Here’s how to create a podcast using Odeo

Here’s how to create a podcast using Odeo.
1. Choose a name for your podcast. After signing up for an account at studio. odeo. com, go to studio. odeo.com/ channel/create/ and create a name for your podcast. This is where you’ll add a description of you podcast alone with keywords so it can be found in a search and the URL of the blog you plant to publicize the podcasts on .(See above.)
2. Record your podcast episode. Next, you’ll want to create the audio of your first podcast episode. If you want to record live audio using your computer, go to tudio.odeo.com/create/studio. (See page 41.)
This browser-based recorder can use your computer’s built-in microphone, or you can connect a microphone to it for better sound quality. (Before recording the episode, check the sound level by recording a 10-second test. You can adjust the sound levels with the slider bar on the right.) Odeo’s recorder limits your recording to 60 minutes, which is more than enough for a podcast. (If you have something longer to record you can break it up into two podcast episodes.)
When finished recording click “Stop” and “Save Recoding.” This will save the audio file to Odeo’s server and bring up a page where you can add a title, a description, and an image to the podcast. This page also provide a snippet of HTML code that you can add to your blog that embeds an Odeo player right into the blog entry. People who visit your blog can play the podcast by clicking the player.
Recording audio directly to the computer is just one way to create a podcast with Odeo. You can also upload audio files that you’ve recorded and edited using an audio application such as GarageBand or link to audio files from Web sites (make sure you have permission from the copyright holder first!).
Be sure you visit the Podcasting Survival Guide (odeo.com/channel/95450/view), which features excellent podcasting tips, including how to pre-produce you podcast, how to record live events, how to get most out of different kinds of microphones, how to publicize your podcast, and more from veteran podcasters such as Dough Kaye from IT Conversations and Franklin McMahon of the CreativeCOW podcast.
3. Add the audio to your podcast. Once you’ve recorded or linked to your podcast episode, you need to place it into your podcast feed. That’s easy. Click on “Saved Audiio” and then click the audio file you want to work with. (See below.) Here, you can add information about the episode and upload a photo that will appear in iTunes and on an iPod when your listeners play the episode. Near the bottom of this window you’ll see a pull-down menu title: “Place in :” Selected the name of the podcast you wish to add the episode to and click “Save.”
4. Publicize your podcast. You can let people know about your podcast in a number of ways. Click on the name of your blog in the “My Podcasts” window. You’ll see something called an “RSS URL” that you can embed as a link on your blog. You can also copy and paste the “Podcast Badge” code into your blog template to add a button that your visitors can click. Odeo also has a nifty Flash player that you can add to your blog so that visitors can listen to your podcast episode right from your blog. Click on “Saved Audio” and copy the HTML code at the bottom of the page, under “Put this Audio on your Web sitte.” Odeo has several different embedded players to choose from. Click the “Try these new player” link at the bottom or the page.