Minimal animation from Panos on the role of communication in sustainable development, with emphasis on a population that is informed and listened to.
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No Impact Man: Activating Your Audience
Posted on 22/04/2010 by buddhasbreakfast
Working Films and the Fledgling Fund bring you the second in their IMPACT series of short films focussed on using film for social change. This one focuses on one man’s experiment in low environmental impact living, and how it became a campaign mobilizing thousands.
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IMPACT: a series of stories about film making change
Posted on 21/02/2010 by buddhasbreakfast
Working Films and The Fledgling Fund have produced a series of short videos looking at how film works in a social change campaign strategy. If the first video (below) ‘Assessing Impact: A Funders Perspective‘ is anything to go by this could be a useful starting point for many thinking of using video in their work. [...]
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VIVIDH – Community journalist initiative by Video Volunteers
Posted on 21/12/2009 by buddhasbreakfast
The excellent Video Volunteers is launching a new initiative called VIVIDH which aims to create a network of community journalists in India – ‘a Reuters from the slums and rural areas‘ if you like. The programme will give a one year, full time fellowship to 60 local activists across the country and train them in [...]
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Threatened Voices – Global Voices site tracking suppression of free speech on-line
Posted on 04/11/2009 by buddhasbreakfast
‘Threatened Voices‘ is a new on-line initiative by Global Voices Advocacy to help counter the suppression of free speech on-line. ‘It features a world map and an interactive timeline that help visualize the story of threats and arrests against bloggers worldwide, and it is a central platform to gather information from the most dedicated organisations [...]
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10 Tactics for turning information into action
Posted on 27/10/2009 by buddhasbreakfast
I don’t really focus on information technology, but seeing as this involves use of digital images I thought it worth posting. So, here is a short video brought to my attention by the excellent Osocio. It is a promo by The Tactical Tech Collective on how rights activists are using the internet for activism. The [...]
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YouTube for non-profits – See3 webinar
Posted on 30/09/2009 by buddhasbreakfast
See3 are organising a webinar on how non-profits can get the most out of YouTube. It will take place on 7 October at 1pm EST (that’s in the USofA). Check out more details here.
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World Portraits – ‘Fair Trade’ photos?
Posted on 25/09/2009 by buddhasbreakfast
I just saw this thanks to Susanne Ure on Twitter. There is very little info beyond that some royalities are paid via a micro credit facility to the subjects of the photos (who sign a model release form at the time the photo is taken). World Portraits is partnering on this initiative with UK stock [...]
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Just a click away – new feature on YouTube for NGOs
Posted on 19/09/2009 by buddhasbreakfast
YouTube has added a cool new feature for those using its Non-profit programme. Basically, it allows you to put links leading to external sites in your videos. The links will appear in the ‘annotations‘ you add to your videos (the ‘annotations’ feature allows you to overlay a text box in a video. Here for more [...]
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Good 50×70
Posted on 15/09/2009 by buddhasbreakfast
Launched in 2007, Good 50×70 is an independent, non-profit initiative aiming to ‘promote the value of social communication in the creative community, provide charities with a (free) database of communication tools, and inspire the public via graphic design.’ Good 50×70′s work revolves around an annual contest to design posters confronting seven of the critical issues [...]
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