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Prerequisites:
Must be familiar with how to record a video with a smartphone.

What to Bring:
Bring your smartphone and laptop.

This four-hour, interactive workshop led by Columbia University Digital Media Strategy Professor Marcia Stepanek and USA Today's ""Talking Tech"" Columnist Jefferson Graham will explore best practices in the evolution of short-form video as a critical tool for conveying urgency, proof, and relevancy for social good—and explore new efforts by media companies, causes and activists to score video stories on whether they move people to action.

This hands-on session—part screening, part lecture and part video-making—will demonstrate some of the newest ways to measure video impact and build cross-sector support that can endure from one campaign to the next. Attendees will gain working knowledge of the 10 types of cause videos being used most successfully in the social good sector today, and discover which types are best for creating specific outcomes. Attendees will crowd-shoot and edit a micro-video during the last half of the workshop, to apply first-half takeaways.