Making Your Voice Heard: Podcasting and More
Podcasting is far more than putting on a radio it’s a way to make your content more accessible to a wider audience. Podcasts aren’t for everyone (but then, neither are newsletters, blogs, videos, reports….) but for those who are busy, like to listen while they do other things, or just enjoy taking in material via their ears, audio communication is a valuable tool.
Platforms like Soundcloud are great for uploading content. As part of my effort to make material accessible to more people — especially those who are visually impaired or limited by their physical ability to use computers — I’ve started recording ‘podcast’ -like episodes from posts from the Censemaking site and posting them on Soundcloud.
Last month I also launched the Censemaking Innovation Podcast, a specific 10-minute regular podcast that profiles ideas in change, innovation, and transformation. These are not just passion projects, they are part of an effort to make material accessible.
Courses like Wordpress’ terrific Podcasting for Beginners are ways that you can learn how to do something that is relatively straightforward, yet does require a little support to do well.
And on that note, if you are a Wordpress user, that platform has enabled a blog-to-podcast option that will transcribe your words and post an AI-driven podcast episode to Anchor. All for free.
Using tools like Descript it’s possible to do the opposite, too — recording a podcast episode and have your voice transcribed into text. This means transforming podcasts into blog posts and blogs to podcasts to increase your options to reach your audience and communicate your message.