#SocEntHangout: Storytelling Skills for Social Change

Storytelling is an essential skill for any social change initiative. The success of any marketing, fundraising, grant writing and community building is dependent on the ability to make your story resonate with the right audience. In a world where people are constantly bombarded with messages, how do we cut through the noise to ensure that social impact stories are heard? 

StartSomeGood brings together a panel of experts including Alvin Melathe from Upworthy, Tom Maclachlan from Agency, Mikey Leung from Digital Storytellers and more, to give you the tools to tell tell the right story to the right audience and answer your questions about how to communicate your mission.  Join our Google Hangout On Air, hosted by social change crowdfunding platform StartSomeGood.com, to find out how to tell your story. 

WHEN: Monday 3rd March 5pm United States Eastern Time/2pm United States Pacific Time

Monday 3rd March 10pm British Standard Time

Tuesday 4th March 9am Australian Eastern Daylight Time

Register now! 

THE PANEL: 

Alvin Melathe - Upworthy 

Alvin Melathe is a Curator for Upworthy.com. Previously, he worked in organizing and political activism at the Leadership Center for the Common Good and the Progressive States Network. You can reach him at alvin.melathe@upworthy.com or tweet creative, chipmunk-themed insults at his expense at @AMelathe

Check out  Alvin’s posts here.  

Mikey Leung - Digital Storytellers 

Mikey Leung is a web designer, video producer and travel journalist with matrix-like knowledge of the social media world. He’s the Creative Director at Digital Storytellers, a digital production studio and community based in Sydney, Australia.

Mikey is also a published author, and co-wrote the first and second editions of Bradt Travel Guide to Bangladesh. He’s also a social entrepreneur, and founder of sustainable travel startup Crowdsourced Travel, whose primary project Positive Light, is changing the way the world sees Bangladesh.

In September 2012, Mikey spoke about Positive Light at TEDxDhaka. The full story is available here. 

 Tom Maclachlan  - Agency 

Tom is a filmmaker and copywriter with social change storytelling strategists Agency. Tom has worked as a filmmaker on some of Australia’s biggest non profit campaigns, including projects for The Greens, World Vision, Amnesty International, Live Below the Line and the Foundation for Young Australians. Tom has a degree in journalism, film and theatre from Charles Sturt University, a diploma in playwriting from NIDA and a diploma in film direction from Spanish Film School Septima Ars. His award winning plays have been produced in New York, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, and his TV and radio scripts have featured on SBS and ABC.- on Twitter using the hashtag #socenthangout

You can submit questions:

- On Twitter using the #socenthangout hashtag 

- in the comments section below

To join in register and details will be sent out closer to the event!

The Hangout will be broadcast on this page

If you have any questions please send them to natasha@startsomegood.com