{"id":251,"date":"2010-04-21T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuweb1.neu.edu\/ats\/wordpress\/?p=154"},"modified":"2010-04-21T12:26:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:26:14","slug":"what-is-podcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/2010\/04\/21\/what-is-podcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Podcasting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Podcasting is a method of distributing and subscribing to multimedia files (such as audio programs or videos) over the Internet for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. &#8220;Podcast&#8221; can refer to both the content and the method of delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Think of podcasting like subscribing to a magazine. When new content is available a new magazine is automatically delivered to your mailbox &#8211; difference is that many podcasts are free and the delivery method is the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster. While podcasters&#8217; web sites may also offer direct download or streaming of files, a unique feature of podcasts is that they can be downloaded automatically using software capable of subscribing (RSS or Atom feeds). The term podcasting comes from &#8220;iPod&#8221; and &#8220;broadcasting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Benefits<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>On demand, subscription delivery &#8211; whenever content is updated, the subscriber automatically receives it<\/li>\n<li>Listen\/view as you go &#8211; content can be consumed while commuting, at the gym, walking, etc<\/li>\n<li>Simple to record-once the podcaster is trained and has access to the appropriate toolsets, podcasting is a simple and effective way to communicate a message.<\/li>\n<li>Works with the popular iPhone, iPad, &amp; iPod Touch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Limitations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Podcasts are completely downloaded to the personal computer.\u00a0 Each file takes  up storage on the hard drive. The files are usually not large, those who subscribe to a  lot of podcasts  will find their hard drive fill up if they don&#8217;t manage  their content  well.<\/li>\n<li>There is  no way to secure the file after it is downloaded.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Disseminate Key Information<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Compliance Presentations<\/li>\n<li>Newsletters (Adobe Acrobat PDF)<\/li>\n<li>Updated Course Notes and Information (Adobe Acrobat PDF)<\/li>\n<li>Electronic News<\/li>\n<li>Marketing with Multimedia<\/li>\n<li>Proactive delivery<\/li>\n<li>Course Content Dissemination Tool<\/li>\n<li>Classroom Recording<\/li>\n<li>Study Support Tool<\/li>\n<li>Course Content Dissemination Tool<\/li>\n<li>Classroom Recording<\/li>\n<li>Study Support Tool<\/li>\n<li>Research findings<\/li>\n<li>Research initiatives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Podcasting is a method of distributing and subscribing to multimedia files (such as audio programs or videos) over the Internet for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. &#8220;Podcast&#8221; can refer to both the content and the method of delivery. Think of podcasting like subscribing to a magazine. When new content is available a new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[14,39,40,43,44,48,75,77,88,91,104,111,113,119,120,128,131,137,138,140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markallenstaples.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}