AMY GAHRAN: The Right Conversation

links for 2007-06-29

• The Conversations Network » Recording Spoken-Word Events Worldwide
  "PodCorps.org is an all-volunteer team of audio/video producers who record and publish important spoken-word events anywhere in the world." This could be cool for citizen journalism and community news orgs.
  (tags: podcasting audio video events community volunteer citizen+journalism tidbits+fodder)
• IT Conversations: Doug Kaye
  "The mission of PodCorps is to record and publish important spoken-word events that occur anywhere in the world. The project is still in its formative stage. Jon speaks with Doug about how it's organized and how he thinks it might develop."
  (tags: podcasting audio video community volunteer tidbits+fodder)

Organic Conversations (Pun Intended)

Jonny Hunter, via Flickr

On Friday, June 22, I'll be speaking right here in Boulder, CO at the Organic Summit Leadership Conference -- cosponsored by New Hope Natural Media and the Organic Farming Research Foundation. I'll be speaking on a panel: What makes the organic news?

Like any industry, people in the organic food & product business want to spread the word about their offerings and issues. As a longtime environmental journalist (among other things), I'm very used to talking to people in this field, so I'm looking forward to it. At the very least, the food will be excellent, of course!

My co-panelists are award-winning food and nutrition journalist Carolyn O'Neil and Kristine Kidd, food editor of Bon Appetit magazine.

Most of the people attending this panel will probably be in involved in PR and media relations for the organics industry. That's great, because it seems to me that these folks, in particular, can have a ton of productive fun with online and conversational media.

Here are some things I plan to discuss...

What to Do BEFORE You Start to Blog

Joe Shlabotnik, via Flickr

Want to try business blogging? Don't just dive in.

(NOTE: I've moved this article to my other weblog Contentious. If you wish to comment on this article, you can do so there. Also, this is an edited version of a column I wrote for the Boulder County Business Report. Here's the full article.)

You’ve probably heard that blogging is good for your business. If you haven’t already started blogging -- WAIT! Leaping into this medium cold is the most common and damaging error I’ve seen.

Before you do anything else, figure out which groups you wish to engage in a public conversation.

Next, figure out where they already spend time online...

READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE ON CONTENTIOUS.

links for 2007-06-16

• Strategic Public Relations: Friday Flickr Fix – 06.15.07 – Censorship
  "Flickr has an international incident on its hands. The photo sharing site is now available in eight languages, and is being accused of censorship in some of the countries it now serves."
  (tags: tidbits+fodder censorship photos world)

links for 2007-06-09

• "Nude Japanese Nurses snuck into Terry's RSS feed?" from The Intuitive Life Business Blog
  "What surprises me is that porn and spam bloggers aren't just posting entries of the most common 100 first names and 100 last names, knowing that many many people who have RSS search feeds will inadvertently find their names and match the junk."
  (tags: spam search feeds)