Express Update: Now Available Where You Download Podcasts!

It seems unreal that I'm almost to 20 episodes of my podcast.

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It's been a great experience creating each edition of The STEEM Engine Express. Not familiar with the podcast? Let me take a moment to catch you up.

I'm a member of the leadership team at a Steemit and Discord community called The STEEM Engine. You can find our group at @thesteemengine. We began the group in December of 2017 as an effort to promote engagement among members and support potentially undervalued content created by our members using the group Steemit account.

The group has been largely successful over the past few months at curating great content submitted by our members. Our group account @thesteemengine shares a daily post, which features some of the best posts shared in our Discord server. Back in January, I had the idea to start another curation project, which seeks to highlight more great posts through a podcast. Staying with the train theme, I named the podcast The STEEM Engine Express.

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I just shared Episode 19 yesterday, so if you want to take a listen, feel free. One of my favorite parts of creating the podcast was putting together the introduction segment. If you'd like to read more about how I created it using public domain and commercially licensed materials, take a look at this blog post.

Today's post is a small update about the podcasts, which I wanted to share because I've received fantastic feedback from the Steemit community, and have been fortunate enough to attract the attention of @prc and the @dsound curation team. The Express has been one of my most successful ventures on Steemit since I began my activity on the platform last June.

Now Available on Your Favorite Podcast Service!

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While I've not had as much time to spend on Steemit lately, I am fully dedicated to continuing The Express, so it is the one initiative that I always make time for each week. Therefore, I wanted to make everyone aware that I have archived all of the podcasts on my personal blog, and I've indexed the RSS feed of the podcasts so you can now listen to the Express through any major podcast service.

The approval of the podcast from iTunes came through yesterday, so I'm now listed there, and if you choose to use another podcasting service or app such as AntennaPod or CastBox, you can simply add the podcast by URL! Here's the RSS podcast feed:

https://feeds.feedburner.com/steemengineexpress

If you'd like to access it in your browser, simply browse to the URL above, or click here.

The last 10 episodes of the podcast will be shown, so if you'd like to listen to any of the previous episodes, either scroll back on my blog here on Steemit, or visit my personal blog for a complete archive.

I've submitted the podcast to several databases already, but if you have suggestions for other databases I should submit to, please let me know! I'm new to publishing podcasts outside of DSound and Steemit, so I'd love some feedback.

Anyhow, I was pretty excited to open up Castbox on my phone and load in my podcast! It looks so official. If you follow any podcasts, I hope you'll follow The Express. I plan to post the podcasts on Steemit and then immediately push the link out over RSS so that it will show up.

The podcast listening URLs are mp3s that are stored on my personal website, so no need to worry about the issues with IPFS on DSound.

Final Thoughts

I hope everyone continues to enjoy The Express as much as I have. Once again, thank you to the team over at @thesteemengine for helping to make this possible, and thanks again to @dsound and their team for building a great application on the STEEM blockchain.

You can look for new episodes of The Express on a weekly basis, so as always, I hope you'll catch the next Express!

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I was very happy when one of my posts got featured in your podcast, I think it was the first time something like that happened. I can only imagine how much happiness you've shared with other members as well.

Getting flooded massive amounts of content sometimes makes it difficult to notice the good articles. Your podcast definitely helps with that ;-)

Hey @daan, it's been great to see you continue to share great posts over at @thesteemengine. I'm glad that people get excited when their posts get featured. Nothing could make me happier about this initiative than hearing that.

To be honest, it is pretty fun going to comment on people's posts to tell them they've been featured. It's one of my favorite parts of the whole production.

I'm glad you take the time to visit the articles I feature in my podcasts. That's the whole point of them in the first place, so thank you for doing that. I know the featured authors really appreciate it.

Thank you for your comment!

I usually use Casts to listen to podcasts, and unfortunately I can't find it via Casts, even when I enter the link. I'll try to access it on a different device. I've been rushing around a lot and I don't usually get round to listening to podcasts unless they're on Casts, because it's so simple to download them on my ancient phone, so that I can listen to them without wifi access.
I sound as if I'm getting commission from them or something! I'm not, honest!

Hey @natubat, thanks so much for letting me know. I'll look into this and see if I can figure out a good way for them to show up on Casts. I had not heard of it until now, so I really appreciate your feedback.

I'll be sure to let you know if I can make it happen!

Would it be possible for you to send me a link for Casts? I seem to be having problems finding it since that's a generic name. Thank you in advance!

Actually it's Pocket Casts! Sorry - I just realised this. It just appears as "Casts" on my phone, but Pocket Casts seems to be its full name. The link is: https://play.pocketcasts.com/

Thanks so much for letting me know. I just did a quick web search and found out they have a submit feature! My podcast should show up through their service now! Here's the link they provided for me after it was added! https://pca.st/o7Kn

Fantastic! I can now listen to The Express in the bath :)

It was a great podcast
I was a little too silent, but I enjoyed it.

I'm a member in #TheSteemEngine since January but I wasn't active for the last few weeks. @zen-art invited me to the Express and thanks to her and to the amazing time we had there I'm back now ;)

I'm interested in why you think it was a little silent. No one else has reported audio issues, so please let me know if there's a way I can make things better for you.

I'm glad you're active in the STEEM Engine group now. It's great to see you there. Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment here!

Thank you for the reply. I said I was a little too silent ;) it was a nice show ^^

The next one should be tomorrow right?

Thank you @ethandsmith. These podcasts are a great idea. Thanks for all your hard work and support...I really appreciate you! Congrats on #20!

It's been my pleasure to produce the podcasts. I'm really glad @shadowspub convinced you to increase your activity on the platform. It's been great to see your initiatives bloom and see you pop up in all of the voice chat sessions and even start your own!

I appreciate your support as well, so thank you!

I'll try to do something for #20 that makes it special for everyone!

Keep up the good work!

You my friend are a natural public speaker or dang good at faking like you are, either way, I enjoy listening and I love the the Express lead inn about needing on the train. I hope to keep seeing these when there are a few more zeros after the 2 + 0 or 20

I've always enjoyed public speaking. As a graduate student, I get to talk in public all the time about science, which is much different than other avenues of public speaking.

I've used this podcast to allow me an avenue of talking about other things. I'm very glad that my podcasts have a loyal following and that everyone thinks they're enjoyable.

Making the intro to this podcast was probably one of the most fun things I've ever done, so I appreciate your feedback on it!

I don't know about reaching 200 or 2000 podcasts, but I suppose we shall see. I'll just keep steeming along and see what happens!

Well keep them coming and I'll keep dropping in to listen.

Thanks for all you do!! One of these days I WILL catch the live show lol!

I certainly hope so. Our next one is tomorrow at 8 pm UTC! Perhaps you can make it!

I was all set last time, rteady 2 hours ahead of time... which left time for an emergency to come up of course. OK, not that emergent but a neighbor asked for help finding her kids' cat...

Well that's a good enough reason. We hope you'll be able to join us later today for the session! Let's hope there aren't any further cat emergencies!

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Congratulations! This post has been chosen as one of the daily Whistle Stops for The STEEM Engine!

You can see your post's place along the track here: The Daily Whistle Stops, Issue #120 (4/30/18)

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That’s awesome that you are getting a little recognition for all your hard work. Nice little milestone hitting the 20 episode mark as well. Keep at it. You are a solid asset to the @thesteemengine and also the steemit community

Thanks, Jason! I really appreciate the support you've given me since I started the podcasts.

I'm looking forward to continuing this initiative, and I'm hoping I have time in the future to come up with more great ideas.

Thanks for your comment.

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