Top 10 International Development Videos
I have always been interested in how videos can be used to promote international development. In my opinion a lot of development organisations waste money on producing videos, not thinking about their audience or the…
Social Media and International Development: Academic Texts
Here are a just a few of the academic texts and papers that I believe are informative for anyone studying social media’s relationship with international development. TEXT BOOKS General – Communication / Social Media Castells,…
Africa for Norway – a social media viral success story
If you are interested in social media for international development many of you will have already seen the fantastic Africa for Norway video which I mentioned in a previous blog. I was interested in how this video…
Live Below the Line and Social Media
Yesterday I met with Stephen Brown from the Global Poverty Project who manages the Live Below the Line Challenge in the UK. Last month I wrote another blog post about the campaign as I was…
Can Ricky Gervais’s irony save the world?
With the recent video’s by Mama Hope and Africa for Norway it seems like there is a new genre of ironic videos being produced for International Development. The first ridicules Hollywood stereotypes of African Men…
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How Charity:Water use Social Media
I was perusing Twitter the other day and came across a presentation by Paull Young (@paullyoung) who is Director of Digital Engagement at Charity:Water and was inspired by his talk. Charity:Water are a relatively new charity which started in 2006. I’ve seen a couple of their videos before…
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Welcome to Social Media for Development
Having set this blog up in the last hour I thought I would literally blurt out why I’ve started a blog. I…
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What makes a video go viral? – The success of Mama Hope
Ten months ago Mama Hope, a charity based in San Francisco, released a video African Men: Hollywood Stereotypes. The film was produced a couple of months after the Kony 2012 video and was designed to challenge the stereotypes of African men portrayed by Hollywood. It…
Four very different videos for development
As I’ve intimated in other blogs, I tend to watch a lot of development videos. Here are four of my favourites, for differing reasons. What’s your favourite – and are there any others you would recommend? 1 in 3 Women – Water Aid Africa for…