June 29th, 2008 Meeting

Panera Bread, 13th and Grant, 10am.

Memorial Day 2008

Memorial Day 2008: ”

From the Book of Common Prayer:

Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad. Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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(Via Redstate - Conservative News and Community.)

Denver Media Makers - 05/25/08

Pictures from the Meeting on Sunday May 25th.

May Meeting

A great meeting today at Panera Bread at 13th and Grant in Denver. Len Edgerly, Goldie Katsu, Ronald Lewis, Mat Luschek, and Paul Swansen all in attendance. Great conversation and discussion about New Media and how it relates to Colorado. We’ll have links up to the various streaming sources that were recorded during the meeting this morning, a bit later.

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Denver Podcasters Meet up 05/20/08

Qik video from Denver Area Podcasters Meetup this evening.

Podcasting for the Arts in Montana

Podcasting for the Arts in Montana: “

UPDATE: The embedded frame now contains archive of my presentation.

UPDATE 2: My presentation begins at about 10 minutes into the recording, so you might want to move the slider bar ahead that far to skip past the setup.

If all goes well, the above window will show the live feed of my presentation today in Great Falls Montana at the Montana Arts Council’s ‘Marketing Tune-Up’ workshop. I am scheduled to begin my ‘Technology as a Strategic Tool’ presentation at 10:15 am Mountain Time (12:15 p.m. Boston time). I will spend most of my time urging the nine arts organizations at the workshop to consider podcasting as a way to reach new audiences. We will create a composite audio podcast featuring 2-minute snippets from each one and upload it during the second hour of my presentation.

Here are places I’ll take my audience on the Internet:

Kodak ‘Winds of Change’ video

Utterz

Flickr

ComScore stats on growth in online video viewing

A 3-year-old reviews Star Wars - video

Bill O’Reilly’s meltdown - video

Viral Video Chart

Tacoma Art Museum on Twitter

Yesterday’s streaming went pretty well and you can click here for Jim Copenhaver’s talk on audience development. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the record feature to work during Dale Erquiaga’s excellent presentation on branding, but he had some viewers during the live stream and some action in the chat room. UPDATE: Click here for the second part of Dale’s talk, given today (May 17)>

UPDATE: Here is the link for the audio podcast the group made during my workshop session, quick voices from the following Montana arts organizations: CM Russell Museum, Montana PBS, Fort Peck Fine Arts Council, Butte Center for Performing Arts, Paris Gibson Square museum, Southwest Montana Arts Council, Great Falls Symphony, Premiere Dance Company, and Great Falls Arts Association.”

(Via LenEdgerly.com.)

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Denver Fire Department in Action

Great footage from Denver Media Makers Len Edgerly.

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Downtown eyesore for the DNC?

Ok, this is just breaking news, and there’s no Artist Rendition yet. However first impressions are that it will be an eyesore in Downtown.

“Mega tent” planned for downtown Denver in time for DNC: “A new special events venue beneath whats being described as a ‘mega tent’ in downtown Denver will be built in time for the Democratic National Convention.”

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Denver Media Makers - Video.

The second meeting of the Denver Media Makers group, held Sunday, 04/27/08/. And of course we do have media for you.

Seesmic. And a longer video discussion.

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2008 Colorado Ski Season.

I’m posting this here also, as I had an idea. I’m wondering if anyone in the New Media arena has been covering or is currently covering the Colorado Ski Resorts and events and in general the Colorado Ski scene? Please feel free to comment and lets get a conversation going.

I find this sort of journalism, sensational and certainly the headline was written to only draw readers. What’s missing, is any context of the story. What was the skier doing prior to the accident? Was the skier skiing out of bounds? Were there other skiers involved in the accident? What were the ski conditions at the time of the accident? What was the skiing experience of the skier who was killed? What was the response time of the Ski Patrol to the accident scene? Was the Ski Patrol, trained and competent to handle the emergency that they responded to?

Looking at the larger picture of the story there are at least two issues that come to mind. First, the story has no background of the number of skiers that have come to Colorado Ski areas in 2008. They also don’t have any breakdown of numbers of skiers at the 26 Ski Areas here in the State for 2008. I’d assert, a few minutes of fact checking and a simple table can give us numbers of skiers over the past year, and how 2008 compares with previous years. This sort of information would certainly put this story in a greater overall context. Secondly, the Ski Season in Colorado is a source of major income for the state all the way down to the local shop owners who rely on the skiers and the ski season for a portion of their annual income. A half done story like this helps no one. 9new.com we expect better.

Skier dies, record set for ski resort fatalities: “

VAIL - The Vail Ski Resort says a skier from the Denver area was killed after a skiing incident Saturday afternoon. This means a record 17 skiers have died on the slopes at Colorado resorts this season.

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(Via KUSA-TV -.)

Skier dies, record set for ski resort fatalities

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