2011 was a great year of testing and experimentation for beNOW.tv, as we webcast over one hundred live programs. We streamed live from our network of fixed IP-controlled cameras from bookstores, music venues, editorial offices and public forums. We streamed conferences from the Global Philanthropy Forum and the World Affairs Conference to GigaOm’s Structure and SOCAP2011.

After participating in the eG8 Forum in Paris, we assembled a team of media and technology veterans with a collective two hundred years of experience to develop a next generation live media experience. Later this month, we will announce our new service from the MIDEM Conference in Cannes, France.

Stay tuned.

SOCAP/Europe: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Frank Van Beuningen, co founder of the first international social capital markets conference, gives the view from the continent. beNOW.tv’s live coverage of the SOCAP11 conference from Fort Mason, San Francisco begins at 9am PT.

Government That Gets Things Done
When it comes to social innovation, most government agencies are mostly just talk. And then there’s OPIC, the agency that gets things done. Elizabeth Littlefield tells what she’s learned so far and what she sees ahead for Impact Investing.

What Does It Take to Reach Scale?
To create the massive social change that the world needs, it takes a mix of public, philanthropic and investment funding and partnership. Brian Trelstad of the Acumen Fund has a road map to get there that makes sense.

Best of the Entrepreneurs’ Pitches
Some of the best pitches from the Pitch Room come to the main stage to inspire our community.

The second day of beNOW.tv’s live coverage of SOCAP 11 continues from Fort Mason in San Francisco with the morning plenary. Here’s a description.

From Crisis to Building Something New Together
In the era of anti-institutions ‒ as cities, states, and countries default on economic and social obligations, and citizen movements have the power to topple governments but little ability to rebuild them ‒ what will it take to solve the world’s most intractable problems? Deborah Alvarez-Rodriguez, who leads one of the country’s largest social enterprises, says the answer is in strategic co-opetition that straddles sectors and power.

Deborah Alvarez-Rodriguez, Sean Greene, Lisa Kleissner, Suzanne DiBianca

Making Your Life Count
Four people with a history of making a big difference with their careers talk about their new directions and decisions, and how personal choices intersect with the needs of the world.

Penelope Douglas, Michael Kieschnick, Jeffrey Hollender, Gil Friend

For complete details of the day’s events–and all conference session news and details–go here.

SOCAP11 CONVENES HUNDREDS OF GLOBAL INNOVATORS FROM 75 COUNTRIES
TO CONFER, PARTNER & SHAPE THE IMPACT INVESTING MARKET
SEPTEMBER 7-9TH IN SAN FRANCISCO

Impact Investing Market Predicted to Grow to $500 Billion by 2014

The fourth annual Social Capital Markets Conference (SOCAP11) will be livestreamed September 7-9 by beNOW.tv at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center. Hundreds of global innovators including investors, foundations, institutions and social entrepreneurs representing 75 countries are expected to gather in San Francisco to address the impact investing market – an emerging asset class that provides financial gains for investors with a social and environmental benefit.

beNOW.tv Livestreaming GigaOM Structure Conference June 22-23, 2011

Live from the UCSF MIssion Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, watch the two day event live, from 8:30am to 6pm PT. For more details on the speakers go to event.gigaom.com/structure. And watch the event right here on beNOW.tv or at www.livestream.com/gigaomstructure.

The New Republic editor Richard Just will have a live chat with New America Foundation policy analyst Jamie Holmes on his cover story on poverty and the theory of depleting willpower.

Join us Thursday, June 16th, at noon Pacific for this radical new look at the psychology of poverty and send in your questions via chat or Twitter #tnr #beNOWtv.

Here’s a link to the piece: http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/89377/poverty-escape-psychology-self-control