Friday, April 9, 2010

Contests, RSS, 3-D, and Tuna videos

SmithWalker Productions is going strong. Finally caught up on all my projects. And I have several new clients. My short, silly film, P.A.W.S. (Puppies Against Waste and Squirrels) is a finalist in an EPA recycling video contest, and a PSA I made for MRWMD has been so well received, some nonprofits have donated money to buy more air time. They also want a few more versions made including one in Spanish. Should be interesting.

I've been really busy researching social media and have discovered the usefulness of RSS feeds (a RSS feed address is a url that you post into a blog or a RSS reader, then you get automatic headline updates from blogs and websites). I need to keep my eye on animal/ocean related news stories for one of my clients, so I made a blog full of RSS feeds: http://podclasstvrss.blogspot.com/

They are also getting into 3D, so I made one for that as well: http://3dsocialmedia.blogspot.com/

One of my newest clients is a marine sanctuary, so I made this blog full of marine sanctuary and Marine Protected Area RSS feeds to illustrate that they don't need to put tons hours into updating a blog. http://socialmediaideas.blogspot.com/

And lastly, I just finished editing two videos for some marine biologists. Last I heard, they are on a boat in the Galapagos giving presentations to the likes of Bonno, Leanardo di Caprio, and a dozen or so other prominent conversationalists. I hope the videos help raise money for world ocean causes.