Merry Christmas 2009

Christmas 2009 Snow from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo.

Philebrity Awards Poll

Hi, and welcome to the first-ever Philebrity Awards Poll.
For years now, we’ve been talking about doing a Philebrity Awards, and this year, after a lot of thought and consultation from staffers, contributors and friends, we’ve finally gone and done it. Since this is our first time out, there are bound to be things we’ve overlooked — Philebrity covers a diverse array of Philly topics, day in and day out more

Philebrity Awards Poll. IndyHall Winners Business from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo.

Shout out to our Friends Alex H and Geoff D at IndyHall for winning
Which local business intrigued you, challenged you and served you better than any other? (Poll Closed)
CapoGiro Gelato 30% (1516 votes)
IndyHall 33% (1651 votes)
Mugshots Coffee House 26% (1318 votes)
Philadelphia Union Soccer 6% (301 votes)
PostGreen 5% (242 votes)
Total Votes: 5028

Philebrity Awards Poll. BlameDrews Cancer winner from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo.

Congrats to Blame Drew's Cancer Team for winning: (Shane won but they passed the winning to this good cause)
Good deeds inspire us all. Whose work brought just a little more light into our city and our world? (Poll Closed)
Jethro Heiko, Casino-Free Philadelphia 20% (569 votes)
Mayor Michael Nutter, For The State Budget Bluff 20% (573 votes)
Shane Victorino, Philadelphia Phillies 37% (1076 votes)
Adam Bruckner, Former Soccer Player/Philanthropist 6% (187 votes)
Blame Drew's Cancer 17% (482 votes)
Total Votes: 2887

Panma Holiday Party

It’s that time of year again! We’d like to show our appreciation for your continued support and attendance to our events by throwing a big blow out holiday party. This time we’ve invited several other local tech/creative groups to join us in the fun! So whether you’ve been naughty or nice this year, come on out and help us celebrate!


Thursday, December 10th
Starting at 6pm until ??
Fuzion Grill and Social Club
460 North 2nd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19123

Here are some of the fun details:

•Free parking!
•FREE FOOD!
•FREE BEER!
•Free candy & snacks!
•Drink specials on well drinks!
•Music from DJ Marilyn Thomas of Fluid Nightclub (spinning tunes from the 80s, 90s, and today plus holiday favorites)

Barcampphilly 2009

Barcampphilly2009 from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo.

If you never have attended Barcampphilly.org you are missing it big time.

What is BarCamp?

According to Wikipedia, Barcamp is “…an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants — often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.”

Read more on the official Barcamp website.

What will BarCamp Philly be like?

BarCamp is an open-format conference where the attendees are the presenters. Our subject matter will be directly tied to what ideas people bring to share with the community. Most of the rooms at UArts are equipped with projectors if participants would like to give a slide presentation. Discussion groups, round tables, Q&A, brainstorming together are also options.

Pancan PurpleStride Philadelphia 2009

Fantastic day of community and awareness.

PurpleStride Philadelphia Walk for Pancreatic Cancer 20091107 from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo.

Slide Show of event






Mark

Phillydotnet.org codecamp 2009.2

Phillydotnet.org CodeCamp 2009.2 from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo.

Our second 2009 Code Camp will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, October 17 from 8:30-5:00.

Lots of code, just say no to slides!
8 hours
60 sessions (8:30, 10:00, 12:30, 2:00, 3:30)
12 tracks including two hands-on Beginner rooms and the Bonus Track
600 seats with tables (laptops welcome)
Free breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack (expanded menu!)
Raffles and prizes at 5:00
Easy parking
After hours party in Ambler (network with speakers and attendees)
All of this is made possible by our Gold partners (Component One, Hosting.com, TEK Systems), Silver partners (Pearson, Redgate, Telerik) and our Platinum site sponsors (DeVry University, Microsoft).

Here is the tentative track list, but room assignments and times are subject to change. Click on the speaker names below to see the speaker bio and session topic. Check here and here for the latest printable agenda:
8:00 Registration, continental breakfast

Alt.NET - Brian Donahue - 125
8:30 Sean Carpenter - Escape XML-Hell! Love Your Builds Again with Rake and TeamCity!
10:00 Stephen Bohlen - Refactoring to a S.O.L.I.D. Foundation
12:30 Dane Morgridge - Crossing the Chasm: Develop, Build, and Deploy .NET Apps Cross-Platform with Mono
2:00 Brian Donahue - The TDD On-Ramp
3:30 John Feminella - Ruby for C#/.NET Developers

Architecture - Stan Spotts - 122
8:30 Len Smith - Test Driven Development with Dependency Injection and Mock Objects
10:00 Stan Spotts - Painless UML in Visual Studio 2010
12:30 Al Katawazi - Enterprise MVC Application Development
2:00 Michael Montgomery - When .NET RIA Services are not the Answer
3:30 Steve Andrews - Easing ASP.NET Web Deployment with VS 2010 and MSDeploy

ASP.NET - Rachel Appel - 110
8:30 Andrea Conti - What's New in DotNetNuke 5 (DNN)
10:00 Andy Schwam - Intro To ASP.NET MVC
12:30 Jeffrey T. Fritz - Asp.Net MVC + Asp.Net Webforms = So happy together!
2:00 Chris Bannon - Build an iPhone feed reader with ASP.Net
3:30 Kevin Griffin - jQuery From The Ground Up

Featured - Marc Ziss - 107
8:30 David Isbitski - Creating Rich Internet Applications on the Microsoft Platform using Silverlight 3 and Expression Studio 3
10:00 Miguel Castro - Understanding ASP.NET Under the Covers
12:30 Roger Doherty - SQL Server 2008 R2: The Data Platform for Software Plus Services
2:00 Don Demsak - BI for the .Net Guy
3:30 Rachel Appel - Whats new in Asp.Net 4.0

Bonus - Marc Ziss - 109
8:30 Alvin Ashcraft - Introduction to Microsoft HealthVault Development
10:00 Evan Hoff - Master Data Management Using SQL Server 2008 R2
12:30 Douglas White - What the heck is Drupal and why should I care?
2:00 Ken Lovely - Developing a WCF Service Library and Hosting it as WCF Web Service
3:30 Sara Chipps - Making Your Personal Projects a Reality

Framework - Jess Chadwick - 106
8:30 Max Zilberman - Tour de Enterprise Library 4
10:00 Jess Chadwick - What's New & Hot in .NET 4.0
12:30 Danilo Diaz - The Managed Extensibility Framework
2:00 John Blumenauer - Developing WPF Applications with Prism
3:30 Michael Montgomery - Retrofitting Your WCF SOA for Silverlight

Tools - Travis Laborde - 105
8:30 Chris Love - Bigger, Stronger, Faster - Making Quality .NET Applications Fast and Bug Free
10:00 JP Toto - Using Git & GitHub Source Control for .NET Development
12:30 Travis Laborde - Continuous Integration Part 1 - MSBuild from 0 to Wow in 90 Minutes
2:00 Travis Laborde - Continuous Integration Part 2 - CruiseControl.NET from 0 to Wow in 90 Minutes
3:30 Nick Berardi - Extending Visual Studio 2010

Silverlight - John Angelini - 108
8:30 John Baird - Building Silverlight LOB Apps
10:00 Todd Snyder - Building Applications with RIA Services
12:30 John Angelini - XAML Animation Made Easy
2:00 Bill Wolff - Silverlight Data Access Methods
3:30 Joel Cochran - Templating and Data Binding in Expression Blend 3

SQL & BI - Sharon Dooley - 104
8:30 Joshua Lynn - Advanced Workflow Process in T-SQL (Aka advanced uses of temp tables)
10:00 Joey D'Antoni - Using SQL Profiler to tune your SQL
12:30 Lisa Roszko - Reporting Services Group Therapy
2:00 Hilary Cotter - Stress Testing SQL Server
3:30 Wayne Kurtz - KPIs: What They Are and How to Define them in SSAS

Beginner I - Judy Calla - 113
8:30 Judy Calla - The Basics before Getting Started in Visual Studio
10:00 Nick Berardi - Introduction to the Visual Studio Development Environment (IDE)
12:30 Dan Clark - Relational Databases and Data-Driven Applications
2:00 Rob Keiser - Creating Web Applications and Web Services in Visual Studio
3:30 Judy Calla - Creating Windows and Batch Applications

Beginner II - Judy Calla - 111
8:30 John Petersen - Looking at the BI Stack of Stuff
10:00 Said Salomon - T-SQL for Beginners
12:30 Edwin Ames - Object Creation and Destruction with C#
2:00 John Blumenauer - Exceptional Exception Handling and Automatic Memory Management
3:30 Rob Keiser - Data Access Methods

IT + Cloud - Scott Stumpf - 102
8:30 Doug Henry - Introduction to Windows Server 2008 R2
10:00 Scott Stumpf - Introduction to Windows 7
12:30 Paul Begley - Exchange Server 2010 Preview
2:00 Tim Dodd - Case Study: Clouds Demysitified
3:30 Chris Rolon - Introduction to SQL Azure

11:30 Social networking in the break room, hoagies, drinks and snacks

Phillydotnet Code camp 2009.2 Slides

Another Great day at Codecamp Phillydotnet.org

2009 philadelphia twestival

GIFT OF LIFE FAMILY HOUSE Gift of Life Family House is a non-profit organization providing temporary lodging and supportive services to transplant patients and families seeking transplant treatment at Philadelphia transplant centers. http://philadelphia.twestival.com/

Blame-a-Thon Blame Drews Cancer

Get ready to blame all day on 9/9/09!

Blame-a-Thon starts at the stroke of Midnight on 9/9/09 (that’s Tuesday heading into Wednesday), and it’s going to raise tons of awareness and donations for LiveStrong.

There are two halves to Blame-a-Thon. Overnight through noon is @ Indy Hall; from noon on is @ North Star Bar. Below is the basic info about both locations, and how you can give to LiveStrong.

http://blamedrewscancer.com/#



Hear Drew talk about the Blame-a-thon




Alex Hillman talks about how he got involved.




Britt and Michaelangelo talk about the day's events



Melissa Jones from Alex Lemonade talks about the story of Alex's Lemonade vision.

Social Media Club Philadelphia, PANMA, and Temple University Dept. of Journalism Presents: Social Media for Social Good

Social Media for Social Good

Social Media Club Philadelphia, PANMA, and Temple University Dept. of Journalism Presents: Social Media for Social Good from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo.

Social media offers organizations an indispensable tool set for a wide variety of philanthropic activities including activism, education, donor and volunteer development, and direct fundraising. Because of its inherently personal and community-based nature, social media provides an ideal canvas to work within, allowing causes to not just communicate, but also to activate and invigorate significant grassroots activity. [source: Geoff Livingston on Social Media for Social Good]

On Tuesday, August 25th, we'll have local do-gooders discuss how they utilize social media for their specific causes. We'll have panelists representing the following causes:

Blame Drew's Cancer - blamedrewscancer.com/
Twestival - twestival.com/ / Philadelphia Twestival - philadelphia.twestival.com/
American Red Cross - redcross.org/
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network - pancan.org/index.html


More info

markm.com/markm/SocialMediaClub/Index.htm

Wil Reynolds SEO 2009 @ Panma.org 20090519

Wil has done another outstanding job presenting SEO.

Mark

The presentation's focus is on looking at Search Engine Optimization SEO and what matters most TODAY in the algorithms of todays largest search engines. Outside of the basic technical blocking and tackling, how do you succeed online? Build great content? Is that enough? How do you build links in a way that is likely to stay around? What about Google Universal, what happens when 4 of the top 10 rankings are videos, news items, products, local results and blogs? How does del.ici.us influence rankings at Yahoo? This presentation is going to be a crash course on everything that's been influencing search in the last 2 years and educate participants on what to be keeping an eye out for. Did you know that Youtube gets more searches than MSN? Is your search strategy prepared for that? If any of the questions above sound intriguing or new to you, come join Wil Reynolds and the SEER team as they help explain what's new and how to be prepared for the newest trends in search. Over the past 10 years, Wil Reynolds has dedicated himself to doing two things well: driving traffic to sites from search engines and analyzing the impact that traffic has on the bottom line of companies. Wil’s career began at a web marketing agency in 1999, where he spearheaded the SEO strategies for companies like Barnes & Noble, Disney, Harman Kardon, Debeers, Doubleclick, Hotjobs, and Mercedes Benz USA (to name a few). Today, Wil and his team of search professionals at SEER Interactive assist clients in maximizing their visibility and sales using search engines. Location: University City Science Center, 3711 Market Street, 8th Floor Date: Tuesday, May 19

Panma.org SEO 2009 Wil Reynolds from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo.

VizThinkPhilly 20090423

VizThinkPhilly Photos



About VizThink VizThink is gathering visual thinkers from all corners of the world to create the first global community dedicated to the use of visualization in all forms of learning and communication.

VizThink was initially conceived by Dave Gray, Chairman of Xplane. A long time proponent of Visual Communication, Dave envisoned the creation of a global community of visual thinkers. In 2006 XPLANE expanded to Europe through a new office in Madrid, Spain. While in Europe Dave became acquainted with Rodolfo Carpintier of Digital Assets Deployment, a business incubator firm in Madrid.

Through their conversations the concept of VizThink was raised and Mr. Carpintier, who has a successful history of building organizations that revolve around community, was enthused by the idea and decided to fund it.

In July of 2007, after about six months of planning, VizThink was launched.
VizThink.com

http://vizthink.com/index.php?option=com_attend_events&task=view&id=26

Phillydotnet Code Camp 2009-1

It's a rap another successfull code camp. Great job team

Mark

April 18 Code Camp 2009.1Saturday
Fort Washington, PA

Platinum Partners
DeVry University
Microsoft

Gold Partners
HostMySite
Infragistics
Software Logic
TOMOSSilver Partners
Oxford Computer Group
Quest Software
Redgate
RTTS
TEK Systems

Our first installment of the 2009 Code Camp series will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, April 18 from 8:30-5:00.Detailed directions are on the DeVry web site. Sorry, but we are all sold out. There will be another Code Camp in October.
* Lots of code, just say no to slides!* 8 hours* 60 sessions (8:30, 10:00, 12:30, 2:00, 3:30)* 12 tracks including new hands-on Beginner series and the Bonus Track* 500 seats with tables (laptops welcome)* Free breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack (expanded menu!)* Raffles and prizes at 5:00* Easy parking* After hours party in Ambler (network with speakers and attendees)
All of this is made possible by our Gold partners (HostMySite, Infragistics, Software Logic, TOMOS), Silver partners (RedGate, Quest, RTTS, Oxford Computer Group, TEK Systems) and our Platinum site sponsors (DeVry University, Microsoft).
Here is the final agenda, but room assignments and times are subject to change. Click on the speaker names below to see the speaker bio and session topic. Check here and here for the latest printable agenda: read more... www.phillydotnet.org

Booth's Corner Farmers Market Bethel PA

Booth's Corner Bethel PA from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo.
History of Booth's Corner

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Booth's Corner Farmers Market was founded in the 1930's by a farmer named Earl Phillips. His 14 acre farm, complete with wooden barn and sprawling fields, served as the sale grounds for Amish farmers and other merchants who brought their goods by truck and wagon to the Market during the Great Depression.

Over the years, a series of sheds and outbuildings were added on to the barn to accommodate the growing numbers of merchants offering discounted national brand merchandise and a wide variety of farm fresh produce, poultry and meats.

On Friday nights, thousands of bargain hunters would head for the excitement of the "sale" as the famous auction was known in the early days.

Booth's Corner also attracted some of the country's most famous entertainers. Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson's famous sidekick, was once a colorful pitchman hawking gadgets in the Market midway. While Bill Haley, of Comets fame, was a popular guitar-playing entertainer.

The original market was destroyed by fire in 1973 and replaced by a modern building under the direction of Paul Cohen, whose father Nate, founded the original market.

Today, Booth's Corner Farmers Market upholds the tradition of great values and farm fresh meats and produce that have truly made it a great Delaware Valley landmark.

http://www.boothscorner.com/

The Entrepreneur Expo April 2, 2009

The Entrepreneur Expo will be held on April 2, 2009 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm, at the Science Center, 3711 Market Street in Philadelphia. Over 40 entrepreneurs will display their dreams, ideas and hard work in a trade-show like setting, with a select number giving a brief presentation of their work

phillystartupleaders.org/

Red Stapler Consulting was formed to meet the unique needs of freelancers, independents and small businesses. We want to provide them with the assistance and means to bring their business to the next level and higher. By providing office management and business administration services on an as needed, a la carte basis, we provide our clients with superior service at a price that takes into consideration an indie’s budget.

redstaplerconsulting.net/


The Entrepreneur Expo April 2, 2009 from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo.

Mark

HEALTHCAMP PHILADELPHIA 2009

HEALTHCAMP PHILADELPHIA 2009 is an open forum on Healthcare & the Web, open standards, mobile technologies, social media & process innovation. YOU set the schedule & host the break-out sessions in this Barcamp-style free conference. Bring ideas, make connections.
More Photos

Here are some thoughts from

Mark Scrimshire

Change Agent, Blogger and Visionary. HealthCamp Instigator. Futurist wannabe - can you ever get to the future? Passionate about Web 2.0 and collaboration inside and outside the enterprise

Here is an animated slideshow of the event.

The magic happens when you get to the event. As mentioned above the board is empty and participants fill in the schedule.

HEALTHCAMP PHILADELPHIA 2009 from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo.


As cool as all this was the best was I won a Flip Mino HD. Was I blown away.

So we all need to take the lessons learned here and go back to our positions in the world and tell people that we are responsible for our own health care and we have the power to shape the future of Healthcare Delivery in America.

Peace

Mark

Agile Philly Meeting Feb 10th, 2009

Agile Philly Meeting Feb 10th, 2009 at Ternary Software in Lionville PA from Mark Magliocco on Vimeo.

Agile Philly Meeting Feb 10th, 2009 at Ternary Software in Lionville PA

Speaker Ken Clyne, Agile Coach for Rally Dev on Collective Wisdom != Mediocrity

There seems to be no slowing down the evolution of the information technology industry. As the dot com era disappears into long term memory and we fast approach the physical limits of the silicon wafer, we are witnessing sea change in the way teams build software and collaborate. The widespread success of agile methods confluent with the emergence of social networks has ushered in a new era where collaborative teams are replacing the old plan driven command and control structures. In this presentation, we explore why ceding control is not only key to building a high trust environment, but also why it results in better decisions.

This topic is how a collaborative environment can better drive your organization toward innovation and quality.

Bio

Ken Clyne is an Agile Coach with Rally Software where he pursues his passion for helping software organizations of all sizes incrementally adopt Agile practices to shorten their development cycles and collaborate across distributed teams and silos.

Mark

More Photos

Refreshphilly.org 20090202

Johnny Bilotta, Creative Director

Dioscuri: Relationships between Designers and Developers at IndyHall Labs

Like Castor and Pollux, designers and developers complement each other in mythical ways. Getting some of the talent from both in the same room can make wonderful debate and produce incredibly engaging projects. Indy Hall Labs provides the perfect incubator for these relationships to blossom into killer products.

This discussion is intended to become a Rosetta Stone for both camps. Focus will be on how this relationship is cultivated. Designers will gain insight on interface and branding, communication, and limits of the medium. Developers will get a glimpse into the mind of a visual artist and how, with a bit of art direction, their app can look like a streamlined butterfly!

Biography
As one of the most active designers at IndyHall Labs, Johnny works with some of the top developers in Philadelphia. His experience has brought creative direction and graphics, most recently, to RipIt and Multiplex; two consumer apps for Mac. As a designer his services have been enlisted by Seesmic, Nike, Swordfi.sh, and LTLprints.com

When not designing beautiful interfaces and software apps, Johnny can be found alongside Dave Martorana filming the entertaining podcast Two Guys on Beer or teaching classes on Web Design, Photoshop and Illustrator at the University of The Arts.

http://johnnynines.com
http://multiplexapp.com
http://twoguysonbeer.com
http://labs.indyhall.org

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Howard Blumenthal, CEO, MiND TV

New Ideas for an Old Medium

Public television has a big problem -- each generation finds it less relevant than the one that came before it. In this presentation, Howard Blumenthal will discuss the recent transformation of WYBE, an 18-year-old independent public television station in Philadelphia, into MiND TV, a multi-platform learning channel featuring community-generated content. MiND strives to reduce the public television generation gap by encouraging and empowering anyone to produce digital video programs that will air regularly to a diverse audience on regional broadcast and cable television, as well as online at mindtv.org and other media-sharing sites. Blumenthal will also discuss the the impact of new technologies on the television industry, and the unique role small innovators often play to lead the way for positive change in any industry.

Biography
In 2006, Howard Blumenthal became the CEO of Independence Media, the non-profit organization which owns and operates the independent public television station WYBE (now MiND TV). Previously, he was the Senior VP of Marketing & Media at CDNow. Prior to CDNow, Blumenthal was the President and co-founder of Glow in the Dark Productions, a program supplier to cable networks. His television credits include the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, which he created and produced for PBS, and MTV's Remote Control. At Warner Communications, he initiated the development effort that became MTV, and headed interactive development for QUBE. He is also the author of more than 20 books about business, marketing, creativity, history, music, and media. For 15 years, he wrote a syndicated column for more than 100 newspapers about consumer technology. He has been a faculty member at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, and New School University.

http://mindtv.org

Playing House in the White House: Bush Twins message to Sasha and Malia

Thanks to Jeff Pulver

http://pulverblog.pulver.com/archives/008780.html

I wanted to share this encouraging monement with my friends.

Mark

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Chuck Missler and me @ Calvary Chapel of Philadelphia

One of my Christian friends that knows I really like the work of Chuck Missler let me know he was in town for one of his talks.
Chuck is one of the brightest christian teacher on the planet today. Willing to tackle any topic. UFO's to sub atomic physics from a christian perspective. Great work check out his site. http://www.khouse.org/

It was a fantastic night.

Mark

http://ccphilly.org/home/default.aspx

Chuck Missler - Join us here at Calvary Philly on January 14th and 15th for discussions on strategic trends and a study of the scriptures with Chuck Missler. The services will begin at 7:30pm and will go till 9:00pm. Childcare is provided both evenings.

Welcome to RefreshPhilly.org first meeting in 2009

RefreshPhilly.org

Photos


Tom Boutell
Symfony: a Rails-like, agile web development framework for PHP

Web site development takes time. Most developers have heard about the benefits of Ruby on Rails, a development framework famous for its ability to speed the completion of a web site by anticipating common needs and minimizing busywork. But since Rails is written in Ruby rather than a more common language like PHP, Rails requires special programming skills and a separate infrastructure. The Symfony framework offers similar benefits for developers who prefer the popular PHP programming language. This half-hour presentation will focus on the features and benefits of Symfony, including an examination of a web site of local interest developed within the Symfony framework.

Bio:
Tom Boutell is a web developer with P'unk Avenue, a Philly-based design firm with deep community roots. In years past he edited the original WWW FAQ, developed the 1.0 release of RealNetworks' RealAudio system and coded the "gd" graphics library used to generate graphics on the fly in many web sites. Since joining P'unk he has become an advocate of Symfony, a web application framework for PHP developers that draws inspiration from Ruby on Rails.

Links:
www.symfony-project.org
www.salsadelphia.com
www.punkave.com
www.boutell.com
tom@punkave.com

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Phil Charron and Russ Starke
Experience Design Step 1: Starting on the Right Foot

Gathering all of these great minds to share knowledge and make our city better offers us an excellent opportunity do things the right way, from the beginning - but what does the beginning look like?

Phil and Russ will take you through the Experience Designer's perspective on some hypothetical issues in our city. They will talk about how to define goals in a way that helps the team focus on solutions that are real and capitalize on the diverse talent and skills in the group.

Bios:
PHIL CHARRON
Phil Charron has been consulting with Fortune 1000 companies in Experience Design, Instructional Technology, Simulation Design, Non-linear Scriptwriting and Media Production since 1993.

Currently, Phil is an Experience Design Director for Think Brownstone and is also an Adjunct Faculty member for Philadelphia University’s Masters of Instructional Technology and Masters of Digital Design Programs.

His projects have won several awards, including the Brandon Hall Awards, New Media Invision Awards, the New York Festivals, HR Executive’s Top 10 Products, Dogfish Head Short Film Competition, and the 48-hour Film Festival.

Phil is also a regular contributor to the ThinkBlog and is one of the founding members of the Philadelphia-based Short Film Collective The After School Specialists.


RUSS STARKE
Russ Starke is an Experience Design Director at Think Brownstone. Originally from Long Island NY, his professional career began in 1997 when he moved to Philadelphia and began consulting in the fields of Instructional Technology, Information Architecture, Multimedia Production, and Project Management.

Russ is also an Adjunct Faculty member for Phladelphia University’s Masters of Instructional Technology Program (Design and Development of Computer Based Instruction I & II) and Masters of Digital Design Program (Digital Audio Production).

He is the audio engineer and on-air talent for the companion podcast to UsedWigs.com, a contributing writer on UsedWigs and on the ThinkBlog, one of the founding partners of the songwriting/music recording collective MATTOWAX, and is the resident composer and sound designer for the Philadelphia-based Short Film Collective The After School Specialists.

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Refresh (http://www.refreshingcities.org) is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of New Media endeavors in their areas. Promoting design, technology, usability, and standards.

The Refresh Manifesto:
* Let's Gather Great Minds
* Let's Share All Of Our Knowledge
* Let's All Grow And Learn
* Let's Promote Local Talent
* Let's Be More Than We Think Can Be
* Let's Make Our Cities Better





Welcome Aaron Meld




Giant Tv Screen Comcast Center Philadelphia PA

Happy New Year

I want to wish everyone a happy new year and welcome 2009 in with a blast.

Here is a photo from my www.vacationnearhome.com site. The Tropicana at New Years Eve.

All the best in 2009.

Thanks for stopping by more great things to come in 2009

Mark