Dorothee and Mark recently returned from a trip to Guatemala where they documented a medical mission to the town of Jalapa for Latin American Medical Providers (LAMP). They also shot footage at a nearby girls orphanage to raise awareness for the Chicago-based H.E.A.R Foundation. Stay tuned for the release of both videos!

Dorothee interviews women waiting in line to be treated at the hospital where LAMP doctors see over 250 people a day for one week:

Mark gets his gear ready to accompany a team of doctors to a remote mountain village in the Guatemalan countryside:

Dorothee decided it would be awesome to climb on the roof to get a shot of the long line outside of the hospital in Jalapa…

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

Happy Election Day everyone! And no matter who you choose for office, we’re glad you got out there to exercise your right to vote. No but seriously folks, vote for Obama.

Dorothee with that post-voting glow…

Dorothee is back from a whirlwind tour of Las Vegas for BlogWorldExpo 2008 (otherwise known as #BWE08). Let’s just say there were Elvis impersonators, lions, drunk bloggers and a pool involved…

No really though, friends were made, Twitter hashtags employed and lots of SEO advice shared. Dorothee got a chance to party with the Evolution of Dance guy, made it into the Girlz of Blogworld album at AspenSpin and even had some of her adventures chronicled in a blog post by her new friend @thinklynsen. Fun times!

First two photos via Adrants

Today is One Web Day, which many people like to call “Earth Day for the internet”.

The idea behind OneWebDay is to focus attention on a key internet value (this year, online participation in democracy), focus attention on local internet concerns (connectivity, censorship, individual skills), and create a global constituency that cares about protecting and defending the internet.

Michael Maranda (who writes wrythings) interviewed Dorothee Royal-Hedinger about her work at See3 in the context of One Web Day at a Chicago Net Tuesday meetup:

Last weekend, Dorothee was sent by See3 Communications to the Netroots Nation Conference in Austin, Texas. There she interviewed bloggers, attended panels and partied at the GQ/Huffington Post party! Check out her interview series with prominent bloggers, including OrangeClouds115, Red Wind, Lee Camp and One-Pissed-Off-Liberal, on the See3 blog.

Dorothee represented Fresh Cut Media at the taping of Chicago Public Radio’s “Chicago Matters: Growing Forward” which was broadcast live from the Green Festival. Hear her ask questions of “green” leaders on the audio podcast.

In the crazy world of web video, it’s often hard to get your work to the top of the heap. That’s why we’re thrilled to announce that a video made by Fresh Cut’s own Dorothee Royal-Hedinger and Robert Aquilar (of Bulletproof Films) was featured on YouTube’s homepage on Earth Day. In a short 24-hours, the video was viewed by more than 130,000 people! The video, “Carrying Power: Solar Energy On the Go” is about Noon Solar, a company that makes stylish solar-paneled bags.

Our host Paris takes a last look at the script while Hassan tests the camera.

The “Up To Speed” set, with webcams, computers, teleprompter and lots of cords to trip on!