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By Katherine Dodds On July 08, 2010 | 0 Comments
Just as we are about to choose a winner for our LACE contest, we are pleased to announce that in celebration of the new bus ad we created with Options For Sexual Health we are launching a Sexy Summer Kissing Contest! Details on how to enter below.
Our new ad campaign "We've Got a Room For You" is a cheekier take on the bus ad we have created before to advertise the 1-800 SEX SENSE info line. What's more it's on nearly all transit buses in the province! Reflecting our philosophy of 'pleasure management" we are creating an effective alternative to just say no messaging. It's sure to attract attention with a young couple making out in a clinic waiting room (based on a true story set in the BC CDC's STI clinic!)
Opt’s 1 800 SEX SENSE Line, a toll-free in BC phone and email service, is positioned as a great way to hook up with a clinic or ask a burning sexual health question. Check out our Ad! We also made a behind the scenes video about the making of the ad.
Katherine Dodds AKA "Kat" is the founder of Good Company Communications and HelloCoolWorld.com. Trained in renegade advertising & branding through her work with Adbusters in the '90s, Kat's early induction into the possibilities of the web-world was inspired by the term hypertext, which she immediately found comforting. She is dedicated to cause-related communication and to the development and use of tools that promote democratic processes.
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By Katherine Dodds On February 24, 2010 | 2 Comments
It hasn't been ALL rosé champagne* and freshly harvested oysters here on Salt Spring... just a healthy dose! While Lizzy continued our Olympics coverage back on the mainland, David, Sandy and I 'retreated" to this nearby island paradise to spend a few days considering our 'vision', and in particular new opportunities arising from the recent upsurge in interest in The Corporation around corporate personhood. We also talked about the upcoming LACE Campaign, and how to use our previous successes to launch this campaign.
On the way we saw a large pod of Orcas setting the tone for what has been a great getaway from the street action in Vancouver. But we are coming back tonight!
One of the things we discussed was how to build our 'fan-base', those who sign up to get our email alerts, and in some cases want to do a lot more.
Inspired by reading the book "Be The Media" (which I recommend to all indie producers of anything) we contemplated what it would take to seek out and cultivate our '1000 true fans". This idea was in Kevin Kelly's forward to the book, which is compiled by David Mathison, and includes info about self production & distribution from many experts including the much quoted Peter Broderick.
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Alternative Economics,
Big Picture,
Blogging,
Campaign 4 Corporate Harm Reduction,
HelloCoolWorld,
Media Activism,
Social Marketing,
Social Justice,
Strategy,
Technology,
The Corporation,
Be The MediaWin The Corporation & More Activist DVDs!
To show our continued support for the Give Something Big campaign, Hello Cool World and The Corporation are teaming up with the peace & justice organization Inter Pares for the Give Something Big contest! On December 14, we’ll be drawing for the Grand Prize which includes:
- The Corporation 2 Disc Special Edition DVD
- Give Something Big Holiday Card Collection Set (12 print cards & envelopes)
- The Corporation Shirt - 100% Sweatshop free!
- Cocoa Camino Fair Trade Chocolate Bars
- Inter Pares mug
Read on to find out how to enter.
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Colette joined Hello Cool World Team back in 2003 and was a key organizer for The Corporation and The Take's grassroots outreach efforts across North America. After being inspired by the organizing and awareness building potential of the internet and social issue films, she returned to school to study Communications and sharpen her skills. Having completed her studies last summer, she has joined Hello Cool World once again to assist with the Give Something Big campaign.
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By Colette On October 12, 2009 | 0 Comments
By Colette On August 26, 2009 | 8 Comments
Contest time! Know your Waterlife trivia? Answer these questions for a chance to win a Waterlife DVD!
By Katherine Dodds On July 19, 2009 | 0 Comments
Waterlife opened this weekend in Vancouver (more on OurWaterlife.com) On Saturday We had Harjap Grewal from the Council of Canadians and Fin Donnelly from the Rivershed Society.
I asked each speaker to summarize what they spoke about framed as Three ACTION POINTS. Rivershed's founder Fin Donnelly sent me the following three points summary.
1. Get to Know Your Rivershed
2. Reduce Your Impact
3. Get Active
The details are in the blog that follows. Also follow our #Waterlifefim converstaions on twitter!
By Katherine Dodds On May 23, 2009 | 0 Comments
If you haven't seen it yet -- go to FIERCE LIGHT -- in theatres NOW in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal.
DOXA opened last night in Vancouver with Larry Weinstein's "Inside Hana's Suitcase" and a party at the VAG. WATERLIFE plays on Tuesday at DOXA. HelloCoolWorld and Rivershed Society community sponsors.
Today I went to the film: "Shooting Women" which was an inspiring doc about women behind the camera. Featuring over fifty women cinematographers and directors from around the world. It was shot over a period of six years by pioneering filmmaker and cinema studies professor Alexis Krasilovsky. Includes interviews from camerawomen from RAWA. (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan)
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“We are the first camerawomen in Afghanistan ...”
Mehria Aziz, Camerawoman (Kabul, Afghanistan)
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The film was followed by a panel of feisty women discussing how Women Behind the Camera are underrepresented. Moderator Rina Fraticelli mentioned some stats from a study recently done that can be viewed at: www.pleaseadjustyourset.com.
Watch our blog for DOXA updates!
Waterlife Coming to Toronto and Vancouver in June!
Contact us if you want to help us spread the word!
By Katherine Dodds On May 10, 2009 | 0 Comments
Take Back Mothers Day with the spirit of peace and justice that Anna Reeves Jarvis, Julia Ward Howe and Anna Jarvis Jr. intended!Check out our Feminist Heritage Minute!
By Katherine Dodds On May 04, 2009 | 0 Comments
Inter Pares' Samantha McGavin dressed as one of the "Mothers" of Mothers day.
By Colette On May 04, 2009 | 0 Comments
Aside from the films, one of the greatest things about Hot Docs is the people you meet. Last night I had the pleasure of hanging out with some of the industry's luminaries as well as some exciting up-and-comers.
Cindy Witten, Director General of the English programme at the NFB with filmmaker Wim Wenders.
By Colette On May 03, 2009 | 0 Comments
Kevin McMahon's feature documentary, Waterlife, played to a full house at the Hot Docs documentary film festival last night. Afterwards, we headed to the Bata Shoe Museum to celebrate where there were more than a few familiar faces...
By Katherine Dodds On March 26, 2009 | 0 Comments
CANADIAN PARLIAMENT TO VOTE AGAIN ON U.S. IRAQ WAR RESISTERS ON MONDAY, MARCH 30th!
Please contact the Leader of the Official Opposition and your local Member of Parliament and ask them to support U.S. Iraq War resisters during next week’s vote. If the 163 members of the opposition parties can unite again, together we can defeat the 143 Conservatives who promise to vote against Iraq War resisters and deport them to jail in the U.S.
By Katherine Dodds On February 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
I'm at the Making Your Media Matter conference in DC listening to a panel on Money and Mission. Interesting times to try to promote and produce social issue work. I'm networking to find support for our own Campaign 4 Corporate Harm Reduction, for our work with Bevel Up, and also to promote the recent Sundance hit, Prom Night in Mississippi.
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Alternative Economics,
Blogging,
Campaign 4 Corporate Harm Reduction,
Film Launch,
Focus Testing,
Graphic Design,
HelloCoolWorld,
Marketing,
Podcasting,
Social Marketing,
Strategy,
TechnologyWith just a week left before Christmas, we are in the midst of our last big push to promote Inter Pares' "Give Something Big" alternative giving campaign. We'd love your help!
By Katherine Dodds On December 08, 2008 | 0 Comments
We're thrilled to be launching this project with Inter Pares and hope that all our supporters will help build a world of equality, social justice, and peace.
By Katherine Dodds On November 29, 2008 | 0 Comments
When I started Good Company Communications eight years ago I had a vision for what the web could do for social causes that came out of my previous 20 years of activism. It really started with Manufacturing Consent* -- the film that pulled me from my "separatist" world of no TV, no computer, and the attempt to exist without plastic, into the realization that we need to BE the media, it's too powerful to leave alone.
I was already working with Mark Achbar during the early days of The Corporation when I started all this, so as to have a way to not only promote the film's launch, but to work on sustaining the desire it produced in so many people -- to get involved, to shape change and to prevent profit over people from prevailing.
As we prepare to send out an e'Zine next week to all our HCW members, I am thinking about the projects we take on and how they interconnect.
By Katherine Dodds On November 12, 2008 | 0 Comments
THIS SATURDAY VANCOUVER HEADS TO THE POLLS -- HOMELESSNESS ON THE TOP OF MAYORAL CANDIDATE GREGOR ROBERTSON'S PLATFORM (VISIONVANCOUVER.CA) At the Same time we at HelloCoolWorld are starting to do outreach work with the film BEVEL UP: DRUGS, USERS & OUTREACH NURSING. To stay in touch join our mail list.
BEVEL UP follows street nurses in Vancouver's Downtown East Side (DTES) working with anyone who needs their care. Many of these people are homeless. Watch this blog for details of our ongoing work with the film and the issues it represents.
By Lindsey Wasserman On May 18, 2007 | 0 Comments
Vancouver's own documentary film festival begins next week!
Lindsey is the Operations and Project Manager at Good Company Communications/ HelloCoolWorld.
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By Mike Cowie On October 11, 2006 | 0 Comments
We came across bristling blogger Mike Cowie & his hilarious rants about our latest campaign project - The Big Picture with Avi Lewis - and we just had to share. So please enjoy HelloCoolWorld.com's first guest blogger!
Dedicated to music, film, sport, world travel, a far more just world, & Bob
Dylan (not necessarily in that order), Mike is presently
tangled up in the blues (& joys) of writing his first book, an account of his
(and wife Sonoko's) 3-year trip across Asia.
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By Mike Cowie On October 02, 2006 | 1 Comments
I hope you all checked out Avi's show again last night ("The Big Picture with Avi Lewis: Part 3 - Can We Save Planet Earth?"). Debating how to deal with global warming may not have stirred up quite as passionate of a debate as the shows from the past two weeks on torture and religion did; but, really, it's the much bigger - and much more important - topic by far.
By Mike Cowie On September 21, 2006 | 0 Comments
An open letter to all those who made the smart choice and watched Avi Lewis' show on CBC last night ("The Big Picture with Avi Lewis Part 2 - The Root of All Evil - Is religion the root of all evil in the world?")
By Katherine Dodds On July 24, 2006 | 0 Comments
We at HelloCoolWorld are thrilled to be helping to promote the release on DVD of the film Winter Soldier. Described as one of the "most devastating anti-war films ever made," by Time Out New York, the film itself is both historically important and unsettlingly relevant to the state of the world and war today. But it was the DVD extras which had me thinking, again, about the power of documentary to not only to move viewers, but to influence participants.
By Katherine Dodds On June 17, 2006 | 1 Comments
Today's New York Times Headlines (that conveniently pop up in my inbox around 4am PST every day) has one that caught my eye: Growing Wikipedia Revises Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy.
By Katherine Dodds On June 16, 2006 | 0 Comments
Hello. When I first envisioned the possibilities of Hello Cool World, the web wasn't making things as easy as they are right now. And even before I even started trying to do we are trying to do, all to often, there I was, all heady with crazy-sounding visions of what could be done, but when I talked to progressive leaning folks this excitement was dampened by omnipresent back-ground whine about "access".
