Our New Media Work at the United Nations

We've taken new media on the road. We're in New York City, attending the second week of the Unted Nations Conference on the Status of Women ("Beijing + 10"). 4 Franciscan University of Steubenville students and I are creating and posting "New Media" reports on the conference, as well as the United Nations General Assembly's vote yesterday to ban all human cloning.

With our audio recorders, laptops and a high-speed internet connection, the team has been busy. designed a Web site - Catholic NGO Voice - as a resource for conference participants and others involved in human rights concerns. Our first "podcast" from the UN conference was posted yesterday, with three more added so far. In addition to links through Catholic NGO Voice, the podcasts are online at the new Voices of Comm Arts Website.

And we've been updating the blog for the UN trip. If we can ever get all our team members and our laptops into our NY "headquarters" at the same time, we'll snap a few pictures to share with you.

Jim Coyle