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Howcast Video Site and the Power of Wikis

I would break my online video watching down into three categories:

1. News. I've become an election news junkie and have been watching a lot of online video about the 2008 primaries.
2. Poops and Giggles. Friends sending great video clips, mostly for pure entertainment purposes.
3. How-To or Informational Videos. Vids that will show me how to get something done, or what a product or service does.

I've been cruising around Howcast, a new video site launched to support How-To videos, and I LOVE IT.

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TAGS: HOWCAST • HOW-TO VIDEOS • WIKIS • SUSHI RICE

Capturing Conferences: Expanding on Beth Kanter's Thoughts

Beth Kanter, one of the many great minds I encountered at BlogHer 2006.

Ever since the BlogHer conference in late July, I've been thinking about live blogging and other ways to capture the energy and creativity that often arises at conferences and other gatherings.

Well, as often happens when I don't get around to writing something down, some smart blogger beats me to it. That's just what Beth Kanter did. See her Aug. 25 post, Collaborative Models for Capturing and Sharing Conference Notes at Nonprofit Gatherings.

As a matter of fact, go read her post first. What I'm about to say will make more sense after you read her excellent overview of tools and techniques.

(Really, go read it. I'll wait. It's cool.)

...OK, now that you've read Beth's overview of collaboration tools and strategies that can help capture the value of conferences (and hopefully followed her links to some examples), here's my bigger-picture thought for today:

Conference planners should consider how to capture and extend the value of the conference during the planning process. Because for many people and organizations, what gets captured from a conference is more valuable than the event itself.

So here's a quick checklist of what I think conference planners should start taking into account...

TAGS: BLOGGING • SOCIAL MEDIA • TAGGING • EVENTS • CONFERENCES • WIKIS • BLOGS