Archive for April, 2006

Easy Email Updates for Your Listeners

Friday, April 21st, 2006

I’m a big proponent of building an email list of your listeners. Wide adoption of RSS is still a ways away, but everyone has email. Not to mention, it’s just a good idea to have multiple ways to reach your market.

Feedburner has launched their new Feedburner Email service. Just another great feature from their camp…and it’s free. If you use Feedburner, this is a quick and easy solution for sending email updates to your listeners when you post new episodes.

Congrats Podcast Brothers & Podcast Expo

Friday, April 21st, 2006

The Portable Media and Podcast Expo just won an award for Best New Trade and Consumer Show from Expo Magazine’s Expo Awards. Congrats Tim and the TNC New Media team. That’s very exciting for you and the whole podcasting industry.

If you’re at all serious about podcasting, then I highly recommend attending. Last year was fantastic and I have a feeling that this year will be ten, if not a hundred, times better. The Podcast Expo takes place this September in Ontario, CA (no not Canada) just outside of Los Angeles.

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This Podcast Logo is Really Growing on Me

Saturday, April 08th, 2006

PodcastLogo.com has announced the winner of their podcast logo contest conducted by a German podcaster. The logo was chosen from 94 submissions and voted on by over 3000 participants internationally. The intention was to offer a picture that podcasters could put on shirts, buttons, moonboots or whatever else to help promote and broadcast their love for podcasting. If you want to get your own podcast logo swag, make your way over to the podcast logo site, although, they don’t have the moonboots I wanted.

Podcast Promotion in Email and Forum Signatures

Wednesday, April 05th, 2006

The Podcasting UndergroundThe Feedburner headline animator is great way to promote your podcast. You can use it to attract new listeners with your forum or email signature, especially if you have a strong podcast name and enticing episode titles.

Now the headline animator is even better. Feedburner just launched their new streamlined headline animator for email.