I do not believe that length is a big issue at all, but is something that needs to be considered and thought about. Each podcaster needs to determine what his or her goals are for the show – overall format and depth of details covered in the recording will determine the length. You will find that half of your audience will want a short show and the other half will want a long show. So you cannot meet everyones desires.

Make the show length want you think is right for you and consider the value the audience is getting from the show based on the topic focus and segments. Do be concise, but have fun and give some of your personality over time as that creates a deeper personal connection with the audience. Over time this will create a friendship like relationship with your audience that will lead to the acceptance of longer shows. The comfort level you build over time will tend to cause your shows to get longer naturally anyway, unless you are rigid about it. 

Always ask for audience participation and talk about emails or tweets they send you. Always think about what value you are offering and is it fun conversation, news or useful tips. All of these have various degrees of value based are your knowedge and talents. Most of all make a show that won’t burn you out to do every week as it is common for podcasters to start a new show and podfade after 6-10 episodes then stop.

[JP-Facebook-Like] I am working on planning for and building a new WebTalk World Radio Show blog site that will also be built on WordPress 3.0.  This site should reappear in the next few weeks and then when that is mostly completed, it will be possible to create some new WebTalk Radio shows again.  I would like to repost links to all 300 of the old shows as well.  I am working towards that as a goal as I have had many folks online ask for the show to come back in some form again. The new WebTalk Radio site will be at http://www.webtalkradio.com

[JP-Facebook-Like] This is the first post to my robgreenlee.com blog.  This blog is built on the new 3.0 wordpress code and is fantastic.  It has so much smarts built-in that it has vast capabilities.  I will be using this blog as an external extension of my personal and professional life.  This blog will be very social media connected so things that I post here will show up on my various social accounts online.