Five Months After Its Debut, YouTube Is a Star (The Washington Post)
Fast Internet connections and digital video cameras are giving average people a new avenue to fame. With other homegrown phenomena such as Web logs, or blogs, and radio-style podcasts, the Internet is changing people’s relationships to the media and putting more power into the hands of consumers.
LeaderNotes: How to Raise $500,000 from Middle Class White Kids (and Why the Red Cross Never Will)
(heard about this from Seth Godin)
It looks like Invisible Children is doing many things right. These folks are passionate , they make it easy to digest and pass their message along and have supporters acting as the PR Dept. . Make sure to check out the MTV style movie used to promote and explain the cause.
Beyond Blogging 2006: The Future of Communications
Fleishman Hillard is putting on a May 19th blogging panel discussion. Panel features several good people including Shel Holtz, Todd Tweedy and Pete Blackshaw. They even have an event blog. Register here.