Digital Atlanta’s Entertainment Track
Friday, November 11th, 2011
10am – 11am: Attracting Fans And Engaging Your Community
11:30am – 12:30pm: A Grassroots Approach to Social Gaming
1pm – 2pm: Extras Casting Atlanta
2:30pm – 3:30pm: Digitainment and the Effect of Disruptive Social Media
4pm – 5pm: Merging Digital and Entertainment
Atlanta History Center – Woodruff Auditorium 130 West Paces Ferry Road NW Atlanta, Georgia 30305
Are you interested in Atlanta’s growing entertainment field? Do you work in the entertainment industry and want to learn more about how to maximize your exposure online?
If so, Digital Atlanta’s Entertainment Track is the place to be!
On Friday, November 11th, join Digital Atlanta’s Entertainment track starting with Emma Loggins’ presentation on Attracting Fans And Engaging Your Community (10am – 11am) followed by Mickey Desai’s presentation on A Grassroots Approach To Social Gaming (11:30am – 12:30pm), next join Extras Casting Atlanta for Using Social Media To Cast Extras And Local Talent (1pm – 2pm), followed by Dan Webber’s Digitainment and the Effect of Disruptive Social Media (2:30pm – 3:30pm), and closing out our track we have Denise Elsbree’s presentation on Merging Digital and Entertainment: A Closer Look at What is Happening and What Is Possible (4pm – 5pm).
Meet other members of the entertainment industry working here in Georgia and learn how to maximize your online exposure!
Digital Atlanta’s Entertainment Track will feature 5 sessions all presented by industry experts. From what to do and what not to do when creating a social game, to engaging with bloggers and maximizing online exposure, to discussing where the future of digital entertainment is headed – Digital Atlanta’s Entertainment Track will cover an exciting array of topics!
Check out the amazing line up of speakers and topics:
Attracting Fans and Engaging Your Community – Entertainment Blogging And Social Media
Speakers Emma Loggins
Emma Loggins is the founder and editor of the popular entertainment site FanBolt.com where she blogs daily on the latest entertainment news, DVD reviews, her opinions on current happenings in the media, screening/filming/casting opportunities, and more. The site currently has over 120,000 registered members and receives an average of 950,000 hits per month. Emma will be sharing some of her story from how she got started to how she keeps her community of readers and contributors engaged and coming back to her site over and over again. She will be also sharing a couple case studies about how the entertainment industry is using blogging and social media to reach out and engage fans as well as bloggers – including how Atlanta Film Studios plans on using social media to attract projects and engage fans.
Emma also runs a web design firm LNP Studios where she helps businesses by designing and optimizing their web presence and also their social media marketing. She has worked with small firms as well as large entertainment companies in order to create and maintain the best web exposure for them.
Emma is also the Entertainment Track Lead for Digital Atlanta.
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A Grassroots Approach To Social Gaming
Speakers Mickey Desai
A casual conversation on taking a game from idea to implementation, the steps involved, potential barriers to market. This session will not address the technical aspects of database development.
Mickey Desai’s career path has wound its way into and out of the corporate sector. As an entrepreneur, Desai founded The Nonprofit Snapshot, a micro-assessment and dashboard for nonprofit organizations. Most recently, he co-founded Cherry Belly, LLC to create a different offering of online games, referring to this startup endeavor as “the most fun and frightening thing I’ve ever done.” Desai remains active in the nonprofit world, currently serving on the Georgia River Network board of directors, and advising nonprofits on their management practices.
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Extras Casting Atlanta – Using Social Media To Cast Extras And Local Talent
Speakers Extras Casting Atlanta
Atlanta based company that specializes in casting for feature films, TV shows, commercials, and print. Credits include “The Walking Dead, “The Blind Side”, “The Three Stooges”, Zombieland”, “X Men:First Class”, “Fast Five”, “We Are Marshall”, “ATL”, and “Hall Pass”. Learn how we use social media to cast extras and local talent to be in these projects.
Extras Casting Atlanta started as independent contractors in 2002 and have been doing it ever since. Patrick Ingram, Janel Bersabal, Nathan Wright and Adam Rosenberg comprise Extras Casting Atlanta.
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Digitainment and the Effect of Disruptive Social Media
Speakers Dan Webber
How entertainment is made and marketed today has changed dramatically. Film, music, and gaming is now viewed on 3 screen technologies and distributed in multiple ways which were virtually non-existent a decade ago. Films have changed. TV has certainly changed. Music distribution has changed. Gaming and platforms have changed. We all feel the need for speed. And we all wonder what is next and how have and will social media platforms disrupt the industry.
This presentation and lively discussion will center on changes in the industry, its technology, what will it take to achieve adoption, and how you must be prepared to do business differently.
Dan Webber is President and Co-Founder of Digitainment Georgia, an organization which fosters digital entertainment collaboration and innovation to create jobs in Georgia. He is also Co-Founder and Vice President of the Social Executive Council – a non-profit professional organization for senior executives to collaborate on developing enterprise-wide social business strategies.
He is currently CIO of Prime Holding BV, which is the parent company of prIME Oncology and TRM Oncology. prIME Oncology is a global professional Independent Medical Education organization specializing in educational activities for physicians that treat patients with cancer. TRM Oncology is an integrated oncology sciences and services consultancy.
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Merging Digital and Entertainment – A Closer Look at What is Happening and What is Possible
Speakers Denise Elsbree
The Media and Entertainment industry is at a crossroads – with both opportunities and challenges as it works to meet demand for high-quality content through multiple devices. New revenue opportunities are arising with new ways to deliver content monetizing new content capabilities and services in different segments (broadcast, film, telecom, mobile, retail), across a multitude of screens and devices). Join us as we walk through some exciting examples of this evolving industry vertical.
Denise Evans Elsbree is Chief Executive of Trio media group which is a full-service advertising, PR, interactive and new media company. Trio also has a full TV/Film production division that produces HealthWatchMD as well as other entertainment projects. Denise advises clients on social media strategies with LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and blogging to increase brand strength and sales. Denise is an experienced technology leader, having founded and sold StayOnline.net – a company that became the largest wireless internet company in the hospitality industry. She is a fully immersed, early adopter of new media. She appears in the news media as a go-to Social Media Expert, including CNN. Because of this, she is often sought out to speak to large audiences to help them understand and successfully employ social media strategies.
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