September 23, 2008

All Voices and Being Seen and Heard in the Noise

ME Liz Strauss wrote this at 7:45 am

A Few Words from Blog World Expo

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On Saturday morning, I had the humbling experience of an interview with Kathy Jacobs, Community Guru of All Voice and a Microsoft MVP, known on Twitter as @CallKathy. We took a few minutes to talk about whatever we wanted.

The primary topic was citizen journalism, but she also challenged me to do some on the spot thinking. hmmm. If you’ve not yet discovered allvoices.com, co stop to see what we’re talking about. It’s a chance to raise your voice above the noise.


As social media connects us online in offline situations, video is becoming a way we get to know each other. Often we first say more into the camera than we have said to each other face to face.

Among all of us, online and off, cameras are no longer reserved for special events. They capture our faces in elevators and on security monitors. We change our routes on sidewalks to avoid cameras pointed where we might walk. We’re using them to mark moments and memories that once might have been fleeting or lost in the passing of time.

Cameras are in backdrop and the foreground. They’re changing the way that we record our lives.

How have cameras changing how you’re being seen and heard in the noise?

–ME “Liz” Strauss
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14 Comments to “All Voices and Being Seen and Heard in the Noise”

  1. September 23rd, 2008 at 7:57 am
    Vicky H said

    Hi Liz,

    Great video. I find the comment about those who are not in the social media conversation not realizing what it really is so true. They do think it’s video and lonely people just out there because they’re bored. If they only knew how truly innovative and fascinating we all are :-).

    The other piece I really liked is that the conversation is changing the world, because that’s the audience.

    Vicky H

  2. September 23rd, 2008 at 8:00 am
    Michelle Vandepas said

    I love the tagline you did for allvoices. Going there now to check it out. Nice video too … maybe next year I’ll make it to BWE09! I agree with Vicky.. those not in the conversation just don’t understand the power of it!

  3. September 23rd, 2008 at 8:12 am
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Vicky!
    Yeah, it’s hard to understand the truly vibrant conversation that’s happening if you’re not fully a part of it. The video, audio, and blog online are changing the world of relationships.

  4. September 23rd, 2008 at 8:13 am
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Thanks, Michele.
    I had no idea Kathy was going to ask me about the tagline. I’m glad my brain didn’t freeze. I guess I’ve gotten used to the cameras around us now.

  5. September 23rd, 2008 at 8:23 am
    Lucretia Pruitt said

    Great interview Liz! and great tagline too…

    I shouldn’t be surprised, but wow - that was rocking for 15 seconds rather than 15 minutes! :)

  6. September 23rd, 2008 at 11:36 am
    Amy Derby said

    The Liz Tagline project. I love it. All Voices looks very cool.

    Cameras, eh? I try not to leave the house too much so they can’t find me. ;-) Seriously though, that would take some getting used to for me. [/end serious] Is makeup and a hairstyle required? Because I would have to hire someone for that. LOL

  7. September 23rd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
    Delaney Kirk said

    Hi Liz,
    I’m looking forward to the conversations at Open Mic tonight!

  8. September 23rd, 2008 at 6:36 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Delaney,
    We’ll be making the voices be heard in a new way for sure!

  9. September 24th, 2008 at 4:47 am
    Ricardo Bueno said

    You know, I wasn’t much into video before the Blogworld Expo. But when I arrived, a good friend of mine let me borrower her flip cam. I didn’t know what I was doing but having arrived back home, I’m sifting through some of the video that I got and it’s totally amazing! They add a whole new element to things (to the conversation). It’s like literally bringing the conversation home (some people didn’t get be present while we were conversing in the halls, and through the video, they get to be).

    Thank you for the wonderful time Liz!

  10. September 24th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Lucretia,
    Thanks! Who knows how it all comes togethers, but sometimes it does. -eh? :)

  11. September 24th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Amy,
    I guess in this new world, I’ve just given up on trying to take hold of the makeup and the hair . . . you can tell, right? Authentic, ain’t so beautiful . . . [grin]

  12. September 24th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Delaney,
    The conversations were everything we could have hoped for and more. :)

  13. September 24th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Richardo,
    We’re learning to have cameras everywhere in our lives. It’s okay isn’t it? Yeah.

  14. September 25th, 2008 at 1:09 am
    Amy Derby said

    Liz,

    I don’t own a brush. Seriously.

    You look brushed, so you’re already better than me. :-)

    My personal philosophy: brushing hair is like making a bed, total waste of time to “fix” something if it’s just going to get messed up again. Unfortunately most of society doesn’t agree with me.

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