News Release

Video Seminar to Feature Speakers from Witness, EPA, Consumers Union, and Pew Charitable Trusts

October 13, 2008

Forum One's next Web Executive Seminar will feature four stories of organizations who have successfully used online video to educate, inform, and move the policy agenda.

Presenters from the Environmental Protection Agency, Consumers Union, Pew Charitable Trusts, and WITNESS will share their innovative approaches to using video to extend their influence and reach.

The session, Online Video for Policy Impact, will be held on Oct. 29, 2008, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

Morgan Jindrich, co-director, of the Cover America Tour, will share how Consumers Union crisscrossed the country collecting video stories from consumers with personal health care experiences. The organization traveled to nearly every state, stopped at both national party conventions, and videotaped over 100 video testimonials of Americans struggling with health coverage challenges. Consumers Union is the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports.

Marci McCoy-Roth, co-director of Pew Charitable Trusts' Kids Are Waiting campaign, will explain how the public charity used video testimonials of Foster Youth as part of a campaign to push priority legislation through Congress. The landmark bill, recently signed into law by President Bush, is the most sweeping congressional reform of the U.S. foster care system in over a decade.

Sam Gregory, will provide a tour of the WITNESS Hub, the "YouTube for Human Rights." The free service connects and mobilizes individuals, groups, and organizations working to protect and promote social justice worldwide using video. Groups and individuals can upload media to provide evidence of human rights abuses and other topics. The site supports organizations to raise awareness of human rights issues, promote events, launch campaigns and feature calls to action.

Jeremy Ames, will tell the inside story of the EPA's Radon Video Contest the first YouTube contest run by a U.S. agency. He'll explain the challenges of using YouTube for federal public information campaigns and share tips on insights for running your own video contest at an agency or other organization.

Registration for the event is available at www.forumone.com/video or by contacting Andrew Cohen at 703-548-1855 x50 or acohen@forumone.com.

Forum One's Web Executive Seminars are a regular series of events held for senior executives and web site managers at nonprofit organizations and government agencies.

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