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In this Web 2.0 world we are all beginners at something. Even though I've been blogging for 5 years, I only know what I know.... read more
This report offers guidance for community organizations and those who fund social change in how best to harness the power of local media-making for community... read more
As many of you know, I am in Arizona at the moment. I, along with 4 other community leaders, participated in a civil disobedience action.... read more
Every day Maria De Lourdes Gonzalez jumps on a bus on the way to
work. She cleans houses for a living, but the rest of... Visit website
Community news sites should engage, not just inform, their users;
ramp up quickly with social media tools; tease out contributors rather
than train a corps... Visit website
In her blog at Oakland Local, Susan Mernit writes, "I just got back from 5 days in Los Angeles, where I was a lead facilitator... read more
Though best known as the local cable access TV
network, the St. Paul Neighborhood Network (SPNN) has received a $1.4
million federal grant to help... read more
Four students risked everything to urge passage of an immigration reform
bill. Too bad nobody in Washington has been able to muster the same
kind... read more
This learning module is filled with original reporting that will help you learn about the innovative community news initiatives that are cropping up around the... Visit website
This issue of The Drum Beat focuses on stories, asking: what do we mean by the use of oral history, or storytelling, in the context... Visit website
Multiplatform, participatory, and digital, public media 2.0 will be an essential feature of truly democratic public life from here on in. And it’ll be media... Visit website
"Building community through technology" The Public Media Corps is a new national framework for supporting creative, sustainable and community-initiated methods for addressing the broadband divide... Visit website
From The BAVC Blog by Jennifer Gilomen, BAVC's Director of Public Media Initiatives
On September 2, BAVC was honored to be visited by Sonal Shah, Director... read more
“All nonprofits should develop a video strategy—a persistent, methodical approach to producing and distributing video content that achieves organizational goals. And YouTube, the largest online... Visit website
The first of its kind, the USCAIH 2010 will encompass the following elements that are considered critical in addressing health disparities in the African Diaspora:... Listen to audio
Here at New Routes we get a lot of spam ads, but not much hate mail. As a Web Manager I feel lucky (and I... read more
After catastrophic earthquakes in Haiti and Chili in less than two months, Bay Area youth reflect on their preparedness for a natural disaster and how... Visit website
Director of Digital Democracy, Professor of Journalism at American University, and Associate Director of the Media Access Project talk about social media for social change.... Visit website
Laura Cabral returns for her third year with SALUD.
Some of my clearest memories from SALUD consist of sitting in the room outside of Ms. Unzueta’s... read more
Adriana Garcia has been an active member of the SALUD project since the beginning. In 2008 and 2009 she learned to listen and then take... read more
Ireri Unzueta Carrasco is a community educator and immigrant community organizer from Chicago, Illinois.
SALUD has allowed me to bring together all of the things that... read more
They may not call themselves "activists," and you've probably never heard their names, but a new generation of young people is using high-tech communications to... Visit website
The Latino community, a frequent user of the Internet and mobile phones, will have access to health information through popular social networks and video, reports... Visit website
Online activist Will Coley has compiled a list of 250 pro-migrant, human-rights, & civil-rights online activists, advocates & direct service practitioners dedicated to the enactment... read more
Public access television stations across the country are transforming into media and technology centers. In Minnesota, the nonprofit St. Paul Neighborhood Network (a New Routes... read more
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