GlobalMojo

Here is a link to a video about the mojo training Ivo Burum did in the Northern Territory of Australia earlier this year.

Visit this site for details of an iPhone film competition. You have between 1 July 2011 and 30 September 2011 to submit a movie made with your iPhone or iPad.

I organised China’s first mobile journalism or mojo training last week, with Ivo Burum of Burum Media as the trainer. It was an excellent course, compacted into 3 days. Here is a link to Ivo’s blog about the course, and here is an image of the mojo kit we were supposed to use, but which Chinese customs held up mysteriously for more than a week.

A company based in the Netherlands called ProSkope works with broadcast companies to introduce the mojo concept. Read this pdf article about them in the latest edition of The Channel, the magazine of the Association of International Broadcasting (AIB) in the UK.

UNESCO and the OneMinutesJr organisation have partnered to offer a competition for people aged between 12 and 20 to create one-minute videos. More details can be found here. And here are examples from the OneMinutesJr competition.

Is this the start of something? An American newspaper is shutting bureaus to save money but says it’s making up for the loss of newsgathering through the use of mojos. Read more here from the Times Union, which has its headquarters in New York state.

While searching the web for good tools for mojo work I discovered this excellent post by Paul Bradshaw in his blog of October 2009. It should be essential reading for all mojos.

A news photograph taken with an iPhone 4 has won a major international prize. Read more about the photo here.

Here is a link to the first mojo video I did, as an experiment, when I arrived in Ningbo, China. I shot it in the lobby of the hotel where I am staying on my iPhone.

Reporter from the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) attended a training course about mobile journalism (mojo) in Abu Dhabi in the UAE. More details here.