Boston Media Makers meet the 1st Sunday of each month at Doyle’s Cafe in Jamaica Plain, join us.

This month I brought in some twitter t-shirts and backpacks from the 140 Conference I went to in NYC and this Web Around webcam background. Looks cool in the photo.

Everyone put in business cards and we randomly gave the things away. People liked this idea, so next month, bring in your trade swag and products you want to give away and we’ll redistribute them and save the planet.

Meeting Photos: Flickr Photo Set.

Meeting Photos Mashed Up: Animoto Video Mashup.

Here are some tweets from the meeting.

Video Roll Call streamed live with Qik on the iPhone 3GS and archived to YouTube:

David Tamés discusses getting better sound with wind protection:

Next Meeting: Sunday August 2, 2009 10:00 AM

@cspenn might call it an “interactive community brainshare”

Boston Media Makers meet at:

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

Photo: © 2008 Granite Communications, Inc. Photographed by Gerald Jay Groccia www.OnSiteStudios.com

Doyle’s serves Sunday Brunch! ( Bring cash )

Click here to see a 360 degree view of January’s Boston Media Makers meeting by Jay Groccia.

Watch in High Quality on YouTube.

Hosted by Steve Garfield.

10:00 – 10:30
Mingling

10:30 – 12:00
Introductions
LIVE Twitter: We go around the table and talk about what we are doing, ask questions, present a show and tell. All within a 3 minute time limit. It’s fun.

Bring something to share with the group. Something you’ve learned, something new you’ve found, or some good news.

Please: No Sales Pitches.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

If you are interested in the web, social media, advertising, PR, audio, video, photography, acting… come by.

See you at our next meeting on August 2, 2009.

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

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Next Meeting: Sunday July 5, 2009 10:00 AM

Great meeting this month.

Roll Call:

Introduction and Second Camera View of Roll Call:

Check out the twitter stream from the meeting.

At the meeting I showed the Eye-Fi Explore Video WiFi SD card using my Panasonic TS-1.

Disclosure: I am evaluating the Eye-Fi for my book, Get Seen. I won the camera at the Living in HD website. They are giving away 30 cameras this month. Enter to win.

The camera will send photos from the camera to Flickr when there is an open WiFi connection available. THe connection at hte time I took the photos was weak, so the photos did not get sent, but when I got home and turned on the camera, the photos I took at hte meeting were posted automatically to flickr.

Here they are:




More Pics and video coming up. Check back…

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Monday May 18, 2009 at 7:00pm
Doyle’s
3484 Washington Street
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 02130

Everyone had a great time at what Jeff Cutler called ‘Boston Media Makers at Night’. Jeff also interviewed people and asked them who their favorite America Idol contestant was.

Actually he asked everyone, “why are you here?”

Here’s his audi report, Boston Media Makers, Crowd Comments.

Watch the archived Ustream

Jeff interview lots of people. Stay tuned for the audio.

Boston Media Makers meets on the first Sunday of every month at Doyle’s in Jamaica Plain.

Many people can’t make it on a Sunday morning and have asked for an evening gathering.

Join us at Doyles for an informal get together with Boston Area Media Makers.

Mmm beer.

Register at Upcoming.

Meeting Report: Sunday May 3, 2009 10:00 AM

Boston Media Makers meet at:

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

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

We had another great meeting with many more new attendees.

First up, mingling. Between 10 and 10:30 I encourage everyone to stand up and walk around and mingle with everyone. It’s a great time. This month I set up a computer with Skype and we mingled with Toronto Media Makers. It was fun.

I kicked off the meeting my having John Herman continue my explanation of why I started the group, then Len Edgerly continued, and onto Joe Cascio and continuing with Leslie Poston. I should have videoed it.

But I did video a roll call of everyone who was there. I streamed it live via Qik. Here’s the archive that was automatically sent over to YouTube.

Boston Media Makers Roll Call 050309

A really great way to have distributed commenting on the meeting is to look at the twitter stream from attendees during the time of the meeting. Here are all the twitter posts that were made that included the tag #BMM.

Twitter search results for #BMM since:2009-05-02 until:2009-05-04

If you are interested in the web, social media, advertising, PR, audio, video, photography… come by.

See you at our next meeting on June 7, 2009.

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

Sign up for our mailing list on the right hand sidebar for meeting announcements.

There’s also a Drinkup on May 18th at 7:00 PM at Doyles. People who can’t make it on Sunday mornings requested an evening event. This one’s going to be very laid back. Drinks, food and talk. Stop by.

Steve Garfield Meeting Flickr Photo Set.

Add links to your photos, videos, meetings notes on the comments. Thanks!

NEXT MEETING May 3rd, 2009 * 10 AM *

Attended the meeting? Leave your URL and/or Twitter name in the comemnts.

See the twitter posts from the meeting.

Roll Call:

Boston Media Makers meet at:

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

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

Here’s a video clip of my show and tell presentation:

Steve Garfield showing Sony Webbie HD and TG1, and talking about iMovie 09

Note: On the second try the TG1 video was captured by iMovie. Also, one clip that had an error was captured after I changed the capture disk from external to the internal MacBook drive.

David Tamés Highlights LED Lights from Zylight

If you are interested in the web, social media, advertising, PR, audio, video, photography… come by.

See you at our next meeting on May 3, 2009.

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

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We had a great showing again this month at the Boston Media Makers meeting at Doyle’s Cafe.

Here’s the roll call video:

Here are some tweets:

digiphile: At Boston Media Makers in JP, courtesy of @JeffCutler | Enjoying coffee as folks arrive. Brought an extension cord & power strip today #BMM

digiphile: Just met @QuiverAndQuill & @PeterKim IRL here at Doyle’s. About to get rolling here @ #BMM. It’s a packed house this morning

digiphile: First up: @BobbieC talking about Charles River Museum of Innovation. Check out http://go2.vg/walfest re: tickets toFood & Wine Fest #BMM

JeffCutler: @peterkim The real value is finding people who can lend support or advice in particular fields. Lots of video and Web smarts here. #bmm

JeffCutler: @peterkim The rest of it is valuable for the networking and just good breakfast at Doyle’s #bmm

mhorta: RT @jeffcutler Link to one of the apps @digiphile talked about .. http://www.twitterfone.com/ Fun stuff at #bmm

stevegarfield: TweetGrid for today’s Boston Media Makers meeting http://is.gd/ljtr (expand) #BMM #BMM030109

digiphile: Hearing about http://MediaBestPractices.com from @PeterKim, spearheaded by @StoweBoyd & @ChrisSaad – important for media #transparency #BMM

yiseowl: What would you rate Boston Media Makers on a scale from 1-100? http://ratingworld.com/category/14/topic/82/subtopic/1582/entity/sh… (contract) #BMM

digiphile: Director of New Media for http://NECN.com is here at #BMM | They use @Monitter & livestream w/@Mogulus | http://www.WeatherNewEngland.com

digiphile: After hearing @AdamWeiss talk about applying for Island Reef Job at #BMM, I went out & found his 1min video application: http://www.islandreefjob.com/#/applicants/watch/Wm8z4WBw00c

See all tweets with the tag #BMM or #BMM0301009 via twitter search.

Here are some photos:

Joshua Grob, Director of Products and Services, OnLatte, Inc. put my face on some a few pints ot Guiness to end the meeting. Good times.

Join us next month, on a special day, the second Sunday, April 12th.

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Media Tech Tonic #7: Kevin Brooks: Storytelling/Perpetual Design, February 25, 2009

A storytelling workshop for designers who want to know how to tell stories to support design. Participants will learn to tell stories, apply storytelling to their design practice, and become reacquainted with the precious art that informs storytelling more than any other – the art of listening. Kevin Brooks, a Researcher and Experience Designer for Motorola and a professional oral storyteller.

NEXT MEETING MARCH 1, 2009 * 10 AM *

Boston Media Makers meet at:

Doyle’s Cafe, 3484 Washington Street, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA, 02130

We start off with a roll call streamed live on Qik, here’s the archive:

Local artist Donna Dodson met CC Chapman at last month’s meeting and he comissioned her to make an art piece for him. Here’s the unveiling:

Here are some photos and links from the meeting. I had to leave early.

Michael Keating from Beth Israel talked about how video is getting popular at the Medical Center.

Twitter ID’s of some people in attendance: @globalcitizen, @thebetsy, @recklessstudio, @GuidoS, @digiphile,@RealEstateCafe, @cc_chapman, @ariherzog, @OnSiteStudios, @Alexa, @AdamWeiss, @MaThurrell, @rlma from @wbur, and me @SteveGarfield.

Possible solutions for transcribing video:

- Mechanical Turk
- Adobe Soundbooth
- Portal Video
- Everyzing

We heard about the Neiman Narrative Conference March 20-22:

The Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism, now in its 8th year, is the premier annual gathering for narrative journalists eager to enhance their powers of observation and inquiry, sharpen reporting and analytic skills, and write with literary flair.

I presented the cameras that I got from Panasonic out at CES and talked about how the new HD cameras that record to SD cards only have USB interfaces, while the HD cameras that record to tape have Firewire. This means that the newer USB cameras can’t be used for live streaming.

Then I talked about being at WBZ studios when Gil Santos was retiring and live streamed that and showed it to the people at WBZ. I’m talking to them about making it easier for people formally known as the audience to become contributors to WBZ. I also talked about how David Wade watched me live stream an interview with Carl Stevens.

Check out Granite Copper Motor at Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/2687844.

Boing Boing got the film a lot of hits. We wanted to see how many hits Boston Media Makers could generate.

Jim Rizzoli of Total Access Productions talked about how he is a local distributor for NewTek TriCaster. He showed us still images of how he shoots his show with a green screen.

We heard about the ComFlm Registry from J. Aldrich and about new proposed laws to open up Massachusetts State Government.

Check twitter for tags BMM and BMM020109 for tweets about the meeting.

I caught that these things were talked about:

Boston Digital Media Network
@TheBetsy’s website is Inquisix
Free workshop on personal data security at MIT hosted by Boston Macintosh User Group
@CNN used Skype to interview @CCChapman after streaming live from #inauguration. Check out the new http://mediahacks.com podcast.
Check out the Pulse from http://www.LiveScribe.com – pen that records what you write and what you HEAR
Thomas is @RecklessStudio (singular). He’s working on a TV show & will be presenting ‘Love in 140 Characters’ at Ignite Boston
Magazinetv.tv – aggregator of online video about magazines.
Geekgirl camp, where non-technical folks can learn about technology. Digital & social media education.
@nazgul talked about getting his dad blogging & his daughter, @dulceamargo, a young artist looking for summer AV editing work.
Several talented still photographers transitioning into online video, learning new tools & techs. Example: http://www.melissashook.com
Free podcasting class on 2/11 in #Boston @ Apple Store in Back Bay w/@AdamWeiss –> learn how to use Garageband & Soundtrack Pro.
@Alexa talked abt her work @Mzinga, advocacy for women in IT & her desire to connect millennials & senior citizens for mutual learning

Also check flickr.

See you at our next meeting on March 1, 2009.

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

Sign up for our mailing list on the right hand sidebar for meeting announcements.

Mingling went from 10:00 until about 10:35. Great group this month.

I started off the meeting at 10:35 and asked for a show of hands for how many people it was their first time. Whoa! Maybe 70% of the people.

After doing a quick live streamed roll call video on Qik, we went around the room and everyone had a chance to introduce themselves.

Eric ZORK Allen introduced himself in a big way, He’s a Slam Poet and ended up standing on a chair. Watch the video of ZORK.

Adam Weiss did a show and tell on a cool Black Rapid camera strap.

Jay Groccia from On Site Studios made a 360 degree photo and showed us how he takes the picture.

Click here to see a 360 degree view of this month’s Boston Media Makers meeting by Jay Groccia.

Here’s a video of Jay taking the photos.

Donna Dodson, a local Jamaica Plain artist, showed us a sculpture she made using radid prototyping. Very cool. She needs to talk to Bre Pettis.

Joselin Mane talked about his Social Media Kit.

See you at our next meeting on February 1, 2009.

It’s worth getting out of bed for.

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

Boston Media Makers had another great meeting to close out the year at Doyle’s Cafe, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA.

The group is going strong and we had a lot of new attendees. Thanks again to Doyle’s for hosting us.

We shot a video of everyone that attended including our wonderful server, Donna!

Adam Weiss did a Show and Tell of his new HD camera and stabilizer/tripod rig, the Manfroto MODO STEADY.

Watch on blip.tv

Len Edgerly talked about his Kindle podcast, The Kindle Chronicles, and showed us a Kindle tip.

David Tamés talks about SATA drives. [ Qik Video ].

Check out the Realtime twitter search results for the tag #bmm120708

Highlighted links:
Video Hosting: http://blip.tv
Blog Hosting: http://bloghost.me
Podcast Hosting: http://gcast.com
http://omeka.org/ – “Create complex narratives and share rich collections adhering to Dublin core standards with Omeka, designed for scholars, museums, libraries, archives, and enthusiasts.”

John Herman’s New project: http://oddnoggin.com

WatercoolerFootball.com as seen in Newsweek!

@jaberg: Slideshare now supports Keynote

Selected Photos:

Got media from the meeting? Tag it BMM120708 and post a link in the comemnts.

See you next month on January 4th.

Steve Garfield’s Flickr Photo Set:
Boston Media Makers 12/07/08