July 26th, 2009

Daily sponsorships are full

The daily “on air” sponsorships that begin each episode are full until the end of the year! That is great news and many thanks to the many sponsors who have supported the podcast.

You can still help! The $25/day sponsorships do not get all the bills paid. If your pockets are a bit deeper, you can get your name added to the after-episode on-air thank you’s that are on every episode. These sponsorships are $300 per month.

Remember, every dollar we collect goes to paying the production expenses of the podcast. We have benefited from thousands of hours volunteerism and thousands of dollars of services, all of it so you can listen to this podcast.

Email info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org if you want to help out.

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June 11th, 2009

Wanna do a podcast?

While our year has been officially full for quite some time, we are running into issues where people who signed up for a podcast don’t deliver. In those cases we rely on having a few podcasts on ready reserve that we can put in at the last moment.

We would be honored if some of you who missed out reserving a date would prepare a podcast for this purpose. Just follow the normal rules and prepare your podcast. When you are ready to send it to us, email us and we’ll send you a link to the uploader. We will let you know if/when we use your podcast and you will get full credit just like everybody else.

Given that we are just about out of ready reserve podcasts, there is a very, very good chance your podcast will be used if you send it to us.

Thank you in advance!

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December 30th, 2008

We are go for launch

In roughly 48 hours the daily podcast will begin! Make sure you have subscribed. Look for the ever-present Subscribe! section to your left. You could also just set this site as your home page and listen on your computer every day. I think you know the drill.

Contributors — thank you for the excellent stuff! We are very pleased with the quality of what is coming in. Please — if you will not be submitting your audio 30 days in advance, we need you to email us or you risk being bumped.

Also, a note in regards to the 10-minute rule. It can be challenging to get an interview or in-depth piece down to 10 minutes. You gotta do it. I’ve edited 2 podcasts myself and in both cases I thought there was no way I could get it down to 10 minutes. In both cases I did and I think the result is quite pleasing. Remember — the listener doesn’t know what they are not hearing. You have to aim for 10 minutes or less. With that said, we will not be rejecting entries which go over by a modest amount. You should mention and we will link to an extended version if one exists.

We still need people to contribute podcasts. As you listen to some of the shows coming up, I really hope you get the urge to join in.

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November 23rd, 2008

January Podcasters Needed!

OK, folks, time to call in some favors. As we mentioned, we have a lot of the year covered in terms of user-submitted podcasts but people have been tending to sign up later in the year. We need people to be brave and help us out on the front end.

The open dates in January are:

9
10
13
18
21
23
29
31

So we need eight (8) people to save the day and volunteer to contribute on these days.

Bloggers, send out the word please. If you haven’t signed up yet, please join in now!

Thanks!

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November 19th, 2008

What you need to do, summarized

1. You need to subscribe to the podcast and subscribe to the blog.
2. You should really man up and volunteer to record a podcast. We’ll help you.
3. You or your employer may wish to sponsor some podcasts.

You’ve probably noticed that 2009 is getting closer every day!

We’ll have some demo episodes up soon to further inspire you. We are going to be badgering people very soon to help us fill some dates in January. The good news is we have a lot of dates filled throughout the year. The bad news is, we haven’t filled January!

You can achieve #2 indirectly by badgering people you know that might be good candidates to make a podcast. It’s easy and fun and we’ve had a ton of people sign up. If they can do it so can you. Spread the word ’cause the more people that participate the more fun it will be for everyone.

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