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 NAMAC Netvibes SM Dashboard

While working at NAMAC as their Online Community Manager, I built a social media monitoring 'dashboard' for them. I used it to monitor online activity 'about' NAMAC across online social networks - this included Twitter, del.icio.us, blogs as well as NAMAC Member sites.

Art Houses Unite!

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How do art house cinemas survive in the 21st century with a business model that appears to be quixotic at best and suicidal at worst?

Transmedia Activism: Telling Your Story Across Media Platforms to Create Effective Social Change

Author: 
Lina Srivastava

Transmedia storytelling, a concept identified by Henry Jenkins, is storytelling by a number of decentralized authors who share assets and create content for distribution across multiple forms of media.

Conference Report: “The Conversation: The Future of Cinema, Games and Online Video: New Tools, New Distribution, New Rules”

Author: 
Vicki Callahan

A report from this conference that discussed strategies of change and survival in our ever shifting media landscape.

5 Ways You Can Supercharge Your Online Network with NAMAC

NAMAC connects you to people, events and knowledge in the media arts field. Here's 5 quick ways you can supercharge your online networking using NAMAC's network on our website as well as other social networks.

FEED

Author: 
Wendy Levy
In our new “digital ecology,” it seems we are all producers. Our capacity to create and feed information, content, images, and identities from and to one another is now an experience and extension of the body so ubiquitous that not to do it can leave you feeling hungry and alone. A blank screen is like an empty stomach: no feeds (RSS), no tubes (YOU), no culture.

CHANGE

Author: 
Caroline Savage
I recently relocated from rural Pennsylvania to San Francisco, taking on the exciting role of executive director at San Francisco Cinematheque. Obviously, this is a huge geographical change, but it is also a return, as I was involved with the Bay Area media arts community from 1974 until 1990. The renewal of my presence here has provoked many thoughts for me about changes in this community. A recent Meredith Monk performance shifted my thinking about change to the concept of “impermanence,” which conjures images of flow, movement, and transition as the way of life.

The Future of Independent Media: A Scenario Thinking Process

Author: 
Helen De Michiel
In 2004, a group of San Francisco media organizations partnered with Global Business Networks to conduct a scenario planning process about the future of the field of independent media. Read the summary of findings.

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