Last month, Nike Women presented a few different topics to choose from for the Nike Women Make Yourself Movement campaign, which I began writing for this year. The options were: 1. Tell us about one person in your life who has inspired you to Make Yourself healthy and fit. 2. How do you maintain your [...]
“Holding the camera was felt like I was holding my future.” ~GlobalGirl Media Student GLOBALGIRL MEDIA SIZZLE REEL from GlobalGirl Media on Vimeo.
In August, I teamed up with Changents and Proctor and Gamble to bring clean water to the developing world. For every vote that my blog post about the Los Angeles-based nonprofit Drop in the Bucket received, along with votes for several other write-ups, P&G donated a day of drinking water to someone in need. In [...]
Last month, I joined a team of space engineering students from the University of Michigan in an hour and a half-long flight aboard the famous Weightless Wonderaircraft to document the group’s participation in NASA’s Reduced Gravity Flight Education Program in Houston, Texas. Flying at 30,000 feet in a state of simulated weightlessness is an outer-worldly [...]
When I was in grade school I had dreams of becoming an astronaut. Not unlike my additional aspirations of one day becoming a cowgirl, an Olympic runner, and a race horse jockey, my visions of flying as a weightless warrior in a land far far away were pushed aside when I discovered I couldn’t escape [...]
Hello my gorgeous gardenias, I’m hiring! The social good web series “Good and Ready” is in need of a kick-ass producer. If you fit the bill or if you know someone who does, please shoot an e-mail to Mel.Rowley@gmail.com. Please include links to reels! There is pay. Thanks so much! ABOUT GOOD AND READY “Good [...]
My Dad has always been proud of me. He used to cry at my dance recitals. He’d sob whenever he’d listen to me sing the National Anthem at high school basketball games. He thought it was really “neat” when I worked at the New York Stock Exchange and when I interviewed Oprah for 5 minutes. [...]
While non-profits may not allocate extra funds to stakeholders, charitable organizations still have a bottom line — to spread their message and accomplish their mission. To do this, strategic planning, which includes digital outreach, is involved. That’s why a growing number of non-profits are using social media to draw attention to their goals. We talked [...]
There is a saying about three different magnificent cities I have lived in twice. “If you are smart, you move to San Francisco. If you are ambitious, you move to LA. If you are smart and ambitious, you move to New York.” My time in New York was a good nine lives ago, but my adventures in [...]
What started as a highly addictive pastime for early adopters to alert their friends of their whereabouts and compete for virtual mayorship of their corner coffee shop, is steadily evolving into a global vehicle for individuals and businesses to garner social capital. With tech evangelists and small businesses exploring the potential power of Foursquare [...]
