We’re living in the sharing economy, but you don’t have to give everything away. For a small film company, video content pays the bills. It’s just not financially viable (or fair to creators) to give content away in the name of generating buzz. On top of that, client…
Over the holiday, the main gig put on an amazing performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The performance run was an important one. The production was returning to the venue after a five-year absence. Great attendance and ticket sales that wow-ed the presenting…
Open House is MMDG’s largest event of the year, hosted at its Dance Center in Brooklyn, New York. For one day, the dance organization opens its doors to the public for a day of free classes, performances, and activities. Open House is designed to…
This August I joined the Joblogues team as a podcast c0-host. The gig is a weekly podcast, hosted along with the site’s founder and my longtime friend Joymarie. Together we highlight candid career conversations with millennial professionals about work, life and everything in between. Right…
Remember that documentary project I mentioned, the one using cross-media platforms to amplify the stories of women activists of the Arab Spring? It launched! Six short films releases in partnership with the New York Times and 4 feature film screenings at the Human Rights Watch Film…
On an unseasonably warm Spring day in New York’s famed Central Park, a young woman paces, cell phone at her ear. She is adorned with two nose rings, hoop and septum, plus an ornate necklace evocative of an artifact out of Nefertiti’s tomb glittering…
Every moment in time, no matter how brief, serves as the setting for billions of experiences playing out around the world. Every individual has conflicting storylines from their conscious and subconscious battling every second of the day. Yet we’re obsessed with telling and consuming stories that deal with…
In the Fall of 2014, MediaStorm embarked on an exciting collaboration with Peace Is Loud and Fork Films for The Trials of Spring, a multimedia initiative to amplify the stories of women activists on the frontline of the uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. As MediaStorm’s…
When I started my tenure as MediaStorm‘s Operations and Social Media Manager in 2013, I was tasked with a mission: evaluate and recharge the company’s approach to social media. Infusing communications strategy in the way the film and interactive design studio did business online required taking inventory of how…
The last time I wrote about social media, I made the case for storytellers and content creators to listen before they do any brand promotion online. Observing your online network should’ve given you some insight into what topics interest your neck of the digital…