A group of ‘veteran’ podcasters are collaborating to deliver a two day workshop called Zero to Podcasting (Z2P) this February as part the PodCamp Toronto program. The sessions will be a mix of campfire/circle discussions and technical presentations aimed at helping everyone, from newcomers to advanced podcasters, start from nothing and then learn and shake up the skills necessary to plan, prepare, produce, publish and promote their podcasts.
Z2P is designed to arm the absolute newcomer with the skills and ideas to start podcasting by the end of day one, and help with additional skills such as portable recording and establishing and owning their Internet presence during day two. Regardless of your level of experience, the program is designed to help establish, strengthen and refresh all of your skills.
The collaborators include Katherine Matthews and Rob Lee (Purl Diving), Sage Tyrtle (Quirky Nomads), Scarborough Dude (DicksNJanes), and Bob Goyetche and Mark Blevis (Canadian Podcast Buffet and many others).
The full Z2P program and schedule will be available on the PodCamp Toronto website. A summary and sequence of the sessions appears here for your information:
DAY ONE: BEGINNER (SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2008)
- Picking a topic and planning the podcast
- Technology selection
- Recording the show
- Editing, mixing and producing the show (using Audacity)
- Getting started with Libsyn (including uploading and publishing your show)
- Directories and promotion
DAY TWO: ADVANCED (SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2008)
- Owning your online presence
- YourName.com (with GoDaddy)
- Your own WordPress site with a Libsyn back end
- The Podpress plugin
- Portable recording
- Next steps
Cross posted on CanadianPodcastBuffet.ca
i really like this idea. do you know how many people will show up?
Comment by julien — January 5, 2008 @ 11:41 am
No idea, yet, Julien. Your voice is a welcome addition if you’d like to collaborate with us.
Comment by Mark — January 5, 2008 @ 11:46 am
Excellent idea! There is someone I know who has expressed an interest in podcasting — I will be selling him big time on this workshop! (Plus my presentations of course :-) ).
Comment by John Meadows — January 5, 2008 @ 4:31 pm
Julien,
Due to the “un-conference” nature of the Podcamp, we probably won’t know how many people will show up/participate in Z2P until *after* the event.
If we can get the word out to people outside the existing new media community who have heard about podcasting, are interested in doing it but have no idea how to go about it, then potentially we could get quite a large turn-out. Looks like John’s already joined the Z2P marketing team ;-)
I have spoken to Jay Moonah about the space for it and he says that we can set it up in one of the large lecture theatres available for Podcamp at Ryerson, so there should be no problem accommodating everyone who wants to attend (I hope…)
Comment by Rob — January 5, 2008 @ 8:42 pm
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