Podcasting and webcasting at the conference? Sponsors are needed.

During the 2006 World Conference in Washington DC GLOBALink Radio produced daily podcasts of participants that you can still access today.

We wished we could do the same in Bangkok and record more tobacco control voices but we are short of money.

While FCA offered to contribute, we are still short of $5.000 to travel to Bangkok and do the daily web2.0 reporting and coverage we think the tobacco control community deserves.

As a sponsor you would be mentioned at the beginning and the end of each segment we produce (several per day) and be present at the top of our blogs :)

Considering the audience, the importance of the event, the value of using the most modern internet tools and introducing them to advocates worldwide, we think this is a very clever, strategic and cost effective investment.

When GLOBALink started in 1993, many advocates were still reluctant to use email.

Today it is hard to imagine but how many advocates of today blog, podcast or webcast?

Those new tools are like email was in 1993 but they are not embraced -yet- by the tobacco control community.

Like in 1993 GLOBALink's role is to act as a facilitator, a catalyst, helping the tobacco control community to understand and use the most modern internet based technology.

Francis Thompson called to get our help producing the daily FCA bulletin that will be distributed daily in Bangkok in a paper version and on line as a pdf format.

We would also suggest the (very easy) production of a blog format of the bulletin, plus podcasts and webcasts.

This is 2007 :) 

Ipod, YouTube and the blogosphere. Be part of it :)

We can do it.

Help us go to Bangkok.

Thank you.

Contact: boucher@globalink.org

In any case, the conference blog goes on :)

If we are not physically present in Bangkok it will have to rely exclusively on the contributors and we are sure they'll provide valuable content.

Of course we'll continue editing from Seattle :).

Deliverables:

the conference blog (with more content because of a real presence on site),

at least 5 audio-interviews per day and as many webcasts , 

capacity building for NGO advocates in web2.0 tools: hands on training

blog creation: you want a blog? get one now and learn the basics of blog writing

Objectives:

Covering the conference and reporting with web2.0 tools: blogs, podcasts and webcasts.

Introducing web2.0 tools and know-how to tobacco control advocates.