MAKER FAIRE Coming to San Mateo California

Nolan Apostle - Talent, Producer and Contributing Editor
Event City Live, Event City TV & Event City Creative

The Maker Faire is coming to the San Francisco Bay Area in about 10 days and yours truly will be there. For more information please check back soon, all details and coverage of the Maker Faire 2008, a fantastic event for professionals to family, with a very "Kid Friendly" atmosphere it is an Inventor's Invention Heaven with a twist. Like the Wizard of Oz meets Bill Gates on LSD passing through Charlie's Chocolate Factory goes to the Circus via Burning Man! More fun than you can shake a stick at, or your own invention.

Ok, well officially here goes:
Maker Faire is a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It’s for creative, resourceful people of all ages and backgrounds who like to tinker and love to make things. I still like my description better....


Who What Where Why Guy Johnny

Hey who's that a picture of? Why it's The Event City Live, "Who What Where Why Guy" Johnny A! We'll be rebroadcasting his Podcast from last year's Maker Faire with a Microsoft Scientist!

Check back in a few days.

Web 2.0 Expo - ETELOS To FEATURE 20 STARTUPS at BOOTH

Nolan Apostle - Talent, Producer and Contributing Editor
Event City Live, Event City TV & Event City Creative

ETELOS, a new generation company have created Web 2.0 based software products that venture into many of our industries, including the Special Events, Meeting Planning, Hospitality, Travel and Entertainment industries. They are a major sponsor and exhibitor at the WEB 2.0 EXPO in San Francisco this week.

Web 2.0 Expo now in it's second year, is an incredible show of technology presented to you in a non-intimidating presentation. If you are in business, you need to attend Web 2.0 Expo.

At Event City we are excited to bring you the great details of this fantastic show. Unlike last year, when we just had begun our Email Industry Newsletter, this year we have both a Event City BlogaZine and our Event City Creative Magazine to share with you all of the these great new technologies and how they relate to the Events & Creative Industries.

Etelos will open its Web 2.0 Expo booth to representatives from 20 of the United Kingdom's hottest Internet startups as part of Web Mission 08.

The participating companies will demonstrate their products and technologies at the Etelos booth on the Expo floor starting at 10 am on Wednesday, April 23. Etelos is a Diamond Sponsor of the Web 2.0 Expo.

"Hosting these companies is our way of showcasing the power and capabilities of the Web as the platform for the future of innovation and business," said Shelley Symonds, Etelos Chief Marketing Officer. "Innovation is global and the business solutions created by each of these startups reach and benefit Web workers far beyond the UK and San Francisco."

The companies that are traveling represent only a small portion of the innovation from the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe. More than 100 companies applied to be part of this program and tour Silicon Valley. These 20 companies showcase the high-level of technology emerging beyond the Valley.

"The Web 2.0 Expo is a great platform for these companies to be able to showcase their innovative technologies," said Joe Black, BT's director of emerging business and technology. BT is a key sponsor of Web Mission 08 and a partner with Etelos for its communication enabled Web services. Black adds, "Etelos is showing its support of the future of Web application innovation by allowing Web Mission to join them at the show."

Etelos is also a technology sponsor for the Web Mission 08 and will be introducing the visiting companies to the Etelos Marketplace^TM. Etelos is changing the way Web-based applications are developed, distributed and consumed to empower organizations to use Web-based applications to achieve their goals. Etelos' technology for developing and deploying on-demand applications is transforming the world of software distribution. The Etelos Marketplace gives developers an easy place to license, distribute and support applications. The Etelos Marketplace also gives businesses a wide selection of fully customizable, on-demand business applications to license and deploy to the hosting environment of their choice.

"To have such a fast growing and innovative company as Etelos supporting Web Mission08 is a massive benefit for the 20 UK start-ups," said James Lawn, co-founder of Polecat Ltd and co-founder of Web Mission. "Etelos is an inspirational example of success for any Web startup - at the very least they are a role model, more often, they are also likely to have the technology and services required to help such startups achieve the success they are after."

Representatives from Etelos, as well as the visiting companies, will be on hand to answer questions during the Web 2.0 Expo as well. For a full list of the visiting companies, please visit www.webmission08.com.

About Etelos, Incorporated

Etelos provides on-demand browser-based applications on the hosting environment that you choose. Etelos^TM technology for developing and deploying on-demand applications is revolutionizing the world of software distribution. The Etelos Marketplace^TM gives developers an easy way to license, distribute and host their applications, and businesses a wide selection of fully customizable, on-demand applications. Etelos, Etelos CRM^TM, Etelos Projects^TM, and Etelos Marketplace are trademarks of Etelos, Incorporated; other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. For more information about Etelos, please visit www.etelos.com.

KODAK'S Jeffrey Hayzlett Embraces Change & the Internet

Nolan Apostle - Talent, Producer and Contributing Editor
Event City Live, Event City TV & Event City Creative

More on Ad Tech and how companies like Kodak are changing their landscape to give their audiences a much more fulfilling experience.


This Is Not Your Father's Kodak! Hear Jeffrey Hayzlett, Kodak's Chief Business Development Officer, VP and Head of Marketing, tell the story of how Kodak embraced change and transformed itself from a 21st-century product into a 21st-century brand experience. This is just one of fifty illuminating sessions planned for ad:tech San Francisco. Check out the full schedule and the great range of exhibitors gathering at the Moscone Center in April!

WHY INTERNET ADVERTISING?

Nolan Apostle - Talent, Producer and Contributing Editor
Event City Live, Event City TV & Event City Creative

Why not? Sure that's the easy way out. Ask a question give a simple answer. For the last year or so since we have talked to many of our Alpha and Beta testers about being more successful on the Internet we have heard this question time and time again. Why Advertise on the Internet? Why spend any amount of time investing in the Internet besides a website? It's too confusing. It's too difficult. Hackers will just steal what we do anyway! How can we earn revenues when there are experts out there doing just that? We will attempt to answer for you all those questions and much more as we visit Ad Tech San Francisco at Moscone Center over the next few days. This is a fascinating subject and the technology behind it all is brilliant!

First things first though. If you are involved in any of the Event City's industries, the Events & Creative Industries you definitely should be attending Ad Tech. As we cover this three day show in San Francisco, we already realize the magnitude of it's presence here in San Francisco alone. Social Networking a huge buzz word in general and at the show is seems to be a perfect fit for the Social Butterflies of the City By the Bay. Well as we come to realize there is so much more to "Social Networking" than one might perceive.

Ad dollars are just a part of what Ad Tech is all about. Sure the Goods are where the Gold is, or Cash is King (or is that Cache is King) but is that always true, especially in this day and age? I'm not too certain anymore. Tiny startups to major players like Google, Yahoo, Nestle and Kodak (Yep, even Nestle's Chocolates and Kodak Film company) are here, and you can bet they are not just Chocolates and no more film for the once gigantic firms. So what are two companies like these doing here? Incidentally both these companies fall into the realm of the Event City's "Events & Creative Industries"?

Come on down and find out. Or if you can't make it to Ad Tech San Francisco, please visit their website and learn about Ad Tech's world tour, probably coming to a city near you. So if you are one of those who think that the Advertising and Marketing world on the Internet is not very important, you better think again; and that's no threat, it's reality. Come to Ad Tech and learn, that's where I will be. Here are some highlights of this great show.

Attendees will converge on ad:tech San Francisco (http://www.ad-tech.com/sf/) April 15-17 at the Moscone Center to attend panel sessions, workshops and keynotes during three action-packed days of learning from today’s digital marketing industry game-changers. Attendees will take away the tools and techniques they need to compete in a changing marketing world, and gain first-hand insight into emerging opportunities with online video, social networks, mobile marketing, digital out-of-home advertising and more.


Hear from four of the hottest stars of online video, including Kevin Rose (pictured) of Diggnation, Ask a Ninja's Kent Nichols, Jeff Macpherson of Tiki Bar TV and Martin Sargent of Revision3. View the live taping and hear and explore how you can leverage programs like these to expand your own audience.

That's the key to what Ad Tech can offer. How you can learn to leverage programs like those above, and so much more to expand your own audience, no matter who that audience is. The Special Event, Meeting Planning, Hospitality, Travel, Art, Entertainment, Music, Motion Pictures, Food & Beverage are all industries that can leverage these programs and expand audiences and reap the benefits.

I look forward to attending this show and covering it for all of you, my friends, my associates, and everyone else on the playing field of the Events & Creative Industries- the EVENT CITY NETWORK!

NEW SF EVENTS VENUE OPENS & GOES GREEN

Nolan Apostle - Talent, Producer and Contributing Editor
Event City Live, Event City TV & Event City Creative

BENTLY RESERVE & CONFERENCE CENTER


Plans for a series of events are taking shape quite nicely at the new BENTLY RESERVE CONFERENCE & EVENTS CENTER in San Francisco. On April 9th and 10th, Christopher and Amber Marie Bently, owners of The Bently Reserve, are set to debut it’s new sustainable upgrades and the state-of-the-art Bently Conference Center with a series of events and festivities open to business associates, the media, event managers, meeting planners and the hospitality industry.

The crown jewel of the renovated building is the new Conference Center on the 2nd floor, boasting a variety of sustainable features and innovative technologies for meetings, parties, videoconferencing and corporate events. While it’s no mystery to San Franciscans who host lavish weddings and groundbreaking conferences there, The Bently Reserve is now more unique and appealing than ever thanks to an array of new eco-friendly features and innovative technologies.



Green, energy-efficient highlights include core upgrades like the new building control HVAC system, which was completely upgraded with a digital control, offering centralized on-site and remote temperature control, allowing off-site control for evening and weekend events.

The upgraded lighting controller – the Lutron Lighting EcoSystem™ – (which happens to be one of this writer's favorite) networks all lighting systems together and allows exact monitoring of kilowatts to accurately measure energy consumption. Advanced lighting sensors automatically detect outside light and adjust the interior lights to maximize energy savings. There are only three other commercial facilities on Earth with the same system installed on this scale.

In addition, the old CFC-based air conditioning chiller units were removed and replaced with a new, modern non-CFC based refrigerant system. This is a huge plus for event planners, especially when you get a crowed room of party-goers, all that body heat can really blast up the temperature in any room; this new air conditioning system will keep everyone nice and cool.

The latest digital technology was integrated into the new Conference Center, making it one of the most appealing destinations in San Francisco for conferences and business meetings. Teleconferencing equipment from Polycom offers high-definition quality and “Continuous Presence”, which allows conference attendees in multiple physical locations to see and hear each other in real-time digital squares on a monitor or screen. A highly-secure network using the latest Cisco Systems firewall and switch equipment creates peace of mind and a network that is secure enough to support government agencies. There is wireless internet available via completely segregated network access throughout the facility. With this system, individuals can connect to the network via their laptops throughout the Conference Center. In addition, there is also a business area with available computer rentals, fax machines, copiers, and scanners. Companies can also select from a variety of comprehensive audio/visual and telecommunications packages to suit their needs.

As you can see from the pictures, this is a beautiful venue, but its beauty is not truly appreciated until you had the opportunity to visit this incredible venue. If you are an Event or Meeting industry Professional, Corporate Planners, anyone involved in the Hospitality or Entertainment industries please send us an email and we will send you a complete detailed email of event schedules and the Venue's manager contact information.

We look forward to seeing you at the New Bently Reserve Sneak Peak Events on April 9th and 10th in San Francisco.