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Media Professionals of Florida, Inc. provides informative meetings on the second Tuesday of each month For more information contact David Rosenblatt at info@mediaprofessionals.org
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Program
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"Content is King" and "Social Media Marketing"
Are you using social media to grow your business? Can you increase your reach by using Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and LInkedIn? What’s the scoop on social media marketing? How social are you in the web world?
How’s your marketing going? Are you thinking about creating your own website? Do you have a website? Do you maximize your presence?
Are you familiar with open source web development? Do you update your own website? How’s your joomla? Is your website working for you? Are templates working for you?
Are any of the above questions intriguing? Do you have questions that are unanswered?
If you’d like to get down-to-the-facts information from two experts, then come to our February 9th meeting. We’ve got two pros who will share the ins and the outs on all!
Who’s presenting?
Rod Harlan - “Social Media Marketing”
Rod Harlan is the President of both: DriveDV, Inc. - a full service multimedia firm, and SITEdriver - a web development company.
He is the Founder and Director of Education for the Digital Video Professionals Association (DVPA), Dynamic Media Editor for Layers Magazine, and an Instructor for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (NAPP) & The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) among others.
Rod is an author and contributor of numerous books, countless magazine articles, and is a frequent speaker and trainer at many of the largest conferences and expos.
Betty Cortez - “Content Is King”
Betty Cortez is the owner of RipCord Web and Video Solutions and has over 10 years of web development and design experience in addition to a Bachelor’s Degree in Management of Information Systems from University of South Florida. Betty was part of an award-winning Web Team for the City of Tampa before leaving the City to open her own Web development services company. While at the City of Tampa, Betty worked as the TampaGov.net Content Administrator, maintaining the TampaGov.net web portal of about 7,000 pages with an average of 70 departmental web content contributors and coordinated project development with 3 web programmers, and a supervising Project Leader.
Betty and her team won various awards and recognitions, including honorable mention in the 2006 Stockholm Challenge Award; in 2002, the nation’s most prestigious and popular government competition,“Best of Web,” by the Center for Digital Government; in 2006 second place in “Best of Web;” first place in 2007; and in 2008 once again took the top honors winning the “Best of Web” for the best state and local government web sites.
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Information
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Networking 6:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Meeting: 6:30 p.m.
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Location
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The International Academy of Design and Technology is located at 5104 Eisenhower Blvd, Tampa FL 33606
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Directions
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The International Academy of Design and Technology is located at 5104 Eisenhower Blvd, Tampa FL 33606 – just west of the Tampa International Airport.
Traveling from Downtown Tampa, Brandon or east of IADT:
1. Take I 275-South
2. Take Exit 39 (Tampa Airport/ Clearwater Exit) Be sure not to take the final Airport exit or the Clearwater turn off.
3. Go straight until you get to Memorial Hwy. Turn left on Memorial Hwy. Go up about 2 blocks…
4. Turn right on George Rd. ( where 7-11 Convenience Store is located)
5. IADT campus will be on your right hand side after Terry’s Grocery Mart.
6. Please pull in and you may park in the garage or in the lot. When you go through the front doors you will need to let the guard know that you are here for the MPFI meeting.
Traveling from St. Petersburg/ Largo/ Seminole area
1. Take I-275 North over the Howard Frankland bridge
2. Take Exit 39B (Tampa Airport/ Clearwater Exit) Be sure not to take the final Airport exit or the Clearwater turn off.
3. Go straight until you get to Memorial Hwy. Turn left on Memorial Hwy. Go up about 2 blocks…
4. Turn right on George Rd. ( where 7-11 Convenience Store is located)
5. IADT campus will be on your right hand side after Terry’s Grocery Mart.
6. Please pull in and you may park in the garage or in the lot. When you go through the front doors you will need to let the guard know that you are here for the MPFI meeting.
Traveling from Clearwater Area
1. Take Courtney Campbell Causeway to the end and get in your far left lane.
2. Follow the signs to Memorial Blvd.
3. Turn left on Memorial Hwy. Go up about 2 blocks…
4. Turn right on George Rd. ( where 7-11 Convenience Store is located)
5. IADT campus will be on your Right hand side after Terry’s Grocery Mart.
6. Please pull in and you may park in the garage or in the lot. When you go through the front doors you will need to let the guard know that you are here for the MPFI meeting.
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Guests and spouses are welcome!
First time guests are free
After that $10.00 per meeting
Corporate
If you join January - June, you pay $150 for the calendar year.
If you join July - December, you pay $75 for rest of calendar year.
Corporate membership allows three shared memberships within a corporation.
Individual
If you join January - June, you pay $50 for the calendar year.
If you join July - December, you pay $25 for rest of calendar year.
Student
If you join January - June, you pay $35 for the calendar year.
If you join July - December, you pay $17.50 for rest of calendar year.
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2010
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The Future of Journalism, Production Insurance, Sales Tax and Workmans Comp. Exemptions, Adobe Products, Audio and Video Editing in Studio, Editing Styles and Logging and Maintaining Audio/Video Databases. |
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January
2010
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"The Changing Marketplace for Independent Film Distribution"
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| Networking is always fun at the Media Professionals of Florida's meetings and this one was no exception! There is always a light dinner at every meeting. |
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| Our president, David Pless, opened the first meeting of 2010 and welcomed guests and new members. |
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Steve Brown, president of 1020 Productions, provided a great bonus track about Florida Sales Tax Exemption. Steve spoke from the perspective of media production companies.
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Saving money on taxes is very important to small businesses. If you purchase production equipment for your company, the savings could be hundreds of dollars. That’s more money kept in the business.
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Parts of the online application can be confusing. Take your time. Steve Brown mentioned there is a toll free help line if you have any questions about the forms.
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| Most members of MPFI are production specialists and not familiar with the selling of finished video productions. Ron Satlof had the full attention of the audience when he shared his experience with selling and promoting video productions and features. |
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Scenes from Misconceptions produced by Ron Satlof. Ron’s film feature has received critical acclaim. For Ron, once the production wraps, there is still the hard work involved in selling and distributing.
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This scene shows Orlando Jones, Sarah Carter and A. J. Cook. The movie "Misconceptions" takes a serious and sometimes comical look at the culture clashes that can occur.
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| Producer Ron Satlof shares his long experience in movie production and distribution. Ron has kept up with the changing marketplace of movie feature distribution. The MPFI audience learned how to sell rights to video products while maintaining control. |
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A. J. Cook, one of the stars of Ron Satlof’s movie entitled "Misconceptions," shares a happy thought with Ron.
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For your friends who don't know what the film's about here's a short synopsis :
This lighthearted comedy pokes fun at the culture wars and the debate over same-sex parenting. Southern gal Miranda is an Evangelical Christian with all the social and political beliefs dictated by her church, but when she gets what she's sure is a message from God, she does a 180 and decides to become a surrogate mother for a married gay couple from Boston.
It's a weird enough situation as it is, but things get even crazier for Miranda when one of her baby-daddies-to-be decides to come down South for a visit -- and won't leave!
For More Information:
Information, trailers, clips and more at my blog: http://ronsatlof.blogspot.com/
There’s also an official website for the film: http://misconceptions-themovie.com/
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Speakers
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Steve Brown - 10-20 Productions (Bonus Track)
As owner/operator of 10-20 Productions since 1986, Steve Brown provides location video, lighting and audio equipment and crew for broadcast and corporate production. He also works regularly as director, camera operator, gaffer and lighting director for a variety of clients including ABC Sports, American Express, Bank of America, Busch Gardens, C-SPAN, Darden Restaurants, Discovery Channel, Entertainment Tonight, FOX Sports, Golf Channel, GTE, Harpo Productions, Home Shopping Network, Jabil Circuit, Met Life, NBC, Outback Steakhouse, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Paramount Pictures, Time Warner Communications, and Walt Disney World.
Steve has served as camera operator and director of photography on numerous award winning productions, including one that received a Crystal Reel Award and two that garnered ADDY awards.
For more informaion contact Steve Brown at steve@1020tv.com
Ron Satlof (Program)
Ron Satlof produced, co-wrote and directed "MISCONCEPTIONS," a feature film shot in the Tampa Bay area in 2008. It will be released in theaters by Regent Releasing in the first quarter of 2010.
Ron will talk about the changing marketplace for independent film distribution with the decline of the major independents and the trend towards self-distribution and service contracts. He will also show clips from "MISCONCEPTIONS."
Ron was a contract director at Columbia Pictures Television where among other projects he directed a two-hour TV production of "From Here to Eternity" with Don Johnson and Kim Basinger, Barbara Hershey and William Devane. Ron's picture, "Spiderman Strikes Back," which he produced and directed, was distributed in Europe, Asia and South America by Columbia Pictures International. He has also directed such recent TV productions as "Perry Mason Returns," "Diagnosis Murder," "Martial Law" and "Silk Stalkings." Various TV pilots that he has directed include "Jake and the Fatman" with William Conrad, and "Hunter" with Fred Dryer. He also directed the TV movie "Original Sin" with Charleton Heston and Ann Gillian.
He received an Academy Award nomination for his live action short "Frog Story," which he co-produced and directed.
For More Information:
Information, trailers, clips and more at my blog: http://ronsatlof.blogspot.com/
There’s also an official website for the film: http://misconceptions-themovie.com/
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