social media and documentary film

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My presentation on Social Media and Documentary Film for the DC Docu

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Hi! I’m David

My Stuff

Here’s my Doc, “The First Basket”:http://www.thefirstbasket.com/http://youtu.be/b2axetVvTJw

My Stuff

Here’s one of my YouTube Channels:http://www.youtube.com/user/ZejMedia

And here’s my 1 year old social media company:

http://www.relaystationmedia.com/

Social Media 101

Listen first!Find your communities!Engage in conversations!Social media takes time!

Social Media and Docs

Learn about your subject and the people interested

Engage the film’s communities Promote fundraising events and

screenings RAISE MONEY!!! Promote the film Distribute your film online

The Socialized Video Experience

YouTube Vimeo Get Glue A thousand others that I haven’t

even heard of

Social Media and Docs

The Future - Media convergence

Where do you watch video? Cable? (make booing and hissing sound!) Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo, Amazon, iTunes? BitTorrent?

Social Media and Docs

The Future - Media convergence

The Future of Video is Social Social viewing, i.e. G+ Hangouts Social filmmaking, collaborative

production

Enough about me

Who are you guys?Any doc filmmakers?Any aspiring doc filmmakers?

What are you working on?

Social Media and Docs

Fundraising!Kickstarter (From TechDirt):

Social Media and Docs

What I did Dialed for dollars…… Grew email list, sent emails Set up good website and Facebook

Group Limited Twitter Some SEO (Google “Jewish Basketball”)

Social Media and Docs

What should I do next You tell me? What should you guys do? What’s your doc about?

Quick, Free Social Media Tools For Events

The Internet Society – www.isoc-dc.org List on Eventbrite Have everybody post the Eventbrite link

on all their social media profiles Email entire chapter member list on

MailChimp from Eventbrite Create Facebook event Post Event on LinkedIn Group Target a few influencers to post the event

Quick, Free Social Media Tools For Events

Quick, Free Social Media Tools For Events

Case In Point: Kony 2012

Uploaded March 5 Over 67 million views!!! Hundreds of thousands in contributions

during the first few days Responded to criticism very effectively Daring social media strategy Check this site out: http://www.kony2012.com/

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