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Calling all New Hampshire media makers!
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The latest gathering of the NH Media Makers was during the hottest day of the year (so far). We started off by chatting about Twitter, Plurk, and Snackr. The meeting was characterized by diverse and enriching conversation. Some topics mentioned during discussion are noted below. Everyone brought a unique perspective to the table.
Bill Rogers working on individual, client-based, and organizational web productions tied to environmental aims. Focuses on climate change solutions for broadcast on the web. http://www.NoworNeverMedia.org Also made/making a character-based documentary on Bode Miller called Flying Downhill… looking for partners on the evolving project. Mentioned: how to create conversation about global warming concerns, Ski Space, and Indie Go Go.
Roger Goun is working on a website for action-based grassroots. The concept: One president. Eight disastrous years. How do we begin to undo the damage? Looking for quality writers of political content. http://www.bushcatastrophe.com Mentioned: the attraction of dynamic media like images and video over text, Red Lasso as a potential resource for getting video on the site.
E. Christopher Clark is an author, family historian, and Internet geek. Creator of http://www.geekforcefive.com, a blog covering Lost, NIN, Apple, Marvel Comics, and View Askew film productions. Looking to create a Facebook application tied to the project. Chris presented on his book, Those little Bastards, and introduced his new website. Looking to start promoting the book online through audio podcasts and videos. Mentioned: Online resources for creating business cards like Moo via Flickr, David La Morte’s homemade business cards, the crossroads between self publishing and mainstream publishing.
Dan Freund working with a 3D motion graphics firm for architectural rendering, broadcast, film, and gaming arts: http://www.VFXdirect.com/reel Landing big projects that can’t even be blogged about yet… but we got to hear about them! Mentioned: Metaverse applications, regional filmmakers connecting with the larger industry, creating a political film festival.
Bryan White is the creator of http://www.cinema-suicide.com Lots of exciting development… both triumphs and failure. Launching a t-shirt line. Producing a film series at the Ioka Theater (first and last Friday of every month starting August 1st). Also developing a webisodic series about paranormal investigations. Looking for sponsors on all projects. Mentioned: local sponsor brainstorms (MSM to kick boxing schools), developing a site for horror film music.
John Herman will be attending Podcamp Boston 3. Currently producing the interactive web series Gravityland, and hosting the Energy Smackdown. Also in preproduction for a new webisodic inspired by a stage comedy show. Lots of production this summer.
Jack Herman manages a retail website at http://www.barnhouselighting.com Looking engaging, dynamic ways to engage his customers with New Media. Mentioned: ways college students can get free design software packages, bootlegging vs buying, issues of tech support, and Chris’s book, Those Little Bastards.
Leslie Poston is all about the side projects these days! She will also be attending PodCamp Boston 3! She is actively seeking names for her side project mentoring businesses in utilizing social media and the internet to improve their brand and broaden their reach. Writing for http://www.profy.com Mentioned: online business transparency, marketing, social media interest from mainstream businesses, Zappo Shoes, Gary V, the false death of the written word, Utterz, and Jott.
Closed the face-to-face gathering with a discussion about how to keep privy to the newest social media applications. Will continue the conversations online and next month. Join us!
The first gathering of the NH Media Makers was a huge success. Click on the image above to view a slide show of the event. As Georgene Nunn states on her blog Random Kitty:
“We had photographers, videographers, writers, entrepreneurs, search engine marketers, programmers, culture geeks, and often times most people were several of those things if not all of them! Had I been taking notes I’d have a lot more details about each person. Everybody I met was just terrific. There was a definite buzz in the air and I could tell a lot of really valuable connections were made. Separately we’ve got a ton of super ideas and talents, together we could really turn this area into a hub of internet and cultural activity.”
Or as Leslie Poston says on her blog Smoke Rings and Coffee Stains:
“It was definitely worth it! I got the chance to meet a variety of interesting people, from behind the scenes web developers to in your face interactive television web casters, fellow writers, vloggers and bloggers, movie junkies, internet political revolutionaries and more. I had a blast, and I can’t wait to see who comes to the next meeting.”
And here is a video reaction from Chris Clark of Geek Force Five:
Or here is a more surreal view of the meeting from Phil Kliger of Uncle Philms
And, finally, here are notes on the terrific folks that came to share:
John Herman talked about his interactive web-isodic Gravityland and Tuesday night at 7 PM he joins a team of comedians for an interactive live web comedy show on Mogulus. John is mentioned in the latest issue of The Wire.
Phil Kliger talked about how he recently submitted his documentary, Working on My Short Game, to the NH Film Festival. He also talked about his fun and handy Archos camera.
Roger Goun is a photographer, software engineer, and co-founder of Democracy for New Hampshire and ListenUp: NH, also co-lo at http://www.mv.net
Dan Freund is a media enthusiast who is beginning a 3D motion graphics company and keeping busy with lots of media productions. Always looking for people with great ideas.
Jon Briggs is a talented musician and he’s also the official sound guy for Gravityland.com
Nap is a Ruby web application developer, editor at ink19.com, and indie music, film and comic geek. Focusing on social media networks and writing a book about Ruby on Rails, he’s also looking for collaborators for ‘web experiments’
Andy Fling is a movie making enthusiast and in-house developer for buzgate.org. Very interested in making movies locally and creating a community around film making in NH. Recently won a Spotlight Award for Best Supporting Actor. Congrats Andy!
Georgene Nunn works for http://www.sellmytimesharenow.com. Looking for bloggers and all kinds of multi-media collaborative ideas for http://randomkitty.net
E. Christopher Clark is an author, family historian, and Internet geek. Creator of http://www.geekforcefive.com, a blog covering Lost, NIN, Apple, Marvel Comics, and View Askew film productions. How cool is that?! He’s currently thinking of producing a novel that embraces the concepts of social media.
Leslie Poston (@geechee_girl on Twitter) is from http://www.profy.com. She is a freelance writer about Web 2.0. She also works to help writers embrace social media.
Bryan White is the creator of http://www.cinema-suicide.com looking to network on original content, video, live casting, and other ways to push his site to the next level.
Jack Herman is the web master/co-owner of http://www.barnhouselighting.com. He’s excited by the world of web marketing, site optimization, and monetization. Looking for dynamic web ideas to develop a better reach to niche markets.
Jason Ruths is from http://revnh.com. He’s looking to start a revolution in NH. He’s passionate about getting corporations out of politics. Looking for collaborators.
Mike Mooney is from http://fmcrew.com He helped produce the popular web show What is Joppa? and is now working on a new project involving sci-fi and comedy. Also involved in the ongoing video adventures at http://glintofhope.com
Jon Wellington is a wedding videographer and improv comedian bringing his skills together to produce the comedic web show “Fox Burnahm.” When he announced that he was looking for people willing to die on camera, half of us raised our hands
The inaugural gathering of the NH Media Makers was hosted by John Herman (sideburns) with Mike Mooney (smirk), Dan Freund (silver cup), Nick Plante (pondering paper cup), Bryan White (scratching), Chris Clark (eyebrows), Phil Kliger (polarized glasses), Leslie Poston (curly), Roger Goun (beard), Georgene Nunn (no mug handle usage). Many people joined us.
NH Media Makers was inspired by the popular Boston Media Makers meet-up started by Steve Garfield.
