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Philadelphia Independent Film Festival Opens 2014 submissions!

11 Friday Oct 2013

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Hello and welcome back. It’s official. As of October 1st we have opened submissions for the 7th annual festival. We will be holding the festival June 25 – 29, 2014. Use this link <a href=”http://bit.ly/PIFF7″>PIFF 7 </a>to submit now and get the discussion going.  We are really looking forward to festival #7 and in many ways, this is what we have been working towards for a long time. Thank you to everybbody who believed in the model.

If you have any questions about our screening process, please contact us direct or post to our Twitter and or Facebook feeds with any questions you might have. We have what I am sure is an unorthodox process by any standard but we feel confident that our process best serves the filmmaker. Essentially, our screening process is a peer to peer approach to programming a film festival that has no genre agenda when it is initiated.

As we have for the past 6 years, we use withoutabox.com to communicate with filmmakers and collect submissions. If you have any questions about the withoutabox.com service and how we utilize it, please feel free to ask.

If you haven’t already signed up to the festival mailing list, you can do so here:

The Cycle of Age. by Benjamin Barnett

25 Wednesday Sep 2013

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The cycle of aging (humanoid circa 2013) described in “age brackets” that which humans self define based on above average life expectancy and interest.  This includes “health” and an individual, group, eco-system enabling “path” pattern. Each bracket is a specific state of time that a human can concentrate on to accomplish specific or non-specific goals and reasonably expect to accomplish them.

** disability or occurrence of disability for whatever reason in life, later in life, not factored.

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  1. The Beginning (infinite)
  2. Birth – 3 years
  3. 3 – 7  years
  4. 7 – 13 years
  5. 13 – 17 years
  6. 17 -22 years
  7. 22-27 years
  8. 27-32 years
  9. 32-39 years
  10.                39-47 years
  11.                47-55 years
  12.                55-59 years
  13.                59-66 years
  14.                66-70 years
  15.                70-76 years
  16. 76-84
  17. 84-92
  18. 92- 100
  19. 100-105
  20. 105- 110
  21. 110+

 

Philadelphia Independent Film Festival Website Ecosystem

05 Friday Apr 2013

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We posted the Alpha version today at 4:00pm to the #uff user group. Thank you for the input.

Media Bureau, Digital Media Strategy, Advertising and Digital Media Content

14 Thursday Mar 2013

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Discussing DMS ~             Bar Camp Philly 2009

It’s exciting times here at the Media Bureau. We have long pioneered the use of digital media strategy and specifically user-centric content aggregation to sell and market (anything). We have always worked to provide maximum collaboration in a digital and dynamic framework. We have worked in the digital film and political market place since 1997, designing interfaces connected to user-centric interaction models tied into marketing ideas. We are considered pioneers in the field of streaming media as a viable content based business solution and have spoke many times on the delivery of content as a tool to brand, market, and sell. 15 years later we feel some of our original ideas have now come to the front of digital media.

Agility is the new martini lunch. It is in the market place where the cross roads of film, media, and politics intersect that we have been focusing our attention. The transformation from analog to digital. The following incomplete list represents a suite of ideas to work with when producing (digital media) content for the internet:

1. enable agility (as a brand/business)
2. enable users to focus on their needs as a means to the end (primary tasks)
3. enable brands to interact via “consumer demanded” technology (helpers)
4. enable control of the brand to a “user” (value prop) (user is revenue model)
5. enable ubiquitous and accessible market place(s)(buy/sell)
6. enable (on demand) eco-system (build your own sustainable community)

~ Benjamin F. Barnett

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Philadelphia Independent Film Festival #6 in full swing

12 Tuesday Mar 2013

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The festival has been receiving at least 3/4 films – per day. We are looking good here and have even received a documentary film from North Korea. Interesting. Thank you for all the feedback to date. As we type, we are working with the team over at The Lunch Room for a full scale website update. If you have been following the blog, you will know the day to day. The website will include features such as PIFF on demand, Trailers, Music Video’s and other media from past and present festival’s. Stick with us as we are looking to bring the Independent filmmaker to the next level.

~ ed

updated: Philadelphia Independent Film Festival.com

Take Action News Brings Governance to the News enabling people to “Take Action”

11 Thursday Oct 2012

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Welcome back.
Its long been said in the digital media news sphere that all news is partisan (ok, we said that). But there was a time when this was not the truth and the news was the facts, just the facts. Take Action News has moved to fill this void and provide extensive coverage to the facts while providing Take Action opportunities for both sides of the issues. We welcome you to visit TaKeActionNews.com and join in the action.

Today in this polarized political world being attacked by a declining economy, #TAN is what the news cycle needs. Take Action News is anchored by veteran reporters David Shuster and Charlie Mitchell. Dr. Alan Rosenblatt anchors our unique Social Media channel that teaches you how to use and understand today’s truly remarkable digital media tools. Media Bureau Digital Media Strategist Benjamin F. Barnett helms the news organization as CEO and Micro-blogger and CTO Keith Atkinson takes over as webmaster.

With #TAN, today’s political process is at the tip of your fingers. Backing up this investigative team is the Media Bureau’s 15 years of digital media political experience. We are proud to have been asked to take part as partners.

We welcome you to Take Action at TakeActionNews.com

Media Bureau works with Take Action News to launch AM radio show: Take Action News w/ David Shuster – 1480 AM in Washington DC

05 Thursday Jan 2012

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Take Action News w/ David Shuster
Every Saturday, 12pm-3pm on AM 1480 Radio and the web live from the Nation’s Capital, Washington DC.

Join us live every Saturday from 12:00pm – 3:00pm EST at:
Take Action News w/ David Shuster – please pass this link on!

Discuss the subjects via:
Twitter: @TakeActionNews #TAN
Facebook: Take Action News on FACEBOOK

All ideas and points of view welcome.

Follow along right here:
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Twitter: #TAN on Twitter

Take Action News launches Facebook and Twitter page

05 Thursday Jan 2012

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Posted: Working in collaboration with the Take Action News Team and Media Bureau IT, UI, and Content specialists, the political Governance website and eco-system, http://takeactionnews.com, has launched the Take Action News Facebook page and Twitter handle. See the news and views on governance that the news media has failed to provide and Take Action.

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Facebook: Take Action News on Facebook

Twitter: #TAN on Twitter

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Stage Left: Theater in San Francisco to screen at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA on Oct 19th

13 Thursday Oct 2011

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The film will screen as part of the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival presents Independent Eye screening series at FI.edu. More soon. ~ ed

:::Immediate Alert::: buyboards.com enters the Media Bureau Eco-System!

27 Sunday Mar 2011

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Well, actually it’s not so immediate! We have been working with the team at buyboards.com for more than 2 years now. Since then we have been consulting on DMS and back-end operations, hosting and posting events, and overall providing process to a complex, real time, digital media world. It’s been great speaking to enthusiasts frorm around the world!

We look forward to bringing the 40,000 + items from skateboards, snowboards, and all of the accessories that surround these sports to your fingertips. We have great ideas.

In the coming months you will see more than these specific items we have to admit because we have so much more we are about to get online! There’s camping, clothing, outdoor gear, and much more.

Stop by the site and get going! ::: buyboards.com ::::