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Any organization can start their own channel on the site (similar to YouTube channels, which many nonprofits and foundations now have) and can have their content alongside events hosted by the State Department, NPR and C-SPAN, as well as non-news content producers focused on sports, shopping and other topics.

If you’re wondering how many foundations and nonprofits are actually doing live web events, you’re not alone.  No one yet is keeping track of the overall numbers of foundation and nonprofit-sponsored events that are broadcast via the Web, levaquin 500. Levaquin 750 mg iv, But a quick Google search reveals a lot of events live foundation events have taken place recently and several more are scheduled.

For example, levetiracetam 1000 mg, Levaquin 250 mg, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation broadcast a speech by the founders last October from Washington, DC, levaquin 500 mg sinus infection, titled “Why We Are Optimists.”  The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation shared a live panel discussion last February from Kansas City, MO, on “Spurring Business Startups and Innovation in Clean Technology.” The Kaiser Family Foundation has a live web series called “Today’s Topics in Health Disparities.” And last March, the United Nations Foundation broadcast a live memorial service to honor 101 UN personnel who perished in the Haiti earthquake. From the descriptions alone,  these events are as interesting, if not more so, than the content of most mainstream news producers. All of these events also have a potentially much larger audience than just those who could be alerted to the event by a press release, a direct email to established audiences or by the old-fashioned AP datebook.

The utility of LiveMatrix for nonprofits and foundations comes down to the site’s demographics and reach.  If they can show that they have traction in reaching so-called "influentials," it would seem like a no-brainer to plug into.

Given that the site is in beta, it is really hard to predict the future size and demographics of its future audience and how useful the site might be for nonprofits and foundations hosting live events.  It could be the new YouTube, only organized better.  Nonprofits and foundations getting into it early could be among the first to establish channels that get traction and a large following.  There’s lots of potential there and a foundation that is producing lots of content like Kaiser Health News could really make a big splash with it if it takes off.

Just with any technological innovations, there are lots of questions about how useful this new resource will be.  I’m looking forward to updating this post as LiveMatrix moves past its beta stage and begins to market the service broadly..

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As we opened the conversation up to the group, I added a few thoughts of my own.  First, I made the point that, cephalexin 500 mg per capsule, while everyone wants to produce a “message” video that is witty and gets people’s attention so much so that it goes VIRAL and everyone is convinced of your point, Cephalexin 500mg cap, there are lots of other possible uses of video.

This is a classic example of a “message” video (we didn’t show it at the meeting because the video didn’t show well on the projection screen): Lost Generation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA&feature=player_embedded

But you can do lots of other stuff with videos and other forms of multi-media, like…

--Highlighting organizational programs showing the programs in action.  Here’s a great teaser from the Anaheim Ballet that meeting participants loved: Anaheim Ballet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2XmRzaCFFY&feature=player_embedded  This is obviously great for arts organizations, cephalexin 500mg acne, but you can do it with panel discussions and other events relevant to policy-related organizations.

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-- To tell an organization's history (for fundraising purposes)

-- To take on powerful interests, critique leaders in a witty way

This is one that participant Michael Falco of Pro-Media Communications offered: ABA Showdown http://www.youtube.com/user/ABAShowdown  It is a great example of “taking it to the streets” and then taking the street online to spread virally.  It got a lot of hits.

-- "instructional" : telling people what you want them to do and how to do it, for example: The World Sucks: Help it Suck Less http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeAUQslfFP4&feature=player_embedded

-- To recruit volunteers For example: Into Darfur: A Young American\'s Journey http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BQcSyG7bOQ&feature=player_embedded

-- To sell a policy direction For example: A New Sound: Green For All http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNszFwmSg2Y&feature=player_embedded

The conversation ranged over a lot of territory after that and people talked about their own experiences producing multi-media, including best ways to produce slideshows.  Fenton Communications’ Lisa Witter offered that the organization Duarte is amazing at producing such multi-media slide shows and maintains a blog called “Slide:ology” at http://blog.duarte.com/

She also shared this very inexpensive, provocative video called Milking Cancer http://vimeo.com/6675967 It was produced for $5,000 – which included the actors and editor.

It was noted by several participants that every organization should have a YouTube channel by now, but that Vimeo is also quite valuable because of the cleanliness of the presentation.

Lots of folks offered other examples.  I apologize that I didn’t catch who offered what.  This one is a good example of using lots of forms of media capture and putting it all together on one cohesive piece: MQ2 http://mq2.org/

The conversation ranged across many of the challenges of utilizing multi-media, but several themes kept reoccurring:

1, 500 mg cephalexin. The importance of investing wisely in human resources, and knowing what you can do in-house and what you need to pay an expert for.

2. The ultimate fact that you need to start with interesting content or a compelling story.  You can throw lots of stuff up on a website, but if it isn’t witty or emotionally compelling, no one is going to watch it.

3. Dissemination is not to be overlooked.  We only touched on this topic, which should perhaps be revisited in a future session.  But we did talk about how the first step of getting something to “go viral” (after producing something interesting) is to start with your core audience and creating incentives for them to re-post and share through social networking sites.

I hope these notes are helpful.  They capture only a small part of what I learned from my colleagues at the session.  Another thing I learned is that I need to have someone dedicated to taking notes at the session.  Next time.

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