Creating a Podcast:
Community Divas Live!
with Eden Spodek & Connie Crosby
Podcamp Montreal 2008

Today’s discussion
• Why?
• How?
• What would you like to see?

Why?

No.....really!

Why?

Community!!

How?

First - get organized!

We use Google Docs to
organize ourselves and
share technical notes

things to map out
• who is your audience?
• find a name & a web domain
• format
• episode length / content / frequency
• music, introduction, closing - podsafe
music

Prepping for episodes

Background notes on
each speaker includes
photo, links & interview
questions

our technology

the importance of mentors

“We buoy each other up”
- Scarborough Dude

We help each other out

finding time
• we record whenever we can find the time
• our goal is to be able to interview
individually
• both of us should be able to do post-
production so either one of us can do it
• streamline recordings as much as possible

getting the podcast out
•the blog / host - Libsyn
• Feedburner
• iTunes...

getting word out
• Community Divas blog
• our own blogs
• podcast directories
• twitter
• facebook page
• friendfeed room

what’s next
• improving sound & getting more comfortable
• submitting podcast to Canada Podcasts
directory & Canadian Podcast Buffet
(remember also Le Québec en Baladodiffusion)
• lots more great interviews planned!
• pulling community/events together in our
Facebook page
• supporting our community

What else
would you like
to see?

Suggestions from the session
• more about face-to-face traditional
communities
• working with social change agencies
• discussing differences between the
communities we are building in Facebook,
Friendfeed, Twitter esp. statistics

Credit where photo credit is due
• Julien Smith - PAB2008 by Financial Aid Podcast
http://flickr.com/photos/financialaidpodcast/2604008784/
• Glow bracelets on PAB cruise by Andy Caster
http://flickr.com/photos/andycast/2598526803/
• bookshelf spectrum, revisited by chotda
http://flickr.com/photos/santos/1704875109/
• Food preparation--visual poem by er1danus
http://flickr.com/photos/er1danus/1936971937/
• Ducks 3 (rubber duckies) by woodsy
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/945501
• This could go bad! (Chris Brogan) by Bill Deys
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deys/2597710321/
• all other images are by Connie Crosby and are available under
Creative Commons attribution licence

Thank you
Eden Spodek
&
Connie Crosby
communitydivas@gmail.com
http://communitydivas.com