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Jul 20, 2009 12:00 PM, By Cynthia Wisehart
Over the past couple of months, more people have been using our online professional services including our publicist resource The Briefing Room and our professional networking and marketing resource Reel-Exchange. Not only have people been posting their news to The Briefing Room and their professional profiles, demo reels, movie trailers, jobs, and marketing materials to Reel-Exchange, but our traffic tells us that people are reading and watching.
These two resources are the most popular traffic destinations for our readers and a rich source of stories. Reel-Exchange has members from every state and more than 70 countries and from all production and postproduction disciplines. Members represent big facilities and individuals, and we see amazing work and interesting workflow up there every day. We’ve been following those leads, which take us across the spectrum of film and television production. We’ve profiled Roberto Schaefer, ASC, who shot Quantum of Solace, and wildlife filmmaker Thomas Winston, who recently completed his National Geographic special Expedition Grizzly. There are animators from Venice, Calif., (Digital Domain); Singapore (Melanie Beisswenger); and Milford, Mich., (Dale Myers) who are acknowledged in this month’s Animation Resource Report, which provides a glimpse of the hundreds of animators on Reel-Exchange.
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We’re currently completing development on the next phase of millimeter.com, which will better integrate these resources into our website and network. We’ll be adding more professional networking features and increasing the audience that sees Reel-Exchange. If you have considered using either or both of these services, joining now will get you into the fold to take advantage of the new features and broader reach when the next-gen site launches in the fall. The learning curve on both is not difficult, and we can help with some easy instructions and personal assistance getting started.
For The Briefing Room: Lucy.Sutton@penton.com
For Reel-Exchange: Andrew.Ward@penton.com
Thanks to those of you who already participate, and we’ll look for you online.
As we go to press, we’ve received sad news: the passing of Inlet Technologies CEO Neal Page, 50, after a yearlong battle with leukemia. Our thoughts go out to his family, especially his four children, and to his colleagues. Personally, I would like to acknowledge once again his contribution to video technology and our shared knowledge base—especially in the difficult art of encoding. My experience with him going back to Osprey was that he had the rigor and enthusiasm necessary for the hard tasks of building disruptive technology and advocating for it. I marveled at his stamina for a subject that he made seem fresh for the decade I heard him talk about it, answering many of the same questions over and over, some of them from me. Though his passion was ostensibly encoding, he used his love of technology and business as a platform for what seemed a greater purpose, which was people. I can only imagine how much he is missed.
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