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In order to navigate our interests as well as the changing nature of the workplace, we should think, act, and create lik…

Check out Felicia Pride's piece on Medium

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We wrote a blog post to offer folks some quick tips on how to nail your social media strategy. Go on over and check it out.

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2nd Annual DC Web Fest is this weekend! Starts Friday.

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We got the chance to work with the Buyant Partners on their transmedia storytelling project #ShopTalkDC. See our blog post about it when you click the link. 

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What’s The Most Important Element of a Good Story?

As part of their "The Big Question" series, at Aspen Ideas Festival this year, The Atlantic asked a group of writers, journalists, and producers to explain what makes a story great.

See what they had to say below:

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Check out this quick recap of our run at #StateandMain14 last month

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Our friends over at Media Rise are looking for suggestions for keynote speakers for the #MediaRiseForum on 9/27 or #YouthMediaRise (9/28). Is that you? -- (@feliciapride)

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StoryCodeDC is back in action. Click link for more.

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I had the chance to serve on a panel during AFI DOCS with some public media rockstars. We talked content, engagement, distribution. Goodness for story geeks. More about the panel here or watch it in its entirety above. -- felicia pride (@felicipride)

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Be #Prolific with us as we enjoy great beer, great music, and great art in Philly on Thursday, July 24th! 

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StoryCodeDC is part of a global community for emerging and established cross-platform and immersive storytellers. During our forums, emerging and established cross-platform storytellers showcase projects that push the boundaries of narrative. Featured presenters for June include: Wyckham Avery, dog & pony dcSing Me a SongWhat keeps you from singing? This is one of the main inquiries in one of dog & pony dc’s newest and most deceptively simple works Sing Me a Song, a solo show developed and performed by co-founder and company member Wyckham Avery. Avery will explore the concept behind the theatrical piece and how it relates back to dog & pony dc’s principle of “audience integration.” 

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UltraViolet is creating a movement to involve millions of people in the quest for women's rights. A movement to catalyze a dramatic culture shift to reframe

Opportunity in Philly for a spirited Community Organizer! And you get to work with us! Learn more: bit.ly/1sbP9DJ

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Check out our latest blog post about why it's so important to begin building a community around your project from the very start.

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Seeking Content & Outreach Fellow

Hey, we're hiring! Are you interested in content, design, media, production, web and more? We have an opportunity for you to grow your skill set and build your resume – including writing credits. You’ll gain valuable experience, learn the ins and outs of startups and media agencies and have the opportunity to be involved in a range of exciting projects. Apply today. http://www.pridecollaborative.com/careers/

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Nice piece about LandofOpportunity, a project that we had the pleasure to work on. 

This gets to the essence of the project, in aim, potential, and influence.

More than just a video distribution platform, Land of Opportunity aims to cultivate a fertile space where stories inspire tangible change. The combination of creative filmmaking and community discourse presents an innovative solution for how social awareness can influence policy, bringing attentive eyes to the problems that are starving for attention.

Tangible change. Definitely a worthy goal.

-- felicia pride (@feliciapride)

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The Tribeca Film Festival’s Innovation Week track let technologists and artists roll out their best guesses about the next step in the ...

While “Use Of Force” is immersive—and emotionally intense—it was hard to miss the fact that it’s a single-user experience, especially once the wait to plug in hit the two-hour mark. There’s no collective audience for a piece like this, apart from after-the-fact conversations, in person and online, between people who’ve experienced it. It’s interactive, but the interaction is entirely between one user at a time, and the simulation around them. Like so many of the exhibits at the Tribeca Film Festival’s Innovation Week lineup, “Use Of Force” was fascinating, but a little lonely. It’s designed to remove people from the shared space of the art gallery, and put them in an enclosed, user-specific one, miles and years away.

This was an interesting piece about the possible future of immersive storytelling as being a lonely space. 

The nature of immersion doesn't necessarily have to be lonely - it's the technology used currently that is making it seem so. 

I think the writer nailed though what audiences want from all this interactivity and immersion: 

That urge alone—the desire to spend as much or as little time with a film as personal tastes dictate—may determine more about the future of film than technological changes or the raw desire for storytelling novelty. As entertainment options multiply, people may naturally gravitate not toward the shiniest new solution, but toward the one that most lets them design their experiences around their level of engagement and fandom. The future of film may ultimately be at the multiplex, or in virtual-reality rigs at home. But either way, it’s likely to be increasingly dependent on personal taste—on a craving for isolation or for community, for the fast experience or the deep one, for the creator-designed experience or the user-curated one. Even if individual films aren’t increasingly customizable, the way users choose to take them in probably will be.

Customization of consumption. Ask Netflix. 

--felicia pride (@feliciapride)

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Chipotle unveiled a new program called Cultivating Thought, which features original essays from 10 writers, actors and thinkers on cups and bags.

We had to cut down on our Chipotle habit, but on the occasion that we find ourselves there for the oversized burrito that we love so much, we look forward to seeing the execution of this pretty brilliant idea. Engagement, the arts, voice...all that. - felicia pride (@feliciapride)