About
My name’s Ben Colmery, and this is the very beginning of my running my own blog on my experiences in media development around the world. This blog will be a place where I share experiences and resources I have along the way, as well as reflections from the past.
Previously, I was Co-Managing Editor of The Morningside Post, where I often blogged about media development, among other things. Now, I’m working on building my own independent blog. That said, I still plan on contributing my share of posts over at The Post.
Otherwise, I am a media developer trying to empower people through new and traditional media. That includes putting together trainings for journalists and NGO strategists in Ukraine to utilize social media like blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube to spread content, raise awareness, and mobilize action. Likewise, researching capacity-building needs for traditional media in West Africa and developing program recommendations. And, out of frustration I experienced while doing media development work in Ukraine back in 2004, and trying to find grants for an NGO with a terrible Internet connection, I put together some recommendations I like to call “Web Design by Donor Organizations for Low Bandwidth“.
You can find me at:
- bencolmery4 [at] gmail.com
- http://facebook.com/bencolmery4
- http://twitter.com/bencolmery4
- http://delicious.com/bencolmery4 – I bookmark A LOT of resources on new media, marketing, advocacy, development, etc.
- The Morningside Post – my old blog at Columbia University.
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