12:00 How will podcasting change the nature of radio advertisements?
• 14:05 Why is podcasting going to be huge?
• 14:55 What is the business model for podcasting? How is money being made?
• 15:54 Can you attach visuals, videos, pictures to podcasts? What is RSS?
• 18:00 How do you subscribe to podcasts? What does it cost? What kind of personal information do you have to give out?
• 19:20 What was podcasting called before downloading mp3 files came along? What open standards are used in the podcasting community?
• 21:45 What’s the difference between just an audio recording for a corporate meeting versus a corporate podcast?
• 23:00 Can podcasts be used to transmit viruses?
• 23:40 What kind of server-side software is required to send out podcasts? Use WordPress to produce blogs & podcasts.
• 25:45 What kind of online software is available so that you can podcast for free? What process do you go through to publish your podcast? Use Bloggger to create the blog, Feedburner to make your RSS feed podcast-compatible, and Ourmedia.org to host your mp3 file at no charge.
• 28:40 How do you find good podcasts? Visit PodcastAlley.com or Ipodder.org
• 30:30 What other, newer technology is forseen to come out that might improve on the current mp3 technology? We talk about how the AAC3 format may allow chapters to be used within Podcasts.
• 32:00 How big are the podcast files to download?
• 33:00 Why is podcasting a great application for broadband and why will RoadRunner love it?
• 33:45 How do you protect yourself against copyright violation? Go to creativecommons.org to get license information to decide how you can protect your content in varying degrees.
• 36:35 How to properly tagging your mp3 files with AudioShell.
• 37:20 How can government help podcasting?
• 37:52 How can parents protect their teenagers from improper podcast content?
• 38:35 How come podcasters are not getting sued for creating inappropriate content like Dawn and Drew?
• 41:22 Review of townpodcast.com, a new business model for podcasting in local communities.
• 44:05 What kind of locally relevant podcasts can be created for Townpodcast.com?
• 44:54 How can you create or manage your own townpodcast.com franchise?
• 46:20 How will TownPodcast.com create demographically targeted advertisements and podcasts?
• 47:20 Can Neighborhood Board meetings be recorded and podcasted?
• 48:34 What kind of equipment do you need to record podcasts?
• 50:10 What’s the different between listening to streaming audio vs. podcasts?
• 52:10 Practical advice for those intimidated by podcasting for the very first time.
• 53:40 How blogs and podcast are integrated and people can leave comments about podcasts. We show VoteHawaii.com comments.
• 54:50 Getting just a few votes on podcast alley cranks up the ratings for a given Podcast.
• 54:41 What’s the ratio of blog readers to podcast listeners.
• 56:54 Get involved with Hawaii Podcasters if you’re in Hawaii and want to know more about podcasting.
• 57:00 More information if you’re interested in getting involved with TownPodcast.com

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Clearly, podcasting can be a huge benefit for schools. I can think of a few applications right off:

• Classes (obviously)
• School announcements
• Teacher reports to the parents
• Guest speaker presentations
• Internal School news magazine
• Faculty development

Here’s an article written by Russell Educational Consultancy and Productions, “Exploiting the educational potential of podcasting“. Take a read and post your comments here. Thanks to Podcasting News for catching this one.

You just gotta love the guys at iPodder, makers of a great podcatcher (I use it and love it). They know they’re toast because iTunes is coming and of course MS can’t be too far behind (if not ahead???). So what are they doing? They’re goin’ out with style by delivering the lastest version 2.1 with a collection of cool features as posted by Podcasting News:

• In response to user voting on the ipodder-dev mailinglist, one-click subscription support has been enabled
• Ability to synch subscriptions to remote OPML files (works with feedmanagers like podnova)
• Auto cleanup: Ability to specify on a per-feed basis that older episodes should be cleaned up.
• Genre overriding in iTunes.
• New right-click option for feeds: Open downloads folder
• Right-click menus in the episodes and downloads tab link to show notes and hyperlinks found within RSS item description.

Way to go iPodder team! You guys rock! You should have made tons of money and been able to retire by now. I’m very sorry to report that you only got a few scraps in your cookie jar instead. I don’t think this is a good example of the Open Source model.