A discussion about corporate and business podcasting with tips and guidelines

Leesa Barnes (this woman is everywhere!) has an interesting article over on Completely Virtual.

The artice enumerates five ways in which a virtual assistant can assist a podcaster. I think we're all pretty familiar with the virtual assistant idea from a 'typical' corporate setup whereby some service answers your voicemail, email, and what not. Leesa proposes that there's a job market for a virtual assistant specializing in podcasters.

The list has merit and I agree that there are a lot of things in that list that I, as a podcaster, don't like doing at all. I'd love to farm that stuff out. I'm a little confused as to why Leesa thinks that iTunes and other (of course iTunes is a podcatcher. I brain dumped.) online directories are podcatchers as that's just plain old wrong, but she certainly knows what podcasters hate doing.

As I write this I'm considering the fact that my weekly show takes about 2 hours to research and prep for, about 45 minutes to record, and another 2-3 hours to edit and encode (I make an MP3 and an OGG Vorbis file). If I could cut out even the 2-3 hours post production (and possibly some of the prep and reasarch) that would make the show that much more enjoyable.

Now paying for someone to do that is a totally different story.