Saving the World with Erica Branch-Ridley

For the second writers workshop of the new year we sat down with Erica Branch-Ridley, the Assistant Vice President for Platform Innovations at Sesame Workshop.  Sound fancy?  Is fancy.  Erica got her start as a musical theatre major. She worked on 48 Hours (the news show not the Murphy/Nolte powerhouse movie) as Dan Rather’s assistant, …

I Spend an Evening with my BFF Nancy Kanter

Okay, okay, Nancy Kanter isn’t really my new BFF (I wish!) but she was awesome enough to sit down and share her life story with us at the first ever WiCM Red Chair Series. And yes, there was indeed a red chair.  Two, in fact. Amy Friedman moderated as Nancy Kanter, Vice President of Disney …

I-View, You-View, We all Love to Co-View

For this event, the lovely folks at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center invited us in for some insight into their report The New Co-Viewing:  designing for learning through joint media engagement. Our panelists included producer Heather Tilert, Assistant VP of Platform Innovations at Sesame Workshop Erica Branch-Ridley, Director of the Center of Children and Technology …

Writing Workshop: Elly Kramer Gives Us The Peeps

Our second event of the new year was a writing workshop starring the wonderful and talented Elly Kramer, Director of Production and Development at Nickelodeon Preschool.  Elly shared with us the ins and outs of her responsibilities at Nick Jr. AND the ins and outs of the pitch process. Getting to Know All About the …

!Your New WiCM Blogger!

WiCM, dear WiCM, For one glorious calendar year you have graciously allowed me to believe that I was all you ever needed. I loved being the self-appointed People’s Champion, but what kind of self-appointed People’s Champion would I be if I didn’t listen to the people who didn’t appoint me? The time has come to …