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Game Developers Conference 2000
A video game convention, such a thing exists; and to such a place I went, and back from such a place I am to yield a report to such readers as subscribe to a computer magazine about a kernel and its operating system. Yes, I have been to the Game Developers Conference 2000 in San Jose, and I have such news as has not been reported in this column for a long time. In fact, since I don't usually cover commercial software, such news has never been reported here. Alas, variety is more than just the spice of life—it's also a reproductive advantage, so if we want to reproduce computer games, we'll have to learn how to crack them. Actually, that's one of the many things that has changed since I last visited commercial games. It seems the sheer size of the software is the best copy-restriction scheme of the day. No longer have we any clever challenges to break (and let's just say it was more fun cracking a game to look at its code and make it do funny things than it was to be able to copy it. As a kid, I used to rewrite dungeon adventure games in skater lingo). Many things have changed, and it is with a heart not quite as heavy as a heavy heart, yet not quite light as a light heart, that I report the findings of my undercover operation.
First of all, video game development is a serious industry. It's like the movie industry, except it isn't suing everyone on the Net. There's a struggle for the teenage mind and dollar, and the gaming racket is not so much about creativity as it once was, it's not about a single developer sitting in his bedroom churning out the latest big hit. Producing a video game is probably more difficult than producing a film, and there's a whole infrastructure built up to support the gaming industry, which brings me to my next point.
Video game development requires infrastructure, not just the infrastructure within the computers themselves that lets game developers have easy and uniform access to the video display, sound card and I/O devices (an infrastructure which we need to develop), but an actual support system within the industry to supply graphics engines, 3-D rendering tools and development kits. You may have noticed that modern games tend to be 3-D remakes of the Quake variety. Well, in order to produce the graphics for these games, developers have to use special graphics packages to develop 3-D models. Then, they quite often buy someone else's graphics engine to use. Some people at the convention were even trying to sell audio samples.
Another thing to know about the gaming industry is that it doesn't pay like a job at Microsoft. The top few games take up nearly the whole market, and everyone else is a tad out of luck. Now, creative people like Sid Meier and Richard Garriot who consistently make enormous hits aren't starving in the streets, but they aren't as wealthy as Bill, Paul and Steve, either. Why is gaming industry pay important? Because they're recruiting.
Yes, we coders are in demand, at least right now, and the video game industry has to be one of the most interesting areas to work in. At the moment, I don't do the "proprietary thing", so it's mostly off limits to me unless I change my mind someday. But, if you want a fun place to work where you can exercise creativity, be aware the video gaming industry is hiring (pre-IPO with stock options, even).
Computer games can seem stupid, especially the new rash of boring 3-D killers, but they've vital to the success of computers. They attract future hackers, this is true, but their real value is that they drive the hardware industry. Of course, Microsoft's bloated OS also forces people to keep buying bigger and faster machines, but the main driver of progress (or so I choose to believe) is video games. Graphics cards, sound cards, processors—the more people buy games, the more these technologies are driven; in the end, we win.
What's new on the proprietary front? Well, if you haven't played modern games in a while, you might be impressed by the state of current production quality. However, if you have, you might be bored with all the bloody 3-D shooters. I didn't see any games that demonstrated truly new ideas, but at least the developers are getting better at implementing the old ones.
For GNU/Linux, I can say that Loki is our best hope right now. With seven releases so far and twenty scheduled this year, don't go back to dual-booting; there are more games on the way, and they're going to sound better, too. Loki is spearheading the OpenAL project, which is a cross-platform 3D audio library, essentially the OpenGL of audio. It's LGPL (lesser GPL, as it is now called), meaning that even though it is guaranteed to be free, you can use it to make things that aren't. It's a pragmatic approach, if we want it to be accepted in the hyper-commercial industry. Check out http://www.openal.org/ if you're interested in this project.
One thing holding back video game development on Linux is the lack of internal infrastructure. The multi-tasking, multi-user nature of our OS presents a slew of trouble when one user wants to play a game that needs access to the frame buffer, audio device and I/O ports, as well as some assurance of soft real-time performance. How do we avoid resource conflicts? How do we give programmers a consistent way to talk more-or-less directly to the frame buffer or the digital signal processor? And, how do we solve the latency problems? Fortunately, these questions are being forcibly answered by the imposition of demanding games. Once the infrastructure is there, we can expect easier development of both free and proprietary wares for GNU/Linux.
Didier Malenfant brought another ray of hope. Already quite a successful game programmer (with a legacy from the Amiga demo scene), he gave a presentation for developers interested in developing games that are easily portable to Linux. As long as developers start with several platforms in mind, they won't encounter much trouble porting later on. I spent much of my time at the show trying to explain the details to numerous intrigued developers, so I have a feeling we've planted the memes pretty successfully. In fact, the ideal of many developers is to be able to work under Linux and then cross compile to other platforms. Jon Taylor of Crack.com considered Linux the ultimate development platform, a sentiment I'm sure nearly all of us share.
Hardware news? Well, as you know, the Amiga is coming back again, this time hopefully for real. It is rumored to be on a Linux base, but then we've been living on rumors long enough to build a whole new operating system. Microsoft announced their XBox, and several Microsofties got quite haughty with me when I offered them a free Linux Journal, so I perceive less than good karma in the air surrounding that outfit.
As for the future of video gaming, some people expected computer gaming to be completely replaced by consoles, others thought the two would coexist without trouble, and still many thought that console and computers would offer different kinds of games. Personally, I can't understand the value of a gaming box if you can't hack it, so I hope they don't get too popular.
Surprise, surprise—more things work on Linux than we know. Of course, I've been asked by certain firms to keep silent about what exactly it is that works, but let's just say the industry has noticed our little OS project, and a lot of software is either being ported or has been ported and is now sitting around going stale. This is one more reason I suspect if we get our audio and video acts together, the gaming industry on Linux will be ready to take off.
Anything special to watch out for? Well, I saw some demos from Aegis Simulation Technologies (creators of the graphically impressive BFRIS), one of which will come out soon and looked neat, and another which is being delayed and looks fantastic. The projects are still under wraps, but keep on the lookout: if you're into gaming and don't mind the proprietary thing, you probably won't want to miss these. Now, enough with the proprietary bit and on to free software, since that's what we're all about, no matter how often we may forget.
Bertrand Meyer, in his criticism of the ethics of free software, said that commercial software gave a "proof of concept" that free software then copied. So my question would be, what can free game developers learn from the commercial video gaming industry? Well, we need an infrastructure, both externally in terms of ultra-powerful libraries, rendering tools and development kits, and internally by resolving once and for all how we can reconcile real-time multimedia with a multi-tasking, multi-user OS. I imagine there are a million more-informed opinions than mine floating around, but I shall meander nonetheless! Nothing beats gcc for a development tool, and the OpenGL/MesaGL libraries seem quite easy to use. As for rendering tools, hopefully Blue Moon, renderman, GNU's Panorama and PMR will keep progressing. It seems as though virtual reality and artificial intelligence, those trendy business ventures of the 80s which left craters all over Silicon Valley, are finally coming back, so for VR we'll really depend on 3-D engines and rendering tools. As for AI, I wonder if NPCs (non-player characters) can be written in LISP, and does this mean I can use it again? Video game development is so interesting; it would be nice if we were able to develop for free, share our libraries, and not have to reinvent the wheel with massive production teams every time around. I wonder if we will see the day when a single programmer, or a handful of close friends (Cathedral alert!), working only with software released under the GPL, could spit out a truly creative masterpiece on a par with the best of the commercial offerings. One would hope.
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Vomiting demon merchants, psycho girlfriends, and hot boners, there's simply no denying it: Shadows of the Damned is one sick and twisted piece of work.
Of course it's not hard to see why when you look back at the games its creators had previously worked on.
The triple threat of Goichi Suda AKA Suda 41, Shinji Mikami (of Resident Evil fame), and Akira Yamaoka (known for his work on the sounds on the Silent Hill series) has us piecing together fragments of their past works to see just what went into their latest slaughter fest.
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It's hard to underestimate how much of Mikami's biggest title can be felt in Garcia's venture into hell. Over-the-shoulder mechanics aside, Damned's pacing is incredibly familiar from staccato moments of sheer intensity and panic to frequent lulls allowing you to take in the atmosphere of this unique hell.
2: Killer 7
Overlooked for its complex story that still has gamers pondering its meanings, cult-thriller Killer 7 was actually the first title to pair Suda and Mikami together to compose the game's tangled narrative which saw an assassin's seven split personalities come to life. We'd say it was the start of something great!
3: No More Heroes
Suda's most popular work to date, No More Heroes, received praise for its mix of retro and punk styling with hack and slash gameplay. It's hard not to draw comparisons to the game's unforgettable cast complete with their own back stories let alone compare Garcia Hotspur to No More Heroes girl crazy otaku, Travis Touchdown.
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Often seen as a direct competitor with the Resident Evil series for the survivor horror crown, Silent Hill always had the upper hand when it came to chilling atmosphere and soundtrack. Damned employs the series' composer Akira Yamaoka to lend his talents to the game's grungy tones and make your trip to hell all the more gruesome.
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Though it's hard to see where Mikami's God Hand fits into Shadows of the Damned creation, some of the game's comic relief can be attributed to this overlooked gem. Garcia may not hit homeruns but his brutal melee finishers can certainly be traced back to this underrated beat-em-up.
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Gossip Girl Caption Contest 101by Steve Marsi at . Comments
Welcome to the 101st edition of our Gossip Girl Caption Contest!
This week's Caption Contest winner is Retooser. Congratulations!
The winning entry appears below. Thank you to all for playing!
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Jenny: And this is my serious face... and this is my happy face... and this is my sad face... and this is my angry face...
Chuck: I'm gonna need another drink.
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Jenny: Chuck are you listening? Chuck: (Thinking to himself)
What could possibly be holding up that dress. Chuck: Oh yes, sorry. What were you saying about Archiflat? I meant Archibald.
@S that's hillarious :D, but yeahh that promo repulsed me too,
Taylor: So What did you think of that UK promo?
Ed: Lets just say that I officially turned American.
Chuck: Aw God! Jenny! You had the resemblance of Quasimodo in your back!
Jenny: I know right. *Mad, bit of shy*
Chuck: I guess all your scheming didn't get you Archibald
Jenny: No, Serena showed up and she is taller, smarter, and more naturally blonde.
Chuck: (says to himself)No I don't think that's it. If you made that face maybe its because your lips are shaped like a duck's.
Jenny:So whats the next step?Serena's got a hold on Nate!
Chuck:Dance like a rockstar turn him on like a pornstar!!!Classic!
Jenny:Sounds good to me!
Chuck:Now leave!u irritating me!
Jenny: Stop staring at my boobs chuck.
Chuck: What boobs? or Jenny: Why do you keep on staring at me?
Chuck: ... You never stop reminding me on how much I regret that night at the kiss on the lips party. Damn, what was I thinking?
*CORRECTION!* Chuck: I though I insinuated for you to wear something sexy?
Jenny: This look is sexy!
Chuck: Really? Well its doing absolutely nothing for me. But fortunately for you Nate always did have low standards.
Chuck: I though I insinuated for you to wear something sexy?
Jenny: This is look is sexy!
Chuck: Really? Well its doing absolutely nothing for me. But fortunately for you Nate always did have low standards.
Jenny: This isn't working, Chuck! What's phase 2?
Chuck: Punch the delusional bastards face!
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Chuck: Nate? I'm talking about the giraffe who thinks he has a chance with my woman!
Jenny: No! Chuck! We're talking about MY scheme!
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"If it does well, it may stay around for a few weeks, which would be really awesome," said Hogle, who noted ticket sales will determine that outcome.
Craig M. Cathers, the theater's manager, said he's excited to offer To Save a Life as the most recent in a line of independent films at Cumberland 12.
"I think it's something everyone really needs to see," said Cathers. "We're very happy Jared was able to get the information around and got it to our film booker. We're really happy to bring it here and we hope we get a good audience for it."
"There's only 300 copies nationwide and we get one of them," Cathers added. "And, there's only roughly 4,000 screens in the United States. That's pretty impressive."
Showtimes for To Save a Life will be at 12, 2:30, 5, 7:30, and 10 p.m. More information is available by calling Cumberland 12's movie line at 324-3777 or visiting the theater's Web site at www.cumberland12.com. The film is Rated PG-13 and has a runtime of 120 minutes.
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I took this photo of Anastasia and Zhenya returning cans and bottles at the store, only because it pleased me so much to see them working together. Nothing like money as a motivator.
Also, I needed to distract myself from the absolute stench in this room. The smell of stale beer - just too awful.
Dana's funeral. Vika lives in Detroit; she and Sasha (center) were at Zhenya's orphanage. Masha, on the right, is the sister of Misha, who was for years Sergei's best friend. (And her mom gave me the tomatoes!) It was touching to see how much these girls loved Dana, and recognized all she did for them.
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''Celebrity Duets'': The final trio's last songs
Man, Jai has a couple of off performances, and now he's on the same level as Cheech? How did this happen?
Well, take a look at the final three, and you'll know.
They are very different from each other. They are not pulling from the same pool of voters at all. Each finalist has his or her own shtick: Hal is a rocker, Lucy is a siren who sings romantic ballads, and Alfonso is a Broadway baby, one part professional singer and one part goofy showman. It was probably Alfonso's decent voice and on performances that pulled a few people away from Jai's camp. (I don't know who stole Cheech's fans, because I still have no idea who they were.) Bottom line: Each of the final three is the most popular kid in his or her clique.
So let's start the analysis with the prom queen: Lucy Lawless, who sang ''Total Eclipse of Heart'' with Bonnie Tyler. It was typical Lucy: Her singing was okay; she looked great (and hugely tall next to Tyler). What wasn't typical was what happened after her performance: Little Richard made sense when he spoke to her! He wasn't stuttering, and he gave her actual criticism! My jaw is still on the floor. Is it possible that just as the show is wrapping up, Little Richard is finally tuning in?
The judge was still feeling Alfonso in his toes, but even that didn't distract him from again making legitimate comments post-song! Insane! (Or rather, not!)
Speaking of Alfonso, his practice footage was so funny. Because I'm immature, I was still laughing at his ''aaahh-aaahh'' voice warm-up when suddenly the show cut to him on stage singing the hell out of Jon Secada's ''Angel.'' He was good. And not just Celebrity Duets good, like singer good! Wow. And then David Foster said just that. You know the two of them will be in the studio this year.
Now, I've been an Alfonso champion from the beginning, just because he promised to do the Carlton dance if he made it to the finals (and he delivered!). I don't know how a Carlton album would do on the market, (and Alfonso has made it clear that he is really interested in the music business), but he is a likable guy. He could sing ''The Star-Spangled Banner'' on a Fourth of July special or ''Auld Lang Syne'' on New Year's Rockin' Eve, and people would smile and enjoy his act. So Alfonso and his future record-company people will just have to know his strengths.
On that same note, the producers got the message that Hal was going to sing metal whether they gave him a metal song or not, so they gave him ''18 and Life.'' It worked out for the best for everyone. Hal and Sebastian Bach even sounded somewhat similar, despite having such a short time to work together. (Maybe Hal studied some episodes of VH1's Supergroup.)
The Celebrity Duets audience was hardly the best one for Bach. I didn't notice anyone throwing her underpants at him. But I say: Sebastian Bach for President. Or at least mayor of Stars Hollow. (For those of you who don't know, Bach plays Gil, an aging rocker in Lane's band, on Gilmore Girls. I don't really know much about the Skid Row/Damnocracy singer, but I love that Gil.)
After the rocking duet, Little Richard got a little weird (in a cute way) when he was talking about his grandma calling in cows, but his voice was still totally clear and audible. Where was this guy all season?
Also appearing for the first time in this episode: options. I loved that the celebrities got to choose their final duet partner. (If they really did...)
Although Lucy's choice of Smokey Robinson was totally understandable, (as Wayne Brady said, the man is a legend), I think the song was a little slow for her. There were too many long notes where her voice could have faltered. But she did well, and the previously critical Marie ''Birds Only Pick at the Best Fruit'' Osmond thought Lucy nailed this song.
Alfonso and his partner, Gladys Knight, looked like friends. The judges were right: The pair had good chemistry. They even took the time to coordinate outfits. Every judge declared that Alfonso would win it all after this duet. But was it the singing that pushed him over the edge? I think Little Richard was right when he said, ''Whenever Alfonso does the white boy dance, he's got it.''
Meanwhile, Hal relied on vocals alone. He chose to rock out with Styx's Dennis DeYoung, who really was a great partner. Both gave little sing-outs to their lady friends, who were in the audience. But could Hal's revealing that he has a girlfriend hurt him vote-wise? I'd hate to say it, but it might. I don't think anybody out there is thinking, ''If I vote for Hal, we will someday be together, romping about in matching silver pleather pants, yelling.'' But there is a weird disappointment that comes when you find out your celebrity crush has his own crush. Little Richard told Hal he should be ''the one,'' and the other two judges had equally nice things to say. Though moments before they had praised Alfonso! In fact, the judges had nice things to say about everyone. What does it all mean?
The winner of Celebrity Duets really is going to be a surprise.
So what do you think: Will Alfonso Carlton-dance his way to the top? Will Lucy's rabid fans tie up the Celebrity Duets phone lines? Will Mr. Personality, Hal, win it for the underdog? And which celebrity contestant has the best chance at a real career in music?


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Welcome to the Hilton Garden Inn Toronto Airport
Well-appointed rooms with microwaves, mini-fridges and free Wi-Fi, plus perks like an indoor pool, make the Hilton Garden Inn Toronto Airport a favorite in the area among Priceline guests.
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The 15-story non-smoking hotel has 224 modern rooms that feature flat-panel TVs with premium cable, including HBO and CNN. Rooms are equipped with free Wi-Fi, and each has a hospitality center with a microwave, a mini-fridge and a coffeemaker. Additional amenities include a heated indoor pool, a hot tub, an exercise room, a business center and meeting space. The hotel's restaurant serves all three meals and provides room service; the lounge offers locally crafted beers in addition to a full menu of cocktails. The on-site convenience store sells snacks and other items. The hotel charges an additional fee for parking and provides complimentary shuttle service to Toronto Pearson International Airport.
Hotel Location
The Hilton is 30 minutes by car from downtown Toronto. It's one mile from Royal Woodbine Golf Course, two miles from Woodbine Centre and three miles from Centennial Park. Toronto Pearson International Airport is less than a half-mile away.
Guest Favorites
Priceline guests "would stay again" at the "excellent" and "well appointed" Hilton Garden Inn Toronto Airport, where the "beautiful" and "huge" bathrooms, the "helpful and friendly" staff and the "convenient location" offering "nice" city views add to the appeal.
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- Air conditioning
- Air conditioning individually controlled in room
- Alarm clock
- ATM/Cash machine
- Buffet breakfast
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- Cable television
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- Direct dial telephone
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Hotel Guest Reviews of the Hilton Garden Inn Toronto AirportOur hotel ratings and reviews are from real hotel guests. Priceline.com ensures that its reviews are guests-only by proactively sending hotel surveys to customers after they've completed their hotel stays. In the post-stay surveys, priceline.com hotel customers are asked a number of questions about their stay and the hotel. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best, the survey asks guests to rate their overall experience and specifically rate the hotel's cleanliness, staff and location. Priceline.com does not allow site visitors to post unsolicited hotel reviews.
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November 4, 2014
Buffet breakfast was pretty good. The bottle of wine on the room service card said it was $36 , but when it arrived they charged me $41.
October 16, 2014
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September 4, 2014
It's located near the airport but within driving distance to Toronto. The lobby and general look of it is nice and the rooms are big and spacious.
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The hotel met our expectations. The lobby was inviting and attractive. Our room was clean and the bed comfortable. We would stay here again if we needed a hotel near the airport.
June 17, 2014
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Regardless of what I am doing in TO, I prefer to stay in the Pearson Airport area. The hotel is very close to major Subway and Go Train access points, shopping which makes access to downtown convenient without having to drive in downtown Toronto. Rooms are clean, modern and hotel amenities are excellent. Did not get a chance to eat in the restaurant but menu looked very good.
June 4, 2014
Solo Traveler
The area did not have convenient stores and the groceries at the hotel's convenient store was expensive.
April 14, 2014
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Earlier today, Kurt Vile put out a new song from his just-announced EP, So Outta Reach. You won't exactly mistake this track for something other than a Kurt Vile song, but it's pretty pleasant, and maybe a little more clear-sounding than previous efforts. The five songs on the EP were originally birthed from the Smoke Ring For My Halo sessions, but scrapped and later reworked by John Agnello. Let us know what you think.
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Smug Tip: When to Use Collect Photos vs. Make a Copy
There's no better day than today to share a few tips about two features that make a big impact in your SmugMug galleries: Collect Photos and Make a Copy.
You may get confused about the difference between the two, so here's a cheat sheet to help you get better acquainted with each one, and some ideas for how you'd use them in your everyday photo lives.
How are Collected Photos and Make a Copy Different?
Both of these features are found in your galleries underneath each photo. And both will duplicate your image. But that's where the similarity ends.
Collect Photos puts a virtual copy of your image, be it in the same gallery, in a different gallery, or into someone else's gallery (on another account, if you allow this). The original continues to live where it lives, and any changes you make to the original, such as adding keywords and changing the watermark or cropping, will show up on all virtual copies.
Make a Copy creates an exact duplicate file, which can then be moved to a different location on your own site. The two files then behave completely independently of each other, meaning that any changes made to the original won't impact the copy, and vice versa.
When to Use Collect Photos
Collect Photos is perfect for curating beautiful, succinct groups of images to tell your story. After all, SmugMug's unlimited and you're probably emptying whole memory cards into your galleries. With the power of Collect Photos, that's totally OK!
Here's some ways you can use it:
- Upload all your images into unlisted galleries organized by date, and collect just the ones from around town into your public Street Photography gallery.
- Collect just your best guest images from the wedding to share with the bride's family.
- Collect any time you want a photo displayed in multiple galleries on your site, and you want to be able to update the keywords and caption on it everywhere it appears.
Tip: Pros! Collect Photos is the power behind our Favorites feature in Events, which allows your top clients to choose the photos they love best out of your proof galleries. See if Events are for you.
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Make a Copy is fabulous for whenever you want to try something out on a photo that you've uploaded into a gallery, but you're not quite sure if you want to lose the original.
Some example opportunities:
- When you're creating a new custom Watermark or Printmark and want to know how it looks next to your existing marks.
- If you think that your pic may look better with a teeny bit of cropping.
- Any time you're playing around with color effects in your Photo Tools. (Converting a color photo to B&W is one popular example)
Tip: You can also edit your SmugMug photos with PicMonkey, but they'll offer to automatically save a copy so you don't have to worry about it.
We hope this installment of Smug Tips comes in handy and helps you share and enjoy your photos even more. Confused about a feature, need help with your workflow, or just have an idea for more tips? Let us know in the comments!
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- See more Smug Tips in the archives
- Collecting photos: What, how, and why
- Photo Tools, where you'll find Make a Copy
- How to change keywords, title, or captions
- How to create, apply, and change your Watermarks
- (Permanently!) Cropping your uploaded photos
- Moving folders, photos, and galleries around your site
- Let your guests mark their favorite photos
- Why Events are best for your business
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- How to apply color effects to your photos
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5 Camera Tips Pros Wished They'd Known Sooner
They say your first 10,000 pictures are your worst, or that it takes 10 years to become an expert. While we can't necessarily refute those words of wisdom, we can share tips from our team of passionate photographers that may help shorten that climb to the top.
1) f/8 Is Usually Best
Without getting too deep into the details about optics and light paths, your lens has a sharpest point within the range of f-stops that you see on it. As a rule, the largest and smallest ends of the range are the softest, or least sharp, and f/8 or somewhere in the middle is where you'll get the sharpest images. This varies by lens of course, but we suggest shooting your own test shots of the same subject at different apertures, zooming in, and seeing how that affects your images.
Tip: Don't know what f/8 translates to in your photos? You can search for any kind of photo on SmugMug and then refine your search to see just the photos shot within a specific aperture range. Neat!
2) Cropping is OK
Unless you've jumped straight into big league macro or wildlife communities (where cropping is "cheating") it's totally fine to take your original photo and crop it so you have a better, stronger composition. Or maybe you just used the wrong lens and need a bit more zoom. Either way, it's your trade secret and artistic decisions like this are part of what makes you – the photographer – unique.
Tip: You don't have to crop before you upload to your SmugMug galleries. Use our handy Photo Tools to crop your images, or even Make a Copy and crop that one so you can compare the two and see which version you like best.
3) Renting is OK
You don't have to own the gear to shoot with the gear. So you can't drop $14K on a 800mm lens to shoot the next game? No problem – pay a pittance to have one for just the time you need, then send it back and call it a job well done. We can't all be big spenders… even if we strive to get the perfect shot every time.
Tip: Our friends at Borrowlenses.com have a huge variety of photo, video, and lighting gear for every reason that needs a camera. You can even customize the amount of time you rent, if the standard time spans won't work for you. Plus, SmugMug customers get an extra 10% off your entire order.
4) Editing is Essential
While we've stressed before that getting your photos right SOOC is good practice, it's rare when a photo looks better raw than polished. Even the most perfectly-lit, powerfully-composed photo can benefit from a few finishing tweaks to color, sharpness, and other aspects that make pop to the eye. So even if you think that sunset couldn't get better than it is, just give it a boost and see what happens. You just might like what you find.
Tip: You've got the power of Photo Effects (in your Photo Tools) and Picmonkey for the photos that live in your SmugMug galleries. But take it a step further with Lightroom: with the ability to sync and publish direct to SmugMug and pro-worthy features simple enough for beginners, we think you'll be hooked. Check out the tutorials and see why.
5) Technique Can Solve (Pretty Much) Anything
Backlit subject? Contrasty sunset? Wind in your umbrellas? White dress, red walls? All of these scenarios (and thousands more) can throw a monkey wrench into how you thought the shoot would go, but you can still get the final photo you had in mind with practice, practice, practice. Study hard, stay inspired, experiment, and make mistakes. Lots of mistakes. The more you know, the more you can overcome challenges that would throw photo greenhorns into despair.
Tip: We can't promise to have a ready answer to every problem, but we're trying. As photographers ourselves, we strive to write and deliver photography-, website-, and business-focused articles on our blog, the SmugMug School website, and through our email newsletters. It's our mission to help make photography (and whatever you do with it) more fun.
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- Cropping in SmugMug
- ClubSmug for exclusive photo discounts
- Getting the shot right the first time (and other tricks to speed up your workflow)
- Using the in-SmugMug Photo Tools to apply color effects
- Beginner-to-advanced Lightroom video tutorials
- How to use the free SmugMug-to-Lightroom plugin
- SmugMug School: By photographers for photographers
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Smug Tip: Take Your Photos Further With These Smug Features
SmugMuggers come from all walks of life, which is something we love to see. Whether it's weddings, kids, cats, trucks, races, bikes, mountains, flowers, architecture, travel, or cat trucking races (hey, you never know), there's room for you at our table.
There's so many features built in to every account, you may not realize how some of them could really take what you're shooting to the next level. So today here are a few of our tips on Smug features you may want to use, depending on the things you most love to shoot.
Family Snappers
Does your heart and soul stay close to home? Photos are proof that you and your family have truly lived… and had fun! But we don't always want those photos to fall into the wrong hands, or for your favorite memory to get lost in the jumble.
• Privacy settings. Be sure to occasionally log out of your account and view your SmugMug galleries as a guest. Are the galleries you meant to be unlisted truly hidden? What happens when you log out and view a passworded gallery? Remember that you can review all the different privacy options available to you via your Account Settings and individual Folder and Gallery Settings, or from our help pages.
• Folders and Galleries. The new SmugMug gives you the ability to nest your folders and galleries 5 levels deep, meaning you have up to 7 layers of organization available to you. Move your content so it makes the most sense to you, whether it's organizing your photos by child, by event, or even by year. Or a combination of everything.
Client-Seeking Pros
If you're putting your business online, there's a few things we recommend that you do to have maximum impact with your potential client base. Remember: It doesn't matter whether your profession is photography or not — SmugMug's great for businesses of all types.
• "Best-of" Galleries. Even if you're a chef, your site should show off what you do. Whether it's in pictures or video or text, your incoming clients are going to want to get a taste of what you do and what makes you unique. So create a gallery or a page full of content blocks that visually delivers your elevator pitch. Upload your best, or Collect and curate them from other galleries around your site. Don't forget to link to it from your menu bar, so it's easy to find!
• Contact Forms. We still can't believe how many websites we see that make it difficult (or impossible) to contact the owner. Simply put: If you want people to hire you, compliment you, or otherwise tell you you're awesome, be sure that your email address or phone number is clearly visible at the top or bottom of your homepage. Shy about spam? SmugMug gives you a safe, ready-to-go contact form for your footer, which you can also place in your menu bar.
World Travelers
You may not keep track of which time zone you're in, but you should always remember where you took those photos. How else would you find your way back to that perfect beach, or where you got those great noodles?
• Maps & Pins. If you take photos on your mobile phone, or if your camera is already set up to geotag your images, great! Your photos will keep their locational data when you upload to SmugMug. Or you can add locations manually by going to your Photo Tools. Once that's done, simply display the map anywhere on your site.
• Text Content Blocks. A photo may be worth a thousand words, but a few lines about what you did and how you got there sure never hurts. The content blocks you can drag onto your homepage and custom pages are a great start for Power, Portfolio, and Business accounts, but all users can simply fill in the Title and Caption fields under every photo.
The Socially Savvy
Social media is great, but you really don't know how long your content will exist on there before it gets deleted. You can easily build a forever home on SmugMug and style it to point to all the places online you like to hang out.
• The Social Designs. Put all your cards on the table with our default "SmugMug" design, or (if you've got a Power, Portfolio, or Business account) the similar-looking "Dash" design. Both of these let you set a profile pic and display your name, a cover photo, and list out your favorite social network icons.
• Share Buttons & Comments. These are two simple content blocks you can drop anywhere on your site to help your visitors share your photos with friends and engage in healthy discussion. Did you also know that you have styling options for your social media buttons? Be sure to check the individual settings.
• Publish to Facebook. If you'd rather post your pics directly in Facebook, try this feature. You can apply a custom watermark and choose the maximum file size to be copied over into its very own album on Facebook, so they can see the whole set, but you're still protected from image theft.
Event and Sports Shooters
If your adrenaline gets going when the competition does, you probably have a fair number of galleries holding some of your most exciting photos… which can quickly get unruly and out of hand. The key to staying in the game is to stay organized, and be sure that every single subject in every photo can be found.
• Keywords. This is arguably more important for sports photographers than the photos themselves. Seriously though, you're going to want to keyword your images not just with the event you shot, but with location, date, and even player name if it applies to your shoot. Your clients will thank you. Just don't forgot to display a search box or a keyword cloud so they can take advantage of it.
• Site-wide Organizer. Like the family tips we mentioned above, proper organization via SmugMug's 7 layers of Folders and Galleries are invaluable when it comes to busy event seasons and the many different things that you shoot. So be sure to structure your site clearly and easily, simple enough for you, your assistants, and your clients so that they can find exactly what it is they're looking for.
Those are our tips and we hope that, no matter what you shoot or how long you've been with SmugMug, you discover something new. And if you didn't, tell us – What do you take pictures of, and what features have you used to make the most of it?
Link roundup:
- Gallery, page, and folder privacy
- Hierarchy and folders
- The non-photographer's guide to SmugMug
- Creating new galleries or custom pages
- Collect to display photos in more than one gallery at a time
- Embed a contact form
- 5 things that will make your website more successful
- Edit your photo titles and captions
- How to use SmugMug's design templates
- The many content blocks to customize your site
- Publish to Facebook: the socialite's best friend
- Magic of keywording
- The different account levels at SmugMug
Smug Tip: 6 More SmugMug Features You Didn't Know You Had
Not too long ago, we wrote a post unearthing some of the great features you've already got in your SmugMug account. And since we're always having new photo-lovers come join our family, we thought we'd share a few more things that you may not have noticed are already living amongst your photos.
Here's to those sneaky features that may be hiding in plain sight. Enjoy!
1) Custom Video Preview Images
All SmugMug accounts can accept video files of 20 minutes in length and 3 GB in size, which is a great addition to the still photos you capture in your life. But did you know that you can change the preview image that displays on it, so your fans can see something more interesting than a random frame before they hit Play?
First, decide on a JPG image you want to use… or better yet, create one in your favorite image editor and upload it to your SmugMug galleries. Then just navigate to your video in the gallery, click the wrench, and choose Edit > Replace Preview.
2) "Sticky" Cover Photos for Your Folders & Galleries
In the same vein, you can choose a cover photo that appears every time your gallery is shown on your site. We call this your Feature image, and it will "stick" every time your site is reloaded, instead of displaying the first photos in the gallery.
Just open your Gallery Settings and look under the Basic tab. Click the icon next to Feature Image and choose any image you want to represent that gallery.
Tip: You can even do this for passworded galleries, which typically don't show any thumbnails for privacy reasons. However, you may want to do this for, say, your client galleries, just to be sure they know which gallery is theirs on your site.
3) Stats. Really Great Stats.
We track all kinds of good stuff, like which of your galleries and images have been visited the most, as well as show you where your traffic is coming from. Just check out the Stats tab in your Account Settings and take it from there! You can read more about your SmugMug stats on our help pages.
If you prefer, you can always sign up for a free Google Analytics account and plug in your unique user ID into the same tab of your Account Settings, to double-check our work. Here's how.
4) Search (and Filter by EXIF)
Any time you (or your guests) search for things on your site via the Search content block or from SmugMug.com/search, you'll see lots of beautiful photos that you can scroll through to your heart's content. But did you know that you can hit the "Refine Results" button at the top and open up dozens of additional checkboxes? This will help you narrow down your choices and find pictures taken using just the criteria you specify.
Watch out! It's strangely addictive, so you may end up spending a lot more time discovering photos than you expect.
5) PicMonkey: Free Photo Tweaks
If our in-gallery Photo Tools aren't quite enough for you, check out our friends at PicMonkey. You can find them right under every photo, under the Wrench icon. Open it up and you'll see all the great tweaks and mods you can add to your photos!
Tip: We even have a quick video tutorial all about PicMonkey.
6) Discounts Just for Being Smug
That's right. You're in great company when you're with us. You can browse and view the discount details simply by logging in and visiting our ClubSmug page. Shop, have fun, and tell them we sent you!
Link roundup:
- 6 Original Smug Features You Never Knew You Had
- Videos on SmugMug
- Featured photos on SmugMug
- Gallery settings and all the good they do
- Gallery and folder privacy on SmugMug
- Account Settings and what they do
- How stats work
- Tweaking Photos: Titles, Captions, Photo Effects, and more
- Photo tools: making copies in-gallery, just in case
- Exclusive discounts for SmugMuggers
Photo Tip: 5 Reasons Why We Fell in Love with Lightroom
It's been a while since we've talked about our love for one of the best photo tools on the market, Lightroom. We're going to share some of our favorite things about it that knocks our socks off and why we hope you'll give it a try, too. Plus, if you're just scared about diving into the Adobe pool, we're giving away 4 (signed!) copies of Scott Kelby's fantastic instructional book, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book for Digital Photographers, at the end of this post.
So keep reading to see how you can win yours!
Now, here are our top 5 reasons why Lightroom's awesome.
1) Keywording Is a Breeze
Keywords are a small, but important part of getting your photos properly searchable. Whether you'll be looking through your own galleries or hoping to cash in on sales sparked by Google, keywording is how you get there.
While SmugMug has great bulk keyword and caption tools, adding them during your Lightroom workflow is a step saver and has the added benefit of adding the keywords to the photo's metadata.
You can enter keywords using the Library module, and even apply them to batches of photos all at once. The best part? Lightroom will automatically suggest keywords you've used before when you start typing.
And yes, these keywords and captions will transfer over to SmugMug when you publish.
2) No JPGs Required
Unless you're new to SmugMug, you probably already know that we've got a free Publish to SmugMug plugin available in Lightroom. (You can download it here.)The fact that it doesn't cost a cent is pretty great, but even better is that you can easily Publish your photos to new or existing galleries on your SmugMug account, all without needing to create — or store — a separate JPG file on your computer's hard drive.
Try the easy, one-click syncing between your Lightroom catalog and your SmugMug folder structure. We'll worry about your JPG storage so you don't have to.
3) Everything's Better in Bulk
The greatest power of Lightroom is how easily it lets you do sweeping changes to swaths of photos at once. Presets, flags, and anything you can think of — you can add them with just a few clicks and get your event photos out the door and into your clients' inboxes in no time.
Check out this post that Adobe educator Matt Kloskowski did for us to help sift through your massive photo piles with ease.
4) Easy-to-Replace Proofs
Pro photographers, this one's for you: When your client orders prints from your SmugMug galleries and you've set up Proof Delay, did you know that you can use Lightroom to quickly polish, edit, and republish only those photos back to your SmugMug galleries before sending the order to the lab?
We think this is the biggest lifesaver for any photographer who knows their clients will buy only a few photos out of thousands. Rather than editing every single photo from the shoot, simply upload your proofs and let them make their choice.
Tip: Take it a step further with Events & Favorites. Lightroom will sync their Favorites galleries and pull their choices back into your catalog, making it even easier for you to edit (and republish) just the ones they love best.
5) It's Always Improving
Adobe's always making their products more powerful and better for you, and we are, too. Both Lightroom and the SmugMug plugin check automatically for updates, and you'll notice this when you open up the program and see that window.
What we've added recently: The ability to choose your gallery's Featured Photo via the plugin, and the ability to create/edit/delete Quick Settings, Watermarks, and Printmarks. And lots more.
You can always check to see the updates we've made to the plugin on the dedicated page in our help pages.
The Book Giveaway
As promised, we've got 4 signed copies of Scott Kelby's best-selling Lightroom 5 bible to give away, The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5 Book for Digital Photographers:
This comprehensive book covers everything from basic sliders to Scott's own workflow, and is the #1 Lightroom book on the market (with good reason). So if you're ready to get this into your hands and begin your journey to becoming a Lightroom wizard, simply leave a comment below and include these two responses:
1) What are the biggest stumbling blocks in your photo editing workflow?
2) A link to your SmugMug website (so we know how to reach you if you win)
We'll choose 4 lucky random winners on Wednesday, June 11th, 2014, and announce them right here.
Stay tuned, good luck, and watch this space!
UPDATE 6/11/2014: Winners! We randomly picked 4 winners who commented here and here's who we drew:
We'll be in touch with you individually to deliver your books. Congrats!
6 Smug Features You Didn't Know You Had
There's so much to SmugMug that even those of us who've been members for years have trouble summing it all up in a single elevator pitch. So it's perfectly possible for you to have never known some of the great features that are (even now) lurking in your galleries.
Here are a few of our favorites.
1) Smart Galleries
Lots of SmugMuggers use our Collect Photos feature. But did you know you can set your galleries to automatically collect certain new photos you upload to your site? You do this simply by defining Rules and making your gallery a Smart Gallery. We'll do the rest.
Smart Galleries are perfect for curating pics for your homepage slideshow, populating individual player galleries from team photos, displaying your newest snaps, and so many more applications we can't even listen them all. Try it now!
2) Keyboard shortcuts
SmugMug's easy to browse with one hand. Really! When you're viewing a gallery you can hit the following keys to open the Lightbox and change the image size that you're viewing. Here's the list:
- Left/Right Arrow = Prev/Next Photo
- Shift + Left/Right Arrow = Prev/Next Page of Thumbnails
- A = Bring up Lightbox view, Autosize photo
- S = Lightbox, Small
- M = Lightbox, Medium
- L = Lightbox, Large
- 1 = Lightbox, XL
- 2 = Lightbox, XL2
- 3 = Lightbox, XL3
- O = Lightbox, Original
- X = Exit Lightbox
Give it a whirl, and bookmark the help page in case you want to refer to this list later.
3) System Pages
You may not realize that you've got a few very special pages up your SmugMug sleeve that you can access by simply typing in these words to the end of your SmugMug URL:
- 404
- Date
- Keyword
- Password
- Popular
- Search
- Browse
These don't appear in your site-wide organizer because they can't actually be moved around, but you can customize them with text, your logo, and other content blocks when you have a Power-, Portfolio-, or Business-level account. Perfect for adding your warm and sunny personality to every corner of your site.
Check out some previously published tips and ideas for making these system pages your own.
4) Opacity Slider (Power and up)
You can run with any design right out of the box, but one of the best benefits of SmugMug is the ability to deeply customize your site. And there's so many options available to you, like the ability to change the color – and opacity – of different sections like your header, sidebars, body, or footer.
Just like how rugs define a space in your room, so do these areas of your page. Setting a section color and changing its opacity (or "alpha") goes a great way toward making your custom themes stand apart from the crowd.
Don't be shy: dig into your Themes, click that Advanced tab, and get playing!
5) Filename display
The Organizer may be the best thing we've launched since sliced bread, but did you know that you can toggle the display of filenames under your thumbnails? This is a handy trick to see exactly how your images are being sorted. Combined with the browser function Command+F, you can quickly find any file in any gallery.
Find it in your sitewide Organizer, any time you've highlighted a gallery and have the photos displayed in the preview pane on the right. The toggle button is the little square with the line under it at top right (shown above).
6) Multiple Designs to Create and Use (Power and up)
You can customize any number of our site designs and swap between them whenever you wish. We'll save them all in your account and you can access them when logged in, any time you click Customize > Choose a New Site Design. No extra charge!
This is perfect for indecisive photographers who can't decide if they want a huge background slideshow or an organic collage of their portfolio pics on their homepage. It's also great for festive folks who shoot calendar-based events and want to serve up a different look every season.
Just remember that when you switch designs, customizations like content blocks won't transfer between them. However, new pages, galleries, and any other content you add (A.K.A. stuff that's visible in your sitewide Organizer) will.
Tip: If you do create multiple designs, we recommend that you give each design a unique, descriptive name so you always know what it is. "Copy of Isis" is not very helpful. "4-Column Homepage (White Theme)" is.
We hope you dig deeper into your SmugMug sites and discover something new that makes managing your memories easier and more fun.
Links to love:
- Collecting copies of photos into multiple galleries
- Creating galleries based on keywords (Smart Galleries)
- Navigate SmugMug with hotkeys
- How (and why) to customize the system pages that come with your account
- How to customize on SmugMug
- Your SmugMug themes
- An Organizer worth migrating for
- SmugMug's beautiful, modern, right-out-of-the-box designs


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Our 2014 season opens with a really special concert as we welcome Bill Kanengiser, Grammy Award winner and founding member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Expect to be surprisedŚBill Kanegiser is recognized as a maverick who says "At the root of it, I'm a classical-guitar player, but if it's good music, it doesn't matter what style it is." The concert is solo guitar with an extraordinary finish: The last piece of the program is Shingo FujiiÆs ōConcerto de Los Angelesö for solo guitar and guitar orchestra, which was written for Mr. Kanengiser. Members of the Tucson Guitar Society Orchestra as well as ensemble players from Phoenix and Flagstaff will rehearse under the tutelage of Mr. Kanengiser, and he will play the concerto with them here as well as in Phoenix and Flagstaff.
Our Sixth International Tucson Guitar Festival, October 31 to November 7, is a full week of non-stop guitar. We open with a Tucson favorite from his years here as a student extraordinaire: Matt Palmer on Friday, October 31. We plan to bring back some of our alums on a regular basis to see what these talents are doing. In MattÆs case, that includes a recent concert in Carnegie Hall! He will stay on to judge the Beeston Competition on Sunday, and hold a workshop on Monday. We then welcome the amazing Pavel Steidl who is acclaimed around the world for his expressive playing. We can say that the guitar students are all abuzz at the prospect of hearing Pavel in concert (Nov. 6) and taking master classes with him (see our Local Events Calendar for dates and times, yet to be determined). And we end the Festival with the incredible Assad Brothers, legends of duo guitar. We could only get them for one concert this year, so purchase your tickets early.
The Tucson Guitar Society has a wonderful performance planned for the 3rd Tucson Desert Song Festival, Jan, 22, 2015: David Leisner with tenor Rufus M³ller in a program based on music by Benjamin Britten among others. The New York Times said "Mr. Leisner offered a deeply expressive interpretation of the enigmatic, haunting variations [Britten Nocturnal]...Mr. Leisner and Mr. Mueller proved exemplary, characterful collaborators throughout, the guitarist's playing rich and nuanced and the tenor's voice expressive." This concert is generously underwritten by the Tucson Desert Song Festival.
David Russell returns! There are not many places in the world where you can hear David Russell in a 200 seat hall. Tucson is the place! One of the most in-demand guitarists in the world will be here for his annual artist in residence week, and he will grace us with 2 concerts, Feb. 28 and March 1.
We end the season with two Guitar Foundation of America winners. On March 23, Jķrķmy Jouve, who won in 2003, returns as a solo artist after several years playing duo with Judicaļl Perroy. An active recording artist, he recently released the second volume of works by JoaquĒn Rodrigo on the Naxos label. And our season finale is also the finale of the tour of the current winner Anton Baranov of Russia who astounded everyone by winning both the Guitar Foundation of America Competition and the Francisco Tßrrega Competition in 2013. We can help him celebrate the end of his 50 city tour of North America with Tucson hospitality!
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Come and hear play our special guests Graesyn Spiers and Nick Epple
We welcome you to bring a guitar--or any plucked instrument for that matter. We would love to hear what you are playing.


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Welcome to the Post Alley (shorts) Film Festival (PAFF) celebrating the female voice in film – showcasing established and newly emerging filmmakers with strong creative voices.
A day of female centric and eccentric short films, PAFF is co-sponsored by Women in Film Seattle, (WIF Seattle) a non-profit professional organization dedicated to advancing opportunities for all women in the film, television, video, digital, and screen-based industries.
→ Download PAFF Guidelines 2014
→ Download Submission Form 2014
Post Alley Film Festival 2014 will be held on:
Saturday, February 8, 2014
Festival venue: The SIFF Film Center, Stewart Stern Theater, Seattle, Washington, USA. The SIFF Film Center is located on the corner of 2nd Avenue N and August Wilson Lane in Seattle Center. The Film Center is next to The Vera Project in the NW Rooms (the Film Center was formerly The Alki Room). The Film Center is also opposite The Seattle Repertory Theatre
Post Alley Film Festival
Virginia Bogert, Curator PAFF
Laughing Dog Pictures
1506 35th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
206 324-9861


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At Cvent's Corporate Meetings Summit, Brian Ludwig, senior vice president of sales, announced Meetings & Incentives Worldwide Inc. as the winner of Cvent's Power of the Platform award.
Cvent's share price isn't the only thing that has headed upward since the company's initial public offering last summer. Attendance doubled this year at the McLean, Va.–based company's third annual user group conference, held June 18–20, with 1,000 attendees making the trek to The Venetian in Las Vegas to learn how technology is transforming meetings and events.
And for the first time, the event was split into two meetings: One for corporate users of Cvent's enterprise event management technology, the Corporate Meetings Summit, and a separate, paired event for approximately 200 association users, the Association Meetings Summit. An additional 2,000 people joined a webcast of a session featuring five event managers talking about how they use technology. "The summits are content marketing in a live format," said Chuck Ghoorah, Cvent's co-founder and executive vice president of sales and marketing.
From the opening keynote by graffiti artist and business author Erik Wahl, to the closing presentation by PSAV Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Marketing Greg Van Dyke, the more-than 70 sessions focused on "how the left brain is necessary, but no longer sufficient" to meet today's meeting management challenges, as Wahl said while painting portraits of U2 singer Bono, Apple's Steve Jobs, and Albert Einstein. As he further pointed out, just as "the best music takes place between the notes," meeting managers need to find and apply their creativity in the spaces between the logistics to bring their meetings to a more strategic level.
And meeting managers need to take it up a notch, said Cvent Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors Reggie Aggarwal because this is "the biggest industry you've never heard of," with $565 billion spent annually worldwide. Part of the challenge the company executives found during its IPO process, was that, unlike other industries, meetings and events is horizontal, encompassing everything from marketing and travel to procurement. As Ghoorah noted, up to 3 percent of total corporate revenue is spent on meetings and events, "but it's highly disparate. Put it all together, and it's powerful." In fact, he added, 30 percent of corporate budgets are spent on live meetings and events, but until recently, companies didn't have the tools to measure return on investment of meeting spend. "Automation isn't threatening your job," said Ghoorah. "We're automating logistics so you can focus on being strategic."
"We should be celebrating technology because now we can prove the ROI of events," agreed Aggarwal. "Technology is making live meetings even more mission-critical." The company has quadrupled its investment in research and development over the past four years, he said, to meet the needs of its customers—"85 percent of our product roadmap is designed by you," he added.
New Products: Blue Release and SocialWall
At the meeting, the company unveiled its latest additions to that roadmap, aimed at making the company's products "broader, deeper, and simpler," said Pete Floros, vice president of product management. Called the Blue Release, the new interface for Cvent's event management platform is designed to provide streamlined navigation and an enhanced workflow for building and managing events. Featuring drag-and-drop editing, interactive charts, and the ability to update live, the Blue Release, currently in beta testing, will be available to all Cvent users in the third quarter of 2014, said Jeannie Griffin, director, product management.
Also rolled out—and demonstrated live—at the meeting was SocialWall, an interactive tool designed to help Cvent clients compile and display attendees' Twitter and Instagram content in real time at events.
Inspiring Empathy, Creativity, and Simplicity
Listening to customers, finding creative solutions, and simplifying the process of meeting management were recurrent themes—and were brought home in a second standing ovation presentation (Wahl also brought down the house) by SAP CEO Bill McDermott, who said that having empathy for customers is the key to success.
Quoting Theodore Roosevelt, McDermott said, "No one knows how much you know until they know how much you care," a philosophy that has brought him success from his first business—owning a deli when he was just 16—to leading the SAP technology juggernaut. And, because "Complexity is the most intractable CEO issue of our time," we need to simplify our processes, become better leaders by listening and having real conversations with employees, and show executives how meetings are an engine for growth, not a cost center. As was demonstrated throughout the summits, technology can help by providing the data and processes meeting managers need to move beyond logistics and into strategic positions at their organizations.


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The sparkly glove, the red and black leather jacket, the v-neck white tee. By this point we can all spot the stylish pieces that the King of Pop wore for some of his most major performances. His outfits, just like his music, inspired others and created trends. Here are some of MJ's most legendary pieces - and the places you can get them.
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