September has been a whirlwind, to say the least. This month found my team and me buried beneath a mountain of proposals and budgets. It’s times like these when the sheer volume of administrative tasks leaves us gasping for a breath of creative air.
While there’s no denying the importance of numbers and logistics in our line of work, there’s also an undeniable thirst for the freedom to innovate, dream, and create.
Let’s explore ways to find pockets of inspiration. We hope you appreciate the new style of images in this newsletter, consistently crafted by our illustrator, Ahmed ElKhalidi.
Meanwhile, it seems that if we blink for just a second, another groundbreaking AI development occurs. This time, it’s the all-mighty ChatGPT.
We’ve just heard the news it has moved beyond text. It now enables users to incorporate images into queries and provide spoken instructions, to which the chatbot can respond verbally. This is beyond what we have imagined, and there is no stopping this AI mammoth.
Of course, we can't help but wonder, is AI getting too big for its own good? Shall we fully embrace it, or shall we dread it?
We are leaning towards embracing it for now and taming its powers to make us more intelligent, informed, and efficient.
Here is hoping that we won't be eventually swallowed by the beast.
Best wishes,
Rana F. Sweis
Founder of Wishbox Media
💡 What we’ve been up to
📺 Wishbox Media's Founder and Managing Director, Rana Sweis, spoke at the Future of Media and Communications conference in Amman, Jordan. She discussed the impact of algorithms and AI on the future of media, highlighting upcoming changes in content creation and consumption.
📱 We have collaborated with the Canadian Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) and organized a social media workshop session at the Canadian Embassy. The session was held for six nonprofit organizations working on specific projects. The training covered storytelling, caption writing, choosing the appropriate hashtags, and the role of artificial intelligence in social media.
🎞️ We have met with Makanati (USAID) to discuss our collaboration with them on a grant for digital stories that shine a light on the lives and experiences of women in the Middle East. We are so excited to kickstart this impactful project.
🧑🏻💼 Are you curious about what a day at our offices looks like? Take a peek here to see how we’re creating and crafting stories and where the magic happens.
🎙️ Live Talks: This month's LivesTalk program featured digital marketing strategist Yamama Jaradat, where she discussed (in Arabic) how to build an audience and engage with them on social media.
#LIVETALKS.
🎧 You can listen to an excerpt from the conversation with Yamama below:🖥️ At Wishbox Media, we’re dedicated to producing meaningful and thought-provoking content, and these exciting collaborations and achievements propel us further on our mission to make a positive impact in the media industry.
🗄️ From the archives
📹 We created photo stories to reveal how and why two women candidates ran for local elections in Jordan. We also went behind the scenes and discovered their daily lives, views, and the political party platforms they represented. You can watch the multimedia story below.
📨 Drop us a note if you want to collaborate with us on creating compelling videos that tell your stories.
📺 Our media consumption
If you are thinking of creating a podcast, then one tool that we highly recommend is Buzzsprout. It’s a multi-purpose platform that distributes your audio files to different podcast channels, uses AI to create show notes, episode titles, blog posts, and compelling multimedia social posts. Give it a spin when you can.
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