“Social radio network” BlogTalk Radio today announced the launch of two new “premium service packages.” The podcast production and distribution platform is offering enhanced services to talk show hosts (that is, podcasters), whose production needs have outgrown the podcast production and distribution platform’s more basic offerings. The premium and premium plus service packages have monthly […]

John Havens, Director of Partnership Marketing & Integration at Blog Talk Radio, has an interesting lineup for his “Tactical Transparency” show, Friday, January 30.  He’ll be talking about “Transparency in Social Media,” plus the specific return-on-investment of his guests’ on- and offline marketing and community work. Havens’ guests this episode are John Andrews, New/Emerging Media […]

via PNME 2007: A discussion by John Havens of BlogTalkRadio and Paolo Tosolini of Microsoft on The Business Value of Podcasting and New Media for Corporate Organizations. Description: Although the number of podcasts being produced by organizations like IBM, GE, and BMW continue to proliferate, many businesses have not bought into the value and potential return on investment for podcasting at […]

The Kraft Group, which owns, among other things, the New England Patriots, has led a group of investors in providing $4.6m SeriesA financing to Blog Talk Radio. Founded in 2006 by former telecom executive Alan Levy, Blog Talk Radio provides a platform for businesses and individuals to create their own live call-in talk show without […]

I recently had a (way too brief) conversation with PodCamp NYC 2.0 co-organizer John C. Havens, VP of Business Development at Blog Talk Radio and fellow Advisory Board member of the Association of Downloadable Media. (He’s on the right in the photo, with Chris MacDonald.) John wanted to talk about this PodCamp’s wider appeal to […]

Podcamp NYC is coming up this weekend, April 25-26, at Brooklyn Polytechnic. Podcamp NYC is an unconference focused on educating participants on how to use, implement and share all kinds of new media tools including, podcasts, videocasts, blogs, Second Life, Facebook, and YouTube. The conference is free to attend, but you must register in advance. […]

BlogTalkRadio today announced that it has updated its Cinch mobile podcasting service to let you use a custom podcast feed URL. Previously, your podcast feed URL was automatically set to your mobile phone number. When the service was introduced, we questioned the decision to embed your phone number in the feed url: I question a […]

At Scripting News, pioneering podcaster Dave Winer is highlighting a service from BlogTalkRadio that makes podcasting a no-brainer: A new service from BlogTalkRadio… Call their special phone number: 646-200-0000. It records the call. When you’re done it creates an RSS 2.0 feed with an enclosure that’s an MP3 of the call. The address of the […]

While Rob Walch gave a Podcasting 101 session in the big auditorium, at today’s PodCamp Midwest, Brady Goodman (right) presented a session for more seasoned podcasters, “Podcasting Like a Pro.” He has a longtime background in radio, and decided he’d learn about podcasting, and poker, by creating the “Ante Up” podcast three years ago. It […]

The Association for Downloadable Media has invited its members to an ADM committee update meeting/conference call being held during this week’s MacWorld. All ADM members are encouraged to participate on the call. The Association for Downloadable Media is an industry association focused on providing advertising and audience measurement standards for episodic and downloadable media (like […]