Engagement Through Digital Media Forum and Workshops

The Engagement Through Digital Media forum and workshops were sponsored by Washington State Arts Commission and The Wallace Foundation.

 

Forum

Thursday, February 17, 2011, 10 am to noon
At Seattle Center’s McCaw Hall (Nesholm Lecture Hall/ SIFF Cinema)

Personal Engagement in the Arts through Digital Media: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Going

 

Presenter: Professor Hanson Hosein, Director of the Master of Communication in Digital Media at the University of Washington is an award winning documentary filmmaker. Hanson specializes in storytelling, social media strategies and new models of communication.

 

Respondents included: Crystal Clarity, Director of Marketing for Pacific Science Center; Deborah Person, Managing Director of Seattle International Film Festival; and Scott Macklin, Associate Director of the Master of Communication in Digital Media program at the University of Washington.

 

Workshops

"Building Organizational Capacity through Convening Community Stories" Scott Macklin and innovative video artists in analyzedarts organization’s strategies and methods. 2 workshops were held in February 2011 in Seattle and Tacoma. The workshops focused on learning to film your stories, work with, and empower your community through digital media

 

 

Stories have always been the heartbeat through which communities are bound and the footsteps by which organizations bridge their mission to the outside world. With the advent of digital media and social technology, an organization's ability to create, disseminate, and thus challenge dominant modes of mass media has arrived. Community centric storytelling puts the role of the storyteller in the hands of the communities we serve and places active participants in the realm of social communities through the practice of transparency and authenticity. This workshop explored specific digital storytelling examples that convene community and give it voice—as well as align with your organizational mission(s).

 

Watch the Video

Watch an online video of the digital engagment forum provided by the Seattle Channel.

 

Read the Material

Hanson's blog post and read (and play around with) the prezi presentation.

Biographic Information

Hanson Hosein

Director of the Master of Communication in Digital Media at the University of Washington in Seattle, and the host of Media Space on UWTV. He specializes in storytelling, social media strategies and new models of communication. As President of HRH Media, he employed this expertise to direct the award-winning documentary films "Rising from Ruins" and "Independent America: The Two-Lane Search for Mom & Pop," as well as to provide high-level consulting services on communication strategy. Because of this work, Seattle Magazine named him "Most Influential" in fall 2010. Hanson is presently writing the book Storyteller Uprising: Trust and Persuasion in the Digital Age. In April 2010, Hanson hosted the enormously successful TEDx Seattle; he recently launched Four Peaks -- a regional hub that will host a series of events in 2011, as well as a business incubator for the Pacific Northwest's content technology community.

 

Crystal Clarity

Director of Marketing for Pacific Science Center, a not-for-profit educational institution in Seattle with a mission of inspiring lifelong interest in science, math and technology. She oversees all marketing strategies and endeavors, including community relations, paid and earned mead, social media, web content and architecture, graphic design and special events. Prior to joining Pacific Science Center in 2006, Crystal worked as a television and print journalist in Oregon and Washington. She most recently served as executive producer for Q13 FOX News in Seattle, earning three Emmy nominations for outstanding news.

 

Deborah Person

Managing director of Seattle International Film Festival for the past 6 years. She received her master’s in nonprofit leadership from Seattle University and her bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College.

 

Scott Macklin

Associate Director of the Master of Communication in Digital Media program at the University of Washington. Scott seeks to create a rich infrastructure that supports innovation and collaboration through the exploration, development, assessment, and dissemination of next-generation technologies and strategies. Scott serves on the advisory board of the Head Start Center for Inclusion and on board of the South African NGO Saving our Schools and Community (SOSAC). Scott uses social media as a powerful tool for learning and building meaningful relationships that create opportunities to engage in acts of social justice. His co-authored article, The Catalyst Project: Supporting Faculty Uses of the Web...with the Web, won the EDUCAUSE contribution of the year award. In his copious amounts of spare time, Scott makes award-winning documentary films and raises chickens.