The ffifth podcast produced by the participants of the Ragan Communications “Communicating with the Wired World” workshop—today in Atlanta, Georgia—has an interviewer (Daniel—first names only) talking to four other participants about some of their worst communication failures. As always, the idea here to show participants how drop-dead easy it is to produce a podcast. Using a portable digital recorder, the interviewer wanders the room to do the interviews. I pull the WAV file into Audacity on my laptop, edit and add opening and closing music, save to MP3, add ID3 tags and post here. The class watches it all on the screen.

The first episode, with participants from San Francisco, dealt with where to eat in SF.
The second episode, with participants from New York, dealt with the worst job you ever had.
The third episode, with particpants from Washington, D.C., dealt with the worst boss you ever had.
The fourth episode, with participants from Chicago, Illinois, took a look at some favorite horror movies (the workshop took place on Halloween).

The “communication failures” podcast is 3.34 MG MP3 file runs 3:38.

Download the file.

Podsafe music used for opener and closer is “Mercy” by Jimmy Bratcher, from the Podsafe Music Network.