Social Software

Blogathon 2005 will kick off on August 6 and I think they could be on to something.  They held the first one in July 2001 and it raised $20K, and in July 2003, they raised $103K through 400 participants. Essentially they’ve pre-selected a group of charities and recruited bloggers that will post every thirty minutes while raising money on behalf ...

Here is an interesting item from the Business 2.0 blog in an article titled "Culture of Participation (the Podcast Interview)." The blurb from the web site says, "Publish and be damned, a Website that helps authors self-publish, just interviewed me about the culture of participation, my name for the idea that the Web is turning consumers into creators in all ...

I spent the weekend learning how to do a podcast. To listen, click here. Sites and software used: Audacity (audio recorder, editor) Flashkit (free, uncopyrighted music and effects) Ourmedia (free audio and video blog host) Technology Review  tutorial (Advise downloadeing the MP3 file) Podcastingnews 

As a result of the discovery we made that there are a lot of bloggers out there mentioning Relay For Life an intern at NHO, Christopher Dover, has started a blog called RelayBlogger. Chris will be doing research on the best way to work with the people mentioning Relay in their blogs and using RelayBlogger as a kind of blogging ...