http://billsimmon.com The homepage of Vermont filmmaker, writer and media educator, Bill Simmon Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:36:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This past weekend my recent film about political blogger Steve Benen, Digital Pamphleteer, won the James Goldstone Award at the Vermont International Film Festival. The film is a short documentary about Steve and his blog and about political blogging, in general. The award, presented annually by the Vermont ... http://billsimmon.com/2007/10/16/award/ I've just been hired to teach an intro to film production class at the Community College of Vermont this fall.  The class will be on Thursday afternoons from 3-6 pm.  This will be a return to teaching after a few years break.  I'm looking forward to it. http://billsimmon.com/2007/08/13/teaching-at-ccv-this-fall/ The new Business People Vermont is out and features a piece by me about new media marketing tools for Vermont businesses.  You can read it here.  Here's a snip... Along with these Web 2.0 technologies has come a new culture with a new set of cultural norms. As a result, some ... http://billsimmon.com/2007/08/06/media-20/ I've got an IMDb page. One of the actors in a film I made called The Perfect Goodnight Kiss is trying to up her own IMDb cred and so she added it, and as the writer/producer/co-director on the film, I now have a page too. Now I just need ... http://billsimmon.com/2007/07/14/well-what-do-you-know/ So I've just been asked to contribute an article to next month's Business People Vermont about new media marketing tools for businesses.  I'll be interviewing and writing that piece for the next week or so. I'm also flying out to Minneapolis in two weeks to attend the National Alliance for Community ... http://billsimmon.com/2007/07/10/new-media-crazy/ A new article that I wrote for Business People Vermont Magazine is up on their website now. It's a profile of Burlington-based web design firm, Propeller Media Works. You can read it here. http://billsimmon.com/2007/06/04/new-bpv-article-is-up/ I've set up a new site for a couple of feature film projects I'm producing.  We're also releasing a seven-minute video clip from one of the projects this coming Sunday on the site.  The site is based on a Wordpress theme (just as this site is).  I'm getting some experience ... http://billsimmon.com/2007/05/23/the-pants/ I just got the go ahead today from the E.D. at VCAM. I will be attending the national Alliance for Community Media conference in Minneapolis in July. I believe that I will be participating in a panel discussion about videoblogging while there. The last national ACM conference ... http://billsimmon.com/2007/05/17/feeling-minnesota/ I've just been asked to contribute a profile of Dave Gibson and Propeller Media Works for the June issue of Business People Vermont Magazine. I like that I'm slowly becoming the technology writer for that magazine. Honestly, business writing is not my forte. I vastly prefer writing ... http://billsimmon.com/2007/05/11/new-business-people-article-coming-soon/ BillSimmon.com has launched. I have finished the main tweaking I wanted to do and ported the site to the live url. This page is uses a WordPress theme called Unleashed3c. I haven't really messed with the design all that much except for the header because I really ... http://billsimmon.com/2007/05/08/its-official/