What’s a podcast?

Up until a short time ago, I didn’t know what it meant either. Let me explain.

A podcast is a broadcast of multimedia information (audio or video) over the internet. For example, music, lectures, and announcements are often podcast.

So what? (I said that too)

Ok, picture this: You’ve always wanted to learn to identify the songs of different birds but never had the time.  You finally do an internet search on bird song identification and find that others not only know, but want to teach you!

Someone has taken the time to put up a website on bird song identification and you “click here to listen to the song of the warbler”.  What you’re listening to is a digital file you can download and save for reference.  And look they have more!

You don’t have time right now, but download all the different bird song files they have.  Why do you download them all?  So you can load them onto your portable music player and take it right into nature with you.

See?!?  Isn’t that awesome?

Who are podcasts for?

  • If you live an active lifestyle and want to multi-task.
  • If you want to read books but never have the time.
  • If you want new interesting information sent to you automatically
  • If you want to hear and feel the emotion behind the information
  • If you want information on your time schedule to digest at your leisure
  • If your eyes are too tired to read, but you still want to learn about new people/places/things.

How do I start listening to your podcast?

You can start right now on our website.  But if you want to be notified of new shows when they are available, keep reading.

First choose which way you’d like to receive it:

Email
RSS feed
iTunes

Why is it called a podcast?

Podcast is a combination of the term iPod(TM) and broadcast.

“…the Apple iPod being the brand of portable media player for which early podcasting scripts were developed (see history of podcasting), allowing podcasts to be automatically transferred from a personal computer to a mobile device after they are downloaded.”

Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcast

The term podcast can refer to the service you offer as well as the specific electronic file or episode.  “Delaware County Podcast  is a great way to learn about what Delaware County has to offer.”  or “The podcast last Thursday was particularly interesting.”