Podcasts at Penn State

Here you will find some general guidelines to consider as you begin to investigate podcasting. If you'd like help with learning to podcast, please contact us at podcasts@psu.edu today.

• Know your audience/target market.
• Be organized in the messaging that is to be delivered.
• Have notes and an outline to keep the show on topic.
• Edit podcast show appropriately for content, quality, and length.
• Deliver valuable, informative, engaging, and entertaining content to your listeners that they can't get from any other media.
• Provide show notes for listeners to review content of the show before and while they listen to the podcast.
• Use proper tagging of Metadata so that your podcast can be found and organized easily by podcasting software and directories. Metadata is additional information embedded in an object that assists software in storing and finding them.