All Talk, No Action… Yet.
Last night was the long-awaited IAWTV meeting in Los Angeles. It was surprising how little was said by the board of directors considering how many of us have written blog posts about our ideas on where to go from here. An organized board would’ve read those blog posts and come to the meeting with an agenda. Instead, what we got was a “pre-meeting”… and we were told that the “real” meeting will be on June 15th (in NY) and June 17th (in LA). Unfortunately for me, I’ll probably be in Canada.
I’m really busy this week (yay!), so I’m not going to go into details here… instead, I encourage you to listen to the new episode of New Mediacracy that was recorded last night with post-meeting comments from me, Barrett Garese, Brett Register, Chris McCaleb, Rudy Jahchan, Steve Woolf, Tony Valenzuela, and Zadi Diaz.
And, if you’re an IAWTV member, I encourage you to do two things:
- Register to give your say on the official IAWTV forums;
- Send a message to volunteer some free time to help our organization accomplish something valuable.
I, myself, have registered (pending approval) and volunteered. I think what I’d like to do next is try to help the Executive Director of the board with tech tutorials. It’s time to build this academy with the tools that make our industry so cutting edge and accessible to all.
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Listened to New Mediacracy, I’m glad people are talking about these issues! I’d be all over this, except that my application to the IAWTV was rejected. I’m tempted to volunteer anyway.
@Emmett: We actually asked the board last night why some applications were accepted and others rejected. They didn’t give us an answer, but took a note and said they would get back to us on it… we shall see at the next meeting. I would love to see you volunteer anyway… not sure if they’ll take ANY of us as volunteers, but I do think everyone counts ;) Thanks for caring, it means everything.
@Emmett I asked the question of what was the membership approval process. I know the rejections really bummed out some people… I don’t think we all need to know why specific people were rejected, but how the process works would be nice for public knowledge, as well as if they were looking at diversity within the peers. (i.e. Creators, execs, PR, advertising, Press, actors. etc.) and if 220 was the maximum cap for growth this year.
Note: I also prefaced my question with “you don’t need to answer us right now”…
Too bad The Streamys died. They just don’t know it yet.