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Microblogging and Podcasting. Why Twitter?. Third most popular social network 6 million visitors, 55 million visits per month Simplicity Itself. Twitter Basics. Tweets limited to 140 characters Social networking community. Twitter Tips. Find people with similar interests and follow them
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Why Twitter? • Third most popular social network • 6 million visitors, 55 million visits per month • Simplicity Itself
Twitter Basics • Tweets limited to 140 characters • Social networking community
Twitter Tips • Find people with similar interests and follow them • Read and respond to their tweets • Tweet regularly • Make fun, interesting, and useful Tweets • Engage community; foster discussion
Twitter RSS • Add your Twitter account to NING with the RSS feature. • You can also let Twitter automatically update your Facebook status updates.
Podcasting • iTunes and other services require an RSS feed to publish your podcast. • Two easy ways to do this: • Podbean • Feedburner
Notes on Saving Podcast • Make sure your have entered authorship information. • If show is too large, try breaking it up into multiple episodes.
Podbean – Easy Solution • Create podcast, save in .mp3 format • Create an account at http://podbean.com • Click “publish a podcast” • Upload file • Submit your podbean RSS feed to iTunes, odeo, etc. • Add RSS feed to your NING site.
Feedburner – Slightly Harder • Using NING, create a blog post and attach your podcast using the file upload feature. • For all of your podcasts, add a tag called “podcast.” • Click the “podcast” tag on your new post. • Click the RSS feed for your podcast. • Copy RSS feed.
Feedburner Continued • Create an account at http://feedburner.google.com • Copy feed into “burn a feed right this instant,” selecting “I am a podcaster.” • Copy Feedburner’s feed for your podcast (something like http://feeds.feedburner.com....)
Submitting to iTunes • Create iTunes account and log in. • Go to iTunes Store • Click “podcasts” • Click “Submit a Podcast” • Enter feed from podbean or Feedburner