More than a year and a half ago, Patti Serrano and myself started the Business 101 podcast and it has been fairly popular. A few weeks ago, we moved the podcast away from Talkshoe (that’s explained in a different post) and went to a video format at the same time combining it with the Podcaster Training Show on Friday nights. I have been maintaining a separate RSS Feed and blog for Business 101 for some time now. And since we have combined it with Podcaster Training, the downloads and subscribers for the show have diminished greatly.

Now, I realize that any change you make can affect your show or podcast, especially of this nature, so I wasn’t too surprised when it happened. However, in an effort to minimize expenses on my part, especially since this blog and show are not monetized (with a small exception of Adsense ads), the domain name will be coming up for renewal in about 3 months.

The decision has been made to make Business 101 a permanent segment on the Friday Night Podcaster Training Show and I will begin integrating this blog into the main blog at http://www.nmpnetwork.com as well as not splitting the RSS feed out separately. I will combine the Business 101 segment into the Podcaster Training podcast and send it out over the Podcaster Training RSS Feed.

Beginning Friday August 29th, 2008, we will move into the new format and feeds. Also, the Business 101 segment will be more on the business of podcasting and not as much on business in general. This will allow the listeners and viewers of Podcaster Training to learn more about how to make money with their blogs, web sites and podcasts.

If you want to pick up the new RS Feed for Podcaster Training (if you haven’t already done so), go to http://www.newmediapro.tv and you will find the feed listed there. This is also the place to be on Friday nights to catch the show too!

I will leave this blog in place for a couple of more weeks and then redirect the domain to it’s new location at The NMP Network. I will move the pposts over to the new location so you can refer back to them as you like.

Feel free to leave a comment about this post and let us know how you feel about this new move.

In this edition of Business 101 Chat, Patti discusses the reasons for and uses of Press Releases and Public Relations in the business world. We also discussed the use of blogs and blog posts and the importance of headlines in each of your posts. As always, to get the most out of this episode, listen to the episode in the player below.

In this episode of Business 101, Patti discussed the different ways of using Twitter, the microblogging platform, for your business and how to use Twitter in a responsible way so as not to be labeled a spammer.

You can follow Patti on Twitter at http://twitter.com/PATTI_with_an_i and follow Rob on Twitter at http://twitter.com/robwhiteus

If you haven’t already signed up for a free Twitter account, you can do that very easily at http://twitter.com

Twitter is a microblogging platform that asks the question, What are you doing? You can easily answer that question to send out to your followers in a 140 character format.

Listen to the episode in the player below to learn more about how Twitter can help you in your business.

This week in our segment Patti got the listeners involved with a survey about women as experts in New Media and public speaking. This made for a really great segment and I believe the listeners got a lot out of it themselves. Listen to this great half hour of information in the player below!

In our second episode under the new format, Talkshoe was offline, so we ran the entire episode on uStream. This segment lasted nearly an hour and as of this writing, Talkshoe ws still having issues with the recording uploads.

I have uploaded this episode to my own podcast host so that you can enjoy it from the site and not have to wait for Talkshoe to come back online.

Download Episode 76