Client work in the following categories will give you a good sense of when you should look to PhilanthroMedia for help.
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Communications Expertise
“Virtual” Video Interviews – The Communications Network tapped Susan Herr’s deep knowledge of communications and foundations to produce an on-going series of interviews with leaders in the field. PhilanthroMedia launched a cost-effective video format — known as “diavlogs” — which utilizes Skype, professional video editing software, Vimeo web broadcasting and promotion via Twitter.
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Conference 2.0 Engagement
Retreat Attendees Talking Back – The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation enlisted PhilanthroMedia to garner video interviews with more than 100 staff members at an all-day retreat. The resulting video summaries captured not only what about the Foundation’s work makes staffers most proud but also information about improving processes discussed at the retreat. The Ford Foundation used PhilanthroMedia’s services in a similar way for its worldwide meeting, with a resulting video shared on the last day of the gathering.
Gorilla Engagement Squad – PhilanthroMedia pioneered a new media training and immersion opportunity for 20 professional communicators attending for the Communication Network’s 2009 Conference. This team, known as the Gorilla Engagement Squad, captured video interviews with more than 120 participants. In addition to expanding the live conference Twitter feed, content from the Squad was also used to produce seven videos cost-effective videos distributed to attendees after the conference. A written evaluation produced by PhilanthroMedia documented lessons learned.
Overnight Video Delivery — Overnight, PhilanthroMedia distilled 15-hours of interviews and footage from the National Conference on Civic Engagement in to a summary video that organizers were able to quickly send to news media and supporters. In addition, we customized video summaries to include interviews with individual organization leaders that garnered event visibility on partner organization websites.
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Multi-Media Content
Traveling News Crew of One — On behalf of The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (DMI), Susan traveled the country videotaping and editing from the road more than 20 U.S. mayors on the urban issues about which presidential candidates should be talking. Content expertise enabled Susan to interview these mayors about urban priorities with minimum coaching from DMI’s staff. This tour was cost-effective because she was able to shoot and interview at the same time and timely because she was able to provide edited interviews to the client each day. (Here’s what the NY Times had to say about this content.)
Video Spoofs – PhilanthroMedia staff met with Association of Small Foundations President Tim Walter to understand legal concerns foundation board members face in relation to self-dealing. Coupled with Tim’s guidance and deep expertise of foundation dynamics, PhilanthroMedia crafted three spoofs that ASF uses to educate members and recruit potential new members.
“Man in the Hall” Interviews — When invited to blog live at the Council on Foundations Conference, Susan’s knowledge of the players and the field enabled her to capture on-the-fly video interviews with more than 20 foundation leaders. The resulting video episode that garnered more than 5,000 hits when featured in COF’s “This Week in Philanthropy.”
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New Media Literacy
New Media Immersion Training – WorkingMother Media has expanded it 2010 National Affinity Leadership Conference to include our new media immersion training for up to 25 conference attendees that will be taught by Susan Herr and Jennifer Brown of Jennifer Brown Consulting.
