[MCN-L] Podcasting

[Lloyd Swartz]

I just had the question raised of the pros and cons of adding POD 
casting.  Anyone with any feelings or interesting updates?

Lloyd M. Swartz
Manager of Information Systems and Technology
UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures
Desk 210-458-2220
Pager 210-203-3033  ( Best way to reach for urgent items )
Personal Cell Phone ( doesn't always work in building ) 210-724-7390
Lloyd.Swartz at utsa.edu
www.texancultures.edu
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and a little less than his share of the credit." - John C. Maxwell

[MCN-L] Podcasting

[hvd2]

Hi Lloyd,
I have been intrigued by the question you just asked about for sometime.  I 
started an academic research project to understand the complexities of 
podcasting and the museum environment which will be the topic of my thesis.
 I have started conducting online research and a lot of other things like 
posting museum podcasts at my website at http://www.museumpods.com I'm not 
pitching the site, it is a non-profit - but if you want to explore these 
issues you might want to take a look or if you have any questions you would 
like to answered on the website - I would be glad to include them on a 
survey or something the offers goes to anyone interested in these topics.
There are a lot of other free services offered on the site for museums to 
utilize. We have an e-newsletter that goes out and staff members. A variety 
of museums contribute articles discussing podcasting and museums.  I just 
started a community based museum search engine (The Museum Search Engine) 
which really focuses on  museums, podcasting and other museum related 
topics, so you don't have finds like you would on Google or the 
non-community or customized search engines.  I mention this because I would 
like to hear any input on this...
Not sure if this helps...
Regards,
Kurt Stuchell

- Original Message - 
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Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:50 AM
Subject: [MCN-L] Podcasting


> I just had the question raised of the pros and cons of adding POD casting. 
> Anyone with any feelings or interesting updates?
>
> Lloyd M. Swartz
> Manager of Information Systems and Technology
> UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures
> Desk 210-458-2220
> Pager 210-203-3033  ( Best way to reach for urgent items )
> Personal Cell Phone ( doesn't always work in building ) 210-724-7390
> Lloyd.Swartz at utsa.edu
> www.texancultures.edu
> "A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the 
> blame and a little less than his share of the credit." - John C. Maxwell
>
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[MCN-L] Podcasting

[Chan, Sebastian]

Podacasting - we've started doing this on a more serious basis at the
Powerhouse Museum but the amin issues for us are around resourcing of
their production.

Most of ours are currently event recordings - simple because these are
easiest to do.

Those we have made specifically for exhibitions tours etc have,
interstingly (and somewhat anecdotally), been mainly used offsite - not
for their Museum 'intended' use.

We are a long way from the setup at Redshift (Otario Science Centre) or
others where the production of podcast-able content is part of a
traditional museum eductaion/research staff workflow.

See our blog for some stats from Redshift -
http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/dmsblog/index.php/2006/04/13/redshiftont
ario-science-center-podcasts-aggregators/

Seb

Sebastian Chan 
Manager, Web Services 
Powerhouse Museum 
street - 500 Harris St Ultimo, NSW Australia 
postal - PO Box K346, Haymarket, NSW 1238 
tel - 61 2 9217 0109 
fax - 61 2 9217 0689
e - sebc at phm.gov.au 
w - www.powerhousemuseum.com 


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Subject: [MCN-L] Podcasting

I just had the question raised of the pros and cons of adding
POD casting.  Anyone with any feelings or interesting updates?

Lloyd M. Swartz
Manager of Information Systems and Technology UTSA's Institute of Texan
Cultures Desk 210-458-2220 Pager 210-203-3033  ( Best way to reach for
urgent items ) Personal Cell Phone ( doesn't always work in building )
210-724-7390 Lloyd.Swartz at utsa.edu www.texancultures.edu "A good leader
is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a
little less than his share of the credit." - John C. Maxwell



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[MCN-L] Podcasting advice

[Harris, Beth]

Hi Lauren,
As far as creating audio and video podcasts with simple (very) and cheap 
technology, have a look at the Create & Teach section of Smarthistory: 
http://www.smarthistory.org/create-your-own-content1.html

There are a bunch of pages there on this topic - how education departments in 
small museums can create these materials, and distribute them. Hope it's 
helpful.

Beth Harris

>
>
> --
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:32:34 -0500
> From: "Lauren Zalut" 
> Subject: [MCN-L] Podcasting Advice
> To: 
> Message-ID:
>   <278835DC50C47F4CBE375BE3466D364FAF9A6A at 
> ml330g3.main.wagnerfreeinstitute.org 
> >
>   
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Hi,
> I am new to the Museum Computer Network and I am looking for any  
> advice regarding podcasting. I work for a small natural history  
> museum with a very limited budget and we are looking to make  
> podcasts of past museum lectures available to the public on our  
> website. I have been told by senior staff that we do not have enough  
> space on our website, I wonder if anyone knows how much space a 60  
> minute podcast would take up. Also, what kind of technology would be  
> required to post a podcast on our website?
>
> The museum has a myspace profile, and part of the reason we  
> established it was the possibility that the podcast could be  
> downloaded from there. Is that really a viable option? We do have a  
> completely edited podcast ready to go and hope to have it up and  
> running by the summer. I would appreciate any suggestions or advice,  
> it would be very helpful to hear about others' experiences with  
> podcasting in museums.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Lauren Zalut
> Museum Educator and Communications Coordinator
> Wagner Free Institute of Science
> 1700 W. Montgomery Ave.
> Philadelphia, PA 19121
> phone: (215) 763-6529 ext. 17
> www.wagnerfreeinstitute.org
>
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Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:22:44 -0500
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Subject: [MCN-L] Going mobile: Planning for audience, content and
technology in the Museum  Feb 16, 17 in Sunny Balboa Park San Diego!
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Dear colleagues,
The past decade has seen a great increase in mobile options for museum 
interpretation: cell phone tours, podcasts, audio tours, text-message tours and 
 audio, video and text Smartphone applications. Learn how to implement and 
leverage these technologies from mobile media experts Nancy Proctor and Titus 
Bicknell in a special 2-day seminar presented by the Balboa Park Online 
Collaborative<http://www.bpoc.org/> and Balboa Park Learning Institute:

Going mobile: Planning for audience, content and technology in the Museum
featuring
Nancy Proctor, Head of New Media, Smithsonian American Art Museum
and Titus Bicknell, Director, Information Technology, Experius LLC
Tuesday, February 16 and Wednesday, February 17, 2010
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

San Diego Hall of Champions Sports Museum
(2131 Pan American Plaza, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA 92101-1683)
What
This two-day seminar is for museum professionals who want to explore the value 
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learners with renowned leaders in the new media field. Attendees will learn how 
to evaluate technology platforms and options, create interpretive content and 
deploy systems for supporting them. Day 1 will emphasize content and strategy 
and Day 2 will focus on technology and strategy. Please visit 
http://www.bpoc.org/mobile for a detailed agenda and speaker biographies.

Who
This seminar is cross-disciplinary and appropriate for executive, content 
(education, marketing, etc.) and technical staff. We encourage people to attend 
in cross-functional teams. (Special group rates apply.)

How much
Special price! $45 for one day, $75 for both! Other cost and payment notes:

 *   Tuition fees are waived for members of the Balboa Park Online 
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[MCN-L] Podcasting advice

[museump...@gmail.com]

Lauren,

You are welcome to try our free RSS podcast maker called FeedMe at: 
http://bit.ly/rss-feedme It offers password protected accounts, unlimited 
bandwidth, episodes and RSS feeds. Everyone that works on FeedMe is a 
volunteer so it is always free. We also worked with Creative Commons so you 
can embed CC licensing or Copyright in the media files 
http://creativecommons.org/tag/museumpods  About 2000 organizations have 
signed up to use FeedMe ranging from radio stations, museums, educational 
institutions, and businesses -- but we designed it specifically for museums.

We are starting to work with museums to develop more user friendly ways for 
people to access podcasts using QR code.  Here is a short video on how it 
works:  http://bit.ly/museum-qr  FeedMe works well with this technology and 
might be something you should consider implementing in your podcast 
initiative.

Please feel free to contact me directly...I will hook you up.

Kurt Stuchell
stuchell at museumpods.com
http://museumpods.com




- Original Message - 
From: "Harris, Beth" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 7:10 AM
Subject: [MCN-L] Podcasting advice


> Hi Lauren,
> As far as creating audio and video podcasts with simple (very) and cheap 
> technology, have a look at the Create & Teach section of Smarthistory: 
> http://www.smarthistory.org/create-your-own-content1.html
>
> There are a bunch of pages there on this topic - how education departments 
> in small museums can create these materials, and distribute them. Hope 
> it's helpful.
>
> Beth Harris
>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:32:34 -0500
>> From: "Lauren Zalut" 
>> Subject: [MCN-L] Podcasting Advice
>> To: 
>> Message-ID:
>> <278835DC50C47F4CBE375BE3466D364FAF9A6A at 
>> ml330g3.main.wagnerfreeinstitute.org
>> >
>>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>> Hi,
>> I am new to the Museum Computer Network and I am looking for any
>> advice regarding podcasting. I work for a small natural history
>> museum with a very limited budget and we are looking to make
>> podcasts of past museum lectures available to the public on our
>> website. I have been told by senior staff that we do not have enough
>> space on our website, I wonder if anyone knows how much space a 60
>> minute podcast would take up. Also, what kind of technology would be
>> required to post a podcast on our website?
>>
>> The museum has a myspace profile, and part of the reason we
>> established it was the possibility that the podcast could be
>> downloaded from there. Is that really a viable option? We do have a
>> completely edited podcast ready to go and hope to have it up and
>> running by the summer. I would appreciate any suggestions or advice,
>> it would be very helpful to hear about others' experiences with
>> podcasting in museums.
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Sincerely yours,
>>
>> Lauren Zalut
>> Museum Educator and Communications Coordinator
>> Wagner Free Institute of Science
>> 1700 W. Montgomery Ave.
>> Philadelphia, PA 19121
>> phone: (215) 763-6529 ext. 17
>> www.wagnerfreeinstitute.org
>>
>> Become a fan of the Wagner on www.facebook.com!
>>
>> Follow us on www.twitter.com!
>>
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> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 00:22:44 -0500
> From: Rich Cherry 
> Subject: [MCN-L] Going mobile: Planning for audience, content and
> technology in the Museum  Feb 16, 17 in Sunny Balboa Park San Diego!
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv 
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> <0758790FE14FAD4FB84FE71572FD910C0282022E62 at MAILR005.mail.lan>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Dear colleagues,
> The past decade has seen a great increase in mobile options for museum 
> interpretation: cell phone tours, podcasts, audio tours, text-message 
> tours and  audio, video and text Smartphone applications. Learn how to 
> implement and leverage these te

[MCN-L] Podcasting Advice

[Lauren Zalut]

Hi,
I am new to the Museum Computer Network and I am looking for any advice 
regarding podcasting. I work for a small natural history museum with a very 
limited budget and we are looking to make podcasts of past museum lectures 
available to the public on our website. I have been told by senior staff that 
we do not have enough space on our website, I wonder if anyone knows how much 
space a 60 minute podcast would take up. Also, what kind of technology would be 
required to post a podcast on our website? 

The museum has a myspace profile, and part of the reason we established it was 
the possibility that the podcast could be downloaded from there. Is that really 
a viable option? We do have a completely edited podcast ready to go and hope to 
have it up and running by the summer. I would appreciate any suggestions or 
advice, it would be very helpful to hear about others' experiences with 
podcasting in museums. 

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely yours, 

Lauren Zalut
Museum Educator and Communications Coordinator
Wagner Free Institute of Science
1700 W. Montgomery Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19121
phone: (215) 763-6529 ext. 17
www.wagnerfreeinstitute.org

Become a fan of the Wagner on www.facebook.com!

Follow us on www.twitter.com!

[MCN-L] Podcasting Advice

[MuseumPods]

Lauren,

You're welcome to use FeedMe http://texas.museumpods.com for your podcast. 
Just upload the files and the RSS feed is generated with unlimited bandwidth 
and it is iTunes ready.  I must tell you a 60 minute podcast is pretty long. 
You can archive the lectures as episodes in the RSS feed for people to use. 
It won't cost you anything.

Email me if you have any questions.

Kurt Stuchell
stuchell at museumpods.com
http://museumpods.com


- Original Message - 
From: "Lauren Zalut" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 2:32 PM
Subject: [MCN-L] Podcasting Advice


> Hi,
> I am new to the Museum Computer Network and I am looking for any advice 
> regarding podcasting. I work for a small natural history museum with a 
> very limited budget and we are looking to make podcasts of past museum 
> lectures available to the public on our website. I have been told by 
> senior staff that we do not have enough space on our website, I wonder if 
> anyone knows how much space a 60 minute podcast would take up. Also, what 
> kind of technology would be required to post a podcast on our website?
>
> The museum has a myspace profile, and part of the reason we established it 
> was the possibility that the podcast could be downloaded from there. Is 
> that really a viable option? We do have a completely edited podcast ready 
> to go and hope to have it up and running by the summer. I would appreciate 
> any suggestions or advice, it would be very helpful to hear about others' 
> experiences with podcasting in museums.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Lauren Zalut
> Museum Educator and Communications Coordinator
> Wagner Free Institute of Science
> 1700 W. Montgomery Ave.
> Philadelphia, PA 19121
> phone: (215) 763-6529 ext. 17
> www.wagnerfreeinstitute.org
>
> Become a fan of the Wagner on www.facebook.com!
>
> Follow us on www.twitter.com!
>
>
>
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[MCN-L] Podcasting Advice

[Ari Davidow]

Space is dirt cheap these days, so I'm not sure I buy the idea that
there is no room for an occasional podcast. To the best of my
knowledge, however, you =could= use MySpace as a place to upload the
podcasts, and they could be downloaded from there. I do not know what
limits might exist space-wise. I could have sworn that several museums
are using MySpace though, so someone will likely chime in soon.

My sense is that an okay mp3 averages about 1MB/minute, with
considerable variance depending on the quality settings.

In theory, any mp3 can just be linked from your webpage or blog and
that will be treated as a podcast. In reality, mp3 doesn't stream
well, and the experience of listening via Windows Media Player,
RealPlayer, or Quicktime can be distracting. We use a modified version
of one of the flash media players that we found on one of the
opensource sites, and that gives us some control over look and feel
(no weird backgrounds, no ads). Years ago it was important to use a
streaming server such as Apple's Darwin, or the Real's Helix server.
If you use a reasonable flash player, the user experience should be
quite good, and barring a circumstance where you get lots of
simultaneous hits, there should be no bandwidth issues, nor any other
issues that would merit maintaining the separate server. If you had a
lot of media files, or if they were very popular, chewing up lots of
bandwidth, that would/could change, though.

ari

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Lauren Zalut
 wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to the Museum Computer Network and I am looking for any advice 
> regarding podcasting. I work for a small natural history museum with a very 
> limited budget and we are looking to make podcasts of past museum lectures 
> available to the public on our website. I have been told by senior staff that 
> we do not have enough space on our website, I wonder if anyone knows how much 
> space a 60 minute podcast would take up. Also, what kind of technology would 
> be required to post a podcast on our website?
>
> The museum has a myspace profile, and part of the reason we established it 
> was the possibility that the podcast could be downloaded from there. Is that 
> really a viable option? We do have a completely edited podcast ready to go 
> and hope to have it up and running by the summer. I would appreciate any 
> suggestions or advice, it would be very helpful to hear about others' 
> experiences with podcasting in museums.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Lauren Zalut
> Museum Educator and Communications Coordinator
> Wagner Free Institute of Science
> 1700 W. Montgomery Ave.
> Philadelphia, PA 19121
> phone: (215) 763-6529 ext. 17
> www.wagnerfreeinstitute.org
>
> Become a fan of the Wagner on www.facebook.com!
>
> Follow us on www.twitter.com!
>
>
>
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[MCN-L] Podcasting Advice

[Bruce Wyman]

>  I have been told by senior staff that we do not have enough space 
>on our website, I wonder if anyone knows how much space a 60 minute 
>podcast would take up. Also, what kind of technology would be 
>required to post a podcast on our website?

Both Kurt and Avi have given some good answers; I'll chime in with a 
little more.

Doing a quick round of snooping, it looks like you have about 10gb of 
disk space with your hosted web account. (I'm making some 
assumptions, but it looks like the IP address for your website is 
owned by web.com and their hosting plans based off their sitebuilder 
tool each have 10gb of disk space. See 
 and 
click on hosting features)

For what you're trying to do, 10gb is a fairly good chunk of space. 
Looking at the sizes of a half-dozen podcasts I have on my computer, 
that are all 45-55 minutes long, they're about 25-35mb (podcasts from 
NPR that are mostly talk). Based on that math, and not knowing what 
else is part of your site, you could potentially put 250+ podcasts on 
your site. (That being said, Kurt's made a great offer that 
potentially solves your problem without doing much additional work).

The other part to consider is what you actually want to deliver. If 
you really just want to be able to play audio from your website, or 
let someone download the audio file, then Ari's advice is pretty 
good. If you want to make a true 'podcast' that other software will 
recognize (such as iTunes) and treat as a podcast rather than just 
another audio mp3 file, then you'll want to create an rss feed for 
the series (you *are* going to do more than one, right?). There are a 
variety of tools that will help you package up your audio as a true 
podcast -- if you want to head down this path, contact me offline and 
let me know if you're using windows or a mac and I can point you in a 
few directions.

>The museum has a myspace profile, and part of the reason we 
>established it was the possibility that the podcast could be 
>downloaded from there.

You can certainly do that, although it looks like people are 
generally just hosting audio files rather than true podcasts. One 
thing you'll want to be mindful of, no matter where you decide to 
upload your files, is making sure that the site's terms and 
conditions let you retain ownership and copyright to the files you're 
uploading.

With Myspace, you're in the clear - 
 and scroll 
down to section 6, "Proprietary Rights on Content...".

>We do have a completely edited podcast ready to go and hope to have 
>it up and running by the summer.

If you've already done the hard part -- getting it ready to go -- get 
it out there. You'll get quicker feedback about what you're doing 
right (and wrong) and keep learning as you actually go through the 
process. Nothing says that you can't try to host in more than one 
place - the museum's website, Kurt's offer of Museumpods, and 
Myspace. I'm wiling to bet that they serve generally different 
audiences but in each case, you'll learn something. Don't aim for 
this summer. Aim for February to get it going. ;)

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[MCN-L] Podcasting Advice

[Whaples, David]

Good Morning Amy,



On 1/19/09 3:05 PM, "MuseumPods"  wrote:

Lauren,

You're welcome to use FeedMe http://texas.museumpods.com for your podcast.
Just upload the files and the RSS feed is generated with unlimited bandwidth
and it is iTunes ready.  I must tell you a 60 minute podcast is pretty long.
You can archive the lectures as episodes in the RSS feed for people to use.
It won't cost you anything.

Email me if you have any questions.

Kurt Stuchell
stuchell at museumpods.com
http://museumpods.com


- Original Message -
From: "Lauren Zalut" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 2:32 PM
Subject: [MCN-L] Podcasting Advice


> Hi,
> I am new to the Museum Computer Network and I am looking for any advice
> regarding podcasting. I work for a small natural history museum with a
> very limited budget and we are looking to make podcasts of past museum
> lectures available to the public on our website. I have been told by
> senior staff that we do not have enough space on our website, I wonder if
> anyone knows how much space a 60 minute podcast would take up. Also, what
> kind of technology would be required to post a podcast on our website?
>
> The museum has a myspace profile, and part of the reason we established it
> was the possibility that the podcast could be downloaded from there. Is
> that really a viable option? We do have a completely edited podcast ready
> to go and hope to have it up and running by the summer. I would appreciate
> any suggestions or advice, it would be very helpful to hear about others'
> experiences with podcasting in museums.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Lauren Zalut
> Museum Educator and Communications Coordinator
> Wagner Free Institute of Science
> 1700 W. Montgomery Ave.
> Philadelphia, PA 19121
> phone: (215) 763-6529 ext. 17
> www.wagnerfreeinstitute.org
>
> Become a fan of the Wagner on www.facebook.com!
>
> Follow us on www.twitter.com!
>
>
>
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[MCN-L] Podcasting Survey

[Tamsen Young]

The Museum at FIT is conducting a survey to find out more about museum
podcasting. We would be most grateful if you could respond to the survey,
even if it is simply to say, no, you do not have a podcast.

We plan to use the information to help inform our own decision about
whether to take the plunge but would be happy to share the results as well.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/museumpodcasting

Many thanks!

--
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Museum Digital Media and Strategic Initiatives Manager
The Museum at FIT
New York City
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[MCN-L] Podcasting (Away from Office)

[Caron Nekurak]

I will be away from the office July 14 to 23, 2006.  I will respond to your 
e-mail when I return.  If your request is urgent, please contact Diane Currie, 
HR Assistant, at 268-4234 or dcurrie at glenbow.org.  Thank you.

Caron Nekurak
Director, Human Resources
Glenbow Museum
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Calgary, AB
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[MCN-L] Podcasting mcn-l Digest, Vol 40, Issue 15

[Proctor, Nancy]

Useful tips, Robin, and great questions, Lauren!

I like the idea of using a MySpace account for hosting podcasts because I
don't think they charge you for data transfer or set limits on it - is that
right? In addition to the storage space, every time someone downloads your
podcast, there is potentially a fee for that amount of data transfer,
depending on what your hosting situation is. I'm sure MySpace would have
something to say if your podcast were to become as popular as, say, This
American Live, which recently put out a call for donations to cover the
$160k bill just the downloading of their podcast racks up annually, but as
long as the audience for your archived lectures is modest, this may be a
very economical solution that will fly under their radar.

There is a Wiki on mobile interpretation that grew out of Tate's Sept 2008
Handheld conference where we're trying to gather questions and tips like
this for the full range of mobile platforms so it can be a resource for all.
If you'd like to check it out & join, please visit:
http://tatehandheldconference.pbwiki.com/

I'll add Robin's link to the wiki's resource page!

Many thanks,
Nancy 


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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:22:13 -0500
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> Dear Lauren,
> 
> One question, are you talking about a 60 min video podcast or audio
> podcast?
> 
> As a rough guide, audio podcasts are about 1Mb per minute, but if
> it's speech only, you can fit about 2 minutes into 1Mb, which would
> make a 60 min talk about 30Mbs. This is not very much space and
> should pretty easily fit on your web server. Depending on the speed
> of your listener's connections, there should be a smooth download or
> streaming of the material.
> 
> A one hour video podcast is a whole other kettle of fish. I'd
> recommend editing just the highlights into short separate programs to
> present as individual podcasts in that case.
> 
> There' s a lot of information out there about how to do this. This
> site has some excellent links:
> 
> http://www.podcastfm.co.uk/podcasting_resources.php
> 
> Best,
> 
> Robin
> Robin White Owen
> Web 2.0 Strategy & Implementation
> M: 917/407-7641
> T: 646/472-5145
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>> Hi,
>> I am new to the Museum Computer Network and I am looking for any
>> advice regarding podcasting. I work for a small natural history
>> museum with a very limited budget and we are looking to make
>> podcasts of past museum lectures available to the public on our
>> website. I have been told by senior staff that we

[MCN-L] Podcasting advice: strategy for making the most of online content

[Stephanie Weaver]

Dear Lauren (and list),
While I agree with Robin that setting up a YouTube channel is  
excellent, I would use it as an additional tool to spread the word  
about your podcasts. It's important to get the most bang for your buck  
out of your digital assets, so I recommend the following strategy:

If you are in fact launching a podcast series?that is, you will be  
making and publishing regular episodes?then I would begin by  
registering and using a podcast service like Podbean (free for starter  
accounts, you might at some point have to pay for storage, but the  
costs are extremely low). Once you set up your Podbean account and  
upload one episode, you can then link to iTunes and set up your iTunes  
account. iTunes has the broadest reach for podcasts. There are other  
(many) podcast directories and you want to list your podcast with  
them. Once you publish your episode, the RSS feed automatically brings  
your podcast to these other directories. So once you do the work for  
the first one, your podcast then goes out to multiple channels  
automatically and is out there forever. For example, I have a podcast  
series (about 3 years now), with subscribers, and even though I don't  
produce many episodes (about one every other month), the reach is  
amazing...

If you are not really launching a series, but will just be posting  
videos as you are able to complete them, then the YouTube channel is  
the way to go. You also should create accounts on Flickr, YahooVideo,  
and Vimeo and upload the content there. They each have different  
restrictions on length and numbers of videos you can upload in the  
month. You should also embed these videos in your website and Facebook  
Page, and Tweet links to them. If you are creating videos of lectures,  
then you could also consider becoming part of iTunes U, where many  
universities and museums are publishing content. 
http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/

For a long video (60 minutes) I'd recommend breaking it into 15-minute  
sections, both to reduce the size of the video and the download/ 
viewing time (many, many people still don't have great connection  
speed, and if something doesn't start immediately, they click away).  
And, make a short (1 minute) teaser sample which you can put out there  
to help people find them. All videos should be branded with titles and  
end titles, plus a copyright statement. Teasers should end with the  
URL to send them to the location they can view the full video.

If you set up a YouTube channel, make sure you go through the process  
of applying for a nonprofit channel. You have to fill out an  
application (one long page) and they have to approve it, but there are  
many benefits to doing so, as they allow you to brand the page and you  
show up in the nonprofit directory (above the chaff), and you can tie  
it into fundraising/development directly from your page.

I'd be happy to answer any more questions you might have off-list.

Best,

Stephanie Weaver
Visitor experience consultant
sweaver at experienceology.com
experienceology?: Because happy visitors return.
San Diego, CA

For information on our book, blog, podcast, upcoming classes, and e- 
news, visit www.experienceology.com or follow me on twitter.com/ 
experienceology. See samples of my classes here: 
www.youtube.com/experienceology 
. Watch the free archived version of my class on the visitor  
experience here: http://bit.ly/NlunE

Next presentations:
UCLA Extension: January 26, 2010
Orange County Public Libraries: February 3, 2010
Ass'n of Partners for Public Lands: February 7 & 8, 2010
Tijuana Estuary docent training: March 24, 2010
American Association of Museums: May 26, 2010

[MCN-L] Podcasting advice: strategy for making the most of online content

[TAMSEN SCHWARTZMAN]

Stephanie,
Thank you so much for taking the time to write all this. Very clear and very 
very helpful!!
All the best,

--
Tamsen Schwartzman
Museum Media Manager
The Museum at FIT, Room E116
Seventh Avenue at 27th Street
New York, NY 10001
212~217~4547  **  212~217~4561 fax
www.fitnyc.edu/museum
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From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of 
Stephanie Weaver
Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 4:05 PM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] Podcasting advice: strategy for making the most of online 
content

Dear Lauren (and list),
While I agree with Robin that setting up a YouTube channel is  
excellent, I would use it as an additional tool to spread the word  
about your podcasts. It's important to get the most bang for your buck  
out of your digital assets, so I recommend the following strategy:

If you are in fact launching a podcast series-that is, you will be  
making and publishing regular episodes-then I would begin by  
registering and using a podcast service like Podbean (free for starter  
accounts, you might at some point have to pay for storage, but the  
costs are extremely low). Once you set up your Podbean account and  
upload one episode, you can then link to iTunes and set up your iTunes  
account. iTunes has the broadest reach for podcasts. There are other  
(many) podcast directories and you want to list your podcast with  
them. Once you publish your episode, the RSS feed automatically brings  
your podcast to these other directories. So once you do the work for  
the first one, your podcast then goes out to multiple channels  
automatically and is out there forever. For example, I have a podcast  
series (about 3 years now), with subscribers, and even though I don't  
produce many episodes (about one every other month), the reach is  
amazing...

If you are not really launching a series, but will just be posting  
videos as you are able to complete them, then the YouTube channel is  
the way to go. You also should create accounts on Flickr, YahooVideo,  
and Vimeo and upload the content there. They each have different  
restrictions on length and numbers of videos you can upload in the  
month. You should also embed these videos in your website and Facebook  
Page, and Tweet links to them. If you are creating videos of lectures,  
then you could also consider becoming part of iTunes U, where many  
universities and museums are publishing content. 
http://www.apple.com/education/mobile-learning/

For a long video (60 minutes) I'd recommend breaking it into 15-minute  
sections, both to reduce the size of the video and the download/ 
viewing time (many, many people still don't have great connection  
speed, and if something doesn't start immediately, they click away).  
And, make a short (1 minute) teaser sample which you can put out there  
to help people find them. All videos should be branded with titles and  
end titles, plus a copyright statement. Teasers should end with the  
URL to send them to the location they can view the full video.

If you set up a YouTube channel, make sure you go through the process  
of applying for a nonprofit channel. You have to fill out an  
application (one long page) and they have to approve it, but there are  
many benefits to doing so, as they allow you to brand the page and you  
show up in the nonprofit directory (above the chaff), and you can tie  
it into fundraising/development directly from your page.

I'd be happy to answer any more questions you might have off-list.

Best,

Stephanie Weaver
Visitor experience consultant
sweaver at experienceology.com
experienceology(r): Because happy visitors return.
San Diego, CA

For information on our book, blog, podcast, upcoming classes, and e- 
news, visit www.experienceology.com or follow me on twitter.com/ 
experienceology. See samples of my classes here: 
www.youtube.com/experienceology 
. Watch the free archived version of my class on the visitor  
experience here: http://bit.ly/NlunE

Next presentations:
UCLA Extension: January 26, 2010
Orange County Public Libraries: February 3, 2010
Ass'n of Partners for Public Lands: February 7 & 8, 2010
Tijuana Estuary docent training: March 24, 2010
American Association of Museums: May 26, 2010

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