Ourmedia is proud to announce the unveiling of the Personal Media Learning
Center as well as the Open Media Directory.
The Learning
Center is an ongoing project with a simple aim: to help people engage in the
participatory media movement by showing them how to create videoblogs, podcasts,
screencasts, digital stories and other emerging media forms.
There are sections on Video, Audio, Multimedia, Images and Text. In addition,
we have what will undoubtedly become a deep Topics section. We’re starting out
with the subjects of Personal media – Getting started, Citizen journalism, and
Copyright & the law.
We have a lot of needs in fillng out these sections, so if you’d like to
write a tutorial, share an article, or create a screencast, video or podcast
that would be helpful to people, see our guidelines and contact me. This
is media training of the people by the people.
The Open Media
Directory is a clearinghouse of dozens of different sites where you can find
legal, podsafe music, audio and video clips. For anyone who wants to add a music
soundtrack to their online video or add music to a podcast, the Open Media
Directory is a treasure. Thanks to the UK’s David Holmes, the directory’s
editor, for pulling it together for us.
These projects represent a significant step forward for Ourmedia. We’ve been
promised new servers this month, so look for more improvements in the
site in the weeks ahead.
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.
Congrats, this is awesome news! Great job to everyone involved!
This is an excellent idea.
There are many new tools coming on the market, but not a lot on how to use them effectively.
This will help level the playing field a bit between small producers, the general public and the big TV stations.
The internet has opened up a whole new world.
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