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Live Webcast from Times Square

December 31, 2009 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Events & Shows, Rants & Raves

Times Square Update from my daughter Sarah
Hi!
I thought you might be interested in this recent article from NYTimes.com about how people around the world this New Year’s Eve will be able watch a live, 6 ½ hour Webcast of the ball drop from New York’s Times Square. The article also mentions how the Times Square [...]

Times Square Live Event Coverage

December 29, 2009 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Rants & Raves, Technology

Many of you reading this have met my daughter Sarah..either in the past or at our recent event at Samsung. When she was with us at the breakfast she met Lloyd Trufelman of TrylonSMR who offered her a pretty cool job for a couple of weeks…helping assist members of the worldwide media with information about [...]

MediaCentral tries to put Israel in context for Big Apple journalists

July 13, 2009 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Industry News

Special thanks to Elizabeth Solomont of the Jerusalem Post for both attending and covering our event with Aryeh Green of MediaCentral last week for the Jerusalem Post
Jul. 12, 2009
E.B. SOLOMONT, Jerusalem Post correspondent
NEW YORK – It was a recent weekday morning, and a group of New York media types gathered to sink their teeth into [...]

New York begins initiatives to boost media industry

July 8, 2009 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Industry News

Thanks to Lloyd Trufelman at TrylonSMR for sharing this.
July 8 2009 (from PRWeek.com)
NEW YORK: Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced eight technology-focused initiatives to bolster the city’s media industry, which is being battered by the recession and poor advertising climate, as well as industry changes.

ScribeMedia: How the Web Has ‘Democratized’ the Comedy Business

October 28, 2008 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Rants & Raves

Thanks to the folks at TrylonSMR, ScribeMedia.org, an online media production company with an editorial section that covers events across a broad range of subject areas, featured an audio podcast on the comedy breakfast featuring Sarah Bernard, President of 236.com from our “Comedy & Media  Breakfast” last week at Samsung.
“Dying is easy, comedy is hard.” [...]

Special Event on October 24th

October 19, 2008 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Events & Shows, Industry News

We are pleased to announce that NY:MIEG is joining forces with Uncensored Interview and Witness to support their upcoming event on October 24th “Where Awareness, Video and Music Collide”
UI/WITNESS CMJ Party 2008:
Uncensored Interview is officially partnered with music pioneer Peter Gabriel’s human rights organization WITNESS for an end of week celebration at CMJ 2008.  WITNESS is [...]

Special Thanks to Juliette Powell the guest at our recent “Author in Residence” program

March 29, 2008 by Bill Sobel  
Filed under Events & Shows

A special thanks to my dear friend Juliette Powell for a great job this past week at our annual “Author in Residence” program at The Samsung Experience at Time Warner Center.
We will be taking off for the rest of the Summer and will be back in September with two exciting program:

September 16th in Melville, Long [...]