On Wednesday I swung by Participant Productions, the relatively young movie production company in Beverly Hills founded by former eBay president Jeff Skoll.
I just posted to Ourmedia this 8-minute video interview with the amazing Micki Krimmel, Participant’s Director of Internet Outreach. She talks about the organization’s goals and its first three films: Good Night, and Good Luck; North Country, and the upcoming Syriana, about the oil industry. (See Ourmedia page | watch video — 21.8 MB in MPEG-4 | here’s a higher-quality version in H.264, 51MB)
Participant Productions has a group blog set up at Participate.net to discuss the issues raised in the films. Media Bloggers Association president Robert Cox and I and several others, including Milo Radulovich, Tim Karr, Matthew Felling and (starting next week) actor David Straithairn, are among those blogging at the ReportItNow blog.
Participate.net is all about engaging the community in social action. Check it out.
JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.
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