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Making Your Media Matter

January 6, 2010 BY Molly Murphy

makingyourmediamatter

Join established and aspiring filmmakers, non-profit communications leaders, funders and students working to learn and share cutting-edge practices to make their media matter, February 11th and 12th 2010 at American University in Washington DC. This year marks the Center for Social Media’s sixth annual Making Your Media Matter conference. Registration $100, Students, $50. Register now!

This year’s conference will feature a keynote from Pamela Yates and Paco de Onis, makers of The Reckoning, on strategic partnerships and design for your project, and panels on developing synergies in your subject field, an ethics workshop, and fiction films for change. Watch the promo trailer:

To learn more about Making Your Media Matter, read the Rapporteur’s Report from the 2009 conference, visit the Center’s website to view partners and sponsors and sign on to the social networking site.

Registration link: https://www.eventville.com/Catalog/EventRegistration1.asp?EventId=1006291

MYMM is presented in partnership with the Media That Matters Festival, which is a project of Arts Engine, Inc.

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