For a few months now I have been the lead producer and editor on Press Row for Monumental Network. The online show brings together the expert insight from sports reporters that cover DC area teams. Each week, the rotating panel goes over recent and upcoming games, while also providing analysis on the sports and teams we are focusing on for that show.

Watch Press Row every Thursday at 2 p.m. on MonumentalNetwork.com, or go directly to http://www.monumentalnetwork.com/videos/?tag=Press%20Row&tagId=0000013b-f787-d8b5-a77b-f7e79ce70000

Don’t miss out on all the other great content we are pumping out on the site.

The Auto Alliance put together a large campaign focusing on the “8 million unknown autoworkers” around the country. I was the lead project manager and producer for this project. In a few months span, I went to 10 different states to get the story of workers around the country that in some way touched the auto industry. The result of this project was http://www.jobsfromautos.com, a source for information and profiles about specific workers and the 8 million as a whole.

To watch the profiles go to:

http://jobsfromautos.com/profiles

I had the opportunity to produce and edit all of the season ticket renewal videos for the Washington Wizards for the 2013-2014 season. Click the link below to get to the renewal page. Under each tab/ticket option you will be able to watch the four videos I put together.

http://www.nba.com/wizards/renew

Click Here to View – DC Pride Parade Photos

WAR ROOM RISK from Ben Connors on Vimeo.

A bit over a year ago, a group of my friends in DC took on the challenge to create one of most impressive homemade Risk boards, ever. Upon completion of said board, they endeavored into an epic battle of strategy and valor to crown the first victor. Since then, I have had the pleasure of playing with these fine generals multiple times, and am confident there will be many more battles to come.

Above, please enjoy the video put together by Ben Connors (@BCatDC) showing behind of scenes of the construction and first play of the WAR ROOM RISK board.

Currently, the video is being featured on Reddit – http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/uzrwv/some_friends_of_mine_made_a_massive_risk/

Click to View DC Drum Circle Photos

During my brainstorming, I noticed a commercial on ESPN for their fantasy basketball game. The commercial depicted Jon Hedar (of Napoleon Dynamite fame) acting as a know-it-all fantasy sports super agent. He would call real life players out of nowhere, giving them advice and trying to get them to help his virtual team. I knew at that moment, what I needed to do. I needed to take on the twitter persona of Jake Stephens, fantasy basketball agent/expert/person who lacked touch with reality.

Within moments, the twitter account (@JakeStephensNBA) was created. I began to retweet NBA players across the twitterverse. I focused my efforts mostly on those who appeared in the ESPN commercials. My aim was to try and respond in someway directly to comments the players were making in their feeds. I wasn’t having much luck…

Then, Kevin Durant (at the time was @KDThunderup and can now be found as @KDTrey5) tweeted he had phone issues and needed the numbers of his friends and followers. This was my chance. Moments after he sent this request, I told him we needed to talk strategy. That was all I needed. Evidence can be seen in the photo of this post that Mr. Durant himself got the joke, and tweeted me promptly.

In less than 24 hours, I got one of the best players in the NBA to tweet me, with the use of a little simple humor and ingenuity.

The Public Health Accreditation Board worked with these and many other health departments around the country as they beta tested what would become the first national accreditation program for all public health departments. On October 16th, 2011 PHAB had a launch event for the program.

The initial result of our video shoots were on display at the event in the teaser video you see below. Soon longer videos on each program will also be coming out.

According to the MacArthur website: There are three criteria for selection of Fellows: exceptional creativity, promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishment, and potential for the fellowship to facilitate subsequent creative work.

I had the opportunity to put together 3 videos with my coworker Patrick. For your viewing pleasure, here is what we came up with.

Francisco Núñez

Jacob Soll

Dafnis Prieto