Latest posts by Eddie Avila
Be the change you want to see in Global Voices — join the Community Council!
We’re forming a Community Council to deliberate the big questions facing GV. You can apply to join today!
2018 Editorial Goals: Getting to Know the Why and How of Indigenous-Led Online Media
Let's learn more about how indigenous-led digital media started and continue to represent themselves online.
Rising Voices at Iberoconf 2017 Exploring Ways to Promote Indigenous Participation on Wikipedia
Rising Voices attended the regional Ibercoop conference on June 10-12 to explore ways to further support indigenous participation in Wikipedia.
A Special Invitation to the Lingua Community From Rising Voices: Write About Language Revitalization!
This is a special invitation to Lingua translators to join Rising Voices to write about how technology is helping revitalize endangered and other underrepresented languages.
Be a Part of Shaping the Future of GV—Sign Up for an “Action” or “Ideas” Group!
Join small “action” or “ideas” groups to work on, explore, and develop broader issues and questions about the current workings or the future direction of GV.
GV Will Have Instant Articles – A Test Post
This is a sassy test content article that also goes over the custom styles supported by GV for storytelling and how they will look in Instant Articles. Please see the Facebook Instant Articles Guide for a technical overview of how to use them. (italic) Do you think Global Voices should implement Facebook's...
The Rising Voices – NewsFrames Initiative is Hiring a Community Lead
Global Voices (GV) seeks a NewsFrames – Rising Voices Community Lead to coordinate a new series of GV stories related to the representation of marginalized communities in media coverage. The NewsFrames – Rising Voices collaboration This collaboration seeks to combine the objectives of two GV initiatives: Rising Voices and NewsFrames....
Repackaging Global Voices Posts for a Specific Listening Audience
In 2013, the Global Voices Aymara team was awarded one of the Innovation Grants to try something new. The project called “Lingua Airwaves” sought to repackage GV posts into an audio format for radio listeners in El Alto, Bolivia. Many of the 1 million or so residents of the city...
The History of Rising Voices Microgrants
Did you know Rising Voices has had 10 microgrant competitions over the past 8 years? Did you know that we have received 4075 applications over this time period? In total, we have funded and mentored 57 different projects around the world.
Introduction to Audacity for Recording and Editing Audio
For those interested in creating their own programs or curate music shows for GV Radio, this simple guide created by FLOSS Manuals can help you get started. The guide provides a good overview on using the free software Audacity to record and edit audio. You can download the program here...
