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Conference Call Recording Made Easy
I have created my fair share of podcasts and found that recording phone conversations for interviews was a must. I also found that recording conference calls was a brutal exercise in futility and frustrating to say the least.
Yes, there are plenty of conference call companies out there who provide recording now but it seems bizarre how many of them are still delivering actual CDs and Tapes!? Most of them do not even make the recordings available online after the call, you have to ask for it and it costs extra.
There are free conference call providers out there that allow you to use their service free of charge who do provide recordings, but you have to pay for the long distance toll charges.
With some services it's as simple as a checkbox when you create your conference call online or if you are using the system in an ad-hoc reservationless fashion you can just enter "6#" on your phone to start or stop recording. Within a few minutes your call recording(s) will be waiting for you.
You can listen to the conference recording using the embedded flash player or download the recording MP3 to your computer. Some services also offers an RSS feed for the recordings that is quite unique.
You can add recordings to your RSS feed creating a podcast that listeners can use to download recordings directly to their MP3 player or iPod. It's as easy as click on the plus button next to your recording. You can reverse the process as well by clicking the minus button to remove it from your podcast feed.
Now that we have our RSS feed link we can post it to our blog. When a reader subscribes to that RSS feed their reader will reflect the changes that you make to your feed. If you add a conference call to your feed they will see that and be able to listen to it. If you remove a conference call they will lose that call from their feed.
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