How to: Academic Podcasting

Podcasting and Impact Cheryl Brumley and Mark Carrigan

What’s the point of podcasting?  Raising your own profile  Raising the profile of projects you’re attached to  Multimedia content for individual/collective web presence  Disseminating research findings  Making events available to those not physcially present  Connecting with wider public(s)

The World of Podcasting Simple

Complex

Will I be able to do it?    

Desired quality level: micro-podcasts, magazine Environment: office, outside, large empty room Length Type of interaction: interview, conversation, solo

Will I be able to do it?

Simple

Complex

iPhone mic

Shure SM58 USB podcasting mic AKG C 1000s

Olympus Tascam

Promoting your Podcasts     

Personal and multi-author blogs Personal, department and university pages Twitter, facebook, academia.edu University communications office Soundcloud, iTunesU, Audioboo

Where do I go from here?  Do you already listen to podcasts? Which ones? What do you like about them?  Do you know anyone in higher education who already podcasts?  Is there a particular style of podcast that interests you?  Can you think of occasions when podcasting might have been a worthwhile activity for you?

Where do I go from here?  Technical help/equipment advice:  transom.org  thepodcastguy.com  audacity.sourceforge.net

Thank you!

LSE Public Policy Group Mark Carrigan and Cheryl Brumley

@mark_carrigan @cherylbrumley Podcasts: blogs.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/podcasts Blogs: European Politics and Policy: europp.eu British Politics and Policy: lsepoliticsblog.com LSE Review of Books: lsereviewofbooks.com Impact: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences