2 Degrees of content

When putting together your podcast you have to think about what you want your topic to be. As I see it there’s 2 ways in which you can do this. The first way, and the way that I’m taking with my podcasting, is to take a topic that you know about and are passionate about. This makes things so much easier. The second route and the one less traveled is to choose a topic that you know nothing about or very little about. In this type of situation you are forced to produce and learn about your topic. I can see where this would make you more passionate about your posting because you are learning as you go along.

Once you have chosen your topic to podcast about you need to get more in depth content for your podcast. This may not apply to personal podcasts, but for those that are speaking about a specific topic, you may need to come up with content. Some areas for content are pretty obvious: blogs, newspapers and other websites. Below I have listed some other areas in which you can get content.

Google News – This is more a combination of papers, but the best thing about this is that you can RSS it and watch it.

Forums – Forums are great areas for discussions that can be hot topics.

Interviews – If you know a professional in your topic see if you can interview them. You’ll need special equipment to do this, but it can be done (I’ll discuss this later).