Podcasting for Professional Trainers

Program Description

Ever since it became possible to create audio and video newsfeeds in 2004, independent podcasters have been providing free informal instruction on everything from marketing to yoga to Japanese. More and more universities are now making lecture courses available to their students (and the public) as audio or video podcasts. Now cutting-edge corporations are using podcasts for internal communications and training. You'll learn the basics of what podcasts are, how to listen to them, and how to create them, as well as advantages of this new delivery channel for professional trainers:

• Stop juggling time zones-you record at your best time and they listen at theirs
• Make your instruction portable-they can take it on the road or on the job
• Save travel time and expenses by sending out the podcast, not the trainer
• Market your trainings in advance and distribute exit interviews
• Provide updates and follow-ups without having to schedule a formal training session

Handout with Links

This includes everything in the "out-take" slides, plus lots of resources to help you get started with your podcast marketing. Laid out as a mind map courtesy of Mind Manager 6 Pro.

HTML Presentation

You need Internet Explorer 4.0 or above for this to work properly. That's because PowerPoint is a Microsoft product. But it does include most of the audio and video clips.

PDF Slides

One slide per page. 4 MB.

Downloadable PowerPoint Show

The self-playing kind, so you don't have to have PowerPoint in order to watch it. 3.8 MB.

MP3 Audio Recordings

Pre-presentation recording. I created this to help me rehearse, and it follows exactly the script in the show notes.

Live recording. Including background noise and answers to audience questions, but with the assorted technical difficulties edited out. Starts about 5 minutes into the presentation.

Important Credits

• Donna Papacosta, Trafalgar Communications: www.trafcom.com (Podcasting webinar on August 16^th)
• Kathleen Gilroy, The Otter Group: www.ottergroup.com (Learning 2.0 Bootcamp starts October 18^th)
• J.D. Schier, PodTraining: www.podtraining.us

About the Author-izer

As co-founder of the Podcast Asylum, Author-izer Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with "sketch") writes and speaks about podcasting from the listener's perspective. She uses podcasting to make connections and attract prospects from around the world and works tirelessly to cure the epidemic of podcastus ignoramus among business owners.

A natural-born pedant, Sallie Goetsch translated Greek and Roman drama for the stage and taught at the University of Warwick in England before returning to the United States to start her own business turning busy professionals into authors. Find out what you need to know about the business of writing at www.author-izer.com.

For samples of previous podcasting presentations, including MP3 recordings, PowerPoint slides, and interactive handouts, visit the podcast consulting page.