WelcomeTo the Social Ventures Media Google Site - where the work of SVM is being logged and archived.
You'll find notes on recent and current projects and a profile of what SVM is and does.
Using available web technologies, a knowledge and learning hub is being created around the work of SVM and our partners
This part of the SVM Media Hub is being used primarily as a journal of SVM's current work - functioning as a repository for information, notes, plans and resources for our current projects.
An on-line scrapbook and journal of the work done in community with digital media and arts based activity.
It is intended to demonstrate how we can work with online technologies - this site being one example of how a free web site service can be used.
Other publicly available technologies and services like, Google, Creative Commons, Open Source software, free media hosting and site buliding services, blogging and more will be implemented on the Social Ventures Media Hub as the hub continues to develop.
If you'd like to know more contact us via email on sovenmedia@gmail.com
Laszlo Szabo
Director
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| Lj HillYouTube Clip Launch |
Online promotion and experimenting with viral marketing
On the eve of launching LJ's YouTube clip. SideProject Films have completed production, with Sarah editing, and are doing the launch in their temporary Studios above Legal Minds in the Armidale Mall. This law firm have been sponsors to SideProject since they began work on their Indie feature length film, Pendulum.
A flurry of promotional work - again fast and immediate - local Paper and tomorrow LJ does a phone radio interview with regional ABC. Meantime we've trialled our first Viral Marketing campaign through our email lists - using the following graphic ( an idea borrowed from Metro Screen email notification). The response has been good to both the print article: popular-musician-to-launch-youtube-clip.
Here's the eFlyer as we sent it out:
We'll see how this works as a means of promoting work that's being published on the Web. Everyone on board has responded very well to the experiment. We've also gone out through Facebook, Twitter, mySpace and other online outlets between us all.
Updates:
Sudan To Tamworth 8 minute edit for The Refugee Film Festival completed - unable to be scheduled - I think they were flooded by overseas entries. Disappointing that they strongly gave the impression that they were committed to taking the piece. This happens in the festival circuit, I suppose.
Nevertheless, this variation - with Diktor featured stands up well. Still included the original closing sequence - from where TLB Click are introduced. Will post this to the SVM Vimeo site soon.
Meantime - Abaker(Ma$ta One) and David(Durty Diamonds) have been linked up with Morganics - a fortuitous reconnection with him since we worked together on the 2004 Ausdance Youth Festival. They meet up in Sydney this coming weekend. That no doubt will lead to a great collaboration of some sort and we expect thay a great story will unfold here.
The HICUB communications strategy is nearing completion - a draft has gone to the project director, Dave Carr, who was presenting it to the Steering Committee today. Their feedback will be incorporated into the final. This has been a project with broad and diverse demands and certainly stretches out over the whole scope of work SVM does.
June
local
The Pretty Bird Video Shoot - a great night, intimate and informal.
Shot at the New England Conservatorium of Music, a few numbers with Night Horse - Michael & Lindsay.
We just left one camera rolling after we'd finished the shoot of LJ solo.
LJ, his guitar and a small group of supporters & friends - will launch on YouTube early to mid July.
For more on LJ, check out laughingoutlaw.com.au
We just left one camera rolling after we'd finished the shoot of LJ solo.
LJ, his guitar and a small group of supporters & friends - will launch on YouTube early to mid July.
For more on LJ, check out laughingoutlaw.com.au
Hers's a sampler of the boys with LJ. Sound's only the on-camera mike - but we'll get another chance when LJ & Night Horse support The Stiff Gins late July.
Lj Hill - The Night Horse Sessions from SVM on Vimeo.
promo for Lj's video shoot
June 20 is our date for shooting a music video for YouTube for local singer/songwriter LJ Hill
Lj is back in town after playing some prestigious gigs: he played to great audience and industry feedback at this year’s Byron Bay Bluesfest – coming to the notice of the Oscar Award winning Irish indie folk-rock act, The Swell Season.
In Byron, LJ featured on the bill on the First Nations stage, finished playing on Sunday night and was flown to Sydney on the Monday to be brought onstage, at the Sydney Opera House, as special guest artist, by The Swell Season’s Irglova Markeva – one half of the creative core of the band.
That concert had rave reviews in the Sydney press and around that time LJ had appeared live and solo at Sydney’s legendary venue - The Basement.
Add all of that to his recent show at the Uralla Community Hall and it’s easy to see how broad LJ’s appeal is with live audiences and how diverse and widespread his fan base.
July 24, 25 and 28 sees LJ back at The Basement and the Opera House with highly respected Australian songwriter and performer, Shane Howard.
And if that’s not enough, in-between, LJ is talking to music industry friends about planning the recording of his next CD. This follows the critically acclaimed Namoi Mud, and so LJ will go again with the Indie label - laughing outlaw.
LJ’s MySpace - myspace.com/ljhillmusic
LJ’s Profile - laughingoutlaw.com.au
Update:
News from Abaker aka Ma$ta One - was last heard of shooting a clip at SSTV before flying back home (June12) - he's got a lot of friends & fans waiting to hear his stories.
or find him on FaceBook - Abaker Athum
May
local
In the thick of working on the Communications strategies for the two projects - High Country Urban Biodiversity and New England Sustainability Strategy 2.0.
Meetings, workshops and networking to establish the needs of both projects. Also back to working the local press.
Have experimented with a web blog service called "Posterous" - a simple to use post-via-email blog.
We've trialled it as a virtual workspace for people coming on board to the HiCUB project.
It seems less daunting to new users than other technologies and is making a good "scrapbook" space as we gather web links, articles, videos etc.
Take a look at hicub.posterous.com - to see how a community of people are using the web as a place to lodge their ideas for sharing with each other. For SVM this is another teaching tool for those who are building their on-line literacies.
Meantime, the Refugee Film Festival is interested in an 8 minute edit of Sudan To Tamworth to screen at this year's festival during Refugee Week. The Festival's Director, Jose Argueta, and I have looked at various possibilities - and if approval is given by Diktor we'll feature his story.
Abaker ( aka Ma$ta Wne) - one of the rappers from TLB Click - as featured in Sudan To Tamworth has kicked up a storm in Nairobi and Southern Sudan, performing live, appearing on South Sudan TV - and at last word was shooting a video clip before coming back to Australia.
My colleague Helen, from the group that commissioned Sudan To Tamworth ( she did most of the interviews, faciitated conversations), and I are collaborating on a submission to the UNHCR - Australian Refugee Rights Alliance (ARRA) is calling for brief submissions from individuals and refugee community groups regarding current issues of concern to refugee populations in and from the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa regions.
We'll log some of our observations on the issues that most affect the young Sudanese living in rural Australia.
April
local
Bollywood Plays for Change at UNE Open Day
Shooting video footage of UNE students doing Bollywood dance steps outside the university library for the 2010 Open Day to a version of Chandamama - the track is from the Songs of the World CD from Playing For Change
The students are keen to have the clip up on YouTube - as they try to teach visitors and other students some basic Bollywood moves. Should be fun and gives us a chance to pay tribute to Playing For Change.
Former AFTVS student of mine - Peter O'Donohue and I get to work alongside each other on this one
Here's the link to PFC
Sudan To Tamworth screens at Regional Advisory Council Meeting
Wednesday May 5th - At the invitation of the Community Relations Commission's Director of Regional Services, Mr Fadel Benhima, we were invited to screen Sudan To Tamworth at the New England Regional Advisory Council's three monthly meeting.
Very warmly welcomed by Mr Benhima and Ms Ezel Jupiter - the chairperson for the New England RAC.
The meeting held in the Armidale Dumaresq Council Chambers received the work very well - and appreciated the updates on our Sudanese friends' lives since December.
Community Communications Strategy Design - NESS & HiCUB
April - May 2010
SVM has begun work on a consultancy to create a Communications Strategy for two regional projects -
- Phase 2 of the New England Sustainability Strategy (NESS) - to march 2011
- A strategic communications and media plan for HiCUB ( High Country Urban Bio-Diversity), a 2 year project, funded by the Environment Trust of NSW - to Feb 2012
Echidna claws graphic - ideas for using the Echidna as a logo design concept emerged from a first meeting. Here's a draft idea being used as a header for a Blogger site, a virtual meeting room between Adam Blakester( NESS,) JackieBowe (HiCUB) and myself for SVM. The blog is titled Blue Echidna.
The work for NESS includes adapting the ness.wikidot.com site from "sandbox" to an information service model, as NESS repositions itself as a governance model for Sustainability projects & initiatives in the New England region.
The site is to become an information and networking portal.
A great example of this is the Merri Creek Management Committee website at -
For HICUB - a two year Community Media Campaign through a process of Participatory Communications Strategy Design (PCSD) - modelled on the existing PCSD practice as used in communities across the developing world. This model suits the SVM approach - community capacity building.
Hugely exciting partnership that stretches community media across the New England High Country.
NRALC
Reconnecting with Tom Briggs and the Northern Region Aboriginal Land Council - over a year after the training program in electronic presentations SVM provided in partnership with Evolveris - August 2008
We'll work on putting some more polish on some of their presentations
Tom (the regional CEO) and Vanessa have made extensive use of Powerpoint for meetings, seminars and conferences) and Tom is now a veteran presenter. Vanessa designing & compiling the Powerpoints. Digital technology makes its way into their work increasingly as the projects they pitch and undertake get bigger.
Tom has lead the way in establishing a memorandum of agreement between the regional councils - improving their co-operation and collaboration - called Two Ways Together
Regional council meetings are now video conferenced. Gradually the Council's use of media and technology increases in sophistication.
Check out the NSWALC site if you'd like to know more about lands councils in NSW
http://www.alc.org.au/
Here's Tom at the annual conference in 2009 where the Friendship Treaty was presented and ratified.
international
SVM has begun an on-line collaboration with LUKMEFCameroon - to help them with learning the processes of project documentation.
The idea is to coach the team working in community - gathering video and stills to form the basis of an-online showcase of the work they do.
LUKMEFCameroon ( a project supported by the Martin Luther King Jnr Memorial Foundation) - A Canadian based Not-For-Profit orgasnisation working out of Lumbe in Cameroon.
A very exciting undertaking - hooked up through the International Peace & Conflict Network
Wrapped up Sudan To Tamworth - archiving footage and photos for delivery back to Evolveris.
The project still has offshoots.
Abaker from TLB Click has since been interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald in a feature piece on the South Sudan Soccer team - and life for young Sudanese in Australia.
We've stayed in touch as we discuss strategies for handling the media - especially as the stories tend toward the negative - the conflict in Sudan or street violence in the cities - Sydney & Melbourne in particular.
ABC Radio have aslo interviewed Abaker for Out of Africa on Radio Australia.
Meantime he's back in the studio recording his solo album. And performed with Dave at Harmony Day celebrations in Penrith.
Abaker ( Masta One) due to perform in Nairobi, Kenya in May
local
Bollywood Plays for Change at UNE Open Day
Shooting video footage of UNE students doing Bollywood dance steps outside the university library for the 2010 Open Day to a version of Chandamama - the track is from the Songs of the World CD from Playing For Change
The students are keen to have the clip up on YouTube - as they try to teach visitors and other students some basic Bollywood moves. Should be fun and gives us a chance to pay tribute to Playing For Change.
Former AFTVS student of mine - Peter O'Donohue and I get to work alongside each other on this one
Here's the link to PFC
Sudan To Tamworth screens at Regional Advisory Council Meeting
Wednesday May 5th - At the invitation of the Community Relations Commission's Director of Regional Services, Mr Fadel Benhima, we were invited to screen Sudan To Tamworth at the New England Regional Advisory Council's three monthly meeting.
Very warmly welcomed by Mr Benhima and Ms Ezel Jupiter - the chairperson for the New England RAC.
The meeting held in the Armidale Dumaresq Council Chambers received the work very well - and appreciated the updates on our Sudanese friends' lives since December.
Community Communications Strategy Design - NESS & HiCUB
April - May 2010
SVM has begun work on a consultancy to create a Communications Strategy for two regional projects -
- Phase 2 of the New England Sustainability Strategy (NESS) - to march 2011
- A strategic communications and media plan for HiCUB ( High Country Urban Bio-Diversity), a 2 year project, funded by the Environment Trust of NSW - to Feb 2012
Echidna claws graphic - ideas for using the Echidna as a logo design concept emerged from a first meeting. Here's a draft idea being used as a header for a Blogger site, a virtual meeting room between Adam Blakester( NESS,) JackieBowe (HiCUB) and myself for SVM. The blog is titled Blue Echidna.The work for NESS includes adapting the ness.wikidot.com site from "sandbox" to an information service model, as NESS repositions itself as a governance model for Sustainability projects & initiatives in the New England region.
The site is to become an information and networking portal.
A great example of this is the Merri Creek Management Committee website at -
For HICUB - a two year Community Media Campaign through a process of Participatory Communications Strategy Design (PCSD) - modelled on the existing PCSD practice as used in communities across the developing world. This model suits the SVM approach - community capacity building.
Hugely exciting partnership that stretches community media across the New England High Country.
NRALC
Reconnecting with Tom Briggs and the Northern Region Aboriginal Land Council - over a year after the training program in electronic presentations SVM provided in partnership with Evolveris - August 2008
We'll work on putting some more polish on some of their presentations
Tom (the regional CEO) and Vanessa have made extensive use of Powerpoint for meetings, seminars and conferences) and Tom is now a veteran presenter. Vanessa designing & compiling the Powerpoints. Digital technology makes its way into their work increasingly as the projects they pitch and undertake get bigger.
Tom has lead the way in establishing a memorandum of agreement between the regional councils - improving their co-operation and collaboration - called Two Ways Together
Regional council meetings are now video conferenced. Gradually the Council's use of media and technology increases in sophistication.
Check out the NSWALC site if you'd like to know more about lands councils in NSW
http://www.alc.org.au/
Here's Tom at the annual conference in 2009 where the Friendship Treaty was presented and ratified.
international
SVM has begun an on-line collaboration with LUKMEFCameroon - to help them with learning the processes of project documentation.
The idea is to coach the team working in community - gathering video and stills to form the basis of an-online showcase of the work they do.
LUKMEFCameroon ( a project supported by the Martin Luther King Jnr Memorial Foundation) - A Canadian based Not-For-Profit orgasnisation working out of Lumbe in Cameroon.
A very exciting undertaking - hooked up through the International Peace & Conflict Network
Here's Tom at the annual conference in 2009 where the Friendship Treaty was presented and ratified.
Wrapped up Sudan To Tamworth - archiving footage and photos for delivery back to Evolveris.
The project still has offshoots.
Abaker from TLB Click has since been interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald in a feature piece on the South Sudan Soccer team - and life for young Sudanese in Australia.
We've stayed in touch as we discuss strategies for handling the media - especially as the stories tend toward the negative - the conflict in Sudan or street violence in the cities - Sydney & Melbourne in particular.
ABC Radio have aslo interviewed Abaker for Out of Africa on Radio Australia.
Meantime he's back in the studio recording his solo album. And performed with Dave at Harmony Day celebrations in Penrith.
Abaker ( Masta One) due to perform in Nairobi, Kenya in May
media workshop & projects 2009
December
Well! It's finished! And it's viewable!
The final "video document" - Sudan To Tamworth is up on Vimeo.
Here's a sample - the opening section - Titles, Simon's photographs from his trip to Sudan and featuring TLB Click's "Back In The Days"
Sudan To Tamworth_Intro from SVM on Vimeo.
Head over to SVM on Vimeo to see the rest - at http://vimeo.com/channels/75655
The Project - Sudan To Tamworth
Creating Cohesive Community Through Story: CWA, Sudan and Tamworth
- a community relations project to produce digital stories from the Sudanese diaspora in Tamworth NSW
A year long project lead by Helen Swain for Evolveris - incorporating training in Digital Story Telling, community participation, media production.
A partnership project with members of the Tamworth Sudanese diaspora,
Along with SVM partners include:
- Evolveris,
- Peaceworks
- New England Institute of TAFE,
- Tamworth City Council
- The Kamilaroi Youth Program
- The Adior Sudanese Youth Organisation - AYDA
- CWA - Tamworth Branch
The SVM brief is to:
- Provide a pilot training program in digital story telling
- Produce and publish a digital film - four stories
- Document the project with digital media
The project is in major part funded by the Australian Department of Immigration & Citizenship
Read More.....
recent project
digital community storytelling workshop
labasa-wainunu, fiji november 29 - december 9 2008
commissioned by: Evolveris and Peaceworks
key stakeholders: USP Labasa Campus
Wainunu Community Mbua Province
project lead by: Dr Samuela Bogitini - USP Labasa Campus
Dr Micheal O'Loughlin - Evolveris
Ratu Orisi Baleitavea - District Officer Bua
and Tui Wainunu
Ratu Orisi guided us around a number of villages showing the growth and development projects that the communities are undertaking.
Potential projects for future development include harvesting the remnant tea, coffee and rubber plantations left behind when the colonial plantation owners left the region in the late 60's and early '70's.
While there are many issues to resolve and resources needed to realise their plans for the future, the people of Wainunu are working together in many innovative ways to manage their farms and natural resources.
The preservation of their culture and way of life is being merged with modeunder careful management by the paramount chief and the village chiefs wroking in a truly remarkable spirit of co-operation.
The Wainunu communities are vibrant, healthy and productive as they heve begun a new phase of crop production - Dalo ( Taro), Angona (Kava) and Coconut forming the basis of commercial agricultural projects.
Around 4 hours of video footage and over 200 digital stills and a number of audio recordings will form the basis of a DVD and Google site to tell their stories.
SVM is currently working on planning a process of collaborative editing, allowing Dr Bogitini, Ratu Orisi - based in Labasa, Vanua Levu - and Dr O'Loughlin and Laszlo - based in Armidale, NSW to work on the project's post production.
A sister/brother region partnership is being forged between Wainunu and Armidale. A major goal we now share is to establish a community built IT Centre with computers and internet access - powered by solar panels.
