Saturday, January 24, 2015
Turn Your Old Articles Blog Podcast
Although the podcast sharing the same objectives as blogging, here are some benefits there may be by making audio podcasts:
It is a form of content easy to "digest": Instead of reading a blog post, users can download the file and listen to it while doing something else. This is especially true with audio podcasts, where users can listen to the same content on their smartphones when traveling or doing multiple tasks.
This is one of the best ways to communicate your ideas, if you are not a writer or editor, you may find difficult to show enthusiasm about a topic you are discussing in your blog post. This may reflect badly your communication skills, which can make it harder to achieve your goals in blogging. However, if you are more comfortable in spoken rather than written, so the podcast is for you.
Given the reasons stated above, you should recreate your old blog articles, which could not generate traffic and engagement as expected, audio podcast!
Learn more about Podcast
To begin, you should know that the process of creating a podcast is quite different compared to a blog post. Since you intend to broadcast your ideas and content from your old blog articles, you should listen to some popular podcasters.
There are a podcaster I know in blogging is Hsia Ling-In, author of the blog Solopreneur. It provides people who want to start an online business valuable tips and valuable advice in his podcasts.
Expand the way to create Podcasts
As with any type of content, you will need to develop an editorial calendar or something similar to space them also in your publishing schedule.
Since you recyclerez your old blog posts, you can categorize each items and put them in your calendar one month in advance to give you time to create them.
Do not just read your article and then convert it to a sound file - it would be better to adjust the content of your blog post, and then turn it into audio podcast. The above example may be your model.
Use the right tools
Once you have created a method and publication schedule to turn your articles into podcasts, you must use the best tools - free or paid - to create them.
This includes the use of a microphone, manage settings, noise reduction anda recording software like Audacity, to achieve the best quality sound level for your podcast, which lends itself to effective communication of your ideas.
In creating the podcast, you will find a suitable podcast hosting service where you can download the files. Here are some sites: Libsyn, Podbean, Amazon S3, Sound Cloud, Libcast.
Almost all the mentioned sites offer free and paid options, but those who register a free account with limited privileges benefit.
To publish podcasts on your blog, you can use: Blubrry Powerpress Podcasting.
Assuming that this will be your first time to make a podcast, it would be ideal that you first try the free tools for your hand with all the podcast of the process.
Once you have built a base of listeners using this content platform, transforming your old blog posts, at that time you can spend on the top step with the tools and services to provide quality sound.
Once it is published, it'll just do a little promotion for your podcast.
What have been your experiences, creating podcasts on your blog? Do you use specific tools you want to share?
Share your answers in the comments below.
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