How to Make Money from Producing Your Own Informational Podcasts Online

One way to show promote creativity in yourself and others is to organize and produce podcasts online for fundraising or for offering information. Here's how to make money uploading podcasts to the web. Sacramento has various centers for runaway teens. Would any of them be interested in a life story experience or how-to get help podcast of teens talking?

Or you could focus on senior story projects matching students with older adults to present podcasts that highlight in multimedia events from life stories. The steps are recording the information, editing it, and uploading it to the web. One free of cost place to upload videos or audios as well as text is the Internet Archive.

Topics might focus on why they are where they are today, how they transcended past choices, and what they would like to do in the future. Or informational podcasts you could produce might emphasize their plans.

Ask people you interview for a podcast how they intend to carry out steps that others might follow to reach specific goals, careers, and lifestyles. The purpose of your podcast might serve as lessons to viewers who might soon be in similar situations or need more information before they can make a choice or decision.

For example, how they transcended their mistakes and rose above them--or the steps they are taking to achieve their goals? How about podcasts where runaway teens talk to other teens about planning their life. See the article, Today's Youth Want Someone To Talk To When Looking For Help.

In Sacramento, Wind Youth Services works with youth experiencing homelessness, helping them find safety from the streets and giving them access to resources to help them move from crisis to healthy functioning and independent lives.Wind Youth Services in Sacramento is located at 701 Dixieanne Avenue, Sacramento, CA 95815. Want to produce a video about where runaway teens might look for food? Check out the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services. Ask various not-for-profit services whether they might use a podcast you can make for them and post online.

Wind Youth Services works with each youth to assess their circumstances, identify their needs, and set goals for positive lifestyle changes. We then provide guidance, support and education to help youth acquire the tools they need in order to transform their lives. Volunteers are needed in numerous areas.

You can make podcasts of what various resource groups in Sacramento do. Check out the resources list. You can produce and upload a podcast about a day in the life of people who run resource centers.

For example, what happens when someone in need of help calls the National Runaway Switchboard? Pick your own topic of expertise to make a video podcast and save it on a DVD. Then post highlights as a video podcast. If you make a video an hour in length, post 15 minutes as a podcast of the highlights. That way you can sell the entire one or two hour DVD. Focus on a local area, such as Sacramento, or work with national resources.

Find out what's needed in the market of a podcast or DVD that you can actually sell. You'd present the highlights as a video podcast. Another way to make money with podcasts is to charge a set fee for a set time to record someone's talk and turn it into a video or audio podcast for the web and then upload it to a site.

The fee would cover the price, if any of the site, or whether the site space is free, such as Internet Archive, and any expenses for recording the person and editing the podcast. It's one way to make money with your computer and camcorder from video podcasting online.

Always save the video to a master DVD or other disc, a flash drive, a hard drive disc, and make copies in case the master recording is lost or technology changes. Then have a transcript of the recording printed out in case you need to have a script to re-do with a teleprompter (which you can rent for the day or week).

Or how about making a video podcast of what people do in specific careers? For example, UC Davis Extension and the Center for Genomic Pathology have developed the first online program for scientific personnel engaged in research. How about producing a video podcast of what laboratory technicians and principal investigators do?

You can make money from interviewing the world's leading experts, or world-class faculty on the topic of creating an international standard curriculum for pathobiology of the mouse, or what scientists and technicians do at the Center for Genomic Pathology at UC Davis, for example, working locally in the Sacramento regional area.

The subject area is up to you. If you're into home repair, produce and post video podcasts online of how to repair different objects around the home from changing a washer in a leaky kitchen faucet to emergency plumbing when a sink or toilet is stuffed up from pipes inside the house or outside in the yard.

Or video podcasts on knitting instruction, cooking healthy, or doing specific exercises. The field is open to what the market will bear and needs in the community. You can make podcasts online to help seniors avoid financial abuse, scams, or find help for specific family issues.

Here's how you can make money organizing, producing, and uploading life story podcasts online with the life stories of the group of people you want to emphasize, seniors, runaway teens, new moms, families, or people in specific careers you want to learn about through informational interviewing to produce video or audio podcasts that will be posted online to podcast sites such as Internet Archive, or other free space offered for posting podcasts consisting of videos, audios, and text materials.

Besides uTube for videos under 10 minutes, you have Google video, and numerous podcast sites that offer free space for life story highlights or talks. You can record and post experts speaking on particular topics or older adults speaking about their experiences such as military service during the past wars.

A Senior Story Project like the one developed with the cooperation of the Hanan Foundation and Wayne State University in Detroit matches young and older people together to create life stories. The young person goes into the senior center setting and interviews the older person in order to summarize that person's life story.

Life story writing celebrates older people's lives as well as gives the younger or same age writer interaction to promote intergenerational writing as a healing experience. It's akin to pet therapy because it provides outreach
and a sense of community between generations. It's a bridge, a link, and fills a gap between young and older people in a community.

In your life story writing projects-to-do environment, your can send younger or any age writers into multi-service organizations to provide a life story writing service. This complements the information and assistance given by the multi-service organizations in convenient locations. Locations that serve as meeting places for activities, classes, or meals are ideal as are online settings that come into the home.

Writing for the digital media to create intergenerational time capsules on the Web provide a unique opportunity for students to interact with older adults on a one-to-one quality circle basis. At the same time the student may enroll in Sacramento areas' various creative writing and creativity enhancement workshops online and learn how to write a salable life story for a book, magazine, newspaper, the Web, a play, audio script, video material, or create a family history scrap book as a time capsule and put it on the Web or prepare it for the print media.

The older adult can enroll in my online class and write his or her own life story using fiction techniques as a novel, story, or feature article, or as a biography of any length, monologue, essay, or script, or stage play. They learn to write dialogue as well as interview and write biography, even corporate history by interviewing the founders of businesses, if they choose that option.

Students enrolled in other English or writing classes may use this online course of mine to learn composition or write a summary of a life story in a salable format. Students or teachers who want to train other teachers to
work with older adults' creative writing or creativity enhancement classes interview senior citizens and write a brief summary about their experiences, lives, and living in the community chosen.

Stories may be collected for an anthology by the class if they so choose and put on the Web or prepared for print media, or put into a print-ondemand e-publishing opportunity. Writing is a healing experience that
brings people together in a community. Digital media stories can be reflections, life reviews, reminiscence, biography, memoirs, and life stories.

On the Internet, the stories may have links to photos or scanned artwork, all with permission of the authors or persons interviewed. It's great to have text and older photos scanned on a website as a time capsule. Later,
audiotapes may be excerpted and put up as sound files at the websites if space permits, or even video clips as technology permits.

At the end of such a digital media intergenerational life story telling or writing workshop, seniors or teenagers have made new friends and contacts and have their life story preserved. If they contributed audio tapes, text, and photos, poems, experiences, and parcels of their life story, it all joins together at a website or in print, with links in a collage, multimedia, or other life story experience on the Internet and beyond. For further information see my book, 35 Video Podcasting Careers And Businesses to Start: Step-by-step.