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There are many reasons to start a ward podcast. It allows individuals to hear the real stories of those they worship with. This naturally creates a deeper level of unity in the ward which stimulates success on many levels. In this episode, Kurt Francom gives you a rough outline of how a ward could develop a ward podcast at no cost.
Links:
Canva
Audacity
Auphonics
Ward Podcast Handout Template
I would love to see/hear some examples of ward podcasts to see what types of formats work well. What kinds of questions do interviewers ask?
What creative content has worked well?
Thanks!
Yes, that would be helpful.
He had several questions listed in the Ward podcast handout template thats linked above. Hope that helps
I loved this episode and it inspired me to start a podcast for our ward here in Anacortes WA. We are now up on Spotify and google podcast and Apple podcasts and have published our first 2 episodes, but have interviewed 15 people so far. Typical interview goes for about 60-75 min and we are just releasing them once a month so people have time to listen to the entire interview before the next one comes out. The ward has been excited about this. Thanks for the ideas Kurt. Check us out, our podcast title is “Of One Heart”.
Kurt,
I love all the great work you are doing!
It has helped me through some of the roughest parts of being a RS President.
I think having a Ward podcast would be amazing!
We are already sharing in our meetings which I learned how to be real, vulnerable and loving!
Now I would like to do this!
Thank you for all you do!
This is interesting idea Kurt. I’d love to do this for my ward.
When I was in a mission presidency and was in charge of social media missionary work, we found it really difficult to get members to go on camera.
Do you think people are more open to doing an audio recording versus video?
Many will not be interested and that’s okay. I found that many were interested and enjoyed the experience.
I absolutely love this idea! I think this would be even great to do with extended family. Any suggestions on how to have good audio if you have to interview people over the phone do to distance?
Kurt,
Loved this and launched our ward podcast last week. It been fun to get people excited for this opportunity! Apparently FamilySearch limits uploads to 15mb. Do you have to convert/compress audio prior to uploading there, or do you record in a certain format that is smaller originally?
I’ve run into that issue with folks as well. You need to compress the audio prior to uploading to FamilySearch. I’ve been using this online converter – https://www.onlineconverter.com/compress-mp3. With the “Good Compression” quality level, it’s consistently under the FamilySearch limit.
Personally I Love missionary work and willing to learn more.
I started a ward podcast in June of ’21 here is the link https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/neffs-canyon-ward-podcast/id1567327459
Where do you publish the podcast for free and have enough space to keep all recordings?
You can google “free podcast host” and find one. Anchor.fm is a very popular one.
Is there anything in the handbook that would prevent a podcast from being possible? Would this be considered a recording of a meeting and fall under the virtual meetings section of the handbook? Is there anything I should worry about legally? Would we need consent forms completed? Thanks for your feedback!
I listened to this episode in the beginning of 2022 and thought “huh, this would be good to do in our ward Relief Society”, put it on the back burner for a little bit (had to get through tax season first), pitched it to the Relief Society president a couple months later during a ministering interview, got an official calling as Relief Society historian, and three episodes later we are up and running with great response so far. For me, I love the power of sharing stories and especially as women we need to hear each others stories and draw strength from them so thank you for helping plant that idea seed for me!
I was just called as a ward missionary that will be working with the Relief Society to make more missionary oriented. Do you think could help missionary work in a ward?