October's Meetup

Last night the Portland Podcasting group met at the Urban Grind Coffeehouse in N.E. Portland. There were 10 of us in attendance and as always, Mac was serving up some strong coffee and excellent wifi.

Attendees
Rebecca
» Tranny Wreck
Tim Germer
» Northwest Noise
Scott
Scott
Paul
» America Kicks!
Jeri Dobbs
» International Perfusion Journal
Anna Johns & Jason Ruby
» Delta Park Project
Stephanie
Dan Linn
» Rosedrop Media Circus
Mac

I was excited to see three new members: Stephanie, Rebecca and Scott. Stephanie is in high school and as a class project she is going to start a podcast. Now that's a cool class project. It was great to see her come out and show interest, podcasting seems to be so foreign to high schoolers and teenagers. Prove me Portland! :) Here's some motivation for you; a reporter is currently looking for high schoolers that podcast - so if you podcast and are a teenager, leave a comment and we'll get you in touch with the reporter.

Over coffee and large flat screen we talked about podcasting, blogging, promotion, marketing, etc. We decided that we really need to improve our podcasting resources online - i.e. content on portlandpodcasting.org. So here's a quick list of topics we discussed.

Music Licensing

• Podsafe Music Network
• AMP
• Ask the artist, ask the label
• CDBaby
• Indie (unsigned band/artists)
• Fair Use
• Give artist credit

Hosting

• Libsyn
• OurMedia
• Podkive
• Blogger & FeedBurner
• Blogger & Libsyn
• Local hosting providers

SOUND ENGINEERING!

• MP3
• Encoding help!
• Best quality that is usable
• Record to WAV or AIFF
• Podcastrigs.com
• Portable Recording

Mastering

• Garageband (OSX)
• Audacity (Linux, Windows, OSX
• Castblaster
• Step 3 = Quality
• Levels, Sample Rate, Effects,
• Get to know an audio nerd! = Portland music, Pro Sound

Get Out There!

• Directories
• Podcast411
• indiepodder.org
• Know what your info. is - feed, web address
• Come to the meetings
• Post to blogs and contact other podcasters
• Mention other shows
• Get in the TOP 100!!!@Q@#$Q#$$
• Do promos
• Submit to Adam & Company

Obviously these are areas that we need portlandpodcasting.org to answer. After Urban Grind closed for the night, a group of us continued talking outside and covered a variety of topics from RSS to how we can promote the group.

But the best part of the night was revelation that Anna and Jason are Top 100 podcasters! Their 'Lost' podcast is currently #61 on the day's most subscribed to podcasts in iTunes. Congrats guys!