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DC Startup Forum: WaPo's Risky Business

Will Vijay Ravindran put The Washington Post in the forefront of digital strategies? Ravindran is the Washington Post Company Senior Vice President and the first (ever) Chief Digital Officer.  Recently, he sat down with AU’s J-Lab Director and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Jan Schaffer, to discuss his new expanding role and the future of news reporting. Read more...

CALL ME KUCHU Filmmakers Weigh In on Lessons Learned

So you want to make a movie but aren’t exactly sure where to start?  Don't fret!  The options are fairly simple and filmmakers always fall in one of two categories: they go to film school or they buy a camera and start shooting.  Both have their benefits and while learning on the fly with just you and a camera is a bit cheaper, film school will hopefully provide tools for students through both knowledge and practice to not face the same avoidable confusion as their filmmaking predecessors.   Read more...

The Smoke Break has been Replaced with the Facebook Break

Recently, Facebook reached a milestone.  One billion users.  If it were 1804, that would be the entire global population "liking" and "tagging".  We decided there was only one thing to do to mark the occassion; join Facebook, and countless other social media outlets, at the 2nd Annual ‘Social Media for Nonprofits’ Conference. Read more...

The Network Effect: How Online Organizing Just Got A Little Easier

‘Better together’ was the motto of the 2012 Salsa Community Conference, held in DC early this fall.  Centered on the idea that there is greater potential for social change with collaboration, the slogan “There’s Strength in the Network” was repeated throughout the two-day event. Read more...

Everything Filmmakers Need to Know about the SILVERDOCS Conference

SILVERDOCS International Documentary Film Festival is the United States’ largest showcase of the years most provocative, compelling and transforming documentaries.    Because of the festival’s reputation and scale, it attracts some of the most prominent names in the documentary film world; both well seasoned veterans and up and coming stars.Read more...