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American University’s Center for Social Media has posted video and audio from the recent Beyond Broadcast gathering.
I attended BB in 06 and 07 but couldn’t make it because of schedule conflicts this year. If you found yourself in a similar situation, then check out the very complete report here.
I’ve just started digging into this, but [...]

I’ve already written about Ning and it’s potential for public media, from social networking at conferences to the platform for your station’s public forum.
Rob Paterson mentioned his plan to use Ning for a project in the comments, and now he’s posted in great detail on how he and KETC, and a larger community of public [...]

Diane Mermigas has a great piece exploring ways for public media to monetize its content and generate new revenues - something a lot of us are thinking about… well, right about now.
Her strong opening line: Nonprofit public media–and most especially public broadcasting–will embrace interactive Web tools that connect companies, producers and distributors of content and [...]

Rob Paterson has posted a presentation on the project he’s working on with the team at KETC in St. Louis. It’s quite impressive, with interesting partnerships, including with an online newspaper, and a well-chosen first issue: the subprime mortgage crisis.
It looks like they’re calling the concept 9Network (I love the name). This is a multi-layered [...]

Conference organizers are always trying to make their event have an impact well beyond the actual conference. Ning’s “Make your own social network” product is a good way to do that.
Beyond Broadcast used it for yesterday’s conference; WAMU also uses it for its forum called “The Conversation.” Check out the sites. They look great. [...]

I wasn’t able to get away for the Beyond Broadcast gathering this year - a shame because I went the first two years and was excited and overwhelmed by all the great stuff. There’s always next year.
Dennis Haarsager, NPR interim CEO, was among the speakers yesterday and AU’s Center for Social Media blog has an [...]

The last time there was flooding on this scale in Iowa and the midwest - 1993 - we didn’t have the Internet. Or at least *this* Internet. But this time, we do, and there are a variety of ways for us Iowa expatriates to follow the flooding back home.
The most interesting site I’ve come across: [...]

Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.

Common sense says you don’t jump into everything new that comes along with no coherent plan. If you don’t trust common sense, read the excellent new book Groundswell, which emphasizes careful (BUT quick) planning and implementation of social media tactics.
WFPL News went live on twitter about a month ago, after some brief conversations here in [...]

You don’t need to be a Brightkite user to see Adam Flater’s pictures from Parkersburg, IA, a scene of devastation after Sunday’s tornado, which killed four people in Parkersburg, and two others in a nearby town.
I don’t know a lot about Adam; we’ve been fellow Brightkite “friends” for a few weeks. But seeing his pictures [...]

I’ve been using friendfeed for quite a while now, but I’ve used it as a lifestream application mainly, importing my feeds, adding a few friends, and then looking at the site every day or two.
All along, I’ve been reading posts from the likes of Louis Gray and Robert Scoble about the value of friendfeed, as [...]

I got my invite to Brightkite about a week ago, I’m still not sure how useful it is. The user base is too small yet, (but it’s growing) in my neck of the woods.
Brightkite thumbnail: you share your current location (to a level of accuracy that you control) with friends and others; you can create [...]