Podcasting Tip of the Week--GoToMeeting Meets Skype.

The title of this post is probably a bit misleading. We have no intention of posting a tip every week. Perhaps we'll have to rename it "Podcasting Tip of THIS week".

Anyway--a bunch of our nutty Twitter fiends (term of endearment), have asked how we record multi-person interviews for podcasts. For instance...Jim DeMaria, host of The Nurses Station is at his office, the interview subject is at their office, and the producer at the BullsEye PR office.

Here's what we do...We get the host and the guest on a conference call with GoToMeeting. I suppose you could use any conference call system, but that's the one we use. We like it. They are also the sponsors of our show, In No Particular Order.
So you get it...we love GoToMeeting.

Then, the producer calls into the conference call using Skype and we record it with a third party app Skype recorder called Call Recorder. This seems to work pretty well. The Skype recording needs to be converted from a .mov (don't know why it records in that format) to an MP3, but this can be done easily in iTunes.

I'm sure there are plenty of geeks who can tell us this is wrong and that we suck. Get back to us when you've got six shows all featured in the Top 20 in their iTunes category and perhaps we'll give a shit what you think.

Hope that helps.