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SAN FRANCISCO, June 3, 2009 — Save the Redwoods League, the only nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting ancient redwood forests throughout their natural range, announced today a free statewide photo contest to encourage people to share striking images from the world’s tallest forests. The League’s Walk Among GiantsSM photo contest invites California residents to capture every angle of the redwood forest, from the smallest critters inhabiting the forest floor to the grandeur of the tree canopy, for a chance to win redwoods prizes.

June 2, 2009 — The Lights. Camera. Help Film Festival is now accepting submissions of feature length films, short films, and public service announcements (including dramatic, documentary, experimental, and animation).

SAN FRANCISCO, CA, April 28, 2009 — Continuing its growth as a national provider of interactive services to the nonprofit and cause community, See3 Communications announced today at the Nonprofit Technology Conference a strategic partnership with Kaltura, the first open-source video platform. The partnership makes See3 a primary channel to bring Kaltura to nonprofits and extends Kaltura's growing influence as a preferred video solution. In addition, the Kaltura solution is now powering video on DoGooderTV, the video services and promotion site powered by See3, and home to the annual Nonprofit Video Awards.

April 8, 2009, Technology Review — The web is a classic "attention economy"--a system in which people compete for attention. Ask many experts for the secret of success in such a system and they're likely to point to persistence and high quality content.

BOSTON, April 14, 2009 — Visible Measures, the independent third-party measurement firm for Internet video publishers, advertisers, and social marketers, today announced that it has entered into a comprehensive agreement to become the online video measurement platform of record for MySpace, the world's premiere social portal. By collecting detailed audience behavior data on each of the several hundred million video streams it serves every month, Visible Measures will give MySpace the ability to provide its advertising clients and content providers with best-in-class visibility into campaign performance and content effectiveness. As part of this agreement, MySpace will deploy Visible Measures' patented Internet video metrics platform and Visible Measures will be named as MySpace's official provider of digital video measurement and metrics.

April 6, 2009, Idealist — More and more nonprofits use video to get their message out about the work they do and, of course, to fundraise. For instance, there are already a lot of nonprofits on YouTube (Idealist included). But do people always see these videos and instantly connect with the idea to donate to the cause?

Advancing widespread charitable giving into the digital age, the comprehensive new Web site Beneflix (www.beneflix.com) debuts today.  Integrating the opportunity for novice filmmakers to gain valuable exposure and for charities to reach a previously untapped resource, Beneflix offers these two seemingly unrelated groups an unprecedented marketplace for networking and fundraising.