We’re grateful to have had the opportunity to participate in last week’s inaugural BarCamp Africa at the Google campus, an event intended to build the connections betwen people and opportunities in Silicon Valley and Africa. Based on the sold-out crowd, the insightful panels and workshops, and the energy of the breakout conversations, there’s no doubt that this BarCamp was a great success. Kudos and many thanks to the organizers!

While Involver is used by big brands like Puma and Reader’s Digest, we’re also eager to use our video campaign platform to help organizations and individuals that are passionate about social issues — including social development issues and business growth throughout the African continent. If you fit this profile, please get in touch so we can explore the possibilities! Email us at nikki [at] involver.com.

More info: BarCamp Africa website

Earlier this week Kiva, one of our pilot customers, was voted in as a Top 5 Finalist in American Express’ Members Project contest. Over the next twelve days, Kiva and four other nonprofit organizations will vie for a $1.5 million first prize. Congrats to the entire Kiva team!

Now, we’re guessing that many of you are familiar with Kiva’s inspiring story, but it bears repeating that Kiva is THE standard-bearer in the world of technology-for-social-good. Its revolutionary person-to-person micro-lending platform has enabled countless people to help entrepreneurs across the developing world. And the organization continues to scale at an amazing rate.

Over the past six months, Involver has had the opportunity to work very closely with Kiva and its marketing team: together and through our video campaign platform, we’ve been able to establish a strong beachhead for Kiva on social networks. Its Involver-powered video campaign on Facebook, for example, has alone generated over 160,000 video views so far; in addition, this campaign’s 1,400+ influencers have shared Kiva’s campaign video an average of 12.7 times.

We’re thrilled to help Kiva in its homestretch Members Project run. A few weeks ago, Kiva unveiled the following video as part of a larger effort to reach a Top 5 spot. If you are an American Express cardmember, please vote for Kiva today by clicking the “VOTE NOW!” button below! And tell your friends to do the same!

Due to some heavy demand from big and small brands, agencies, nonprofits, and other marketers, we’ve decided to push out the end-date of our Pilot Program to Friday, October 31. This extension will allow us to gather and act on even more product feedback: as we prepare for a public launch later this autumn, we’re going to make sure to listen to and implement your great suggestions!

If you haven’t applied yet for access to our turnkey video campaign platform, please do! Just complete this simple form and we’ll get in touch!