Media

Tammy Tibbetts, 24, is the founder of She’s the First, a call to action to promote the importance of educating girls who live in developing countries and would otherwise not have the opportunity to go to school.Read more

We all know about the dangers and benefits of using social media in our personal lives and the importance of personal branding. But these outlets are equally as useful in the business world. Sites such as Facebook and Twitter are increasingly being used as marketing and publicity tools for companies. And when budgets are tight, using these sites can be a cost-effective solution to branding and marketing needs, especially for a young organization.
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Convincing editors to fund story pitches can take months – even years. But through the nonprofit Web site Spot.Us, the community is funding one story per week on average.
 
Spot.Us is a nonprofit that enables journalists to solicit donations from the public to pay for their reporting. Most donors give around $20, and all are named. Anyone can propose a story, although the editors at Spot.Us decide which stories to pursue.
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Think you need to live in Hollywood and have a huge budget to make films? Not so. Meet Ryan Connolly, the host, writer, director and producer of Film Riot, a weekly online show that peeks behind the scenes of independent filmmaking. Part zany, part gory, it's a show that leaves no stone unturned when it comes to piecing together a film--from penning the dialogue to creating the special effects.
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