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Video for Change Impact Survey: Key Findings

by tnotley | Dec 11, 2014

In October 2014 we asked Video for Change practitioners to complete a survey to help us better understand impact design and impact assessment practices and needs. 41 people completed our survey and by far most were working in Asia (91%) followed by North America...

Video For Change Approaches and Impact: Inputs from Yogyakarta

by Admin | Oct 24, 2014

Earlier this month at our EngageMedia office in Yogyakarta, Indonesia we hosted a consultation session with organisations that are using video as an approach to create or support social change. This consultation is the first in a series we have planned to gather...

Calling all Video for Change practitioners: Please help inform our Impact toolkit!

by Admin | Oct 7, 2014

Over the past 18 months the video4change network has been working on a toolkit to help Video for Change practitioners design for and evaluate impact. We’ve been blogging about this research here. We are now at a stage where we’d really like some inputs from other...

Why WITNESS and Other Nonprofits Are Adopting the Serious Business of Monitoring and Evaluation

by Admin | Sep 5, 2014

By Sara Federlein Last month, The New York Times “reviewed” the still-in-the-works Participant Media Index designed to measure the impact and engagement of social issue documentaries. Anyone in the nonprofit world knows that “impact” and “engagement” are the buzzwords...

Video for Change and our “Taxonomy of Impact”

by tnotley | Aug 29, 2014

This post considers the types of impact Video for Change practitioners can contribute to. It also discusses how our ‘taxonomy of impact’ has been integrated into the early development of our Video for Change Impact toolkit. Last week the Center for...

Understanding the Practices and Impact of ‘Media at the Margins’

by tnotley | Jul 18, 2014

This post looks at the work of Professor Clemencia Rodriguez who has spent twenty years researching and supporting citizens’ media initiatives in Colombia. In reporting on a talk and workshop Clemencia gave last week in Sydney, I consider what the video4change network...