Israel's social media scene

Social marketing expert Ayelet Noff talks about the social media and Web 2.0 scene in Israel during this 9-minute video interview I conducted with her during our blogger posse road trip to Israel. A former New Yorker, Ayelet is a rising star in Web 2.0 circles in Tel Aviv and helped us with all phases of our trip. (Apologies for the lighting — this was the first interview I did on my Samsung hi-def camcorder.)

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Cross-posted to SocialMedia.biz.

Ellen Miller of Sunlight Foundation

At the Tech Policy Summit in Hollywood the other week I had a chance to sit down for a few minutes with Ellen Miller, co-founder and executive director of the Sunlight Foundation, which fights the good fight in Washington, DC, trying to bring transparency to the nation's legislative hallways and public policies. They launched the Congresspedia and PublicMarkUp.com efforts. Sorry for the bad lighting, this was pulled together very quickly.

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Issues facing America: Voting rights in DC

I've been doing an informal series of video interviews with people about the issues on their minds during this pivotal election year. Recently I caught up with Kate Aishton, a resident of Washington, DC, who's a staffer at the Aspen Institute's Communications & Society Program.

Kate talked about the lack of representation in Congress for residents of DC. Here's our 2-minute video interview:

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Cross-posted to SocialMedia.biz.

Bay Area social network Good Ol' Girls

Here's a 5-minute video interview with Mircalla Wozniak and Katie Muehlenkamp. co-founders of Good O' Girls, a poliitcal, professional and social network for women in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Mobile and education

Here's a 3-minute video interview I conducted with Joaquin Alvarado, director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet at San Francisco State University, on mobile technology and education, following a conference organized by the Aspen Institute on mobile technology and civic engagement.

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A video production stylist

A 3-minute video interview with Stephanie Eastman, a San Francisco stylist who has worked on several music videos and video productions. Conducted at the Culture Catch Salon during Macworld Expo 2008

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DataPilot: sync your cell phone to your computer

A 2-minute video interview with Michelle Mills of DataPilot, which makes products that sync your cell phone to your computer. Conducted on the exhibition floor of Macworld Expo 2008 in San Francisco.

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Cross-posted to SocialMedia.biz.

'Why John Edwards is the most electable progressive'

Also at the   Good Ol' Girls gathering in San Francisco last Thursday night, Jeff Soukup, California co-chair of the John Edwards campaign, gave a short talk about why John Edwards is the most progressive and most electable candidate running for president.

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California Women for Obama

On Thursday night I attended a political gathering, sponsored by the group Good Ol' Girls,  at the Blue Space art gallery in San Francisco. Speakers from the campaigns of three candidates for president — Phil Ting, co-chair, California Asian Pacific Islanders for Hillary Clinton; Jeff Soukup, California co-chair of the John Edwards campaign, and a spokesperson for Barack Obama — gave short presentations to a crowd of about 30 women, and then answered questions.

Here's a 6-minute video of the talk given by Margaret Richardson, director of California Women for Obama.

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Charlie Firestone of the Aspen Institute

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Last month the Aspen Institute brought 29 thought leaders in the mobile space together during a three-day event, Mobile Media and Civic Engagement. On the final day I interviewed Charlie Firestone, executive director of the Aspen Institute's Communications and Society program about the conference and the broader program.

Here's the 4-minute interview, captured with my new Canon HV-20 high-def camcorder. I apologize for the less than optimal lighting and sound.

Gilberto Gil performs 'Andar com fe'

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At the 5th birthday party for Creative Commons on Saturday night, the great Gilberto Gil — musician, Brazil's minister of culture and a Creative Commons supporter — performed several acoustic tracks. Here is a 3-minute video of his popular hit "Andar com Fé," captured with my Nokia N95 camera phone.

I'm still hoping others who shot video at the event Saturday will send pointers to the footage.

Making money with citizen media sites

I spent five minutes at the recent Online News Association conference in Toronto chatting with Courtney Lowery, a friend who's the editor in chief of NewWest.net, one of the premier citizen media sites in the land.

The day before, she gave a presentation about how to bring in different revenue streams to your pro-am citizen media site. Organizing educational events and conferences are two inventive ways. Here's her interview:

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Rob Curley on next stages in new media

Last week in Toronto, at the Online News Association conference, I had a chance to sit down with an old friend, Rob Curley, vice president of new products at the Washington Post. In this 5-minute video interview he talks about the Post's fabulous OnBeing series, the new citizen media site Loudounextra.com, mobile technology, geo-tagging and more.

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A chat with the co-founder of Blip.tv

Recently I had a chance to sit down with Dina Kaplan, the visionary co-founder and COO of Blip.tv. In this 6-minute video interview, she talks about creating shows on the Web, attracting advertising dollars, and Blip's success as a home for many videobloggers.

It's a terrific service, and I use it all the time.

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Gina Bianchini of Ning

Last week at a bloggers reception in Palo Alto, Calif., I finally had the chance to meet Gina Bianchini, CEO and co-founder of Ning, a startup that lets anyone create any kind of social network. Ning hosts it for you for free.

Ning has latched on to the long tail of this burgeoning phenomenon. Over the weekend, as Gina's partner Marc Andreessen (of Netscape fame) reports, Ning created its 100,000th social network. (Here's Mike Arrington at TechCrunch on Ning as well.)

In this 8 1/2-minute video interview, Gina talks about how Ning got started and why you might want to start your own social network instead of joining one of the big boys'.

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Podcast Alley

Trying to "claim my feed" at Podcast Alley. So let's see if this works.

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Micki on exposing yourself in social media

In my talk with Micki Krimmel at Pixelodeon (see yesterday's post and 4-minute interview), we also discussed the growing number of people who are exposing themselves on social networks. Micki, who mostly works in social change media, says she thinks of herself in some ways as "an art project." Here's our 3 minute 20 second interview:

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Micki Krimmel: How to make yourself more green

One of my last interviews at the recent Pixelodeon video festival in Hollywood was with my friend Micki Krimmel, whom I met two summers ago when she was with Participant Productions. She then moved on to become Revver's community manager, and recently left to work as an independent agent of change and freelancer.

Today here's a 4-minute video interview with her about how to learn more about sustainability and the green movement. (480x360 pixels)

Tomorrow I'll post a short interview with her about transparency online.

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6 tips for shooting effective Web video

Here's a 4-minute video with Jessica Kizorek of Two Parrot Productions, conducted at the Web Video Summit in San Jose, Calif., June 2007. Jessica provides six tips for shooting effective Web video.

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A citizen journalist from Moldova

I gave a workshop on videocasting and podcasting yesterday to a dozen students from Asia, Africa and Europe in a citizen journalism program taught by Dan Gillmor at the University of California, Berkeley.

During a break, one of them, Tatiana Tibuleac from Moldova — it's between Romania and Ukraine, if you're wondering — was kind enough to answer a few questions about the program and about citizen journalism in Moldova. The video was shot with my Nokia N95 cell phone.

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A talk with the host of a new games site

At the Pixelodeon conference at the American Film Institute last month, I had a great time chatting with Abra Chouinard, host of a cool new games show called TotalMMO. She was so enthusiastic about online games that I was tempted to lay aside my camcorder and pick up a joystick. OK, my mouse. You get the idea.

Here's our 5-minute interview:

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Kent Nichols on starting an Internet TV show

At Pixelodeon last month at the American Film Institute in Hollywood, I had a chance to interview Kent Nichols, co-founder of the popular Internet TV  show AskaNinja, a few minutes after he gave a presentation on how to create entertainment content for an Internet television show. He covers the basics like how to get started, the importance of good audio and judicious editing, making sure you own all the intellectual property for your show, and so on.

In this 6-minute interview, he lays out what's important in creating an entertainment show for the Web:

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Cross-posted to Socialmedia.biz.

Richprettygirl

At Pixelodeon, I met the stars of the popular Internet TV show Richprettygirl, host Jacqulyn Joy and Cornelia Gibrand, or C, who does currency markets. The show's concept is pretty straightforward: a pretty girl (Joy) sits on a couch and talks about stuff, like hot Ferraris, with occasional interviews tossed in. The show airs a new episode every Friday.

Joy remained in character for the shoot, and it's obvious that she's a smart and savvy businesswoman, giving her mostly male audience what it wants.

Here's the 3 minute 40 second video:

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Cross-posted to Socialmedia.biz.

A talk with the founders of Galacticast

At the Pixelodeon conference at the American Film Institute in Hollywood last month, I finally had a chance to meet Casey McKinnon and Rudy Jahchan, creators of the Internet TV sci-fi show Galacticast and, more recently, A Comicbook Orange.

Here's the 5-minute video interview I did with Casey and Rudy at AFI:

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Sari Gelser on Truthout.org

At Pixelodeon last month I had a chance to chat with Sari Gelser, news editor of Truthout.org, a distributed citizen news network that's doing important work.

Here's our 3-minute video interview:
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