Other Duties as Assigned: Creating a Podcast
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Jackie Vetrano discusses her experience creating a podcast for Skidmore College as part of her duties as Social Media Coordinator. The podcast was created to raise brand awareness of the college and showcase student, alumni, faculty, and staff successes. Vetrano outlines the steps taken to launch the podcast, including researching other college podcasts, developing a bi-weekly schedule and episode themes, securing hosts and guests, recording and editing equipment and software, submitting the podcast to directories, and methods of promotion. Over 5000 downloads have been achieved to date across multiple platforms.
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Other Duties as Assigned: Creating a Podcast
- 1. Other Duties as Assigned: Creating a Podcast Jackie Vetrano Social Media Coordinator Skidmore College @jackievetrano #MCS2
- 2. Other Duties as Assigned: Creating a Podcast Jackie Vetrano Social Media Coordinator Skidmore College @jackievetrano #MCS2
- 3. ▪ Hired in December 2015 ▪ Maintain social media accounts ▪ Work as part of the marketing team ▪ Within six months: ▪ Content writing for the web to fill a retirement hole ▪ Quick-and-dirty graphic designer ▪ Mascot Hello, world! WELCOME
- 4. WELCOME
- 5. ▪ Hired in December 2015 ▪ Maintain social media accounts ▪ Work as part of the marketing team ▪ Within six months: ▪ Content writing for the web to fill a retirement hole ▪ Quick-and-dirty graphic designer ▪ Mascot ▪ Podcast co-host, co-producer, and audio engineer Hello, world! WELCOME
- 7. ▪ Alumni? ▪ Prospective families? ▪ Current students? ▪ Donors? ▪ Faculty and Staff? What’s the goal? Audience? ▪ Overall engagement? ▪ Increased donor participation? ▪ More applications? ▪ General marketing? WHY A PODCAST?
- 8. Goal: Brand Awareness This aligns with our departmental goal of raising national awareness and coverage of Skidmore. WHY A PODCAST?
- 9. ▪ Showcase the Skidmore experience ▪ Student, alumni, faculty, and staff successes ▪ Unique opportunities for students at Skidmore (aka, “what sets us apart”) ▪ Unique clubs and organizations ▪ Classroom experiences ▪ Interdepartmental experiences ▪ Real-world experience opportunities Goal, Check. Now, How? WHY A PODCAST?
- 10. Podcast Starter Kit Checklist *Patent Pending. #MCS2
- 11. ❑ Goal (“why?”) ❑ Name/brand ❑ Schedule and episode ideas ❑ Host(s) ❑ Recording space and equipment ❑ Online hosting ❑ Buy in CHECKLIST
- 12. How to get started Close your eyes, and leap. #MCS2
- 13. ▪ Albion College: Town & Gown ▪ Alumni focus; “what did you like about Albion?” ▪ Where are they now ▪ Liberal Arts highlight ▪ Find it: campus.albion.edu/podcasts ▪ The College at Brockport: Winging It ▪ Student run ▪ Campus life, student life ▪ Find it: soundcloud.com/the-college-at-brockport Step 1: Do some research GET STARTED
- 14. ▪ Sequential ▪ Missing Richard Simmons ▪ S-Town ▪ Serial ▪ Episodic ▪ Invisibilia ▪ Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me! ▪ Reply All Step 2: Pick a style GET STARTED
- 15. ▪ Admissions Confidential ▪ Prospective student focus ▪ Consider application process, give tips ▪ Chat with Tour Guides ▪ Faculty Lecture Series ▪ Alumni Highlights ▪ “Where are they now?” ▪ Support Career Development Center and Alumni Relations initiatives ▪ Miscellaneous/Grab-bag Step 3: Make a plan GET STARTED
- 16. ▪ Admissions Confidential ▪ Prospective student focus ▪ Consider application process, give tips ▪ Chat with Tour Guides ▪ Faculty Lecture Series ▪ Alumni Highlights ▪ “Where are they now?” ▪ Support Career Development Center and Alumni Relations initiatives ▪ Miscellaneous/Grab-bag Step 3: Make a plan GET STARTED
- 17. ▪ Opted for a bi-weekly schedule instead ▪ Episode “themes” ▪ Didn’t want to force a theme because of a week ▪ Allows flexibility in content and scheduling ▪ Continue to use as guidelines and idea-generators Step 3a: Make a REALISTIC plan GET STARTED
- 18. Next steps Quit singing about it, and do it. #MCS2
- 19. ▪ Choose a name that’s more exciting than “Skidmore College Podcast” ▪ Find a balance between specificity and room to grow ▪ Develop a description and icon to be used Name and iconography NEXT STEPS
- 20. ▪ Podcast host becomes the voice of the institution ▪ Student(s) ▪ Faculty/Staff ▪ President ▪ Rotating based on topic ▪ How to host your podcast ▪ Produce an RSS Feed ▪ Soundcloud, Blubrry, PodBean, Libsyn Hosts (both kinds) NEXT STEPS
- 21. Recording the first episode This could be the start of something new. #MCS2
- 22. ▪ Don’t assume your guest has heard of the podcast ▪ Explain your intention and why you are reaching out ▪ Some may not be interested or wary ▪ Provide some questions that you may/will ask ▪ Ensure that you can edit the show (no, it’s not live) ▪ Suggest that they bring someone else along, if it fits Getting your guest NEXT STEPS
- 28. Editing and Posting Let’s get down to business. #MCS2
- 29. ▪ Intro/outro music – not required ▪ Tap student talent ▪ Edit based on your format ▪ Long form interview? Question and answer based? Casual conversation? ▪ Garage Band, Final Cut, Audition Editing for dummies EDITING AND POSTING
- 30. ▪ Easy ▪ Quickly cut out inappropriate/irrelevant comments and long pauses ▪ Medium ▪ Remove “um,” “uh.” or silences from speech ▪ Hard ▪ Weave in music, “commercials,” or other relevant audio to tell a story Editing for dummies EDITING AND POSTING
- 31. ▪ Shop around for hosting services – some are free, some are not ▪ Soundcloud to Podbean ▪ Switch in February 2017 (about a year later) ▪ Consider goals and provided analytics Creating an RSS feed EDITING AND POSTING
- 32. 1. Create an ID or username 2. Submit RSS feed and: • Show description • Show icon 3. Wait for confirmation Submitting to iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play EDITING AND POSTING
- 33. Analytics and Results Let’s tell the story of tonight #MCS2
- 34. ▪ Two seasons down, a million to go! ▪ 29 episodes to date, 20-40 minutes long ▪ Over 5000 downloads ▪ Available on Podbean, iTunes, Google Play and Stitcher skidmore.edu/podcast This is Skidmore ANALYTICS AND RESULTS
- 35. ▪ What Makes Skidmore Unique? ▪ Interim Vice President of Communications and Marketing and Vice President for Academic Affairs discuss what a liberal arts education is all about, some interesting information about financial aid, and what makes Skidmore different ▪ The Head Tour Guides ▪ Graduating tour guides kick off the podcast by sharing their Skidmore experience, from first day to senior year. ▪ All-American Basketball Stars ▪ Aldin Medunjanin ’17 and Kelly Donnelly ’18 were both named to the All-American team. They explain what it means to be an athlete at Skidmore as well as this great honor. ▪ Disorderly Women ▪ Beck Krefting and Louise Sullivan ’18 discuss Krefting’s Disorderly Women course. In the course, Sullivan and her classmates focused on some of the women who have been characterized by the larger society as unruly, disruptive, radical, militant, unfeminine-just generally “disorderly.” Most popular episodes ANALYTICS AND RESULTS
- 36. Promoting the podcast The world’s gonna know your name. #MCS2
- 37. Skidmore Website PROMOTION ▪ Integrate into web stories
- 38. Skidmore Website PROMOTION ▪ Integrate into web stories ▪ Not always a recent podcast
- 39. Skidmore Website PROMOTION ▪ Integrate into web stories ▪ Not always a recent podcast ▪ “Evergreen” content
- 40. Other means of promotion PROMOTION ▪ Social media posts ▪ Paid social media advertising: Twitter and LinkedIn ▪ Stickers at campus events ▪ Open house/Admissions ▪ Reunion ▪ Gift for guests as a thank you note ▪ Viewbook
- 41. “How much time does it take?” #MCS2
- 42. 1. Think about an idea: 10 minutes 2. Back-and-forth email exchange: 3 emails X number of CC’s 3. Record: 45 minutes – 1 hour 4. Edit podcast: 1 – 1.5 hours 5. Create show notes/summary: 10 – 20 minutes 6. Create supplementary story for website: 1 hour 7. Promotion on social media, paid ads, etc: variable Awesome podcast: priceless. “Other Duties as Assigned” in numbers TIME DEDICATED
- 44. ▪ Make a plan ▪ Have a backup plan, something will go wrong. ▪ Collaborate with Media Services and have good equipment ▪ Be authentic, don’t have an agenda ▪ Don’t be afraid to take a break ▪ Just do it! Note to self LESSONS LEARNED
- 45. Other Duties as Assigned: Creating a Podcast Jackie Vetrano Social Media Coordinator Skidmore College @jackievetrano #MCS2
Editor's Notes
- Talk about how it was just a shiny thing. We wanted to be there, but we were hypocritically doing it just because WE WANT TO.
- Discuss our ideas. Follow 1-3 students around all semester? Get lectures from classes?
- Think about that one professor everyone knows. But, then it becomes THEIR other duties as assigned. TWEET: https://www.weeditpodcasts.com/8-top-podcast-hosting-companies/
- Think about that one professor everyone knows. But, then it becomes THEIR other duties as assigned. TWEET: https://www.weeditpodcasts.com/8-top-podcast-hosting-companies/
- First used one snowball mic in the middle with everyone around it. Not clear, fuzzy, quiet and loud. All over the place.
- First used one snowball mic in the middle with everyone around it. Not clear, fuzzy, quiet and loud. All over the place.
- You can make this as high/low quality as you want. Don’t need a lot of skill to edit on garage band
- You can make this as high/low quality as you want. Don’t need a lot of skill to edit on garage band
- Social media posting on channels, esp. Twitter and LinkedIn. Facebook shares stories that are relevant for audience