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I doubt it will ever be easier to podcast than this.

Heard it before? Take a closer look at this, and feel free to ask, if you have any doubts or questions.

PODHANDLE - handles your podcasting - takes care of everything you need to do as a podcaster from the moment you upload your audio/video files to the publication of the podcast on your own website or weblog. Completely integrated with style and colour and with the features the podcaster choose to add. And dynamically changed with having to contact the it-department to access the index file.

The generated code is implemented once and for all. After that everything is changed dynamically, if it is necessary.

PODHANDLE is compliant with the Web 2.0 concept of webbased instead of downloads. It is a widget tool, it is for blogs as well as traditional websites, it includes conversational tools and it is subscribable and accessible as well as compatible with any platform.

Jimmy Gram Escherich, Time2Web and Podcastsender, Frans Meyer from Meyer Data and Katpod (Catholic Podcast) and myself have created a service, a tool, which we now offer partners and clients in Denmark as well as internationally. Our first clients is a political party and the Sea Stallion Viking Ships trip from Denmark to Ireland and back.

PODHANDLE.com is now being tested and reviewed - and soon used - by podcasting consultants in all parts of the world, whose opinions we appreciate and make use of to take the step out of beta and maybe soon launch an off-the-shelf item offered to the public with all the demands involved for a business, a product and a service of that scale.

We are so excited to be able to help more people, companies, organisations, communities, political parties and individuals to podcast.

We charge for the service, cause we help others to save time and work, we help them to be able to focus on the content, and we want to be able to expand our services and offer our help to an even larger and broader audience.

We would also like to help more non-english-spoken clients to podcast, and the fact that we support and handle Unicode , we know that we can help so many others who have had or would have problems with products and tools that are based on The American Standard Code . This causes all kinds of problems with corrupted feeds and text on websites for podcasts including letters, punctuation and technical symbols not recognized by other tools.

As a podcaster I have purchased a bunch of tools, feed creaters, software, uploading tools and hosting services that only gave me headache and a lot of wasted time trying to make my feed validate and the text look right.

PODHANDLE is not an technological invention, it is not rocket science, so to speak. But we fill a need, and a growing need, for userfriendly podcasting and publishing - userfriendly and time-saving both for the podcaster and the podcast listener/viewer.

I think lack of accessability and no standards in podcast publishing is a barrier for the adaptation of the medium, just like in the early days of web publishing. Even some of the most prominent podcasters, no names mentioned - ignore common usability standards and guidelines. Understandable, because it is a difficult task, but regrettable, as it leaves the audience in confusion and - even worse - indifferent about the medium we have discovered and have so many expectations of.

Podcasters and podcast listeners/viewers as ourselves keep it as a hobby to struggle with software and geeky stuff in our spare time. We take the time, we are the convinced bunch. But we cannot expect others to have the time or want to aquire the same set of skills as ourselves.

I have often left course members, conference audiences and clients in a state of inspiration and enthusiasm about podcasting, but knowing, that now they will only run into all kinds of problems and issues, because of technical stuff that have nothing at all to do with the content.

And isn´t it exactly what podcasting is about? The ideas, the conversations, the discussions, the music, the sounds, the sounds - all the thing we love so much about the media?

That is why we are so fortunate now to be able to point to where the help is.

Tags: PODHANDLE, Podcasting //