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I’m a Horrible Listener


Max can you earmuff it for me?

I like to think that I’m self-aware.  I know that I learn visually, like to experiment, and tend to jump in the water to see I can stay afloat.  Over the years, I’ve also discovered that I’m don’t have the best listening skills.  My mind tends to wander if a speaker, book, or film isn’t captivating within the first 10-15 minutes.  In an age where there is so much digital noise around you, it is really easy to filter out content that isn’t appealing.

Whatever, this is my shortcoming and you know you’re guilty of it too.

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Show Notes: The Good, Bad, & the Ugly

Show Notes

Image by Harvest Marketing

Show notes are cliff note versions of the podcast world.  It provides a quick summary of a podcast along with links to download episodes and to guide listeners to the main website.  If the relevant keywords are used, show notes help organically promote episodes through search engines, making it easier for people to search for your podcast.

Spare your lazy podcast listeners (like me), so they can skim through a relevant summary before listening to an entire podcast.  Here are “The Good, Bad, and the Ugly” examples.

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How to Write Show Notes for your Podcast

Remember Cliff Notes? God bless them. Thanks to Ecoch Pratt & other libraries.

Show notes are cliff note versions of the podcast world.  It provides a quick summary of a podcast along with links to download episodes and to guide listeners to the main website.  If the relevant keywords are used, show notes help organically promote episodes through search engines, making it easier for people to search for your podcast.

Spare your lazy podcast listeners (like me), so they can skim through a relevant summary before listening to an entire podcast.  Here are “The Good, Bad, and the Ugly” examples.

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On-The-Go Recording

Want to record a podcast?  There’s an (iPhone) app for that. Photo Credit: Laskys.com

Even before iPhones entered the marketplace, video recording capability was integrated into cell phones.  But who would have thought users would need to take a step back into the world of audio recording?  Here’s a new tool (with a brand name that seems endorsed by Obama) that you can utilize while you’re on the go.

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Ask a Ninja

My latest favorite game addiction NinJump for iPhone

You can ask a ninja anything.  Even about podcasts.

The YouTube video below is a priceless answer to the question “What is Podcasting?”.  Entertainment value aside, it inspired me to think of a satirical list of what not to do when creating a podcast.

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It’s Tool Time!

“Does everybody know what time it is?”

If you don’t have a personal Al Borland to help you out with your podcast production, check out the handy tools below.  I’ve been searching for digital power tools to help me develop a personal podcast on social media resources, which I hope to launch on social potato chips within the next three months.  Since I’m still learning how to edit (video and audio), it was important for me to find resources that are easy to learn, and most especially those are $FREE.99

Special thanks to #kegill for introducing some of these resources.  Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor would be proud.

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