Mission:
To capture, produce, and distribute online as many spoken-word events as possible.

Background:
The Conversations Network is a nonprofit, listener-supported podcast network whose programs are created by a global team of part-time audio/video producers, editors, writers, and audio engineers, led by a staff of senior producers and managers. Like public radio and television, the network depends on dues and donations from listeners to sustain its operations, but everyone has access to all its published programs.

Outstanding Web Features:
The network provides curated channels, including its flagship IT Conversations, which has published a new audio program almost every day for the past five years, and Social Innovation Conversations, co-produced with the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and dedicated to social and environmental change. The newest channel, '08 Conversations, is a collaboration with the Public Radio Exchange focusing on the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Currently, one program is produced each week, but coverage will expand as November approaches.

A new network project called PodCorps.org is an all-volunteer team of almost seven hundred (the goal is a thousand) independent audio/video producers worldwide; the network operates an online service to match these stringers with events and television, radio, and Internet producers worldwide. Other network features include RSS feeds and personal playlists and profiles for registered listeners. A tool for audio engineers, the Levelator is free software that adjusts the levels within your program for variations from one speaker to the next.