Ryanne and I are spending the next three weeks in SE Asia to videoblog for PreventHumanTrafficking.
This non-profit is led by the incredibly progressive, Christina Arnold, who realizes that videos on her website documenting their work will help raise awareness and encourage donations.
While we’re in Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand, we are also running some videoblogging workshops for local bloggers. Video cellphones, Blogger.com, and all the free video hosting sites make it so much easier now. Check out this video where we put together $100 camera packages to give away.
Big shout out to Beth Kanter for helping us making these connections, and to Doug who donated the 50$ cameras. This is all in the spirit of helping get regular people around the world to post video about their lives. Broadband internet and access to computers are really the only barrier. Many people in developing nations are still just struggling to survive and eat, but this is changing. Every country we’ve been to has a segment of the population getting online because they want to be connected. We all find our own reasons and resources to connect. This is a citizen journalism group we’ll be teaching in Thalalnd. The world is getting closer.
Have fun on your trip! Listen, if you don’t mind, I want to play a clip from your trip on my show this coming weds. That way whether you folks can come on live or not we can still use your work as an example of videoblogging in the nonprofit space.
absolutely, use whatever video you want. we’re trying to post a clip right now but even a 20mb file is taking entirely too long on this camboidian connection.
This is really great of you guys. Can’t wait to see the videos from the trip.
Sorry, I’m just now catching up with all my feeds. Baby has taken up all my time.