Who are the Logo Guys?
December 11, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Rants & Raves
Just came across a fun story…with a bit of history about my buddy Fred Seibert…on YouTube
Two people, Fred Seibert and Alan Goodman used to be known as “logo guys”. They are known for developing (not designing) the MTV logo. They worked for MTV Networks for a little while, until they had the idea of developing [...]
Winston Churchill: On Success and Failure
December 5, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Rants & Raves
Winston Churchill: Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
I received this quote in a postcard from the folks at Frederator Studios this week and really like it. I did a little digging and came across the following:
What is failure? As the Churchill quote illuminates, a failure is neither permanent nor [...]
J.J. Abrams and Fred Seibert to produce ‘Samurai Jack’ film
November 27, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Blog, People
Congratulations to my good buddy Fred Seibert on this exciting announcement!
STAR TREK director J.J. Abrams will be joining former Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert to produce a feature film version of the hit Cartoon Network animated series SAMURAI JACK. The $20 million film will use a combination of traditional cell animation and stereoscopic 3-D.
Seibert revealed the [...]
Maureen Isern: Moped Productions Taking Off…
October 20, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Blog, People
One of the pleasures of being “the master connector” as I have said many times is meeting new people. I had the pleasure of meeting Maureen Isern at a recent LIEG event I produced featuring Fred Seibert. Maureen is the principal of Moped Productions. an award-winning, full-service media consulting and video production company who, among [...]
Ellis Henican & Fred Seibert: It’s All about Fun!
September 21, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Blog, People
I had the pleasure this past week of producing an event in partnership with LIEG (The Long Island Entreprener Group) and Adrian’s Network featuring our buddies Fred Seibert (of NextNewNetworks) and Ellis Henican (Newsday and Fox News). If I were to describe it in a word it would be FUN. As many of you know [...]
September 13, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Events & Shows, Industry News
Thanks for the plug Ellis…and looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday!
from Newsday/The Long Island Newspaper
MR. BUZZ: Brands aren’t just for companies any more. They’re for people too. Fred Seibert is making sure of it. The Huntington native was founding creative director at MTV (thank Fred for the big-M logo) and president of Hanna-Barbara (“Yaba-Dabba-Do.”) [...]
The Latest News From SobelMedia
September 9, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under Industry News
Here it is hot off the press…the latest news from SobelMedia, featuring:
EVENT HEADLINES
9/16 (Daytime): Business Development Institute, B2B Social Communications
9/16 (Evening): Lessons in Brand Development & Innovation featuring Fred Seibert and Ellis Henican
9/17 (Evening): Toward the Sentient City the relationship between ubiquitous computing, architecture, and the city
9/24 (Afternoon): Social Data Summit, What is the Value [...]
Fred Seibert: Shattered lives, a shattered region, a shattered country.
August 30, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under People
I just received an email from my buddy Fred Seibert regarding Hurricane Katrina. It’s a must read!
“One of my earliest posts about Hurricane Katrina shuddered at the probability that we’d be still devastated on 2010 anniversary of the tragedy, and it’s still looking that way. We can’t forget what we allowed to happen to our [...]
My meeting with the Obama Girl
May 7, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under People
To be honest I had no idea what to expect…my first meeting with Amber Lee Ettinger (a/k/a The Obama Girl) earlier this week. Truth be told she was incredibly nice…very warm and so excited to have been asked to be part of our panel discussion on June 2nd “Selling Yourself: How to Build a Brand [...]
Beyoncé visits Wuzzelburg (Wuzzleburg…what’s that?)
May 3, 2009 by Bill Sobel
Filed under People
Congratulations to my friend Fred Seibert and Susan Miller of Boulder Media.
The following is an email I received from Fred.
I know it’s hard to believe, but Beyoncé, the world’s biggest star, is coming to our production of Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! as the star of Wubbzy’s first original movie.

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