This is the fourth and fifth in a series of ten (10) videos that will teach you how to create a podcast using GarageBand v. 3+ on your Macintosh.

In Tutorial 4 Dave Brown shows you how to add voiceovers, music, and ducking. He’ll show you a little trick with System Preferences that many people forget to make, ultimately causing problems with the audio of the podcast. Tutorial 5 shows demonstrates the jingles track, and how to add music loops and adjust the volume for optimal playback. Read the rest of this entry »

This is the second and third in a series of ten (10) videos that will teach you how to create a podcast using GarageBand v. 3+ on your Macintosh.

In the first video Dave Brown introduces you to the GarageBand interface. He’ll show you how to start a new podcast and will explain each of the major components that make up the “Podcast” interface for GarageBand. You’ll review tracks, episode info, descriptions, artwork, literally every item on the GarageBand interface. Read the rest of this entry »

Creating podcasts on PCs are easy, but they are even easier if you have a Macintosh using GarageBand 3.0+. Version 3 or newer of this popular software allows users to now create a “Podcast episode” which includes recording a narration; adding chapters, images, web links (or a video for a vodcast) for an enhanced podcast; and laying down background music with a feature called “ducking” which automatically lowers the secondary audio tracks when the predominant audio track is playing. Read the rest of this entry »

You’ve heard all the buzz about podcasts and their video counterpart, vodcasts…But what is a podcast and why should you add them to your site?

Podcasting is an easy way to broadcast multimedia content online to a dispersed group of people, who are then able to listen whenever and wherever they choose using a variety of easily-accessible platforms. Podcasts can be downloaded automatically as soon as they are available and listened to using a variety of devices, including computers, MP3 players, PDAs, and even cell phones. What’s more, podcasts can be produced and broadcast inexpensively, and, as a result, has made this media channel accessible to the broadcasting masses. Read the rest of this entry »

Blogging marketing guru, Jack Humphrey (of the Friday Traffic Report), has created a great video tutorial on How to do a trackback to get more links and traffic. The video demonstrates exactly how to use trackback posts to get links from other bloggers and sites that use trackbacks. It gives you all the goods on this blog marketing secret and will have you doing trackbacks in a matter of minutes. Read the rest of this entry »