RamblingDyna

You're a start up company writing your business plan (you should if you haven't), ramping your product development or services, developing your website but don't have the budget for public relations or an ad agency. How do you get your message across on the boob tube? Last night's Meet Up event answered those questions. I attended the "How To Get Media Attention to Your Business" at the Metreon Theater in San Francisco last night. It was a very useful presentation for startups vying for free and accessible publicity in this information overloaded society of online social networks, You Tube, radio and television. Television News Reporter Sue Kwon was the guest speaker for the three hour presentation. Panelists included media expert and entrepreneur Dr. Brenda Wade, Comcast Marketing Manager Tracey Awad and BizTech Day Founder, Edith Yeung. Kudos to an all women panelist presentation! I know I’m partial, but hey, how often do you see women headline this type ...

I’ve worked in the video game and television production fields which continue to be male dominated although more women are slowly climbing (not jumping) on the bandwagon. So I didn’t know what to expect when I attended “Pixar’s Leading Women” on Monday. Pixar is the famed Disney animation studio that gave birth to Toy Story, the industry’s first full length CG movie. Pixar and Bay Area Women in Film and Media (BAWIFM) sponsored the event at Pixar’s Emeryville location. The faces of Art Directors, Editors and Photographers in the media have and continue to be predominately men with women usually delegated in an assistant or associate role. But the roles were reversed in every direction and turned upside down as eight successful women with solid and impressive backgrounds, averaging 13 years of Pixar tenure, shared the challenges and rewards of getting to where they are now. They joined Pixar when it was just starting out in the 1990’s, an unknown production house before the D...