uwpocketmedia.org is a on-line community center for filmmakers, developers, content providers, educators, and anyone interested in sharing or learning about storytelling with small video cameras, mobile phones and other electronic devices that are small enough to fit in your pocket.

But what else is it? What goes on inside? and what the heck is “pocketmedia”? We really need your crowdsourcing help here. Think of this as your opportunity to help both develop and define a new era of social media storytelling.

Here’s a list of ideas to get the conversation started -

• Pocketmedia is video from your jeans pocket
• Pocketmedia is content production and distribution with low barriers to entry
• Pocketmedia is a set of tools to share your message broadly
• Pocketmedia is a way that everyone can report on events as they happen
• Pocketmedia is a method for production of ideas
• Pocketmedia is using hand-held communications technologies to tell stories
• Pocketmedia is a new genre in filmmaking
• Pocketmedia is a new set of storytelling tools
• Pocketmedia is happening at the University of Washington

Hanson Hosein, Director of the Master of Communication Program at the UW, commented:

pocketmedia means everyone is a communicator, a filmmaker, a journalist, a content creator, a community  organizer, a rabble rouser, a message disrupter, a salesperson, a marketer, a broadcaster, a narrowcaster.

What’s your definition? Please take time to share your comments!