BNI Friday

Excellent meeting this morning.

Saturday Volunteer Work

Doing a little bit of roofing volunteer work on Saturday in
Morgantown, WV.

BNI Success Chapter Social Event

A big thank you to all involved in the BNI Success Chapter dinner / social. It was in my opinion, a "success". :)

The event was well attended. Many of the BNI members' spouses, relatives and friends were on hand to enjoy the evening together. Jason Hager led the way as all members introduced their guests. This dinner certainly helped bring everyone closer.

Learn more about the BNI Success Chapter:
www.successchapter.com

Stunning Backgrounds for Your iPhone

BNI Friday

BNI 5/8/09:

Today started on a sad note by remembering Tammy Webber's 20 year old
son who passed away earlier in the week. In addition, we began a
membership drive to help grow our chapter. The process will be quite
interresting to see how it works. To learn about the Success Chapter
please visit www.successchapter.com

Build Your Mobile Website with Prioritized Content

Over the past few years websites in general have included large amounts of content with some including high quality graphics, photos and video. The mobile versions of a website need to be streamlined for obvious reasons…such as screen resolution and download speeds. Yet the mobile version of your website can be quite effective if you prioritize the information. Decide what is essential and get rid of the fluff. Determine why an individual is visiting and what they will be interested in. The reason a user is going to your website through a mobile device is most likely different than a user visiting from a standard computer. Mobile users may be riding in a car, waiting in a line while shopping or sitting at a doctor’s office.

So, scale your content and target your audience…less is more!

BNI Friday with Short Chiropractic

Dr. Short did an excellent job today with his 10 minute presentation in front of roughly 35 BNI members. The success chapter is located in Huntington, WV. Learn more about BNI and the Success Chapter at www.successchapter.com. Media Makers is a member of this chapter and built the website.

Learn more about Short Chiropractic:
www.shortchiro.com

Photography at Highlands

Media Makers visited HRMC with Rick Lee from Charleston, West Virginia. Rick is an amazing photographer especially in a Health care setting. We have used Rick a number of times in our travels to Eastern Kentucky. Thank you again Rick for your stellar work!

Visit Rick's Blog

Example of a few shots from Monday, April 27th:

Adobe Advances Content Creation, Delivery and Playback

Adobe Systems Incorporated is highlighting advances in video and dynamic media software technologies that improve the creation and delivery of content across personal computers, televisions and mobile devices. The show sees the company debut Adobe® Flash® Platform for the Digital Home, an optimized implementation of Flash technology that brings HD video, interactive applications and services, new user interfaces and online content to Internet-connected televisions, set-top boxes, Blu-ray players and other devices. Adobe also unveiled a software framework, code-named Strobe, that will help establish an open industry standard for media players and accelerate the creation and delivery of high-quality video and interactive experiences for Web audiences.

Read the Release

Create an iPhone icon

iPhone currently uses the mobile safari browser and your visitors will want to add your site to their home screen. It is actually pretty simple to create a custom icon in order to accomplish this. If you do not have an icon saved on your site, the iPhone will simply use a small version of your website as the icon.

Step One: Create the Icon.
Using a graphics software program, create an image that is 158 x 158 pixels. The rounded corners and glossy look will automatically be applied to your icon.

Step Two: Save the Icon.
This will need to be a .png file and named 'apple-touch-icon.png'. Once the file is saved, upload it to the root of our website. You do not have to do anything else. The iPhone will automatically look for this .png file when users add your site to their home screen.

HRMC HD Video Shoot

An impressive day at Highlands Regional Medical Center as we prepare for and produce TV Commercials. The video shoot is for HRMC's "We're Here" advertising campaign. A big thank you to all involved. The cooperation of hospital staff, patients and video crew made this a huge success.

Final TV spots will be posted in the next couple of weeks.

Note: These spots were directed and produced by Jason Epperson. Jason was runner up in the reality TV show "On The Lot." Jason is currently working on a couple of feature films yet took the time out to work with Media Makers to direct TV Commercials for Highlands Regional Medical Center.

The "RED"

Media Makers has been introduced to the "RED" camera. WOW!!! Probably as close to film as digital HD can get. The "RED" was used to produce a TV commercial for one of our clients. It will be tough to use anything else. The preliminary footage we were able to view was stellar.

Information about the RED...

The idea behind the RED camera system is simple. Design and build a high performance digital cine camera with the quality of 35mm film and convenience of pure digital. RED delivers unmatched image quality with no recording system limitations.

For more information visit red.com.