[Note: Baking a Podcast is the recommended free introductory seminar for Cooking Your Podcast, our facilitated hands-on workshop on writing and recording your podcast script, which will be held at a different location on Saturday, March 1, 2008. The Cooking Your Podcast Workshop has a limit of 21 participants, and advance registration and payment are required.]

Seminar (free and open to all)
Baking a Podcast—Easy As Pie
Speaker: Mike Weiner, President/CEO, The Image Generators, Inc.

So, you've got an idea to produce a podcast.You've heard them—some well produced, others, well, not. All you know is that everyone seems to be doing one. Where do you start? During this overview of the process of podcast creation, you will learn—

• How to ask the questions your podcast will answer
• What elements go into a production to make it sound better than ordinary
• How to identify your target audience
• When are you ready to piece it together
• Where should you record (Hint: Not in your office!)
• Why the extra effort can pay off

Speaker Mike Weiner will share some of the ingredients that go into creating your own podcast, or what you need to look for if hiring a contractor to do the work.

Speaker: Mike Weiner brings 36 years of broadcast and production expertise to this seminar. He is a nationally recognizable voiceover talent and producer, and, in addition to radio, television, film, and multimedia production, he is hired regularly to create podcasts for clients such as Fortune 100 corporations and federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Energy.

Mike holds a BS in Communication Arts, a BA in Business and Management, and an MBA in marketing, along with an advanced degree from the SOHK. (He'll tell you what that is during his presentation.)

Mike Weiner formed The Image Generators, Inc., in 1985 to create marketing communications that tell the client's story. He has vast resources of talent throughout the United States, including in his Washington, DC, hometown, and in Hollywood, California. The mission of The Image Generators is to make you sound great!

Visit The Image Generators on the Web at http://www.imagegenerators.com.

Location: One-half block south of the Cineplex Odeon Uptown movie theatre on Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. Metrorail--Cleveland Park Station on the Red Line (on Connecticut Avenue, just 1.5 blocks north of meeting site) 

Parking: Very small lot, off Macomb St., to left of library. 

Free and open to all 

Several times a year a smaller group (usually about 8 to 12) goes to Nanny O'Brien's (directly across the street from the library at 3319 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 202-686-9189, open noon Saturday to 2 am Sunday) or another local establishment for continued conversation, networking, and refreshment following the meeting. (Participants pay for their own beverages and food.) 

Join us!

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