FitzPatrick Institute Seminar: 'Surfing the digital wave - Africa Geographic’s digital publishing agency - bigFIG'

The renowned Africa Geographic publishing house is now riding the digital wave. It produces two new, bold and exciting, interactive digimags, featuring awesome videos, photos and animations - trying to make the planet a better place.

PLANET, produced in partnership with WWF International, is an attitude-changing exploration of the world we live in and how to make the connection between global environmental issues, and our daily lives at work and home: www.planetdigimag.com

SAFARI, is a sizzling hot, new monthly digimag about African travel, wildlife and conservation – your African journey starts here: www.africageographic.com/safari

Both digimags make full use of the social media space, encouraging readers to share their experiences, photos and video clips – and are always on the look-out for new stories, features and contributors.

bigFig, Africa Geographic’s digital media agency, believes that promoting the take-up of digital media will help reduce the pressure on our planet's precious resources; that educating people and corporations about sustainable living is key, for ourselves and our planet; and that we do well by doing good.

About the speaker: Having spent all her free time and money travelling round Africa’s wildlife destinations for the past 20 years, Harriet Nimmo has finally jumped ship and left the UK to join bigFIG as Commercial Director. Her new role is to lead the strategic roll-out of the digimags, and building partnerships with the international corporate sector. Previously she was CEO of Wildscreen - delivering the internationally renowned wildlife and environmental film festival, the WildPhotos nature photography symposium as well as being responsible for developing the award winning www.ARKive.org - the world’s digital databank of film and photos of endangered species. With a BSc/MSc in Zoology, Harriet’s passion and expertise is how to communicate about the natural world - so that better stories may be told to ever wider audiences, to help raise greater understanding of the natural world and the threats it faces. She was named European Professional Woman of Achievement in 2003 for the development of ARKive.