Rob Chapman VCAM's blog

Just wanted to thank everyone for coming out to Bellows Falls last Friday for the 2010 VAN Annual Meeting! Thanks to Jake and his crew for hosting.

Lisa, John, Kevin and Mike were elected to new terms on the VAN Board of Directors. Our thanks to all the candidates for putting their names into the hat.

And for those of you who couldn't make the meeting here are some pictures.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robchap/sets/72157623915617423/

Hope to see alot of you in New Jersey this week for the ACM-NE Spring Conference in New Brunswick!

VAN Annual Meeting
May 7, 2010
FACT-TV, Bellows Falls, VT
Agenda

9:30am Meet and Greet

10:00am VAN Membership Meeting

• - Election of Directors
• - Election of VMX Governance Committee
• - VAN Financial Reports
• - VAN Petition of PSB/Negotiations
• - Keith Thibault – ACM-NE
• - Old Business
• - New Business

11:15 Social Media and Community Media
Special Guest – Joe Mescher, socialmediacommando.com

12:00 Lunch with Rep. Michael Obuchowski

1:00 Access Centers and Digital Media Workflows
Matt Goudy, Video Technology Coordinator, VCAM
Jim Olinger, Production Manager, RETN

2:00 Breakout Sessions

1. Access Centers and Online Video – Policies and Practices
2. AMO Annual Reporting
3. Understanding/Using Vermont Media Exchange (VMX)

3:30pm Closing/Last Thoughts

Here is the link to registration for the VAN Annual Meeting which is being held on May 7 at FACT-TV in Bellows Falls. Hope to see lots of you there.

www.socializr.com/event/vermontaccess/annualmtg2010

The Alliance for Community Media Northeast Region spring conference is being held this year in New Brunswick, NJ. This is the same conference that was held last year in Burlington. It's being held in New Jersey because we are combining the conference with another region (ACM Mid Atlantic). I'm on the conference committee and it's looking like it's going to be well worth the trip and expense if you can afford it.

Here is the link for more info and to register.

Also the ACM-NE Board does offer a scholarship for each state chapter. The scholarship covers the cost of the registration and meals. If anyone would like to apply for the scholarship, I've attached the application to this post. Application are due by the end of the business day on April 24th.

Thanks and I hope to see lots of Vermonters in New Jersey.

Wanted to let everyone know that the date and location for VAN's Annual Meeting have been set.  This year it will be held on Friday May 7th at FACT-TV in Bellows Falls. The agenda is still being worked out and will be forthcoming.  If you have any ideas please feel free to contact me with them.

Get it in your calendars. I'll have a web registration set up soon.

Thanks to everyone who made it to White River yesterday. I thought it went really well and had a great time seeing everyone.  My thanks to Bob Franzoni and his staff for all the work!!

Looking forward to seeing everyone at CATV in Whiter River Jct tomorrow.

The address for people to find it is  -

     85 North Main St, White River Jct, VT  05001

There is parking at 85 North Main St and additional parking across the street at the church.

The agenda was posted earlier here.

See you there!!

Rob

Just a quick reminder to sign up for the VAN meeting in White River Jct.

We need a count so we know how many we will be feeding.

Here is the link - www.socializr.com/event/vermontaccess/productionday

Attached is the agenda for the VAN meeting in White River Jct at CATV on March 31st. The focus of the day is production.

Here is the link to register.  Please let us know if you will be able to attend.  We hope to see you there!!

Just a quick reminder to folks that the Town Meeting Day social media project will be happening again this year at http://tmdvt.net. Many of you might remember a similar project at the Alliance for Community Media Northeast conference last year. Like the ACMNE project you can tag content related to this year's town meetings on Twitter, You Tube, blip.tv, Flickr and Delicious. For those of you out there covering meetings, shooting video, taking pictures and live tweeting, tag your content with "tmdvt10" ("#tmdvt" for Twitter) when you upload it to the web, then follow all the action from around Vermont on http://tmdvt.net.

Thank you for your participation!