I spent five minutes at the recent Online News Association conference in Toronto chatting with Courtney Lowery, a friend who’s the editor in chief of NewWest.net, one of the premier citizen media sites in the land.
The day before, she gave a presentation about how to bring in different revenue streams to your pro-am citizen media site. Organizing educational events and conferences are two inventive ways. Here’s her interview:
Hi-quality MPEG-4 video (H.264) on Blip.tv
MPEG-4 video on the Internet Archive | Ourmedia media page
Flash version on Internet Archive
Cross-posted to Real People Network.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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