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Podcast Sisters 59 - Live Podcasting

This week's Podcast Sisters Podcast, Krishna and Heather discuss live podcasting and are joined by Eric Scaresbrook who hosts Erkpod.

Show Notes

01:22 We answer a question from listener Alan Cox of Left Click about the length of time taken to edit podcasts

07:15 Andrew White of Wire World Media shares a tip on using Google Calendar

17:05 We are in conversation with Eric Scaresbrook about how he records and produces a live podcast

20:35 Live podcasting versus recording your podcast

22:30 Eric shares how he records his show

26:30 How to manage call-ins to the show

26:06 Using and setting up with a live video feed  using Ustream.tv

28:45 The difference between live recording and podcasting

29:53 Archiving and audio serialisation

30:30 Accessing contributors to your live podcast

31:07 Topics and themes for your live podcast

32:00 Audience participation

33:20 Sponsorship of your podcast

Resources For The Show

This is Eric's set up for the podcast:

Behringer 1002 FX Mixer
1 X Behringer C1 Studio microphone
3 X Shure PG48 microphones
4 X Behringer headphones
Behringer compressor
Behringer headphone amplifier
Scrolling message board (for messages)
2 computers (one for Erk, one for Drue)
1 X USB Webcam
1 X 5m extension cable for USB webcam
Associated cables and power cords
1 X Nabaztag Bunny (reads out news)

Eric also uses: Record Pad (recording), Wave Pad (editing). Soundbyte (for playing promos, songs, theme music etc), Skype, uStream camera/feed monitoring, Firefox

You can find the Erkpod Ustream.tv channel HERE.

Erkpod Website

Twitter: Eric and Drue

Erkpod Facebook Group

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Podcast Sisters 58 - Search Engine Optimisation Tips for Small Business

This week's free Podcast Sisters Web 2.0 audio show for non geek's,who are wanting to grow their small businesses on line, is now available (remember subscribe free of charge and new shows will come automatically to your computer, just follow the instructions at the end of the post to download or subscribe via iTunes)

Krishna De and Anna Farmery talk about the lessons they have learned, about achieving strong search engine results. They talk about the mistakes and the lessons that have helped them to get their blogs on to the first page of the Google results. Here are the links that they talk about for your small business

Google Analytics - makes it easy to improve your results online

Google Webmaster Tools - Statistics, diagnostics and management of Google's indexing of your website

Google Insights - you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames

Widows Quest - Example of Blog Carnival - Carnival of Positive Thinking

Biz Growth News - Krishna's blog on strategies, research and insights to build a compelling and engaging corporate brand, employer brand and personal brand

Karen Skidmore - For Women Running Home Based Businesses in the UK.

Louise Barnes Johnstone - Business Coach and Mentor

iContact and Aweber - Email Marketing and Surveying Applications that listeners recommend

Blog Carnival - to find carnivals to submit articles to and to set up your own blog carnival

Wordtracker - to discover the best keywords for your website or of course Google Adwords for a free option.

Share This - a quick Email Sharing, SMS, AIM, Social Networking and Social Bookmarking tool that helps you share content from blogs and other websites

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To listen to all the previous shows, here is the bank of The Podcast Sister podcasts

Join us over at the Podcast Sisters Facebook group to discuss this week's show and also do give us feedback and share ideas for future shows that will deliver value to YOU. You can also send us an email to podcast.sisters@googlemail.com.

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Podcast 57 - Checkout Systems for Internet Sales

This week's free Podcast Sisters Web 2.0 audio show for non geek's,who are wanting to grow their businesses on line, is now available (remember subscribe free of charge and new shows will come automatically to your computer, just follow the instructions at the end of the post to download or subscribe via iTunes)

Krishna De,  Heather Gorringe and Anna Farmery talk about which web tools they use to take payments online. Here are the links

Mike Buckley - our latest fan from Mining the Store

Erkpod and live podcasting

Twitter problems for Exxon Mobile

Google Checkout

Amazon Payment Service

Paypal payments online

Women in Rural Enterprise

Feel free to discuss topics or share links inspired by this show at our Friendfeed room

To listen to all the previous shows, here is the bank of The Podcast Sister podcasts

Join us over at the Podcast Sisters Facebook group to discuss this week's show and also do give us feedback and share ideas for future shows that will deliver value to YOU. You can also send us an email to podcast.sisters@googlemail.com.

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Podcast Sisters 56 - How to create a Business Newsletter

This week's free Podcast Sisters audio show for non geek's,who are wanting to grow their businesses on line, is now available (remember subscribe free of charge and new shows will come automatically to your computer, just follow the instructions at the end of the post to download or subscribe via iTunes)

Krishna De and Anna Farmery talk about how to create a newsletter. They give tips on what packages to use to create a newsletter, tips on how to format a newsletter, ideas on how to manage the newsletter subscriber lists.

Here are the links to the packages that The Podcast Sisters talk about

If you want to subscribe to Krishna's newsletter

One Shopping Cart - For internet marketing tools

A Weber - For email marketing campaigns

Constant Contact For email marketing campaigns

Newsletter Magic - For newsletter creation

Feedjournal - With FeedJournal you decide what gets printed in your daily newspaper

Feel free to discuss topics or share links inspired by this show at our Friendfeed room

To listen to all the previous shows, here is the bank of The Podcast Sister podcasts

Join us over at the Podcast Sisters Facebook group to discuss this week's show and also do give us feedback and share ideas for future shows that will deliver value to YOU. You can also send us an email to podcast.sisters@googlemail.com.

REMEMBER SUBSCRIPTION TO THE PODCAST SISTERS IS FREE! 

1) To listen now on line without any downloads then click here and press the play button

2) Or to subscribe in iTunes      

3) Or if you use a different podcatcher then here are the feed details -

http://www.podcastfm.co.uk/podcast.rss?id=245

Vanity Search on the Internet

Wired has a fun application for the weekend - a vanity search developed by Chris Anderson of The Long Tail fame,  "using Google's PageRank technology, you can scan trusted sites to measure your Internet fame on a scale of 1 (unknown) to 100 (ubiquitous)."

So which Podcast Sister is the most famous? Yes, you've guessed it the Non Geek - Heather!

Krishna De - Scored 44
Anna Farmery - Scored 52
Heather Gorringe - Scored 55

(You will find the vanity validator on the left hand column)