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Category Archives: New Productions
WikiCG: A New Look for the New Year
To kick off the new year we’ve given WikiCG a sleek new interface. Our WikiCG Studio allows everyone to contribute videos, photos, and audio content for a given topic that can then be used to support written documentation in a wiki such as Wikipedia.
WikiCG is the brainchild of Ward Cunningham (extreme programmer extraordinaire, bicycle commuter, popular tweeter, and inventor of the wiki) who traveled (via plane, not bike, to save time) from Portland to work with CitizenGlobal last year, and who continues to advise us from a distance. His idea is to expand wikis from text-only to all types of media, especially video.
The result has been some pretty awesome videos! A few of our favorites include “The Descent at White Eagle“ (ghost hunting at a Portland hotel), “Suomenlinna 2.3.2011” (paragliding along a snowy shore in Finland), “Steven the Sand Surfer” (sand surfing in Colorado), and “Starboard Paddlesurf” (paddle surfing up close).
Check out our new interface and watch the callout video featuring Ward. And then… contribute your own content!
We’d love your feedback on the new interface and on WikiCG, so please send us your comments, criticisms, and suggestions. Post here or write us at help@citizenglobal.com.
Happy Thanksgiving and Thank You!
StudioOccupy enables democracy in action, and we are very proud to be of service to OWS’s deep, grassroots desire to express and articulate new ideas. We imagine StudioOccupy as a global demonstration of passionate co-creativity. The folks who are showing up are incredible, to do this work with conscious people is a privilege, and here’s a little bit of co-creativity we put together today with Deepak Chopra:
It features our OccupyThanksgiving initiative, and music by Makana, the young musician from Hawaii who sang We Are The Many, the quickly-becoming-a-classic Occupy folksong, to Obama and other world leaders in Hawaii last week. Distribute widely!
Steven Starr
You Can Inspire with the Help of Susan G Komen
Has your world seemed pinker lately? October is breast cancer awareness month and CitizenGlobal has teamed up with the Susan G Komen For the Cure organization to launch the What I Would Have Missed campaign. So far we’ve received dozens of heart warming and tear jerking videos about survivors telling us what they would have missed if they had not gotten screened and treated. The content weighs heavy on your heart, but truly each of these stories is a happy one. Not only do these amazingly brave women share their triumph over cancer, but they have taken it one step further to spread the word and inspire another woman to get screened as well.
This video submitted by Teresa Lennon shows her life before, during and after cancer in pictures. In each photo Teresa is shown smiling her way through one of the most difficult trials anyone would have to go through. She is a testament to us all. Thank you for sharing Teresa!
If you or someone you know is a breast cancer survivor, you too can inspire someone to get screened by making a simple video. Click here for more information and watch the personal callout from Susan G Komen founder Nancy Brinker.
Want to watch more videos? Click here
X PRIZE Foundation & CitizenGlobal: Exploring Today to Discover Tomorrow
The X PRIZE Foundation and CitizenGlobal proudly invite you to share your videos, your ideas and your experiences to answer a compelling question: What does exploration mean to you? From showcasing what you explore to explaining how and why, this is an amazing opportunity to join fellow explorers from around the world and take part in a one-of-a-kind video adventure. Whether you just submit a quick video from your webcam or edit together a masterpiece using dozens of provided clips, any and all video submissions will be welcome. If yours can provide a unique enough insight into what exploration means to you, you could win one of many prizes, including a $10,000 National Geographic Expedition Adventure. So check out our X Prize Production and put your filmmaking talents to work. Help us tell the story of exploration as only you can!
Cancer Survivors Share Their Stories and Spread Urgent Message
We are thrilled to announce today’s launch of the Susan G. Komen For the Cure production, What I Would Have Missed. Breast cancer survivors, and their loved ones, are invited to tell the world what they would have missed had they not been screened and treated early, and to send an urgent message to other women to get regular screenings. Early detection is key to breast cancer survival, and regular checkups and mammograms are essential for early detection. Members of the Susan G. Komen Team have submitted their own moving stories to inspire others to submit theirs–watch them here.
Update Sept. 30th : Sheila Shayon has an informative post about this production on Brandchannel.com today.
Love in Action: Join the Conversation with Deepak Chopra
Deepak Homebase launched its Love in Action Production last week to post Callouts so audience members everywhere can upload their stories and participate in discussions with Deepak Chopra and his distinguished guests, celebrities who each bring their own social cause to the spotlight. Discussion and Callout topics include water fracking and drinking water safety with Mark Ruffalo; Cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment with Fran Drescher; And youth violence and redefining power, consciousness, and love with Russell Simmons and Erica Ford.
A surprise guest appeared on the Thursday night’s show: 50 Cent! He hopes to eradicate hunger in Africa with the United Nations World Food Program.
This afternoon, an article featuring Deepak’s dialog with Mark Ruffalo about the dangers of fracking was posted on Huffington Post with a link back to the Love in Action Production.
Check it out!
