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Moontoast

 Where do you get your tech advise?  A lot of folks just google the problem and spend hours trying to figure it out...or maybe that's just me.  Enter Moontoast.  This great little site connects people with knowledge on something with students.  You need someone how to show you to configure an IMAP account, this site connects the student and teacher via web video.  Pretty nifty.

WatchitToo! Or 3, or 4, or...

Video Conferencing on the computer is becoming a more accessible and easier to use option every day.  Still, each service has it limitations and strengths.  If you're using a good client for conferencing but have a hard time sharing documents during the call, tap into: WatchItToo.  It allows you to connect folks to look at the same documents you are looking it.  Give it a view!

Animate Change

Searching for a way, cheap-and-easy, to give your message some extra punch...to stand out amongst the endless blogs, PowerPoints, etc.?  Enter Memoov.  This easy-to-use innovative web-based application allows users to create animations and character personalization to explain, pitch or persuade on behalf of your issue or product! 

History of the Internet

For your inner geek, the past is pixel:
History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.

Fix Photos Free!

Need to crop, brighten or resize a photo for your a flier?  No need to shell out big cash for a memory-eating desktop application - Pixlr to the rescue.  Pixlr is an online free application that covers all of your basic photo-editing needs.  It's ideal for the social entrepenuer on a budget.  And the next best thing to being free, it's super easy to use.

Broadcast Your Video - On Schedule

Everyone knows how YouTube works.  But how do you demonstrate video to a wide audience without going completely public.  For instance, if you wanted to preview a video message (like a commercial or special footage) to press or donors, before going totally public, there is a new tool in your in-box!  Check out SeeToo.

Adventure "Carried..."

This is very creative.

Check out this new "choose your own adventure" released by Congressman Cantor's (R-VA 7) office.

This is a GREAT use of engagement-media (interactive online video), it is focused on a GOOD issue but it is an IFFY execution.

Internet People!

Total HT to Crunch Gear for this...but a less than serious aside is this playful montage tribute to the cultural impact of our Internet:

The next viral video?

Everyone is say'n "I got a crush...on Obama!' is the next viral IT video. 

Maybe. 

It'll no doubt make the rounds of Barak Obama's solid SocNet net-roots...and if it brings new people into those nets...then it will have been a positive for his campaign (and entertaining for the rest of us).

post-"Macaca"

The NRSC provides GOP candidates a 39-page guide to eCampaigning and avoiding those "Macaca" moments.  That's a good thing...a start. 

The Politico has an excerpt that contains such gems as:

Always assume you're being recorded, and always record your opponent.