Podcast Stringer for Nashville Needed, Appy Today (GPS Assassin)

PODCAST STRINGING

Based on the 358 attendees of PodCamp Nashville and efforts of NashMash to catalog Nashville podcasts, we have the community to embrace a podcast stringer.

Podcast Stringing is the act of providing a syndicated micro podcast for other podcasters.

Oh, and I just made that up since I didn’t know of a word for it. Comment with what is already out there. I’m fascinated with this idea, but can’t find anything on it.

An example of a micro podcast: Mitch Canter’s WordPulse

There’s a rich tradition of syndication in radio of course, but a venture like this won’t succeed without a rich tech community. I’d love to support an innovation like this in Nashville.

Here’s what it might look like… Oh and feel free to use this.

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AN EXAMPLE

“GPS Assassin iPhone Game in Beta”

Episode 1 of 1: Nate News, syndicated tech news for and about Nashville | mp3 | 1:32

Outros

For Leo Laporte | mp3 | :02

For Raised on Tech | mp3 | :05

Fake Dialogue (Add to a podcast for instant success)

Laughing about Pringles | mp3 | :05

“Check out my MySpace” | mp3 | :05

Talking points and references

• Google Group
• Twitter hashtag: #gpsassassins
• Tom Cheredar, one of first to break the beta story
• There are plans for to develop beyond the iphone platform
• Jackson Miller is one of the lead developers
• It was Nick’s idea and he’s heavily involved
• Beginning stages at Nashville Startup Weekend

Download the MP3s (Then somebody show me how to mix audio)

“GPS Assassin iPhone Game in Beta” by Nathan T. Baker is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. Jingle is all rights reserved unless in this context.

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APPLY TODAY

Benefits of the position:

• Eventually your content is not just disseminated, but marketed for you.
• Less time to produce
• You can focus on a niche topic you enjoy
• Your concept is innovative and therefore gets short term “new” buzz
• Being tied to a niche topic can help you in your long term business goals

Potential Themes:

• Nashville tech news
• local sports recap
• Nashville tech events and meetups calendar
• Nashville parenting
• Nashville music business news
• This would have to be something a number of people are podcasting about in Nashville

Criteria:

• The micro podcast probably should be between 15 seconds and 2 minutes.
• It’s a topic people must care about
• The content must be creative commons and easy to grab
• You’ll have to be consistent and patient for a chance for it to catch on
• Dont’ expect to make money. Most podcasters don’t. So, do this for the luuuv, to network, or as an outpost to a larger term goal.
• Use your sexy voice

I’m not sure if this will happen in Nashville, but I wanted to share my notebook for how I saw this happening if anyone wanted to try! Let us know so we can try it out. Or, maybe talk to the podcasters, because I don’t have one of those thingies.

What content would you include in your podcast, if anything?