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AppleTVs are now being shipped giving people access to your podcast in their living room. Are you ready for prime time?

Recently Apple sent out a memo outlining best practices for video podcasters who want to be ready for AppleTV viewing. Here’s what you need to know: (more…)

Below you can download PDF files containing the slides for all six of the presentations I did last weekend in Las Vegas at the National Association of Broadcasting Podcasting Summit. They aren’t the most dynamic slides, so they will have more meaning to those who attended. But you can probably glean some other interesting tidbits of information from them.

Podcasting Metrics

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Here’s a collage of the Photo Booth pictures that people to at my table at PodCamp NYC. I had hoped to list all the names of everyone with this, but I have a flight to catch in a few hours and six workshops to prepare for NAB. I’ll see if I can add them later.

Still, I wanted to get these great photos up. Thanks to all those who participated and thanks to Chris Brogan for the great idea. Enjoy!

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One of my sessions at PodCamp was on Blogging, Podcasting and RSS Basics. I promised the attendees that I would post the presentation to my blog.

Download the MP3 Audio Here

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During one of my PodCamp NYC sessions I was asked how often you should update your podcast. I gave what I thought was my usual answer, but from what I’ve seen quoted in a couple blogs I either miscommunicated or was misunderstood. So I’d like to clarify my point of view.

It’s no mystery that podcasting takes time. Posting a new episode multiple times a week (or even just every week) can be tough. Many of the most dedicated podcasters who posted 3-5 episodes a week in the early days have since dropped to once or twice a week.

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Unconferences vs. conferences - which is better? I just want to go on record saying that I don’t think that one is better than the other. For me there is no “free is better” or “corporate is worse”. They are just different like any event produced by two different people/entities will be different. Even each PodCamp is different.

We can banter semantics, but in the end everyone will have different definitions. What makes something a conference anyway—charging money, more than 5 sponsors, more than 300 attendees?

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Now that I’ve had a couple LONG naps, I have mostly recovered from PodCamp NYC. I wanted to give my take on the event and report a few interesting tid bits and lessons learned.

Attendance/Registration (more…)

I’ll be speaking next weekend, along with Michael Geoghegan and others, at the NAB Podcasting Summit. One of Michael’s sessions is on setting up a podcasting studio on a budget. He’d like to feature real examples and photos of podcaster’s rigs. If you want yours featured, take a look at this post on Michael’s blog. If you want to contribute, he needs to hear from you right away.

The biggest PodCamp yet is almost here. For the last few months I have been helping to organize PodCamp NYC which takes place this Saturday April 7th at The New Yorker Hotel. Over 1000 people have registered. We have over 100 sessions in 12 different rooms. This is way bigger than we expected when we started this process.

The last several days have been wild. The last-minute registrations have been pouring in as have the gracious sponsorship dollars (the whole event depends on sponsors).

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Tomorrow morning I’m hopping on a plane to Chicago (my first time there) to speak at Social Media 2007. I have several other presentations coming up as well. If you want to catch one of my other live speaking engagements, check out the full list here—which currently includes PodCamp NYC, the National Association of Broadcasters, the Online International Podcasting Expo and the Podcast and New Media Expo.

I really enjoy meeting people in person who have read my book, listened to my podcast or used one of my podcasting tutorials. If you’ll be at one of these events please let me know.