As I mentioned in a recent blog post, it’s time for the 2009 DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards! This promo video was fun to make, we did it in the See3 office! If you have nonprofit videos made in 2008, you can upload them to dogooder.tv/contest2009.
-Dorothee

This month I had the pleasure of attending Fem2.0 in Washington, D.C. representing See3 Communications. It was a great chance to meet up with my fellow Change.org Women’s Rights bloggers Loryn Wilson and Jen Nedeau:

Here’s an excerpt from my longer post about the conference on the See3 blog,

What I liked most about the conference was the diversity of people that attended. It was a great mix of races, genders, ages and because the conference was focused on organizing women online and off, there were techy and non-techy people present.

A major theme that came out of the conference was bridging the gap between old and new activists and using technology to engage the younger audience. Jen Nedeau, my fellow Women’s Rights blogger at Change.org, moderated the panel, “At the Crossroads: Organizing the Next Generation of Feminists Online and Off”. She emphasized in her presentation that young activists need to be engaged where they live online with customizable options to participate.

Here’s a video that Nerdette from NotMyGal filmed of that panel (yup, that’s me listening in the background):

-Dorothee

Check out this gorgeous new music video by Xavier Chassaing for musician Fedaden’s song “contre coeur”. The video was created entirely with a still camera using an innovative mix of stop motion and live projection mapping techniques from more than 35,000 photographs. It certainly is an eye-opener in terms of what you can do with hard work and a still camera.

Thanks to Adam for the tip!

It’s finally that time of year again! Starting today, video submissions are being accepted for the 3rd Annual DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards, co-sponsored by The Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) and See3 Communications. Nonprofit organizations and foundations are encouraged to submit their videos at www.dogooder.tv/contest2009!

This year’s theme, “Everyone’s Doing It”, is meant to include submissions of all shapes and sizes, from organizational vlogs, to staff-produced web clips, to high-end, professionally produced videos.

According to Michael Hoffman, CEO of See3 Communications, “2008 was a great year for video, and we continue to see incredible growth each year in the number of nonprofits using video. With camera and equipment costs down, organizations have nothing holding them back from using video as a communications tool. We’ve seen some really innovative, powerful videos this year, and we hope the DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards will highlight that.”

Last year, more than 160 entries were received from over 100 nonprofit organizations. The top winning videos were from the Humane Society of the United States, Greenpeace International, and the Center for Constitution Rights. The winning videos receive thousands of views and publicity online and offline.

Video submissions will be accepted until March 26, when a panel of judges will select the finalists in each category. The public voting period will open on April 7 and end on April 26. The winners will be announced at NTEN’s annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in San Francisco, which takes place April 26-28, 2009. Winners will be featured on The Nonprofit Times website.

You can register for the NTC at www.nten.org/ntc.