Now it’s the humanitarian podcast
Thanks to the efforts of Steve Buckley and his team, Christian Aid appear to have taken an early lead in terms of experimenting with new media forms in their organisation. As well as their blogging, CA are now making staff podcasts available both internally (through their intranet) and externally (through iTunes and Feedburner). In Steve’s words:
As with the blogs, we’ve found staff and supporters have engaged with the format very quickly. We now get emails asking if an event will have an associated podcast… It’s taking a fair amount of time to produce but the feedback has been tremendous...
For the first couple of months, we focussed on using podcasts to get internal information to staff based outside the UK. This week we’re trying a daily podcast from Haiti in the Carribean to look at the issues our partners and beneficiaries face.
And you can find those podcasts at http://nightingalesangatwcc.typepad.com/podcast/ or http://feeds.feedburner.com/christianaidpodcasts. I can see it having a real impact in terms of helping staff at headquarters and other supporters understanding the issues better. Yeah, the international NGO equivalent of citizen media or something. Check them out – a real voice from the field!
(via the KM4Dev mailing list)
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Hey Paul – thanks for the mention, the podcasts from Haiti have been hard work and an episode every weekeday is a *bit* too many! Neverthertheless, a great learning experience for us all and we’ll be doing a lot more of these in future.
Steven Buckley
14 Aug 06 at 13:39
Though not officially launched yet, the Voices of Reconciliation Internet Radio website aims to do much the same thing in Sri Lanka, albeit on a larger scale – see http://radio.voicesofpeace.lk/ for details.
Sanjana
Sanjana Hattotuwa
14 Aug 06 at 14:15