Easiest Podcasting Around, and it's free - great for small ministries!

I ran across posterous.com recently and am amazed at the free services they offer. What got my attention was this claim to be able to allow you to podcast for free. Posterous.com generates all the feed related information you need for people to be able to subscribe to your podcast via iTunes or any other feed based program. You can even do it without submitting anything to iTunes or being listed in their podcast catalog. ALL YOU DO IS SEND AND EMAIL AND POSTEROUS.COM TAKES CARE OF THE REST!

Posterous also allows up to 3 posterous.com blogs per account, meaning you could create podcasts for sermons, youth, leadership, etc.

Jason

A podcast is stream of audio or music that people can automatically subscribe to through something like iTunes. Whenever an update happens, all your subscribers download your new audio post and can listen to it on their computers or iPods.

Now you can use Posterous to publish your podcast using email. All you have to do is email us an audio file attachment like an MP3. We'll automatically add your MP3 file to your posterous, and in addition to the flash player in the post, we'll make sure that the file is added to your RSS feed in a way that iTunes and other podcast players can read it.

People can subscribe to your Podcast by going to iTunes, clicking Advanced > Subscribe to Podcast... and then pasting the RSS address of your posterous, which follows the format: http://[yoursite].posterous.com/rss

If you or your friends have iPods, they can subscribe to your podcast feed and always get the audio you post to your Posterous!

Edit: Thanks to Jon Hickman for pointing out that iTunes provides a way to put links directly to subscriptions, using the itpc protocol. Just provide your users a link to this URL: itpc://[yoursite].posterous.com/rss -- it would then operate similarly to if you clicked this link (which will subscribe you to one of our best posterous users, espig-music!)

Also, if you'd like to add this itunes link to your blog more prominently, just cut and paste this code into your profile:

Subscribe to this podcast (iTunes) 

If you'd like to publish your podcast publicly, you can actually list your podcast in iTunes. See the iTunes FAQ page for more information on how to do this.

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