Making Your Media Matter Conference

The Center for Social Media announces the 2010 Making Your Media Matter Conference
Real Stories, Real Impact
May 12, 2010 at American University

Making Your Media Matter is a conference for established and aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communications leaders, funders and students looking to learn and share cutting-edge practices for making their media matter.

Register here

Fee $100, Students $50

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

9:00 Registration and Demos

Continental Breakfast

9:45 Welcome from CSM Director Pat Aufderheide

9:55 Introduction by CSM Associate Director Alison Hanold

10:00-11:30 Strategic from the Start - Developing synergies to build your conversation

Moderator: Lisa Smithline, Cultural Front Productions

Meg McLagan, Director of Lioness

Patrice O’Neill, Producer of Not in Our Town

Dennis Palmieri, ITVS

Debra Koffler, Conscious Youth Media Crew

11:30-11:45 Raffle & Shout-outs

11:45-12:50 Lunch (with round table ethics discussions)

1:00-1:15 Reports from lunch discussions

1:15-2:00 Honest Truths: Documentary Ethics In Practice

Group Discussion with Pat Aufderheide

2:00 Networking break

2:30-3:00 Spotlight Stand Up on new tools and research

Impact measurement tools: Jessica Clark, Center for Social Media

Funders’ Approaches: Alyce Myatt, Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media

Going Green: Larry Engel, American University

Working with Nonprofits: Shaady Salehi, Active Voice

3:00 Meet the Presenters, Visit the Demos

3:30-5:00 Fiction for change: How are narrative films making a difference?

Moderator: Claudia Myers, American University

Lisa Cortes, Producer, Precious

John Schreiber, Participant Media

Sebastian Dungan, Producer, Transamerica

5-5:30 Networking break

5:30-7:00 Keynote: Strategic Design in Social Issue Media

Keynoters: Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis, Filmmakers of The Reckoning

7:00-9:00 Reception with light dinner