Citizenmedia Videos

Mark Glaser of PBS MediaShift visits citizen media startup Allvoices in San Francisco.

Cali Lewis of GeekBrief.tv from JD Lasica on Vimeo. The host of GeekBrief.TV also offers 7 secrets to podcasting success If you travel in technology circles, chances are you ve heard of Cali Lewis, the extraordinarily gifted, personaable and successful Web show pioneer who hosts and co-produces GeekBrief.TV. She s about to top 50,000 followers on Twitter at @calilewis. Geek Brief, launched on Dec. 23, 2005, now boasts more than 600 episodes (I ve watched most of them), done on location or at Cali and her husband Neal Campbell s studio in Dallas. I don t know how they keep up the pace, given the show s high production values. Over the years in my talks on new media, I ve often held up Cali and Geek Brief as a spot-on example of how to break into new media — and of how the next generation of Web video shows will look: fast-paced, interesting, fun, personality-driven, passionate and polished. In this interview, conducted at WordCamp SF shortly before her talk, Cali discusses the genesis of Geek Brief (after 5 months, we were done with our day jobs and began doing the show full time — living the dream), podcasting s place in the mediasphere ( What podcasting offers is that anybody can do it. They don t have to be told by ABC or NBC or any radio station that they have the talent to do this. The audience is picking and choosing who is successful. ), and how she chooses which tech news to feature (new technologies that excite her and her viewers). Social media s role We spent most of the interview discussing social media and how to engage an audience. The most important rule of audience participation is you participating back, she said. Putting questions to the users is a good technique, through Twitter, blog comments and directly on the show itself. She s on a campaign to coax people to communicate via Twitter rather than email ( You can have a great conversation in 140 characters. ) She s also particularly adept at using live video streaming during some of her episodes, calling it a great way to interact. Her advice to those just starting out: Think about what you want, and then just go for it! I often echo her advice to not get tripped up by the technology. GeekBrief.TV offers some training materials on its Podcasting Tips page. The lighting on this 9-minute video was subpar because it was bright outside and my LP-Micro fill light wasn t up to the task. Watch or embed video on Vimeo Watch video in H.264 QuickTime on Ourmedia.org Download video from Archive.org Shortly afterward, Cali gave a presentation on Building an Interactive Audience to a packed house, and I tweeted her advice & the tweets are all gone now, of course — but she gave a very similar presentation at WordCamp Dallas recently, capably captured by the MSPmentor blog: 7 secrets to podcasting success Rule 1: Understand your core brand value. GeekBrief.TV’s brand value is “happiness,” Cali says. She wants her 3-minute technology product views to leave viewers feeling good. Rule 2: Start compelling conversations. Cali says you need to look around your daily life to create compelling conversations. Examples: The other shoe falls for former Computer Associates executive Memo to JetBlue: Change your WiFi strategy Rule 3: Be an asset. Cali says your sites and communications need to “add value. If you want to build an online community, it can’t be about you. It has to be about your community.” Rule 4: Make friends, not fans. Cali advises: “Don’t speak at the community. Speak with the community. Ask questions and answer questions. Loyal audiences will tell other people about your sites.” Rule 5: Show appreciation. Thank readers over and over again. Rule 6: Take breaks. Cali admitted she breaks rule 6 all the time. Rule 7: Always be upgrading. Cali says “Never let yourself you get stale. Show your community you’re vying for their attention.” All of it good advice.

ReadWriteWeb blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick, right, and proto-podcaster Dave Winer kicked off a new podcast today, the Bad Hair Day Podcast. The podcast is old-school, basically an unedited conversation between the two, tech snafus and all. In the first episode, Kirkpatrick and Winer touch on the new iPhone OS, Twitter and even Kirkpatrick s bizarre unicorn fetish. Fetish may be to strong a word, but we ll let you make the call. Bad Hair Day is broadcast live via BlogTalkRadio, but is also available as podcast subscription. You can preview the Bad Hair Day podcast below and you can subscribe to it by adding this URL to your podcast software: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Bad-Hair-Day.rss

From JD Lasica on Vimeo. At the Ultimate Bloggers Dinner on the opening night of the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last Wednesday, Alan Mulally, CEO of Ford Motor Company, took out time to sit down with a few bloggers for a live Webcast, a couple of cell phone interviews, and the interview above, which I captured with a Canon HV20 hi-def camcorder.Chris Heuer of AdHocnium (and the Social Media Club) and I interviewed Mulally about how Ford is using social media to drive innovation and transformation inside the company. Chris and I both found Mulally to be incredibly personable and knowledgeable about the social forces swirling through the economy. The video is 10 minutes long and a bit noisy because we didn't have a lavalier mic, but you can hear Mulally throughout.Watch in H.264 QuickTime on Ourmedia (or download it)Watch in Flash on Vimeo (embedded above) Bonus: Flickr photo set of Mulally (at bottom) and others at CES.

This BeLive features CCTV's Community Media Coordinator Colin Rhinesmith, who presents highlights of the NeighborMedia Program. NeighborMedia gives community journalists the tools to report news in their neighborhood that may not be covered in mainstream media. Training and venues for blogging, videos, radio and live tv are some of the opportunities awaiting NeighborMedia interns. Colin gives the big picture on this resourceful offering at CCTV, which is available to Cambridge residents

Video On January 15th, 2007 the Sunlight Foundation and the Berkman Center for Internet Local Political Information in an Internet Era. The meeting was hosted by the Berkman Center on the Harvard Law School Campus. This short summary video features interviews with participants and spotlights some of the emerging technologies being used at the state and local level to engage citizens in the political process. From the Sunlight Foundation about the event: We are interested in how the Internet through blogs and other tools can bring citizens more or better information about their elected officials. We have invited 10 bloggers who are focused on their own states federal and local elected officials, and about the same number of people who are working on tools that these local bloggers can use tools like Congresspedia and Metavid (for getting video of Members of Congress). Our goal is to connect the people working in the trenches with people working in other trenches and with new tools, so that everyone can do a better job sharing important political information with citizens. Political Information in an Internet Era was produced by Nisha Thompson (Sunlight Foundation) and Colin Rhinesmith (Berkman Center for Internet & Society). Share and Enjoy: