Special Guest at our Feb 25th Meeting

I have been promising to bring a few of my friends (commonly known as FOBS) to one of our weekly meetings...and I wanted to start off with not only someone I have known for a long time but someone who has been doing some very interesting stuff.

Jaime Bernanke (yes, he is Ben Bernanke's first cousin) is an Emmy Award winning writer and producer of documentaries. While we first met when he was at Nickelodeon back in the early 80s as a promotion writer/producer, he really hit his mark when he was on staff at National Geographic Explorer 1985-1995, including stints as Supervising Writer and Supervising Producer. From 1995 to 1998 he was founding partner of Pangolin Pictures where he wrote and produced films for PBS, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, History Channel, Discovery Health, A&E, Biography Channel, National Aquarium in Baltimore, Pearson Prentice Hall Publishing.

Under his new banner, DoraLou Productions he has written and produced for PBS/Nature, National Geographic Explorer, and is currently finishing up a 25th Anniversary Special for the Explorer show that premiered back in 1985.

We will be getting started a little early, 3:30 in order to get our regular business out of the way by 4 and spend a good hour talking with Jaime, hopefully seeing clips of some of his exciting projects and give you a chance to ask questions of this award winning writer/producer.

-Bill

Webinar this afternoon at 4pm Eastern

Subject: Perfect for a snowday! Find out what's hot in Showbiz!

1pm PST and 4 pm EST -- free webinar from Showbiz Expo about how to make bank in the new Hollywood!

Click on this link to get all info: http://www.facebook.com/l/430ff;tr.im/showbiz03 any questions, email me at joyceschwarz@gmail.com

Conference call Wednesday 9am

Just a reminder our conference call is tomorrow

Wed, Feb 10

9:00am - 10:00am

(GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

Conference Call Info:

(712) 775-7040
Code: 8166424

any questions email me at bsobel@gmail.com or call me at 646-714-2415

TALK NYC Connections. Conversations. Change.

I thought you guys might be interested in this...

(I have a friend who is a partner at FFK&S one of the sponsors...I'll see if I can get a few freebees)

-Bill

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TALK NYC Connections. Conversations. Change.

Round 1: Differentiated Content in the Blogosphere and How to Capture It
Date: February 24th, 2010

Time: 6-8pm
Location: Downtown

Featured Talkers:

Matt Calos, SVP Chief Product Officer, Fox Sports Interactive

Pam Russo, General Manager, TMZ
Caroline Marks, General Manager,The Daily Beast

Presented in partnership with Frankfurt, Kurnit, Klein & Selz PC, Livestream and Wix.com

Executives from other participating companies include: Huffington Post, Real Networks, ESPN, Dow Jones, NBC Universal, among others

Who should attend? Mid-to-senior executive decision-makers at Media, Advertising, Technology, New Media and Entertainment companies and working in any of the spaces below.

Please join Matt Calos of Fox Interactive Sports among others to discuss what few are talking about in the blogosphere

(Differentiated content......and how to capture It).

*Executives needing to understand where the blogosphere is headed and were the value opportunities exist (either for your business or client's brand) should attend.

Drinks, music, and stimulating conversation all rolled into one platform. REGISTRATION required.

Click here to register: www.talkforumnyc.com

Getting together Next week...

Just checking to see if everyone had checked their calendars for next week since it looks this this coming Thursday won't work for me.

How about Wed morning at 9am at my office?

-Bill

Thursday Feb 11th might be a problem for me...

as you all can see I have a bit of a conflict on Thursday afternoon that I didn't realize till I got back to my office after our meeting. Now if you believe I will be performing at Roseland I have a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you!

Actually, I do have a potential commitment...a meeting up in Connecticut that I was invited to attend and if I do go all bets are off for Thursday afternoon.

That said, how about Wednesday afternoon (same time) or Thursday morning?

email me at bsobel@gmail.com ok?

Thanks,
Bill

Our New Blog

Greetings folks and welcome to our private top secret blog...we will only share this with each other as a way to keep in touch...a way to share thoughts about the program as well as our various projects. I also hope it will be a way to inspire you to think about your future beyond the JumpStart program.

Thanks again for your support and I look forward to working with all of you the next few weeks!

-Bill