Here are a few updates:
1. We have our "What does your community know about modern-day slavery?" video posted on the site. Yay!
2. The SoundSlides presentation is waiting for approval from our supervisors in DC. It's the story of rescue and restoration of a young boy, Viswanathan, and his family in South Asia. The story is incredibly encouraging and the images (taken by IJM on the ground) are great!
3. Blog Tour: This is GREAT! We've already heard back from at least 7 of the 22 bloggers we contacted about making a post on ATEOS, and they've signed up for specific dates. I was surprised by how much work actually goes into making contacts with other bloggers. I realized how intentional we have to be in making specific comments about their work as well, so they can be sure our requests are not "spam" and that we're sincere in asking for their help. ALENow.com already posted about ATEOS on their homepage and Facebook page, so we reciprocated the link last week as well. We have at least one blogger signed up for each week leading up to the "Weekend to End Slavery" on November 14.
4. Discussion Forum: Melissa and I are wondering what's been going on with that. At this point, we think it may be more effective to continue to make all of our posts to the News/Updates site and enable "comments", including those posts specifically addressing those hosting house parties and/or church screenings.
5. New Timeline: Melissa and I have created a new timeline so we can be most effective with our time and resources leading up to the Weekend to End Slavery. Basically, we will be posting "What's in the News?", original content, blog tour updates and house party info on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays as appropriate.
We're looking forward to connecting with our supervisor soon, as circumstances out of our control haven't allowed us to have a proper catch-up/re-orientation conversation.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
DC Premier: ATEOS
Ambassador Luis CdeBaca was one of many key influencers who attended the DC premier of IJM's documentary, At the End of Slavery. Some of his comments were featured in one article from the Christian Post, which highlighted the importance of rule of law as the most effective tool to smash global slavery, country by country, community by community.
This week, Melissa and I will be finalizing and posting a video showing a series of interviews with college students on modern day slavery. We're also producing a SoundSlides presentation of a young Indian boy named Viswanathan, which will be posted sometime next week.
On the "getting the word out" side of things, we're creating a template to send out to key bloggers in the human rights world to publish a post on At the End of Slavery, and will also be tapping into influential social networking sites as well.
Lots has been happening, schedules are being tweaked and we have a few other projects in the making that we're trying to figure out how/when to present on the site over the next few weeks.
This week, Melissa and I will be finalizing and posting a video showing a series of interviews with college students on modern day slavery. We're also producing a SoundSlides presentation of a young Indian boy named Viswanathan, which will be posted sometime next week.
On the "getting the word out" side of things, we're creating a template to send out to key bloggers in the human rights world to publish a post on At the End of Slavery, and will also be tapping into influential social networking sites as well.
Lots has been happening, schedules are being tweaked and we have a few other projects in the making that we're trying to figure out how/when to present on the site over the next few weeks.
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