Good question. Here’s my best shot – in picture form.
It’s you going out to the world – standing and falling on your own merits.
I’ve tried to capture the key processes in making an audio podcast in this quick sketch. If I had to list the 10 hardest things about podcasting they’d probably be:
1. Getting started.
2. Keeping going.
3. Planning what you want to going to get out of it.
4. Working out what an RSS feed is, what you can / can’t do with one.
5. Actually performing. It can be hell and you can be rubbish.
6. Recording too much stuff and leaving yourself with a nightmare edit.
7. File formats, bit rates, quality issues, download sizes
8. Finding a grown-up, reliable host for your media files
9. Writing show notes and putting in all the links
10. Taking feedback. Ouch.
