Britt Bravo is on a much-deserved vacation, so I'm stepping in for her to keep news and information about the social change web coming your way!

Members of the Vancouver Net Tuesday group gathered recently to discuss podcasting for social change. There were quite a few people (check out the pictures!) there for the conversation, but if you weren't one of them, don't worry, you can get a recap right here!

When: Tuesday, July 8thth, 5:30pm-7:30pm
Where: Workspace (400-21 Water Street) Vancouver BC
Price: FREE!
RSVP: Facebook, Meetup

We're continuting our series of interviews with the Featured Projects from the NetSquared Conference (N2Y2) with a chat with Jesse Patel, the co-founder of Innovatorz Media. You can listen to the interview on the NetSquared Podcast and hear their 5-minute pitch at the Conference here. A transcript of the interview is available below:

Tana Johnson is the Producer and Instructional Designer for the Interactive Educational Technologies division of the SFMOMA. Among many things, Tana organizes the SFMOMA Artcasts, the museum's podcast series. The Artcast offers insight and commentary related to current exhibitions in the museum.
 

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This is just one of the interesting tidbits of information in this SF Chronicle article on Adam Curry. Interesting thoughts on Curry's quest and opinions about taking podcasting mainstream.

Anthony Brown is the Penguin Keeper and chief podcaster for the San Francisco Zoo. He and Alexander Winslow, Public Relations Manager for the Zoo, speak on how podcasting is being used to reach out and connect with potential Zoo visitors.

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Taylor McKnight is the co-founder of Podbop, a mash-up of the online events calendar Eventful.com, publicly shared MP3 files from musicians and the mapping program DIY Map.  Podbop asks you what city you live it then shows you what bands will be in that city soon and delivers a song recorded by each scheduled band that has put music online. In addition to visiting the site and searching for any city in the world, you can also subscribe by RSS to receive schedules and sample songs from any bands coming to your town that are listed on Eventful.com.

Mashups, or the combination of data and functionality from more than one site on the web, are a hot new class of tools best known for the ways that people are mapping different sorts of data online. (See, for example, the map we've created to display the geographic locations of the Net Squared in Action case studies, using Community Walk - a Google Maps mashup.)

There is far more to mashups than just maps, and the phenomenon is expected to become far more widespread in both the consumer and enterprise spaces in the future. In the following interview, Taylor and I talked about the creation of Podbop, the issues that developers face in the emerging mashup scene and the future of hybrid web services like Podbop.

I apologize for the last minute offer but I’d like to invite anyone who has been involved with web design or web site communications for nonprofits to join in a discussion about nonprofit web design for my podcast that I will be publishing shortly.  I had planned for three participants to join a “forum” discussion on the topic via a Skype conference call. One person has cancelled at the last minute and I’d like to have more people contribute.  A few questions that I have presented to the other participants so far are:

1) What are some considerations that organizations promoting social change should keep in mind when designing their public website?

Tech Soup's Community Manager, Susan Tenby, let me know about an interesting online event, that you all may want to know about, The New Media Consortium's Online Conference on Personal Broadcasting April 26-27, 2006.

The New Media Consortium (NMC) is an international 501(c)3 not-for-profit consortium of nearly 200 leading colleges, universities, museums, corporations, and other learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies.