We said: "For this project, we hope to interview one (or all) of you with questions about your outlook on the goals, outcomes, and power of Invisible Children's media campaigns and tools."
Nice and simple enough, asking for an hour tops in the next two weeks for a Skype conversation. Received an email back from Faith, Invisible Children's Office Manager, later that same day...
"Thank you so much for taking the time to contact us! We are excited that you have chosen this issue for your project. Unfortunately, Jedidiah and Jason are not available for interviews for projects, but here are some helpful resources for your research..."
The message proceeded to list a bunch of Invisible Children website links, including "Our Videos," "Our FAQ's," and "Ways to Get Involved."
Informative, yes, but what about the brains and organization behind Invisible Children's website, its videos, facts, and campaign to get people involved? Somewhat challenging to truly understand an organization's communications goals, strategy and evolution if all you have to engage with are the products of its media work.
"Thank you again for your time and support!" the message said in conclusion.
Sent an email back to Faith, asking her if she could please run our interview request by Jedidiah and Jason themselves. No word back from any of them yet... we'll see what happens in the next few days.
So far it seems that Invisible Children's media faces are silent.
Can they hear us?
Or are they even listening?
2 comments:
This could mean that you're invisible.
Good point jobitek...perhaps the more noise (and videos, and blog posts) we make, the more visible we'll become.
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