TAP067: 11 Ways to Use Twitter to Promote Your Blog or Podcast

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Twitter can be a tool to find, grow, and mature your audience, as well as a great way to promote your blogging and podcasting. Here are eleven ways to help you succeed!

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Get Easy, High-Quality Audio Feedback from Listeners with SpeakPipe

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Receiving audio feedback is either hard or low-quality. But SpeakPipe is a service to change that.

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TAP066: Live Calls, Chatrooms, Audacity Plugins, and Podcast Cards [Feedback]

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How to take live phone or Skype calls, managing Audacity plugins, effectiveness of podcast cards, live-streaming a Skype conversation, how to get a chatroom, and multiple USB mics/inputs on Windows.

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TAP065: Audacity Compressor Showdown

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The contestants: Audacity’s built-in compressor, Chris’s Dynamic Compressor, C3 Multiband Compressor, and Levelator. I was personally surprised by the winner.

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TAP064: 13 Ways to Be a Great Podcast LISTENER

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As podcasters, we should be setting the examples of being great listeners and encouraging our audiences to be the same.

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Why I Can’t Use LiveFyre for WordPress Comments

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LiveFyre’s commenting system boasts some impressive features and functionality, but has several deal-breakers for me.

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TAP063: Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) vs. Blogging and Podcasting

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This is a hot topic for Internet content-creators: bloggers, podcasters, YouTubers—almost anyone with a presence on the Internet could be affected.

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Why I’m Dropping the IntenseDebate Commenting System

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I share what I’d like a commenting system to do and why I no longer feel IntenseDebate is the WordPress plugin to help me.

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TAP062: 11 Ways to Improve Your Blog or Podcast in 2012

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While everyone is making New Year’s Resolutions in their personal lives, think about how you can improve your blogging and podcasting passions in 2012. Here are eleven suggestions.

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TAP061: What’s New in Audacity 1.3.14

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See what’s new with the latest 1.3.14 update to the free audio-editor Audacity and whether podcasters will need it.

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