Zadi Diaz's blog http://www.blogher.com/blog/71/atom/feed 2006-01-29T23:50:47-06:00 Parenting and Teens http://www.blogher.com/node/5663 2006-05-23T17:55:30-05:00 2006-05-23T17:55:30-05:00 Zadi Diaz Sarah Stewart is an educational consultant who works with parents of struggling teens. She blogs daily at Isthmus about her encounters and the experience gained from working with parents that look for alternative educational settings for their children. From widlerness programs, therapeutic boarding schools, residential treatment centers and drug and alcohol centers... this one runs the gamut on valuable experience and practical advice that any parent can use.

]]> Sarah Stewart is an educational consultant who works with parents of struggling teens. She blogs daily at Isthmus about her encounters and the experience gained from working with parents that look for alternative educational settings for their children. From widlerness programs, therapeutic boarding schools, residential treatment centers and drug and alcohol centers... this one runs the gamut on valuable experience and practical advice that any parent can use.

Each week a different topic is covered in depth. This week it's stress management. That's a topic that anyone would be interested in. And truthfully, even though I'm not a parent, Sarah's advice does offer up an excellent primer for anyone who interacts with teens on a regular basis.

]]> The New Media Collective Helps Break Stereotypes http://www.blogher.com/node/2950 2006-02-28T17:26:37-06:00 2006-02-28T17:28:57-06:00 Zadi Diaz Say hello to Melanie Morgan, she founded The New Media Collective (NMC), an online project promoting diversity and education within the media-making community for people of color. The NMC highlights bloggers, photobloggers, videologgers, and podcasters who are helping to break down barriers of entry and stereotypes.

]]> Say hello to Melanie Morgan, she founded The New Media Collective (NMC), an online project promoting diversity and education within the media-making community for people of color. The NMC highlights bloggers, photobloggers, videologgers, and podcasters who are helping to break down barriers of entry and stereotypes.

Utilizing online outlets like videoblogging, podcasting, blogging, and photoblogging, we can represent ourselves honestly, accurately, and independently to the world at large without the distortions and half-truths of mainstream media.

Digital tools and technologies will enable us to find our voices, deliver our messages, and tell our stories. Not only will we create and control our own media, we will, in fact, become it.

That sound good to me!

]]> Learning how to videoblog http://www.blogher.com/node/2719 2006-02-22T13:42:11-06:00 2006-02-22T13:42:11-06:00 Zadi Diaz When I started videoblogging it was mostly learn as you go, since there were only a handful of people you could turn to when you had a problem with compression for the web or any other video issue.

]]> When I started videoblogging it was mostly learn as you go, since there were only a handful of people you could turn to when you had a problem with compression for the web or any other video issue.

Thankfully, today there are many people ready to help. Among them is Ryanne Hodson, one of the first female videobloggers who has been a steady presence within the vlogging community.

One of the most helpful tools she helped to create was Freevlog. A step-by-step multi-language videoblog tutorial designed to help those just starting out and interested in creating their own vlog for free. It also showcases new vlogs so you can keep up-to-date with all the new kids on the block.

As Freevlog says:

A vlog is a videoblog and you want one because, let's face it, they're not going to put you on TV. Besides, not playing that game is what makes this so much fun. You can do whatever you want.

]]> The Los Angeles Looking Glass http://www.blogher.com/node/1229 2006-01-30T13:48:22-06:00 2006-01-30T16:10:32-06:00 Zadi Diaz Let's backtrack a bit. Last summer, Lisa Salem (a mixed media artist who paints beautifully) walked the whole of Los Angeles with a camera strapped on to a baby stroller and stopped people on the street to document their encounter.

]]> Let's backtrack a bit. Last summer, Lisa Salem (a mixed media artist who paints beautifully) walked the whole of Los Angeles with a camera strapped on to a baby stroller and stopped people on the street to document their encounter.

"Walk! Los Angeles with me" turned into a tour of not only the city, but of it's people. From Echo Park to Skid Row to Hollywood to Crenshaw and everywhere in between. Lisa gives us a view of a city we often don't see.

Currently, it seems she's trying to get funding to turn her experience into a documentary and has already had an episode shown on regional cable. Stop by and say hello.

]]> Changing the World One Vlog at a Time http://www.blogher.com/node/1158 2006-01-29T23:50:47-06:00 2006-01-29T23:50:47-06:00 Zadi Diaz Hi All, I'm Zadi and I'll be adding on to the Blogging and Social Media blog by highlighting amazingly creative female videobloggers or those who film subject matter that might be of interest to us BlogHers.

]]> Hi All, I'm Zadi and I'll be adding on to the Blogging and Social Media blog by highlighting amazingly creative female videobloggers or those who film subject matter that might be of interest to us BlogHers.

Since videoblogging runs the topic gamut, we'll be seeing vloggers who cover all aspects of life and living. From mothers and wives documenting domestic life, to filmmakers experimenting with video, to social activists championing a cause, to those who just have something to say.

Being that videoblogging is about reforming media and taking matters into one's own hands, you can also guess that I'm interested in social issues. So I'll be contributing and highlighting women who are making a difference in society through the social and environmental causes they feature on their blogs.

So, if you know of anyone we should highlight, then definitely drop me a line and share the love.

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