As online video becomes an increasingly popular tool, I've had a number of organizations ask me recently, "Should my organization use audio or video to tell our story?"

Before choosing any social media tool, first you need to ask yourself:

1. What is the goal I want to achieve?
2. Who is my target audience?
3. What are the communication tools I could use to achieve that goal?
4. How much time, staff and money do I have to put into this project?

Last month's Net Tuesday in San Francisco featured Ephrat Bitton of iCare and Jonathan Thompson of Humanlink talking about how to use the Web for disaster relief.

You can hear recordings of their presentations and their interviews with our Net Tuesday Podcaster, David Collin of FI Space, on the NetSquared Podcast.

Thanks once again to our Net Tuesday Podcaster, David Collin, interviews with June Net Tuesday presenters, Cindy Li, Director of Content for Scrapblog, and Jonathan Boutelle, Co-founder and CTO of SlideShare, as well as recordings of their presentations, are up on the NetSquared Podcast.

I was so excited when I got the CD from the Cisco staff with all the recordings of this mornings' Project Presentations. I was going to clean them up and put them on the Net2 Podcast for you, but my editing program, GarageBand really doesn't like the 1hr 42min file at all. It won't let me make one split.

If you are at the Conference and are up for cleaning up the file and posting it up on the Podcast, please email me at bbravo@techsoup.org, or post a comment in this post.

One of the Featured Projects, Innovatorz, has been recording some of their fellow Featured Projects' stories about their "moment of inspiration."

You can hear stories from MAPLight, FamilyFarmed.org, HELP International Telemedicine Humanitarian Emergency Mobile Medical Clinic Network, Grassroots.org, Global Women's Leadership Network, Nabuur: The Global Neighbour Network and Kabissa.org here.

Boy it’s great to be heading back to the Cisco campus for N2Y2! I’m Sean Stannard-Stockton, author of the Tactical Philanthropy blog and director of tactical philanthropy at Ensemble Capital. You can get a sense for who I am from reading my bio. But I’m more interested in giving you all a chance to hear directly from Daniel Ben-Horin. To that end, I just posted a podcast I recorded with Daniel last week. We talk about the vision behind NetSquared and the usefulness of “wisdom of crowd” techniques for nonprofits and philanthropy.

I’m also the project champion for Innovatorz. They have an awesome storytelling model. Since I first took on the project, I’ve introduced them to a former president of Community Foundations of America, head of media relations for Council on Foundations and the executive director of a foundation communications firm. They were universally impressed with the Innovatorz model. I’m sure that whether Innovatorz wins or not, you’ll be seeing their work a lot in the coming year.

Last week, the 501c3Cast released what I would call an "audio portrait" of the African based nonprofit, Amazwi, on their April 23rd show. The 1 hour 13 minute program featured interviews with the organization's Founder and Director, local people singing the South African anthem (that was banned during apartheid), testimonials from three students in the organization's media training program, and interviews with three volunteer staff members about their work and what motivated them to volunteer.

Thanks to our San Francisco Net Tuesday podcaster, David Collin, you ca

Before flying from Oakland to Washington DC for NTEN's Nonprofit Technology Conference last week, I bought carbon offsets for my flight from TerraPass, and in the process signed up for their blog, TerraBlog.

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On of the hats I wear now for my chief client  is new-media editor of OnEarth Magazine. For the last six months, OnEarth has been putting out a podcast — 28 episodes so far, with everything from free-flowing interviews to radio-worthy feature stories to poetry readings. It’s really good content — the people who’re making the episodes are doing great work, and they deserve a big, healthy pool of listeners.