I have four active e-mail accounts: one business, one HumanKind, one personal, and one that I use as a catchall for registering on news sites and shopping sites that require a valid address -- you know, the ones that send "valuable" coupons and updates on a regular basis. Ugh.
The result is I get a LOT of mail, and a lot of it ends up deleted, unread. But I've been way more careful lately about what I subscribe to, since I know that even the time spent deleting an email is time better spent reading something I actually value. One recent addition to my subscriptions is Camfed's video blog (a vlog, for you non-techies).
Camfed is the Campaign for Female Education, and it operates in rural Africa, helping girls and young women stay in school and go on to higher education and business development, which in turn strengthens their communities. We'll tell you more about Camfed when we do our special edition on education and empowering young people. But for now, I wanted to point out that this organization isn't only doing great work for girls and women, it's also enabling connections within the global community. These videos tell the stories of the girls and women working with Camfed to make their lives better; they establish the beginning of a relationship with us, the viewers. It's an example of the ways new media and global storytelling can begin to change a worthwhile charity into a dynamic community-building tool.
I know Camfed has even more storytelling ideas in the works, but that subscription has already been a really valuable change in my media diet. Think you have room for it on your plate?
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