No Geek Required Podcasting Guide

Use of most podcasting guides seems like a task well-suited for tech geeks with time and the interest to comb through them. You know the guy in the office who thinks binary code is the way to a woman's heart? This can be disheartening when you're trying to develop your own cast. But I digress, these guides are transforming as fast as technology. Some websites have implemented podcasting guides to make reading them much more user friendly. This medium is fast becoming the future way of Communication. Many university professors, CEOs, radio show hosts, religious programming and in the midst of all this as a vehicle of a generation that has never known a day without computers to connect in the classroom. For this reason, comprehensive guides are so important, and must be accessible to the masses.

The Ultimate Guide 2 Podcasting is a very detailed index. Remains almost the hand you through the process of setting up the program. The focus is setup your program for iTunes. The guide includes: table of contents, introduction, content and technical resources, submission process to iTunes, file format for iTunes, storing your files, making your blog RSS Feed Ready for iTunes, feed submission to iTunes, integrate your program into your blog, alternative web players, directories, magazines and shows, and books. This is a onestop destination for all your program set up questions. The additional information on how to execute your program is beneficial to any newbie.

Some tutorials offer a layout in a magazine style format. They're worded in a manner that even a junior high kid can read and comprehend the information. Screen shots and pictures in color offer a welcoming guide for the new user. The process is a step by step and the screen shots are sequential allowing for little room to question the instructions.

A few other guides are less comprehensive and only highlight the way to set up your program. They don't offer detailed instructions, screen shots, pictures or deep details--"just the facts ma'am just the facts." I would not recommend using these guides since they don't necessarily make your job of programming any easier.

Almost all of the guides are universal in their offering of how to create the RSS feed files, record, edit, and send
out audio, and testing the program. Also, various ones include an RSS template so you don't have to produce your own code.
Audio only programs are catching on as quickly as video programs, therefore many guides focus as much on audio as they do on video. So, unless you're a techie my recommendation is the easy to use guides for the technologically impaired.