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The Wall Street Journal spotlights the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts for leading new technology integration on Broadway

In Uncategorized on May 29, 2011 at 10:55 AM

Four new Broadway productions, including the Tony-nominated musical “Catch Me If You Can,” will be outfitted with technology that allows blind and deaf theatergoers to more fully experience live theater.

The services will be available at “Catch Me” in early June (the production opened in April). The speed of the effort is unusual: Producers typically wait until a show is financially secure before investing in the services, which cost about $35,000.

The not-for-profit jumpstarting the process is Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts, whose Board of Directors I sit on.

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Taken from Wall Street Journal

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Malibu Rum wins FAB Award for best mobile creative

In Awards on May 24, 2011 at 10:34 AM

On Monday at the Hurlingham Club in London, at the 13th annual Food & Beverage Awards, Malibu Rum was awarded the award for best creative in the Mobile category.  This was the very last initiative I work on while the Global Interactive Manager for the brand.  Kudos also to Ninos Icho who was my intern and surrogate right brain, and Robert McAllister that took care of the left brain.

About FAB: The FAB Awards is an international Creative Awards program focussed entirely on work done for Food And Beverage brands.  It recognizes the critical contribution that outstanding creative work makes to building brands, it identifies and rewards the leading practitioners from over 60 countries, and it acknowledges their contribution to their Clients and their Agencies.

 

Check out the sizzle reel.

Read more here.


LinkedIn recognize Billy Burgess for “Changing the way professionals do business”

In Accolades on May 19, 2011 at 10:05 PM

Today, LinkedIn step-changed their future and began offering of 7M+ shares on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) – following their recent IPO filing. 

Shortly after the bell rang on Wall Street, VP of Marketing at LinkedIn - Nick Besbeas- posted this on his blog…

… take Andrew Der and Billy Burgess who started a LinkedIn Group called NYC Marketing Mixer to help their friends who were laid off in 2009. The LinkedIn group, which started with less than 10 members, has grown virally, with more than 1,300 members who exchange job tips and networking leads not only online, but also during monthly happy hours that they coordinate through this LinkedIn group. Creating the group was a “no brainer,” Andrew says: “The beauty of LinkedIn is that it gives you opportunities to connect with other professionals who you wouldn’t realize you needed to connect with.”

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