A recording of the quarterly conference call with The Conversations Network's major individual donors (donors, patrons and benefactors) and our executive producers. This quarter: ITC and SIC updates; '08 Conversations wraps up after 25 episodes;1.984 programs published to date; should hit 2.040 by year's end. Downloads have increase from 300,000/mo in January to 520,000 in October. We're making good use of our $10,000 in-kind Google Grant, having finally figured out the ins and outs of AdWords.

We're at 297 paid members (27 students, 195 basic, 45 donors, 9 patrons and 3 benefactors. They bring us $18,225 in annualized donations, enough to cover the publication costs of 182 programs.

PodCorpps.org remains on hold due to the lack of someone willing to step up into a management role there. SpokenWord.org, on the other hand, is doing well. We hope to switch from alpha to beta just in January 2009, once the functionaity stabilizes.