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Starting Up: Small Biz Tech Speak

From smSmallBiz.com

AS THE FOUNDER of Moss Appeal, a promotional marketing firm based in New York, E.B. Moss doesn’t go anywhere without her laptop and Pocket PC. However, even she gets a bit befuddled by technology.

“I am always afraid that I might be misusing a phrase or acronym,” says Moss, who started her virtual agency in 2001 after working in radio and cable for many years. (For a video on how Moss uses technology to market her business, click here.)

Keeping up with the ever widening list of technology buzzwords is enough to confound even the tech savviest of business owners. But getting a grasp on tech terms can help you navigate the business world and spot new programs and applications before they hit the mainstream.

Here’s your small-business tech speak glossary:

Podcasting — Like VoIP (see above), these audio or video files may be transferred digitally. Business owners with expertise in their industries are increasingly creating podcasts as broadband Internet access continues to rise. For free podcast hosing services, Lee of the Arkansas SBDC recommends checking out SwitchPod and PodBean.

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This great new feature, as described in title, has just been released for all Podbean Users.

Unlike a traditional podcast front page, which generates a list of your most recent episodes, the static front page is a customized page that displays static information that can either invite people to “click through” to the real good stuff or offer highlighted episode or promo that direct visitors to different areas of your Podcast site.

Check our FAQ for details.

Today we are pretty excited to launch a new admin design to everyone here on Podbean.com. This is a cleaner, softer, more colorful and less cluttered design. The menu is reorganized to let you operate more smoothly.

If you have a few minutes, try clicking around and exploring the new layout. Enjoy!

As you may already notice, two changes have been made in uploading.

1. Real-time progress bar gives you the current uploading status precisely.

2. Embeded into publish page, thus you can do uploading and publishing in one step.

It can’t be more convenient and straightforward, enjoy!

Now you can! Podbean’s easy-to-use podcasting system now gives you the ability to change the look of your Podcast site whenever you like!

The new Custom CSS feature gives you complete control over your site’s design. That means you can create a design that integrates easily with an existing site or blog. Build a theme that captures the essence of your podcasting site. Design a site that’s completely and totally YOU.

Currently available to all paid account users, the new Custom CSS feature allows you to preview your changes before publishing so your readers don’t see a thing until you say its ready. Change and edit your stylesheet as often as you like. Upload your own images and backgrounds to really personalize your site. Build a design from scratch or feel free to modify the existing default template. Its all up to you and your only limitation is your imagination!

Here’s a peek:

As required by many users, Podbean.com monthly disk storage quota will be reset on the first day of every month. This effort is try to make it easy for everyone to remember when the quota will be reset, thus arrange the disk usage accordingly.

Cheers

Already a favorite podcasting solution for personal websites, Podbean moves into the business sector with two affordable podcasting packages for companies and organizations.

Building upon its popular offering of unmetered bandwidth and growing monthly storage space, Podbean has also incorporated some powerful analysis and marketing tools to allow businesses and non-profit organizations to jump on the podcasting bandwagon.

With a Podbean account, you can seamlessly integrate podcasts into your existing website or blog so there’s no major overhaul required to broaden your Internet presence. And with the familiar blog-like interface, becoming a podcasting master is a snap.Podbean users also enjoy the ability to maintain multiple podcasts for multiple audiences. This gives even the smallest business the ability to track their performance and fine-tune their podcasting efforts.

This one-stop-shop approach combines publishing tools with reporting, syndication and management features in two affordable packages for easy podcast deployment and both packages also include the unique ability to “private podcast” - a subscription-based service that allows users to broadcast only to select audiences such as internal departments or target markets. Podbean business users can also delegate their podcasting efforts through the multiple administrators and authors feature, making it easier than ever to launch a successful podcasting campaign.

It is our great pleasure to announce the second version of podcast stats now is available in Podbean.com.

This is a powerful, comprehensive and visualized statistics system with a single interface for podcasters to understand how their content is being consumed. It comes with a fully dimension view of episode hits, subscribers and site visitors.

Episode Hits gives publishers a bird’s-eye view into the performance of each episode. More precisely, different type of reach will be categorized into three areas: feed, download and streaming. Feed reflects the number of times your content is fetched via a subscribed Feed; Download is the number of times that your content files are downloaded directly through the web; While streaming is the number of times that your content files are played online in your podcast site or via embedded players.

Subscribers provides an approximate measure of the number of individuals currently subscribed to your feed. It’s based on an approximation of how many times your feed has been requested by many different feed readers (ex:google reader) and podcatchers(ex:iTunes) in a 24-hour period. Another good news is our stats filter system will filter out requests from browsers or bots to give you a more reliable results.

Site Visitors, as it’s called, gives the number of visitors to your podcast site. To prevent any type of fake or redundant data, any number of visitors with the same IP address will be counted only once in a 24-hour period.

Here are some screenshots:

There’s been a small but important change to the subscribe widget that a new popular podcatcher “zune” has been added, thus from now on your visitors have one more choice of subscription.

Hope you like it.

Users wanting to promote their music on the Internet now have a new tool at their disposal. Podbean.com is pleased to announce the "eStore" feature, allowing podcasters to upload and sell their digital music files on Podbean’s secure server. The Podbean eStore makes it easy to upload and manage your music files right from your Podbean account and with just a few clicks, you can create a secure and fully functional shopping cart and sell your music to the public.

This exciting new eStore feature is free to users with any premium Podbean account (Basic Plus and up). There’s no set up fee, no monthly service charges and no minimum sales required. Podbean.com will only charge 3% of each completed transaction so you don’t pay until you get paid.

To get more information and start selling your MP3’s online, visit http://faq.podbean.com/category/cat_h/.