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Interview with Jesse Patel of Innovatorz Media (N2Y2 Featured Project)
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:
100 Innovators - the world's most important story has started to unfold
Voting Summary (Elevator Pitch):
This decade, the impacts of leading social entrepreneurs will explode. It's the world's most important story, and Innovatorz.org will tell it. We produce and distribute killer online media for award winning social entrepreneurs.
Technology Vision:
We want to make it dead simple for social entrepreneurs to integrate amazing online media into their sites and to find an audience interested in their stories. Our media platform is built on Wordpress MU, SimplePie RSS, and a variety of web services like Amazon S3. We use a process called “assisted podcasting” to enable even the least tech saavy, busiest social innovator to tell their personal story online by recording podcasts with their ordinary telephone.
We are developing a system enabling organizations to not only create their own content for their web sites, but to simultaneously pull in relevant feeds and stories from other organizations and sites.
Video Profile: Tana Johnson
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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There are more podcasted radio shows than radio stations in the world
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.
Video Profile: Anthony Brown & Alexander Winslow
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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Amidst the Mashup Mix: an interview with Taylor McKnight of Podbop
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.
Conversation about Nonprofit Wed Design - Last Minute Invite?
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?
New Media Consortium's Online Conference on Personal Broadcasting
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.
A Few More Poscasting Ideas
I'd like to add to Britt's post: 7 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Podcasts with a few that have cropped up at the ACS.
In Texas a friend is focusing on traditional training with two recordings: "Training Volunteers" and "Recruiting Leadership Volunteers." It's meat and potatoes, but I'll bet that's two topics that NPOs always need. The training topics will be a series.
A friend in NY has started a monthly series called "In the Hotseat with Don and Jim," the CEO and COO respectively. To quote my friend:
