Boston Media Makers

Boston Media Makers presents
Media Tech Tonic #1

What: Blogging with WordPress: A Crash Course
Where: Massachusetts College of Art and Design
When: Wednesday, May 21, 2008, 6pm - 9pm

Instructor: David Tames
Fee: Free and open to the public
Optional: Bring a laptop w/ wireless card
RSVP: david [ at ] kino-eye [ dot ] com

Building and Room TBA (RSVP via email and you’ll be sent the room and location)

Agenda:
1. Setting up a WordPress blog
2. Basic care and feeding
3. Using a custom template and tinkering with a custom template
4. Questions and Answers
5. Resources for further study

Original Photo by:
SimplySchmoopie CC BY NC SA
www.flickr.com/photos/areay89/172340873/

Boston Media Makers meet at:

Doyle’s Cafe
3484 Washington Street
Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, 02130
1-(617)-524-2345

http://www.doyles-cafe.com/

Doyle’s serves Sunday Brunch!

Mingling 10:00 - 10:30
Roundtable Discussion 10:30 - 12:00

Topics for the meeting:

LIVE Twitter: We go around the table and talk about what we are do, ask questions, present a show and tell. All within a 3 minute time limit. It’s fun.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

See you at our next meeting on June 1st.

Please register at Upcoming.

It’s always on the first Sunday at 10:00 AM.

Sunday May 4, 2008

Photo: Steve Garfield CC BY-NC-SA

*** Add links to your meetings notes, photos and video in the comments ***

Steve Garfield Boston Media Makers Photo Set 05/04/08.

JoeC Boston Media Makers Photo Set 05/04/08.

WATCH: Video of mingling that was streamed live…

Boston Media Makers meet at:

Doyle’s Cafe
3484 Washington Street
Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, 02130
1-(617)-524-2345

http://www.doyles-cafe.com/

Doyle’s serves Sunday Brunch!

Mingling 10:00 - 10:30
Roundtable Discussion 10:30 - 12:00

Photo: Steve Garfield CC BY-NC-SA

Topics for the meeting:

LIVE Twitter: We go around the table and talk about what we are do, ask questions, present a show and tell. All within a 3 minute time limit. It’s fun.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

See you at our next meeting on June 1st.

It’s always on the first Sunday at 10:00 AM.

Sunday April 6, 2008

Photo: Steve Garfield CC BY-NC-SA

Jeff Cutler at Bowl of Cheese writes about the meeting in his post ‘Making Media’:

OK, you might argue that I have a problem if I’m at a bar in Jamaica Plain at 10AM on a Sunday. Well, part of the process…in fact the first step…is admitting you have a problem. I’m not a quitter, so I’m not going to admit anything.

Read David Tamés’ extensive meeting notes. He says in part:

Some people who I tell about the monthly Boston Media Maker un-meetings can’t imagine getting up early on a Sunday morning and trekking across town. For me, Sunday mornings are usually reserved for slowly sipping coffee while reading the Sunday New York Times, so I can relate, however, take a look at the depth and breath of attendees and topics this month. Every month an amazing group of people ask interesting questions or talk about their new media activity in the Boston area. If you’re into new media, want to get into new media, or want to help others get into new media, Boston Media Makers is the place to be the first Sunday of every month to go around the room and ask a question, do a show and tell, share a story, or just give a quick update of what you’ve been up to.

Steve Garfield’s Meeting Videos:
Video Tour of Doyle’s Cafe in Jamaica Plain Mass.
Video roll call of everyone who came.
Video of David Tamés showing his new microphone.
Video of post meeting mingling ( 20 sec ).
Video: after the meeting, playing with LED light, walking around.

Photo by tiil. © All rights reserved

Adam Green created this list of attendees twitter names and websites.

Adam Green also created these feeds from the above lists:
- Just the Twitter feeds
- Blog, Flickr, YouTube and Qik feeds

Photo by tiil. © All rights reserved

If you took photos please tag them BMM040608. Leave a comment with links to any blog posts, audio, video, photos from the meeting.

Thanks to Doyle’s Cafe for hosting our meeting!

Next meeting, Sunday May 4th. Please REGISTER at Upcoming.org

Sign up for our meeting announcement EMail list on the sidebar.

Sunday March 2, 2008

Photos: Steve Garfield CC BY-NC-SA

Sunday’s meeting will be remembered as the funniest meeting ever. People mingled out front at Sweet Finnish from around 10:00 to 10:30…

We then moved to the conference room, where for the next hour and a half, people took turns introducing themselves and talking about what they are working on.

It was totally laid back and we all had a great time.

Did you make any media at the meeting? Leave a comment here and tag your posts and photos, BMM030208.

Check out: David Tamés’ meeting notes.

Also, Getting to know you… getting to know all about you….

It was a great reminder of the richness and diversity that is out there in any community — lots of good ideas, interesting work and possibilities.

See you at our next meeting on April 6th.

It’s always on the first Sunday at 10:00 AM.

Sunday February 3, 2008

We had a great group on this Super Sunday.

Here are Matt Searles’ meeting notes. They’re great!

I started off the meeting with a demonstration of how I plan to broadcast live from my cellphone for The UpTake on Super Tuesday.

Here’s the video I shot, and streamed live.

Here are a few sites of interest from the meeting:

Rebecca Herman

6 Million Others

Bicycle Film Festival

Boston Biker

FloPrompter

Jessica Burko

Boston Handmade

Tutorial Depot

9 Neighbors

TRB Designs Blog

John Herman

Gravityland

Uncontrolled Airspace
Matt Searles

Walk America 2008

Project Think Different

Brian Digital
Beanywood is now New Film Nation

AmandaVS.com - Roca

Left Ahead

Boston Media Makers meet at:

Sweet Finnish
761 Centre Street
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130

Mingling 10:00 - 10:30
Roundtable Discussion 10:30 - 12:00

Topics for the meeting:

LIVE Twitter: We go around the table and talk about what we are do, ask questions, present a show and tell. All within a 3 minute time limit. It’s fun.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

See you at our next meeting on March 2nd.

Please register at Upcoming.

It’s always on the first Sunday at 10:00 AM.

Sunday January 6, 2008

Photo: Steve Garfield CC BY-NC-SA

TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!

Boston Media Makers meet at:

Sweet Finnish
761 Centre Street
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130

Mingling 10:00 - 10:30
Roundtable Discussion 10:30 - 12:00

Topics for the meeting:

LIVE Twitter: We go around the table and talk about what we are do, ask questions, present a show and tell. All within a 3 minute time limit. It’s fun.

We started off the meeting with a demonstration of LIVE broadcasting from a cellphone. Very cool technology.

David Tames’ meeting report will be posted at Kino-Eye.com

Nate Aune’s partial audio from the meeting and blog post, where he says:

This was only the second time I attended the Boston Media Makers, but I felt strangely familiar and already connected with the other participants. Maybe it’s because many of us befriended each other on Twitter so in the month between each meeting, we are still following what each other is doing

Steve’s photos are over on his blog, Off On A Tangent.

Photo: Steve Garfield CC BY-NC-SA

John Wall is overwhelmed.

It was another great meeting with lots of new people, new ideas and a lot of laughs!

Please tag your meeting reports, audio, video and photos with BMM0108.

Leave a note in the comments pointing to your reports!

See you at our next meeting on February 3rd.

Please register at Upcoming.

It’s always on the first Sunday at 10:00 AM.

Meeting Notes from David Tamés.

It was another inspiring, interesting, and entertaining meeting of the Boston Media Makers , which has become carved in stone in my calendar for the first Sunday of every month. We meet at Sweet Finnish in Jamaica Plain with founder and master of ceremonies Steve Garfield.

Please tag your blog posts and photos with the tags: BMM1207, bostonmediamakers

Steve Garfield Flickr Photos from the meeting.

Len Edgerly’s iPhone iYule

John Herman in Focus

Windows Vista replaced by Mac OS X

Next Meeting: Sunday January 6, 2008

Sweet Finnish
761 Centre Street
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130

Mingling 10:00 - 10:30
Roundtable Discussion 10:30 - 12:00

Topics for the meeting:

LIVE Twitter: We go around the table and talk about what we are do, ask questions, present a show and tell. All within a 3 minute time limit. It’s fun.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

TAG everything BMM1107 for this meeting!

Yay!

Steve Garfield started off the meeting and explained how it’s a live twitter around the table. Everyone takes turns talking about what they are doing. They can ask a questions or do a show and tell too.

We give everyone 3 minutes and that makes things move quickly around the table. Time is loosely regulated so more time is given to people who need more than 3 minutes.

Steve then talked about how it’s video/day month at NaVloPoMo - Make a Video a Day this month.

Shane, The Sietch Blog.
A community of friends changing the world for the better.

WP Cache plug in helps performance on WordPress sites.

Shane told us about his participation in Boston’s halloween bike ride 2007.

Simeon Margolis explains Utterz.

Here’s an Utter from the meeting.

John is developing a site called Hub Unity.

Thea Breite, Boston Globe. tbreite at globe dot com
Looking for video support editors at Boston Globe.

David Tamés backs up to two drives for all his video. He buys raw 500 GBdrives at $129 each via serial ATA interface and a bunch of cables. David explains it all here: Using SATA drives in the raw with your MacBook Pro for details. SMARTReporter reports status of drives.

Len Edgerly
The Arts 2.0 Presentation

Lisa Kate Radden
Education @ LKR design.com
Please post ideas of how my students can blog, vlog, podcast, whatever from Germany and Paris in April!

Craig Dwyer
Boingo.com: Monthly flat-rate WiF- Plans.

Dan talks about Justin.tv and condomafia.

Craig mentions Do the Green Thing.
Green Thing is a community that’s here to help as many people as possible in as many countries as possible to do the Green Thing. A community of Green Things across the world will not only make a sizeable CO2 saving, it will encourage governments and businesses to do the Green Thing too.

John Coyne, Nuovomedia.
Nuovomedia’s mission is to produce digital-media with positive social messages, and to develop applications that advance how communities access and experience information and brands.

Went to Off Festival and saw Shiftspace where if you download an application to your computer to can mark up and share web page graffiti.

Philippe Lejeune, arteda.net.
Jimdo.com

Sounding the Subject, video trajectories

Sounding the Subject: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the New Art Trust

John Herman, working on Gravityland web video servies involving community and alternative reality gaming.

Let’s Change the Game.

Craig Dwyer, media and entertainment. Uses vod:pod to highlight interesting videos nad have then post to his blog. Watch Student 2.0.

Stephen Warley, BostonKnows.

Rick Burnes, 9 Neighbors

Paul Foley, Photographer.

Raico Beach

Tom Beach got a Firestore driver to turn his camera into a tapeless camera.

Sweet Finnish
761 Centre Street
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130

Register at Upcoming:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/296867/

Mingling 10:00 - 10:30
Roundtable Discussion 10:30 - 12:00

Review - Podcamp Boston 2 and Video on the Net.

LIVE Twitter: We go around the table and talk about what we are do, ask questions, present a show and tell. All within a 3 minute time limit. It’s fun.

Next Meeting: Sunday December 2nd.

We had a great meeting this month with a lot of new people. After 1/2 hour of mingling in the front room, we set a 3 minute timer and went around the table and heard about what everyone is doing. There was time for questions and discussion and we ended just at 12:00 so a kids birthday party could take over the room.

John Coyne talked about audiopodchronicles

Pro audio in watertown was suggested as a good source for a microphone, the at55s.

lynda.com was mentioned as a good source for training.

Check out the video Darkbuster- I HATE THE UNSEEN LIVE on YouTube and a response video that shows the difference you can get when you shoot video differently.

John Herman talked about The Energy Smackdown, gravityland.com and nhfilmfestival.com

John’s friend Dan Freund talked about primaryseason.com

Some of the new people who came this week were Paul Foley, paulfoley.com a photographer

Ted Cartellas filmmaker who works with mellvillepark.com and recorded a video for chriselliott.orgcalled ‘cheat on you.’

Rebecca Herman regardingrebecca.com, just relocated her from Buenos Aires to produce a local documentary film.

Margo, a photographer and filmmaker working on a documentary project with the jpndc.

Mark Smith, dcinput.com and marksmith on twitter, was in town for business and heard about the meeting on twitter and took a cab over. Yay!

Rick Bburns has a new local news site launching called 9neighbors

NEXT MEETING: SUNDAY NOVEMBER 4th.