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A Look at Nonprofits and Vlogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the conference, I attended a session on video blogging with Ryanne Hodson and was inspired to go play in a vlog sandbox. I was also curious to see whether there were nonprofits using vlogs to promote their causes. Now almost a year later, there is renewed interest in vlogging and nonprofits. Here's a synthesis. The Issues.

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College Course on Citizen Journalism and Vlogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On the Vlogging list, there is an interesting thread on Citizen Journalism as part of a class at Temple University Film and Media Arts. She assigned students to watch some Citizen Journalism vlogs and post their criticism. Another resource to check out: Weblogs: Learning in Public by Jill Walker.

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New Media Literacy Site from MIT - and check out the great Vlog Tutorial!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The new media literacies web site is working to integrate new media materials into compelling activities for K-12 students for use in or out of school. There are tons of excellent resources here! Vlogs As Citizen Media From Steve Garfield's Flickr Stream. Henry Jenkins is the Team Leader. Welcome to Videoblogging 2.

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Digital Directors Guild

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I just discovered a useful resource that has all sorts of instructional resources related to digital storytelling and will help with my further dabbling in vlogging. digital moviemaking, its place in the curriculum, and its impact on student. digital moviemaking, its place in the curriculum, and its impact on student.

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Join A Global Conversation About the Various Forms of Online Harrassment and How To Combat it!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Whether you want to blog, vlog. collection of resources, advice you want to share - whatever you want. Talk with your families, your colleagues, your students, your neighbors - we could all benefit from. community where people can share resources and talk. network, or you can visit resources like. Here are a few.

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Four Steps to Ease You Into Social Web Activism

Have Fun - Do Good

You need to start by checking out the content that is already being created by citizen journalists and activists about the issues you care about on blogs, podcasts and online video/vlogs. Online videos/vlogs Online videos or vlogs can searched for in the iTunes Music Store as well as on YouTube , blip.tv , DoGooderTV , QuantumShift.tv

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What image opened your eyes to human rights?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Create tags and encourage users to adopt them: If you're creating a class tag, for example, make sure that the students in that class know how to use them. This is an excellent example of social media - getting others to tell your story or user generated content.

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