About this episode
You’ve reached your first recognizable milestone. You’ve got seven episodes under your belt. Kudos to you! Welcome to the official National Podcast Post Month podcast for the 16th annual global podcast challenge. I am your host and the founder of NaPodPoMo, Jennifer Navarrete. This podcast is presented in two segments. The first segment is a guide for podcasters participating in National Podcast Post Month. The second segment is the behind-the-scenes of how this particular podcast is coming together using Podcasting 2.0’s Live Item Tag done through Blubrry’s PowerPress plugin. Usually, when you get to closing out your first seven podcast episodes you’re finally starting to get the hang of things. It may still be clunky, but you’re beginning to have greater confidence. Which is a nice thing. It’s less nerves and more of a process. You’re developing new grooves in your brain and it’s becoming less like you hacking at a dense jungle and more like you’ve found a wildlife trail. Still a bit challenging, but you can see the path before you. As you enter into the next seven podcasts, be mindful of the fact life is going to get in the way of your NaPodPoMo podcasting. Your adrenaline and energy may begin to wane. That’s okay. Take a day off if you must. Make up for it the next day. Or know that weekend batch recording may be the way to go. Remember this is a flexible open challenge. As long as you have 30 episodes by November 30th you will have successfully completed the challenge. In the last episode, I suggested subscribing to the NaPodPoMo 2023 MEGA Feed as a way to hear everyone’s shows. Well towards the end of the second week and the beginning of the third week is when you will need the support of your fellow NaPodPoMo podcasters. As a matter of fact, I listened to Alessandra White’s Unstuck episode right when I needed to get unstuck. In case you are unaware, Alessandra hosts the daily Creative Work Hour NaPodPoMo support sessions from 9:00am-9:50am ET. When I say daily, I mean daily. Yes even on weekends. Yes even on Thanksgiving day (for those in the U.S.) I’ll drop the link to register for these free support sessions. No camera is required. Heck, no talking is required. You can lurk, you can work, or you can chat it up. But Did You Record It? Now onto the second part of the episode where I share the behind-the-scenes of going live with Podcasting 2.0’s Live Item Tag via Blubrry’s PowerPress plugin. Remember in the last episode when I talked about encountering an issue with the SSL certificate and the NaPodPoMo site? Well after I was up and running with a backup computer, I found out there was an actual WordPress plugin that solved this known issue. Doh! If only I had seen that before I could have saved myself a whole lot of grief. Ah well, these are the lessons learned along the way. I left off the last episode not
