Here's my prediction. Audio is how organizations are going to connect. Your CEO reaching every employee personally, in under two minutes. The companies that figure this out first build the deepest culture of the next decade. ps.... The Inside Ear: charliebirney.substack.com
Charlie Birney
@chasbirney.bsky.social
Co-Founder Podville Media 🎙 Internal podcasting: the most overlooked tool in business. Author/Illustrator, The Tao of Podcasting
Nobody reads the onboarding PDF. But they'll listen. Break it into short episodes with your leaders' real voices, and it feels personal, not procedural. People remember voices, not bullet points. ps.... The Inside Ear: charliebirney.substack.com
Lunch with the CEO seats one person. A podcast seats everyone. One message from the top and everybody hears the same voice. Personal, intimate, no hundred lunches required. ps.... more in The Inside Ear: charliebirney.substack.com
Why does audio connect so deeply? You can write a perfect memo and still not reach someone. Say it out loud, in your own voice, and something changes. A voice carries what text can't. ps.... more in The Inside Ear: charliebirney.substack.com
Internal Podcasting! #internalpodcasting #taoofpodcasting
Not everyone on your team sits at a desk. Drivers. Field crews. People on the move. They can't stop to read a memo. But they can listen. A podcast made for your people goes where they already are. ps.... more in The Inside Ear: charliebirney.substack.com
"I just never thought of it that way." His blog had become a chore. I said: don't write this week. Come in and talk. An hour later he had made a podcast for his newsletter. Format was wrong. Not the message. charliebirney.substack.com #InternalPodcasts
I had such a great time!!!
Podcasting can be a tool not just for external communications but also for internal engagement In this episode of @powerstation.bsky.social @chasbirney.bsky.social, co-founder of Podville Media breaks down how to democratize nonprofit communications. Hear us! apple.co/4vmICIf
Think about how much of your team's communication is just... text. Memos nobody finishes. Updates that get buried. News that disappears. One short episode changes that. A real voice, wherever your people are. #InternalPodcasts #InternalComms
How a podcast turned a coworking floor of strangers into a real community. It was small. It was internal. It worked. That's the whole story — and the whole point. ps.... got an internal podcast running somewhere? I collect them. #InternalPodcasts #Podcasting
Your employees are already listening. To Spotify. To each other. Are you giving them anything worth hearing? That's all an internal podcast is. Your voice, to the people who need it. ps.... I've started a Substack on this: charliebirney.substack.com #InternalPodcasts #Podcasting
What if the weekly blog was a great conversation? This is Episode 4 of my series on Internal Podcasts. Internal podcasts don't need to go viral. They just need to communicate. #InternalPodcasts #Podcasting #CorporateCommunications
Internal Podcasts part 3 #internalpodcasts #corporatecommunications #podcasting
My first of 9 on Internal Podcasting. #podcasting #corporatecommunications