An overview of software for multimedia editing, video hosting & podcasting Target audience: Nonprofits, social change organizations, educators, NGOs, citizen journalists, media makers. This is part of Creating Media, our ongoing series designed to help nonprofits and other organizations learn how to use and make media. By Kaitlin LaCasse and Laura S. Quinn Idealware […]
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8 ways to use social media in the newsroom
For the annual conference of the Online News Association this weekend, I’ve pulled together two new printable handouts: 8 ways to use social media in the newsroom, available at http://bit.ly/social-flyer, and 6 Twitter tools for journalists (PDF — and see the accompanying post). I’m speaking on the aptly named Social Media Mania panel on Saturday. […]
Open source’s growing influence
Guest post by Renee Blodgett CEO, Magic Sauce Media At this week’s AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, the open source video company Kaltura organized and participated in a SaaS Goes Open Source panel (SaaS as in Software as a Service). In this video interview, Kaltura CEO Ron Yekutiel says open source is disruptive but on the rise, […]
The promise of open source video
On June 19-20, 2009, I’ll be at New York University’s School of Law attending the Open Video Conference. To my surprise and delight, this is turning out to be quite a big event. Socialbrite readers get 15 percent the registration fee (regularly $75 for individuals and nonprofits and $200 for companies). The event will be […]
Kaltura: open source video
Kaltura: open-source video from JD Lasica on Vimeo. I‘ve been following Kaltura for about a year now. It offers a terrific open-source platform, toolset and nearly free video hosting solution for small and large companies and nonprofits. (I think I have that right — it’s hard to explain what they do in a single sentence.) […]