Virtual News Show
The format of the show bridges people and global communities together about living a purpose-filled life from your own back yard. The show celebrates community volunteers and leaders, community development, and those who creating real change with boots on the ground. The original focus of Virtual Newsmakers was to feature everyday people who were bridging traditional and digital communications and empowering human communications through technology – people who using technology to tell great stories. Now it is about introducing inspiring stories. The goal of Virtual Newsmakers is to give people something worth listening to and provide immediate and insightful tips they can take away and implement into their lives that will make a difference. www.virtualnewsshow.com Twitter @virtualnewsshow
Episodes
June 14, 2021 • 6 mins
The 2020/21 pandemic has had many of us rethinking about how we do business, what we want to do for business, and how we can focus on things that are more important. This episode is a snippet from the book "Digital Public Relations for Business" and includes a couple of examples of how companies reinvented how they communicate with their customers.
Mark as Played
May 28, 2020 • 51 mins
How do you meet and develop online networks and interesting connections?
This archived interview is still every bit as relevant today.
You've hear the term "building a community" all the time, but what does that really mean? Lisa shares how both corporate and personal businesses can learn to post their personal best, post their wisdom, and find authenticity in the digital realm.
Lisa D. Sparks helps businesses navigate the Internet. ...
This archived interview is still every bit as relevant today.
You've hear the term "building a community" all the time, but what does that really mean? Lisa shares how both corporate and personal businesses can learn to post their personal best, post their wisdom, and find authenticity in the digital realm.
Lisa D. Sparks helps businesses navigate the Internet. ...
Mark as Played
May 18, 2020 • 36 mins
"The hardest thing about struggling is you feel like you have to suppress things. The more you suppress, the bigger the mess. Feel real. Feel everything. ... What made you happy today? What made you smile.""
Dave Matthew Boddy is inspiring, motivating, and has an amazing story to tell. He has endured at least 15 concussions, which have cut short a career in professional wrestling and impacted other career choices. Dave is a writer, ...
Dave Matthew Boddy is inspiring, motivating, and has an amazing story to tell. He has endured at least 15 concussions, which have cut short a career in professional wrestling and impacted other career choices. Dave is a writer, ...
Mark as Played
December 22, 2019 • 45 mins
This show was about solidarity, about women, and about using our voice to protest lenient sentencing, a biased justice system, and the unreasonable expectations that society places on women in our courts. This was a show to honor and support the Stanford Survivor: Jane Doe, whose name has become known as Chanel Miller, whose words have inspired and empowered a movement for change.
Cynthia K. Seymour and Debbie Elicksen shared this b...
Cynthia K. Seymour and Debbie Elicksen shared this b...
Mark as Played
December 13, 2019 • 41 mins
This archived show is about poker and its appeal; how to choose the best online poker site to play; the professional women poker players; and more.
Sandra Wong is an entrepreneur, designer & marketing specialist with a background in media, web and game development. She specializes in social media strategy, integrated marketing and game design. She has consulted for 50+ private and public companies in many industries including natura...
Sandra Wong is an entrepreneur, designer & marketing specialist with a background in media, web and game development. She specializes in social media strategy, integrated marketing and game design. She has consulted for 50+ private and public companies in many industries including natura...
Mark as Played
November 28, 2019 • 53 mins
Stephanie J. Castillo is an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker with strong roots in multimedia, photography, producing, and news journalism. She worked in radio news in Hollywood, multimedia production in Pasadena, CA and Madison, WI, and as a news reporter in Honolulu.
She started filmmaking in 1989, producing her first documentary with Hawaii Public TV. That film, Simple Courage: An Historical Portrait for the Age of AIDS, also w...
She started filmmaking in 1989, producing her first documentary with Hawaii Public TV. That film, Simple Courage: An Historical Portrait for the Age of AIDS, also w...
Mark as Played
November 27, 2019 • 26 mins
From Sydney, Australia, Meri Amber is a singer/songwriter who uses Internet media to share her music, but she sees the web as a community more than just a marketing venture. Her tip to others is to treat social media as a conversation, not just a place to put up posters.
This interview is from the 2013 archives, where Meri closed out our year, singing three of her songs.
www.meriamber.com
@meriamber
This interview is from the 2013 archives, where Meri closed out our year, singing three of her songs.
www.meriamber.com
@meriamber
Mark as Played
September 5, 2019 • 51 mins
Kevin L. Jackson is a globally recognized cloud computing expert, who will discuss how network management in the cloud can help you leverage your business.
Jackson is an Independent Thought Leader for IBM and Dell and Founder/Author of the award winning “Cloud Musings” blog. He has been recognized as a “Top 100 Cybersecurity Influencer and Brand” by Onalytica (2015), a Huffington Post “Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts on Twitter” (20...
Jackson is an Independent Thought Leader for IBM and Dell and Founder/Author of the award winning “Cloud Musings” blog. He has been recognized as a “Top 100 Cybersecurity Influencer and Brand” by Onalytica (2015), a Huffington Post “Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts on Twitter” (20...
Mark as Played
September 3, 2019 • 43 mins
This archived interview with Shahid Buttar may have been done in 2016 but it still applies today.
What rights do we have, how do we protect them, and how do we ensure we can maintain them?
Shahid Buttar is the Director of Grassroots Advocacy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org). He's a constitutional lawyer focused on the intersection of community organizing and policy reform as a lever to shift legal norms, with roots in...
What rights do we have, how do we protect them, and how do we ensure we can maintain them?
Shahid Buttar is the Director of Grassroots Advocacy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org). He's a constitutional lawyer focused on the intersection of community organizing and policy reform as a lever to shift legal norms, with roots in...
Mark as Played
July 16, 2019 • 23 mins
Steve Mesler was a member of the Night Train United States four-person bobsleigh team that won an Olympic gold medal in 2010. Steve and his sister Dr. Leigh Parise founded Classroom Champions, an organization that matches Olympians and Para-Olympians with a classroom anywhere in the world, to work with teachers and within the curriculum to deliver a mentoring program.
In this archived interview, Steve describes how this program got ...
In this archived interview, Steve describes how this program got ...
Mark as Played
July 1, 2019 • 30 mins
Jim Moss is a former all star professional lacrosse player, who was not only a force to be reckoned with in the National Lacrosse League, but also a member of the Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame. His career came to an abrupt end in 2009, when he was diagnosed with Guillane-Barre Syndrome. Since then, he has founded an online gratitude project called The Smile Epidemic, which has morphed into Plasticity Labs. His company is a researc...
Mark as Played
June 28, 2019 • 27 mins
In this archived interview, Daniel Newman offers savvy advice for those entering the workplace, and for those who are already in the workplace or running their own companies. His advice really has no generational divide.
He describes himself as a writer, blogger, thinker, and doer, and one of the big takeaways is you can sell more of yourself by "selling" less of yourself. You'll also learn what being mobile really means, and how m...
He describes himself as a writer, blogger, thinker, and doer, and one of the big takeaways is you can sell more of yourself by "selling" less of yourself. You'll also learn what being mobile really means, and how m...
Mark as Played
June 27, 2019 • 33 mins
Robert Caruso is one of the most awesome people you can follow on Twitter. His engagement with his followers is 100%. He wrote the software for it. If your business is currently spending 80% of its time managing content in social media, rather than engaging with people, then you need to talk to Robert. Find him @fondalo @engage2connect or fondalo.com.
Meanwhile, you will find some delicious nuggets in this archived interview on how...
Meanwhile, you will find some delicious nuggets in this archived interview on how...
Mark as Played
June 24, 2019 • 35 mins
A global conservation about the illegal rhino horn trade (and poaching of other endangered species) and how it impacts global security. It's not just a conservation issue.
During the time of this archived broadcast, Kathryn Kure was a director with The eThekwini Community Foundation (eCF), which worked to uplift communities through private, public and civil society partnerships. There is a strong focus on sustainable communities, wi...
During the time of this archived broadcast, Kathryn Kure was a director with The eThekwini Community Foundation (eCF), which worked to uplift communities through private, public and civil society partnerships. There is a strong focus on sustainable communities, wi...
Mark as Played
June 23, 2019 • 32 mins
Broadcasting social media versus connecting.
Aliza Sherman and Danielle Smith discuss how to collaborate with a co-author or co-creator through virtual means. In this archived broadcast, they discuss the fluidity of social media, how brands can be responsive to customers, and that choosing a tech-savvy individual to work your social media doesn't mean they know how to connect.
Their books: MOM, Incorporated and Social Media Engageme...
Aliza Sherman and Danielle Smith discuss how to collaborate with a co-author or co-creator through virtual means. In this archived broadcast, they discuss the fluidity of social media, how brands can be responsive to customers, and that choosing a tech-savvy individual to work your social media doesn't mean they know how to connect.
Their books: MOM, Incorporated and Social Media Engageme...
Mark as Played
June 22, 2019 • 31 mins
How many have reached out to query a business about a product or service on social media, only to have it fall on deaf ears? Dave Carroll is the man who created the viral music video "United Breaks Guitars" after employees from United Airlines broke his expensive guitar and refused to compensate him for it. A singer/songwriter, in this archived broadcast, Dave discusses how the company Gripevine (www.gripevine.com) was born, and ho...
Mark as Played
June 20, 2019 • 23 mins
In this very real archived interview from 2013, Chris Brogan shares his thoughts on New Media and how we can step into our humanity using technology.
Here's a summary of a few of the key moments:
1. When you are getting frustrated with being online or social media interactions, "Get Offline."
2. Teaching the New Generation of "World Dominators, Misfits and Freaks" (teens) how to succeed as a tomorrow's entrepreneurs. The system is ...
Here's a summary of a few of the key moments:
1. When you are getting frustrated with being online or social media interactions, "Get Offline."
2. Teaching the New Generation of "World Dominators, Misfits and Freaks" (teens) how to succeed as a tomorrow's entrepreneurs. The system is ...
Mark as Played
June 19, 2019 • 26 mins
Chris Yates, started out as a broadcaster on traditional TV. He discusses his shift from traditional newscasting to producing online webcasts. He does not consider himself a social media expert and clarifies "All I did is change my channel." The important thing is to be able to tell a good story.
He shares with us in this archived broadcast about his experience at the 2013 SxSW. He did stories on major brands and was the reporter to...
He shares with us in this archived broadcast about his experience at the 2013 SxSW. He did stories on major brands and was the reporter to...
Mark as Played
June 18, 2019 • 45 mins
Jenn Herman is the Internet's Instagram Queen. She will be the first to tell you that Instagram isn't just another photo and video sharing social media site. When used effectively, it can up your marketing game to generate more traffic and thus grow your business.
Jenn Herman has been featured in Inc.com and Social Media Today. She has a wealth of resources and tips on her website: www.jennstrends.com. This broadcast, while it is fr...
Jenn Herman has been featured in Inc.com and Social Media Today. She has a wealth of resources and tips on her website: www.jennstrends.com. This broadcast, while it is fr...
Mark as Played
Popular Podcasts
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations.
Anna Sale explores the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation.
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people.
A straightforward look at the day's top news in 20 minutes. Powered by ABC News. Hosted by Brad Mielke.