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Colorado Podcasters Meetup - Take Aways

Earlier this week I attended the Colorado Podcasters meetup here in Broomfield, CO. It was a great round table session in which we discussed among other things, how to drive traffic to your podcast. Below is an outline of my take aways from the meeting.

Take Aways

  • There is a great opportunity for cross-pollination between our podcasts’
  • If you have a live podcast that broadcasts several different days a week, be consistent with the time. (I.E. Live Monday, Tuesday and Saturday all at 12:00 MST)
  • If you don’t have a Facebook Page, get one, it’s very important to help connect with your audience.
  • You can lose your audience by sending them directly to the the iTunes Application, because it becomes difficult to connect with them.
  • A popular podcaster (missed the name) was discussed who makes 90% of his revenue from his donation bar with 3% of his audience dontating.  
  • Thoughts about having a phone number or maybe a skype contact on your website.
  • [Internal thought] Creating content that is not exclusively time sensitive can add historic value to your podcast. (I.E If you have a site for movie reviews, when the DVD comes out, you may see a second rise in downloads)
  • Thoughts on - What makes our podcast unique?
  • [Tip] Don’t hold back your personality. Many times people are listening to your show because of your personality.
  • With the AAC format you can add Tracking for segments or chapters link
  • [Random] Foursquare check ins don’t seem to add value to your audience, is there a way to change this?
Applications we talked about

iPhone Apps
Lose It
Restaurant Nutrition

Podcasting Apps/Services
Podtrac - the service that expertly connects podcasters and podcast listeners and viewers with advertisers
Blbrry - Wordpress plug-in, Their Website
Callisto.fm

Hosting
Bluehost

Thanks Michael Sitarzewski for hosting the event. It was a pleasure hanging out with all of you. Looking forward to the next meetup.

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Gettin' busy with jQuery

Rocking jQuery book I won in the raffle!

Tonight I attended the first Denver Meetup for jQuery enthusiast. It was a great oppourtunity to meet others who are interested in jQuery and discuss a wide range ideas and solutions. There was no surprise that there was a number of Drupal'ers in the crowd, including myself, considering the amount of jQuery is used in Drupal itself.

Great take aways of the meeting are:

  1. jQuery is used on 25% of the websites on the internet
  2. Its growing fast, and has become much larger than YUI or Mootools
  3. When developing an enterprise site host the jquery.js file locally, else consider using their CDN hosted file which I belive is "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js" more info on this.
  4. ThemeRoller is badass and I will be checking into it further
  5. Builtwith.com is a great site to see what other sites are built on
  6. Performance: jQuery is faster at selecting #IDs then .classes

Links to the meetup:

 If you live in the Denver metro area or like to drive long distances, you should stop by DOM (700 Kalamath St Denver, CO) the 3rd thursday of each month.

Edited (01-23-2010)