Connecting Communities Through Online Video

Mon, 10/05/2009 - 10:26 - crhinesmith -

Editor's Note: Today we have a guest post from Anne Jonas, Community Outreach Coordinator at the Participatory Culture Foundation, an Americorps VISTA position through the Digital Arts Service Corps.

Miro CommunityThis week, Medfield.tv launched a local video site at video.medifeld.tv, bringing together their content with community produced videos from across the web.

It sounds like something that any local community should have - a one stop shop that aggregates video by people in the area, about the local community, wherever it was originally posted (like YouTube, a video blog, human rights hub Witness), featuring the best of community contributions and organizing them into easy to navigate categories.

5 Steps to Increase User Contributions to Your Community Site

Thu, 09/10/2009 - 19:10 - admin -
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Editor's Note: Today we have a guest post from Ben Ilfeld, Operations Manager of the Sacramento Press.

The Sacramento PressOur contributors are not "free labor." They all have incentive to write or they simply would not write. The question then is what incentives compel writers to write?

For example, Facebook compels me to upload photos and share links by connecting me with my friends and family in an easy and relatively private way.

At The Sacramento Press our goal is to provide local news and information. We need to incentivize writers to contribute that content.

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