Thanks to my mentor, Jackie Judd, I’m attending the Association of Health Care Journalists annual conference.
I’ll be live blogging again - to follow along, click here.
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I came across this while doing some research for work.
What a fun way to show how media and our relationship with it is changing! This is specifically about advertising, but nonprofits should pay attention, too, since their outreach methods need to change as well.
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I love this video for several reasons-
It highlights the incongruity between media presentation and reality
It gives example of the “power of the masses”
It mentions online volunteering!
All of that, and its well made!
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What do Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama and Oscar Morales of northern Colombia have in common?
They all use FaceBook (with varying success) to call people to action. But Morales has had far greater success than either of the Democratic candidates.
Earlier this year, Morales created the FaceBook group, One Million Voices Against the FARC and used [...]
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I am a big fan of the organization, Witness, and a recent project of theirs is called the HUB. Its kind of like YouTube for human rights. It will be interesting to see how the project goes - it has its pros and cons, but here is a good example of its use.
Note that the video that [...]
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From the Peace and Security initiative:
“From Electrons to Elections” policy guide is a non-partisan resource designed to educate young voters on science, technology, and health issues and provide them with the platforms of the leading political candidates on these subjects. It engages students on the issues through interactive technologies including blogging, YouTube videos, and [...]
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Live blogging continues here!
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I am very happy to report that I’ll be attending the Intercultural Management Institute’s conference on March 13 and 14. I am looking forward to many interesting panels and workshops.I’m also excited to try live blogging for the first time. I’ll be using www.coveritlive.com ’s application. I hope you join in!
To follow along, click here.
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