How To's

How To Publish Your Own Audio Newsletter

Did you know that you could use the recording and synchronized browsing features in your WebMeetLive conference room to create your own audio newsletter?

Not only that, you can actually use these same features to create your own audio information products, conduct interviews, and record and archive live webinars.

Forget about wasting your hard earned money on expensive recording software and wasting your time recording from telephone calls. Recordings from phone calls are substandard in quality AND you can't "push" your website (or presentation slides) to your listeners on a telephone recording!

Follow these simple steps, and you'll be on your way to creating your own audio newsletter, information and/or training products, complete with visual aids. If you'd like to take a look at what your newsletter can look like, please visit www.TTC-Audio-Tips.com.

1. Preparing Your Presentation
   
   
   1. Set up and organize your presentation pages, training slide show and/ or web pages you'll be displaying during your recording. If you have a PowerPoint presentation, you can convert it to html for displaying and recording online.

   For complete instructions on how to do this, please review the How-To entitled "How To Convert A Power Point To HTML Format" elsewhere on this site. Alternatively, you may use a neat little program called Click To Convert, which will also allow you create PDF documents.

   2. Upload your presentation to your web hosting account. If you do not have a hosting account, you can find a great package at LunarPages.
      
   3. Write a script to go along with your presentation and practice reading it out loud as you click through your presentation. Doing several test recordings and playing them back will help you to fine tune your presentation and it will sound less scripted when you do your final recording.
2. Recording Your E-zine, Training Session or Audio Product
   
   
   1. Log in to your WebMeetLive room as a moderator.
      
   2. Turn on "Synchronized browsing" from the "Moderator" menu.
      
   3. Select "Record Presentation" from the "File" menu .
      
   4. Enter a name for your recording in the dialog box, and select a directory to "save" to on your computer, or simply save to your desktop. Do not use spaces when selecting a name for your recording (i.e. "test recording" is wrong; "test-recording" is right).
      
   5. Lock your room's talk key by clicking on the microphone icon located in your room. Alternatively, you may do this by pressing "Alt + L" on your keyboard.
      
   6. Enter your presentation URL (the web address of your slides) in the co-browser address bar.
      
   7. Start your oral presentation as you click through your slide show. You can "Pause" your recording from the "File" menu if necessary. Just remember to uncheck Pause before you continue on with your recording.
      
   8. To end the recording, click on "Record Presentation" from the "File" menu.

That's it.. You're done!

3. Publishing For Online Viewing
   
   
   1. Upload both the .htm and .wma files to your hosting account. Be sure to place both files in the same directory.
   2. Send your guests to your recording's htm page you've uploaded, where they can view and listen to your audio newsletter, sales or training presentation.

For example: www.ttcglobaltalk.com/html/general/en_g_recording_demo.htm

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