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Here are a few ideas i found for you

Determine the nature of your podcast. What will the content be? Write it down so you don't forget. Come up with an outline or some sort of organizer to keep track of what you will discuss or promote.

Record the audio for your podcast (Mixcraft or GarageBand are good). For a free alternative, Audacity is great too.

Tag it, give it ID information (Artist, Album) and give it album art. Either make it yourself, find some free, non-copyrighted images online, or have a friend make one for you.

Save the audio file (in MP3 format) to your computer desktop. Do not use special characters (such as # or % or ?) in the file name. Open it up into your sound editor and edit out extra background noise or long periods of silence. Put in intro/outro music if necessary.

Create your RSS podcast feed. The feed must meet all industry standards for a valid 2.0 feed with enclosures. Try using a complete solution and free service such as Podblaze or Podomatic . The easiest way to do it is to use a blog. So hop on over to Blogger.com, or another blogging service, and start a blog with the title of your podcast. Don't make any posts just yet.

Put your RSS podcast feed on the Internet. Go to Feedburner and type in the URL of your blog and click "I am a podcaster!". In the next screen, configure the elements for your podcast. These are the elements that directly relate to the podcast. your feedburner feed is your podcast.

Go to OurMedia.org and sign-up there (this may take a while). Then go to your files, and upload your MP3 file.

Make a post on your blog/website - the title of the post should be the title of that episode of the podcast, and the content will end up as the "Shownotes" or "Description". Put in a little about what you talk about in your episode. At the end of the post, put a link directly to your media file.

Wait a little. In a few minutes, Feedburner should add this to your feed, and now you have an episode! You can submit it to iTunes or a number of other podcast directories to get it known. You may want to wait, however, until you have some experience, so that your podcast will be compared as a fifth episode to another's first.

Ping the appropriate podcast directories when a new show is updated.

Put the appropriate subscription buttons on your website so people can subscribe to the RSS podcast feed.

Tips

Make sure your audio is of good quality. Use a decent microphone and have the other hosts do the same.

Make sure your audio is saved in mp3 format. Some users won't be able to listen to other audio formats.

Make sure your feed is iTunes valid.

Make sure your feed is in the directories.

Make sure you ping the appropriate services such as FreshPodcasts (find on google) after you update your show.

If you wish for the RSS feed to work in Apple iTunes, you must add special fields.

You can use the popular social bookmarking tool del.icio.us to create and manage the RSS feed for your podcast. Once you have your mp3 files hosted somewhere on the internet, create a bookmark for each one on del.icio.us with a unique tag for your podcast. To acccess your del.icio.us podcast feed, visit
http://del.icio.us/rss/username/my_p...m:filetype:mp3, substituting username and my_podcast_tag for your appropriate information.

A co-host can be fun, but be sure that it doesn't sound too scattered, like none of you know what you're doing. Making it sound live is one thing, but making it sound like you have no idea what's going on, it's a completely different story.

If you're going to play music, make sure you have the rights to it. Even though they can't really crack down on podcasts for putting music in their show, if you don't have the rights to use the song, then you can be sued by individual artists

REFERANCE

http://www.podstrike.com - PodStrike! Podcast Manager and Podcast Hosting (FREE Account Available).
http://www.podblaze.com - You can do the entire process for podcast creation & RSS feed creation (even for iTunes) at a web based service.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - Audacity recording software. Free and open source.
http://www.podcastalley.com - Podcast directory.
http://www.freshpodcasts.com - Podcast ping service.
http://blog.podblaze.com - Step by step instructions for recording and everything else required at these 6 podcast specific blogs.
AP on Yahoo "Podcasting Easy for Everyone" Story by the Associated Press.
http://www.feedvalidator.org - Verify that your RSS podcast feed is valid.
http://www.teenpodcasters.com - A great example of a network, start or join a network such as this.
http://del.icio.us - A social bookmarking tool with the ability to host podcast feeds.
http://blog.leveragedpromotion.com/public/blog/98977 - RSS, Syndication & Podcasting News & Tips Blog.
http://www.podblaze.com/podcasting-b...whitepaper.php - 20 Page Podcasting White Paper Explains All About Podcasting.
Podomatic
http://www.okaytoplay.com - Charts comparing podcast hosting, audio hardware, podcast advertising companies, etc.
http://www.podcastspot.com - complete podcast hosting service with unmetered bandwidth, unlimited storage, automatic media conversion, and much more!