“No information is more valuable than experiencing an epiphany” – Epipheo Studios

Have you ever watched an online video that immediately compelled you to find the share tool? Thus born the viral video, a visual experience shared by millions within days.

Last month an entrepreneur, internet marketer and videographer, with a bond formed by shared childhood summers on Whidbey Island, Wash., banned together to introduce a new noun to the global network of shared online multimedia: epipheo (formed from the words “epiphany” and “video”).

Epipheo Studios (ES) launched a beta website epipheo.com to aggregate such works that are not only viral, but “turn a light on” and transform the way people think and live.

“It’s likely that a day will come when creating an epipheo for a new campaign will be as common as writing a press release,” said Jeremy Pryor, ES cofounder.

Pryor dropped out of graduate school in 2001 and put down $1000 to start his first ecommerce business TolkienTown (“store for the Lord of the Rings and other collectibles”), which reached more than $3 million in sales by 2003. In 2004 Pryor cofounded Marketplace Earth, search engine marketing Read more…

Previous to eHarmony and Match.com, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan made online dating socially acceptable in “You’ve Got Mail.”

CWTV drama series Gossip Girl propels conflict using mass text messaging.

If he doesn’t call you: “Please don’t cyberstalk him,” said Janine to Gigi in the recent film “He’s Just Not That In To You.”

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World Vision advocates for the world’s poor by providing technology that empowers them to freely create content and share it online.

Relief organization World Vision is rooted in child sponsorship and has been the first of its kind to experiment with existing digital technology to improve communication between child and sponsor online.

Typically donors receive tangible letters and photos through the mail from community organizations, called Area Development Programs (ADPs), on behalf of their sponsored child. But now, through a trial online project called “mySponsorship,” Read more…

Oldie News Vets Hold to Journalistic Principles but Embrace Newer Practices

Only on-site gathering, only online reporting.

• They will not cover U.S. stories.
• They will not focus on breaking news.

A new American internet news organization equipped some 70 international correspondents with Flip video cameras to embark “on a bold journey to redefine international news for the digital age.”

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