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• Bowling Alone: How to Rebuild our Communities

Toastmasters speech by Brenda Smull, DTM. Talks about the need for community in the aftermath of the Dearborn Creek shooting. 

• Facebook and Social Capital

A video using facebook and other social media tools to explore social capital concepts and themes. 

• Howard Rheingold on collaboration

A TED talks. Howard Rheingold, writer, artist and designer, theorist and community builder, talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.

• What is Building Healthy Communities?

The California Endowment's film crew put together this short piece about the Building Healthy Communities Initiative. The City Heights Community Congress features prominently.