Appraisal Institute Podcasting For Appraisers

Blogging and podcasting are the newest Internet technologies available to deliver information. Podcasts are very similar to blogs, only that the information that is presented is an audio file, which is downloaded and played with a software application called a podcatcher.

I use the free download of iTunes to listen to Podcasts and radio shows on my PC.

Blogs and podcasts are updated periodically with new posts that have a common theme. For instance, the blog and podcasts at AI Podcasts by Jim Amorin, MAI, SRA, cover different appraisal issues. AI Podcasts includes links, at the bottom of each Podcast, allowing iTunes to find and automatically load them. They're FREE! Some of the new Podcasts include :

• What is Podcasting?
• Doing More with PowerPoint
• Readdressing, Reassigning, and Reappraising Property

Blogs, on the other hand, are journals posted to the Internet, and are viewed with a standard Internet browser. Like mine (wink) If you don’t want to have to visit a blog on a regular basis to see if there are any new posts, then you can also download an RSS reader. An RSS reader will automatically download the latest blog posts for you once you “subscribe” to the blog, which is a one step process and doesn’t involve you filling out any forms or giving out your email address!

If you prefer to get daily updates of new posts from your favorite blogs as a single email you might consider FeedBlitz. You can subscribe to literally hundreds of blogs about an endless variety of topics. A podcatcher accomplishes the same thing for podcasts. Jim Amorin, MAI, SRA, can be contacted at http://www.aipodcasts.com/.