http://blog.banyancommunications.com a National Emmy Award-Winning media agency Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:28:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You can check out the interview podcast here Follow the "Industrial Tsunami" Twitter feed here http://blog.banyancommunications.com/uncategorized/john-ratzenberger-gives-banyan-a-shoutout/ Here’s what it’s really like to be in the movie business… http://www.comingsoon.net/news/videonews.php?id=59300 http://blog.banyancommunications.com/uncategorized/i-just-made-my-fist-movie%e2%80%a6when-do-i-get-an-oscar/ It’s funny how you start to see the world differently once you start looking at it through a ‘potential documentary film’ filter.  Your kid’s bad grade in math becomes… Making the Grade An emotional look at how millions of children are struggling to find their way in the stratified, unyielding educational class ... http://blog.banyancommunications.com/uncategorized/seeing-the-world-through-rose-colored-glasses/ Seth Godin, famed author, marketer, and blogger, caused a tempest in a social media teapot this week, with his blog post about the failure of non-profits to use social media tools to advance their cause. No surprise, but, the blogosphere was quick with their response: Beth Kanter summarizes the responses garnered ... http://blog.banyancommunications.com/social-marketing/no-the-irony-of-the-corporate/ I hear this repeatedly from people who are absolutely amazed that someone could actually work and live within the same neighborhood. Usually, though, it seems to come more from people who grew up in the Suburbs and were used to either watching their parents prepare for their long journey into ... http://blog.banyancommunications.com/banyan/%e2%80%9coh-you-live-only-three-blocks-from-your-work-that-sounds-er%e2%80%a6-how-does-that-work-exactly%e2%80%9d/ The 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival was this past week and it got me thinking about documentary films. I know that the words “documentary films” and “muddy dancing hippies” are not usually synonymous with one another, but not only was Woodstock one of the most defining ... http://blog.banyancommunications.com/video/something-happened-there/ I tend to be long-winded and overly detailed when I write.  But, for the sake of leaving all political commentary and feelings out of this, I’m going to keep it short and sweet. We, as Americans, have something that many in the world do not - the freedom to say what ... http://blog.banyancommunications.com/social-media/just-say-it-already/ I've been in the office two days since returning from the 2009 National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media, but haven't yet been able to wrap my brain around the entire thing. So many great presentations and conversations, and at the risk of sounding trite, spending 2.5 days with ... http://blog.banyancommunications.com/social-marketing/digesting-nchcmm-when-the-content-is-not-always-enough/ Lately we’ve all heard the ramblings of politicos, on both sides of the aisle, who are using Twitter, Facebook and other outlets to share their opinions, (no matter how outrageous or untrue), with the broad audience known as the ‘twitter nation.’  It seems they have grabbed social media by the ... http://blog.banyancommunications.com/social-media/the-dark-side-of-social-media/ Our family was having a holiday in England this past week, staying in a flat overlooking the River Dart.  Our windows overlooked where the river runs through town.  Thirty foot walls of old brick encase the water as it runs through the city center.  The top of the wall is ... http://blog.banyancommunications.com/uncategorized/the-moments-that-count/