Chuck Tomasi

Podcasts are portable by nature, but with your laptop, you're talking about packing up the studio and working on location. So, you want to have a podcast that has that studio quality sound, but you want more than one microphone and to have a bit of control over the levels. This is when you would want to invest in a preamplifier or a pre-amp.

Slice-of-life podcasts that encourage community among listeners and fans are podcasts that promote. They can promote a show cancelled too soon into production, an issue affecting the well-being of a community, or offer a voice to a cause. The promotion comes from word-of-mouth advertising (buzz) that these podcasters generate from their thoughts, comments, and opinions on their subject — be it traveling across Spain, daily life in New York City, George Lucas’s Star Wars, or Joss Whedon’s Firefly.

Podcasting has proven to be more than a fad, and over the past decade has become more popular than ever. There are some good reasons to jump into the podosphere and start your own podcast. Here are a few (ten, to be exact) reasons why. You are considered a subject matter expert Guy Kawasaki is a name you should know in social media circles.

A big piece of successful podcasting is marketing, and a big part of marketing is branding. Your podcast logo (or show art) is very important to help set you apart. A large percentage of listeners use apps where show art is prominently displayed, both in directories and in playback modes. Apple once was indifferent about show art, but now it’s part of registering your podcast with its directory.

Assuming that you have set up your podcasting studio and are ready to record video, this article walks you through setting up a streaming account. The steps are Twitch-centric, but they are easily applied to other platforms like YouTube or Facebook. © Biscotto Design / Shutterstock.comIn a few minutes, you will be up and streaming content on Twitch: Go to Twitch TV and from the top-right corner of your browser window select the Sign Up option.

One great way to podcast is with guests in-studio or co-hosts when more than one podcaster gets on mic.While there’s something to be said for the single voice doing a monologue or perhaps doing interviews, the show dynamics change quite a bit when you get multiple people gathered together over your favorite topic.