Social Media Show

Jasmin Tragas is a woman on a mission to help provide opportunities for other women to succeed. And for many women that means first of all getting themselves out of poverty.

As a Women’s Opportunity Ambassador with Opportunity International, Jasmin set herself an ambitious goal of raising AU$10,000 to enable a Trust Bank to be established for currently poor women in the Philippines.

In recent days, with the help of a sponsor inspired by her campaign and the suppport of a number of bloggers and Twitter users, Jasmin’s fund-raising efforts have received a much appreciated boost.

You can read the full story and link to various blogs where people have posted to help the project, at Jasmin’s A Woman’s Investment blog.

And in this interview which I recorded last night, Jasmin talks in further detail about the project and how the Trust Bank will work.

I love meeting visionary people who have the determination and the smarts to turn their visions into business realities.

One such person is Jalali Hartman, Founder and CEO of the Yovia network, whom I met last year at the Blogworld and New Media Expo in Las Vegas, where Yovia had a stand. From talking with Jalali I was inspired enough to join the Yovia network.

Now, several months later, I’ve at last had the pleasure of interviewing Jalali for this Social Media Show.

In the conversation we touched on a number of subjects, including:

• how even experienced tech hotshots can learn from high school kids about the possibilities of the Web
• how to deal with corporate resistance to the introduction of social media
• why the Yovia motto is “Spread the Word”
• why some 2,000 bloggers and even whole villages in Africa are part of the Yovia network
• how to keep a human balance in the midst of the pressures of a tech startup
• how to get paid to blog by hooking up with Yovia

and more.

Listen to the interview here or download the MP3 file for your iPod or other player.

MP3 File