This Friday, May 3rd, I’ll be in Boston for Making Media Now, the annual conference from Filmmakers Collaborative. This is my first time attending, but the event has a reputation for highlighting the latest challenges and opportunities in the independent media community and for providing a valuable forum for networking and learning, so I’m excited to experience […]
One of the great blessings of producing short films for purposeful organizations is that good causes have no geographic bias. In addressing disease, poverty, education, nutrition and a myriad of other important issues, our clients are as likely to send us to the remote corners of the Earth as they are to the center of […]
This story first appeared on the Content Marketing Institute, an online magazine for content marketing education and best practice. You can read the original article here. As video content becomes a more regular feature of content marketing strategies, we need to ensure that the same attention that goes into preserving the purity of the written content — […]
Each year GlobalGiving, the online marketplace that connects funders with lesser known purposeful organizations and projects, hosts a video contest among those nonprofits who have posted a funding opportunity on the GlobalGiving site. This year more than 65 organizations entered films into the competition, and we were proud to learn this week that Hidden Villa was named one of the […]
If you work in the non-profit world, odds are that you already know of TechSoup for the donated or discounted hardware and software that it distributes to purposeful organizations. You may even be reading this post on one of its refurbished computers. This month TechSoup is hosting the 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge, which encourages nonprofits to submit short […]