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Barbara Abrash at BAVC Producer's Institute

Posted by Center for Social Media on June 16, 2009

I was in San Francisco last week, participating in a Round Table at Bay Area Video Coalition Producer's Institute. The panel included Elspeth Revere from the MacArthur Foundation, Cara Mertes from the Sundance Documentary Institute, Sam Gregory from WITNESS and Ellen Schneider from ActiveVoice.Read more...

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CSM at the BAVC Producer's Institute 2009

Posted by on June 13, 2009

I had the great pleasure last week to attend the presentation session for the 2009 Bay Area Video Coalition Producer's Institute. According to their website, the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies is a "ten-day residency for eight creative teams (independent producers or public broadcasters) with a shared goal of developing and prototyping a multi-platform project inspired by, or based on a significant documentary project. Read more...

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Obama As The Social Media Innovator

Posted by on May 12, 2009

It is no surprise at this stage that Obama's use of social media was a major force behind his landslide victory. PR Firm Edelman's most recent white paper Social Pulpit: Barack Obama's Social Media Toolkit outlines the areas in which Obama's team excelled in using this powerful tool to engage publics.Read more...

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The Infinite Mind [2006]

Eager to be among the first adopters of new technology, producers of the award-winning public radio program The Infinite Mind have branched into 3D virtual broadcasting. They have "built" a spacious broadcasting complex in Second Life, a burgeoning online world where the rules of three-dimensional commerce and coexistence are just being established. Will their public radio audience follow them to this unfamiliar new world?