ViziPress
iBreakfast founder, Alan Brody, wins an award for his online visual book, "White
Shaka Boy" which is now the centerpiece of his new publishing company, ViziPress.com.
"The future of reading is visual - especially among younger people," says Brody,
"and when used with semiotics and music, can simplify very complicated ideas. We
will be applying these techniques to best-selling non-fiction books."
"White Shaka" - the multimedia graphic novel about a New Yorker who discovers his personal Obama-like connection to Africa, won a category Award in the Fuze Slideshare online
storytelling contest.
"White Shaka" was judged the best Multimedia Story in the International Fuze Slideshare
Storytelling [http://www.slideshare.net/
that attracted contestants from all corners of the universe, where it was described
by one voter as an "AWESOME...use of slides to tell a story."
Judges included Tony Hseih, CEO of Zappos.com,Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics,
Pete Cashmore, Founder, Mashable.com and Ann Handley, CCO of MarketProfs.com
Slideshare [http://www.slideshare.net] is the leading Powerpoint presentation sharing site. Fuze Meeting [http://www.fuzemeeting.com] is a collaborative videoconferencing site.
"White Shaka Boy" is a parable about the new land grab taking place in Africa today.
It is based on a true story about a teen who discovers he is the biracial heir to
the only white Zulu Chief of Africa. To win back his empire he has to learn about
Zulu culture and the new realities of urbanized Africa. He also discovers early
feminism in Zulu war culture and the underlying connection between Shaka's fighting
method and Gandhi's Satyagraha (passive resistance).
"White Shaka" features an award-winning, sophisticated Zulu hip-hop soundtrack from
the album by Imbube, produced by Draztik. The graphics were produced by Revo Yanson.
The book and story concept was created by Brody, a well-known new media pioneer,
journalist, speaker and entrepreneur who stumbled upon this saga while researching
an article about his early years, growing up in Africa. "I wanted to show my clients
that to succeed in sales you have to be willing to make direct contact with your
prospects - a grinding, rejection-laden process. I thought I could use the techniques
of Zulu warfare to show how to thrive. Then, I stumbled upon this story and somehow,
my inner comic-creator, music-lover and African adventurer came together."
White Shaka can be ordered on Amazon with the complete 17-song soundtrack CD for
$19.95 or directly from the White Shaka [http://www.whiteshaka.com]
All 35 Webisodes will be loaded on Slideshare over the next 6 months.
Slideshare is a popular presentation-
crossed over to the creative world.
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Contact: Ellen Schaeffer, ViziPress (212) 624 - 9110 ellens@
website: www.whiteshaka.com
View the winning Trailer [http://www.slideshare.net/
View Episode 1 [http://www.slideshare.net/
Published by ViziPress.com
Look out for more announcements from ViziPress about a new wave of Graphic Novel-inspired visual summaries of best-sellers.
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http://www.prlog.org/
