Confetti makes me want to host amazing events!
Interview with Aleksandra Avli founder of HER Global Network and organizer of Brilliant Minds, on how she creates intimate events for the 3000 members of HER.
– Blankspot is a news-reporting site for overseas investigative journalism. It started through crowd funding and now it’s funded by reader contributions. People say journalism is in crisis, although at the same time journalists who are out in the world have a target on their back. We want to show that the first part is wrong, but that we can also equip ourselves better to deal with the threats to our safety. So, besides journalism from the hidden corners of Earth, Blankspot also offers security courses for journalists and aid workers.
– Exactly. Brit Stakston, the writer and speaker, is a co-founder and recommended Confetti as a professional and easy way to present the courses. At that time, we didn’t have a developer, so we needed a tool where we could control everything ourselves. And I find it easy to handle both course participants and payments in Confetti.
– Loads. It's an intense and practical course where 10-12 participants practice situations that a journalist can risk ending up in. For example, it might be kidnapping, interrogation, terrorist attacks, flooding or forest fires. We're talking about questions such as: What do I do if something goes wrong? How can I continue to report sensibly? And how do I gain the trust of extremist groups?
– First of all, a course must meet a need. Ours really do that; many journalists feel worried about the increased risks, and want tools to handle the difficult situations in their job. Secondly, the course should be "for real" – so not only sitting in a classroom but getting out and doing realistic exercises.
Interview with Aleksandra Avli founder of HER Global Network and organizer of Brilliant Minds, on how she creates intimate events for the 3000 members of HER.
Interview with Jakob Grandin, founder of Gather Festival, Trädgården and Eden Smedsudden.