Holtz Communications + Technology

The sixth and final podcast produced by the participants of the Ragan Communications “Communicating with the Wired World” workshop—today in Toronto, Ontario, Canada—has an interviewer (Rachel Hilton from the Stratford Festival of Canada) talking to three workshopparticipants about some memorable seatmates on airplane flights. As always, the idea here to show participants how drop-dead easy it is to produce a podcast. Using a portable…

I hope this post doesn’t come across as too snarky, but I couldn’t resist.

I was attending a session at a conference yesterday at which the speaker presented a company’s podcast as an example of excellent communication. The podcast sounded like a public service announcement: professional voice talent reading a script with hokey music playing in the background. The podcadst was accessible on a page that…

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…

The fourth podcast produced by the participants of the Ragan Communications “Communicating with the Wired World” workshop—today in Chicago, Illinois—has an interviewer (Patricia Troumpoucis of HSBC North America) talking to four other participants and me about our favorite horror movies (it is, after all, Halloween!). As always, the idea here to show participants how drop-dead easy it is to produce a podcast. Using a…

The third podcast produced by the participants of the Ragan Communications “Communicating with the Wired World” workshop—this one in Washington, D.C.—has an interviewer (Cheri Johnson with the U.S. Grains Council in D.C) talking to three other participants about the worst bosses they ever had. As always, the idea here to show participants how drop-dead easy it is to produce a podcast. Using a portable…

The second podcast produced by the participants of the Ragan Communications “Communicating with the Wired World” workshop—this one in New York—has an interviewer (Jean Quinn from Provident Bank, Jersey City, NJ) talking to three other participants about their worst jobs ever. To reiterate, the idea here to show participants how drop-dead easy it is to produce a podcast. Using a portable digital recorder, the…