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KPFA's War Comes Home Project: Radio Journalism Goes 2.0 - warcomeshome.org
KPFA Radio 94.1 FM http://warcomeshome.org Berkeley, CA |
More than 1.6 million Americans have served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. As of August 1, 2007, 67,000 of them had been killed or wounded. In addition, more than 250,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans had been treated at... |
Board Collaboration for PAPIE
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Palo Alto Partners in Education http://pieboard.nexo.com Palo Alto |
Palo Alto Partners in Education (PAPIE) is a primarily board-driven organization with only 2 staff and a budget around $2+ million. We raise private funds to supplement public funds for all the public schools in our school district. Challenge: We needed a tool to ensure communicatio... |
The Cedar Cultural Center
The Cedar Cultural Center http://www.thecedar.org Minneapolis, MN |
The Cedar Cultural Center is a nonprofit music venue in Minneapolis, MN. August 23, 2006 The Cedar launched a new web site. The site was built in collaboration with Cruiskeen Consulting LLC Th... |
how about turning something good into something extraordinary
Describe your idea:
NABUUR.COM has created something special and probably unique: the possibility for Local Communities around the world to bring specific problems to the attention of concerned 'Neighbours' around the world, who then jointly solve that problem via the Internet.
The basic tools, procedures and systems are in place. 79 local communities now take part. 200 local communities will be served by the end of 2006, 1000 by the end of 2007, many more after that. Given the number of people that would like to engage directly with a meaningful cause, this will become an enormous force for the good. But we need your help to get there.
The flow on the site needs to become much more fluent, fun, transparent, effective. Wiki's, maps, video's, stories, rss feeds, etc probably need to be added. What needs to be done first? Who can do it? Who is willing to make this happen in the next two years?
Learning curve...
Describe your challenge:
One of my big challenges is learning how to use these tools.
The legistics
Describe your challenge:
I have been interested in the internet for a few years now, a newbie compared to many. I started to become excited about the possibilities of the Internet as I learned more and more what it was capable of accomplishing. I currently work for a non-profit gallery performance space as the Associate Director in charge of maintaining the website (which I designed http://www.puffinfoundation.org/forum/forum_new/index.html) and public relations. In the beginning I new very little about the revolutionary things happening on the web and how they could help my organization, but I had a sense of it and often tried to explain it to my boss. With the little understanding I had, it didn't come across as exciting as I felt it was, but my boss was keen on learning how to use webcasting and podcasting to record and broadcast our performances, anything more than that he wasn't to open to.
I've tried to introduce the idea of blogging with this in mind...our organization has personality, we have potential content that I can see being valuable to consumers. The craziest people come through here, with great ideas and talents, I can see us having a great blog. My problem now is to write a proposal that would be convincing enough.
The problems are these: My boss sees this endeavor as a drain on his resources, there would have to be writing and updating and researching, which I can understand. Also, the benefits are vague and hard to get a handle on...what would reaching out to people all around the world do if we are just trying to get butts in the seats here in Teaneck NJ? And finally, who is the audience? how do we reach them and ofcoarse how do we have a successful blog when the chances are we would be throwing effort into the abyss, or so people may think.
Ideas and solutions:
These are the things I'm looking to discover!!
Uppity Wisconsin
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Cruiskeen Consulting LLC - Uppity Wisconsin http://www.uppitywis.org Menomonie, WI |
Uppity Wisconsin is an attempt at building a collaborative on-line web presence to promote progressive ideas in Wisconsin Politics. This is a new site (based on the Drupal CMS). It uses a combination of incoming and outgoing RSS, Blogs, Video, and email for communications. Uppity Wisconsi... |
Video software for dummies
Describe your idea:
We already have this, but I think it could be invaluable for other non-profits in communicating their mission and results. It's a program call "Visual Communicator Studio 2" which allows me to video blog, post streaming video ALREADY imbedded in a web page (No html knowledge necessary), as well as VERY high-quality video. It's GREAT!!!! Of special note, I want to assure folks that it's not only for the web, but we're producing a :30 program on our ministry using this software. Thanks!
People's Grocery
People's Grocery www.peoplesgrocery.org/brahm/ Oakland, CA |
People's Grocery's mission is to:
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Blog This Chat! button
Describe your idea:
It'd be neat to have a button in your IM client that allowed you to easily blog an interesting conversation. Posts could show up formatted similar to chat windows. Great for print interviews... but some interesting privacy problems arise that would have to be worked out.
