As the founder of one of the only nonprofits in the world that helps connect nonprofits to filmmakers I wanted to make sure you all knew about our friends over at the DoGooder Awards. For nonprofits and social causes, video can have a tremendous impact – sharing their message with a larger audience, moving people to action, and bringing more ...
Read More »@HOME : The Future of Gamification for Good?
At Lights. Camera. Help. We talk a lot about the power of documentary film and video for making measurable, on the ground impact — which is exactly what a new project from Chicago-based Kindling Group is doing for the issue of homelessness. It’s a transmedia campaign called @home, and it’s using documentary film, social media, and a smartphone “game for ...
Read More »Video : Old School vs New School?
A guest post. Last week, I conducted my first workshop on video communications called “Leveraging Video for Social Change” for NetSquared at Affinity Lab. My presentation was geared towards nonprofits, but my aim was that it would be useful for product developers and small businesses as well. I covered a lot of ground in my 45 minutes, including five reasons ...
Read More »Nonprofit Video and Thought Leadership
Hey All! I had a great time putting my video thought leadership hat on with the TechSoup folks this week. We partnered up with a bunch of other industry leaders to do a Live Chat and Video show about how nonprofits are using video to SHOW their mission. Want to check it out and find out more? And get to ...
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