Microblogging and Podcasting
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Microblogging and Podcasting. Why Twitter?. Third most popular social network 6 million visitors, 55 million visits per month Simplicity Itself. Twitter Basics. Tweets limited to 140 characters Social networking community. Twitter Tips. Find people with similar interests and follow them
Microblogging and Podcasting
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Why Twitter? • Third most popular social network • 6 million visitors, 55 million visits per month • Simplicity Itself
Twitter Basics • Tweets limited to 140 characters • Social networking community
Twitter Tips • Find people with similar interests and follow them • Read and respond to their tweets • Tweet regularly • Make fun, interesting, and useful Tweets • Engage community; foster discussion
Twitter RSS • Add your Twitter account to NING with the RSS feature. • You can also let Twitter automatically update your Facebook status updates.
Podcasting • iTunes and other services require an RSS feed to publish your podcast. • Two easy ways to do this: • Podbean • Feedburner
Notes on Saving Podcast • Make sure your have entered authorship information. • If show is too large, try breaking it up into multiple episodes.
Podbean – Easy Solution • Create podcast, save in .mp3 format • Create an account at http://podbean.com • Click “publish a podcast” • Upload file • Submit your podbean RSS feed to iTunes, odeo, etc. • Add RSS feed to your NING site.
Feedburner – Slightly Harder • Using NING, create a blog post and attach your podcast using the file upload feature. • For all of your podcasts, add a tag called “podcast.” • Click the “podcast” tag on your new post. • Click the RSS feed for your podcast. • Copy RSS feed.
Feedburner Continued • Create an account at http://feedburner.google.com • Copy feed into “burn a feed right this instant,” selecting “I am a podcaster.” • Copy Feedburner’s feed for your podcast (something like http://feeds.feedburner.com....)
Submitting to iTunes • Create iTunes account and log in. • Go to iTunes Store • Click “podcasts” • Click “Submit a Podcast” • Enter feed from podbean or Feedburner