Previously we uploaded our sermon mp3's to our website and people had to come to our website and click the sermons they wanted. Not so anymore (although it is still available there as well)... Posterous.com and FeedBurner give us multiple "delivery" options.
Delivery options are necessary in the changing landscape of the internet.
In the process I have discovered that there are side benefits to using a service like Posterous for your audio podcasting. (video is currently limited by email size limits)
- MP3's now "delivered" (you don't have to go to our site) via iTunes or Zune or other audio/podcast readers.
- This "delivery" includes just about any RSS reader as well. Google Reader, Bloglines, Outlook, Mail, etc.
- Linking with FeedBurner also allows the ability to subscribe via email (something we haven't begun offering yet, but will).
- Posterous.com "autopost" let's us update Twitter & Facebook automatically when sermons are posted. Twitter gets a shortened URL linking back to our Posterous.com page and the audio can be played directly from our Facebook wall post without leaving Facebook.
In the future, I could see us not even uploading to our own website at all, and just using some combination of these third party solutions.
This is so easy, that anyone can do it - even smaller churches with no budgets!
I love the ease of using Posterous.com and Feedburner!
In the next post I will briefly walk through the steps of setting up these services. (Again, for beginning users, not you advanced users who already know. My passion is to help the uninitiated take baby steps forward.)
Jason Cooper (@cooperjason)
Jason Cooper (@cooperjason)
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