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Lisa Stone Interviews Global s Founders on Yi-Tan 1/9

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Blogher Lisa Stone interviews Ethan Zukerman and Rebecca MacKinnon, Global s Founders. The call is tommorrow, but you can always listen to the audio file. How does this "conversation community" take its next steps, when so many bloggers live in countries that lack a free press? A stage for global activism? Feedback?

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Jonny Goldstein's Shooting Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm pleased to present my fourth installment in my interview series with famous video bloggers about video blogging techniques that nonprofits or others might use. In this segment I interview Jonny Goldstein about how to shoot video without shooting yourself in the foot in the editing room. Jonny's tips include: 1.

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Oh Yeah, and I shoved a camera in his face

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you want to get acceptable audio for video blogging on an inexpensive camera you need to control the noise/environment or get really close to your subject. That's me interviewing Jonny Goldstein after he interviewed me. The excellent photo was taken by David Tames who I had interviewed earlier. What does that mean?

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Let The Change Blogging Meme Hit The Road.

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Alex Steed is a self-described millennial activist and he has just announced his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing where he will visit over 30 cities across the United States to meet, interview and report how young people are using the Internet to leverage their social and political power. What's that?

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Production Values, Do They Matter?

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I posed a question on the video bloggers list about how to get good audio. But who knows, we're working on a feature length version and I might put out some of the interviews in a video blog in support of the longer film. That's on the agenda for the Boston Mediamakers meeting this Sunday. He's leading the discussion on Sunday.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

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On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us Below is an edited transcript of the interview which you also can listen to online , or subscribe to via iTunes. We also did an interview with the reporter to get a feel for what went into the reporting. Is it video and audio? for the Big Vision Podcast. Cognitive surplus.

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10 Elements of an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Blog

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Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers. If your blogging platform doesn't allow you to do that, have bloggers include a one-line bio at the end of their posts. Link to other bloggers Use Google Blog Search , Alltop and Technorati to find blogs that write about similar topics to yours. Interviews (written, audio, video).