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What is ‘New Media’?
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Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival

December 12, 2009 from 6pm to 7pm – Congress Theater
GasPedal's Word of Mouth Supergenius Conference

December 16, 2009 from 7:30am to 5pm – Chicago's Gleacher Center
NATPE Market & Conference

January 25, 2010 to January 27, 2010 – Mandalay Bay Resort
Television Industry Meet-Up

December 4, 2010 from 6pm to 9pm

John Patterson Chicago Convergence Founder

is using tweet-like status update on The Chicago Convergence, built into Ning. I think it auto-twitters, lets see. Nov 8

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New Media, Film, Video, Television

About Me:

John Patterson is a entrepreneur and Founder and President of The Chicago Convergence.

BIO:
In the late 80s, John birthed and led a citywide leadership council that declared Austin, TX “The Arts Capitol of the South”. From 1995-2007, he worked for a global leader in the field of training and development managing the Midwest office. Having facilitated leadership and community development programs for over 10,000 people, he joined Pixel Brothers (television production) in 2007 to break new ground for the media industries.

He is founder and president of The Chicago Convergence, an annual conference of select presenters and companies powered by a collective of journalists, entrepreneurs and organizations with noteworthy accomplishments in digital technologies, entertainment and design. In 2008 Mayor Daley welcomed the Convergence as the cities "new media glue".

In May of 2009, He made Los Angeles his primary residence with homes in both cities. He currently acts as director of The Chicago Convergence, and is as an independent producer working on the development and packaging of online media, television and mainstream motion picture content.

His blog: Genius+Power+Magic, is about leadership, performance and living a damn good life. With 23 years of training in a variety of leadership and performance disciplines, his focus is on existing and new distinctions and models which help people fulfill their primary personal, performance and financial ambitions.

Company Name

Chicago Convergence

Website:

http://www.chicagoconvergence.com

Blog:

http://cnms08.typepad.com/

Social Network:

http://twitter.com/chiconvergence

What I hope to gain from The Chicago Convergence

To lead a tribe worth leading.

Quotes

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. - Goethe

John Patterson's Blog

Chicago by the Numbers

From World Business Chicago

World Business Chicago tracks a number of indicators from month to month to gauge the strength of several aspects of the Chicago area economy. These include employment in major sectors, residential and office real estate data, price and purchasing indexes, and auto/truck sales.

Several key trends are evident in this edition of By The Numbers: See… Continue

Posted on December 3, 2009 at 3:02pm —

PC Mall, Inc. / SARCOM Officially Open Chicago Office

From World Business Chicago

PC Mall, Inc., a leading supplier of technology solutions to business and consumers (NASDAQ: MALL), recently celebrated the grand opening of the new Chicago office of its subsidiary, SARCOM. The company relocated to downtown Chicago, expanding on existing employees alr… Continue

Posted on December 3, 2009 at 2:57pm —

Social Media ROI Examples & Video

Socialnomics – Social Media Blog

A big question out there these days is: What is the ROI of Social Media? Or the ever popular how do I measure the ROI of social media? Often when I get this question it’s appropriate for me to retort: “What’s the ROI of your phone?” Other times it’s not appropriate… Continue

Posted on November 25, 2009 at 10:00am —

First local film to sign with Truly Indie Jameel Kahn's comedy releases on 10 screens

Writer/director Jameel Khan’s “The Strip,” the $1.2 million independent comedy starring Dave Foley that shot here in 2006, is the first Chicago film to sign with Truly Indie, an innovative self-distribution program mainly through Landmark Theaters, owned by Mark Kuban and Todd Wagner.

“The Strip” will open theatrically in 10-cities beginning Dec. 4, including the local Landmark Century Cinema theater in L… Continue

Posted on November 22, 2009 at 3:42pm —

'Oprah' to end run in 2011 Talk show host to exit syndication after 25 years

It's official: After 25 years, "The Oprah Winfrey Show" will end its run on Sept. 9, 2011.

Winfrey broke the news to staffers at her Chicago-based Harpo production company on Thursday. She'll officially announce her exit on Friday.

Whether or not that means Winfrey will launch a new talker on her burgeoning cable partnership with Discovery, OWN, remains to be announced--but Winfrey is expected to have a major presence on the cabler. It's no secret Discovery topper David Zaslav would like to se… Continue

Posted on November 19, 2009 at 6:26pm —

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At 2:22pm on December 2, 2009, Imran said…: That's great. We definitely don't want spam. Thank you for approving.

At 1:55pm on December 2, 2009, Imran said…: Hi John,

Do posted blogs undergo some sort of approval process now? I remember that last time I posted a blog there was no approval. Today, I posted the blog and it shows that it is awaiting approval.

Thanks,
Imran

At 4:58pm on November 29, 2009, Menghui said…: Hi John, It's nice meeting you here!, Once ,Rachael Cain, she want me to give her new 1house website's link to you, here is the link:www.1houseinc.com ,please share your insight on this site. Again, Thank you for inviting me to the network, appreciate it!

Beijing-China.

At 4:26pm on November 21, 2009, Barbara Lochen said…: Hi John....Thanks for your nice note of welcome.

Barbara Lochen

At 8:03pm on November 7, 2009, Amy Littleton said…: Thanks, John. I'm trying to figure this out. Would love to see it work. Think Chicago peeps have time for another social site?

At 8:31pm on September 23, 2009, Erik Vecchione said…: Thanks so much!

At 12:32am on September 10, 2009, gary Taylor said…: Hi John!

It's been awhile. As usual life is busier then ever imagined. Now I am finally emerging after starting a dialogue which I am afraid I dropped the ball. Well it's bouncing again and I want to pass it around. I won't be at the Convergence this year but I will be in Chicago for a gig with my main client Carey Ott. / 7 pm / Martyrs/ Sat. Sept. 19. I want to talk to you about doing a media partnership with Canadian Music Week. I think we can benefit each other. Are you familiar with Digital Media Wire. < http://www.digitalmediawire.com > We are associated with them. Good stuff developing. If you can make it we could meet for a dinner around 5:30pm. Meet at Martyrs.' We are doing a three day video shoot with Jim Quattrocki whom I met through your Summit. He is amazing! On and on. Hit me back please.

At 7:00pm on April 2, 2009, Titanic Sinclair said…: John! Wow... thank you so much for the kind words. We appreciate the support! Feel free to pass it around to anyone else who might enjoy it :)

At 10:21pm on April 1, 2009, Jeff Baraka said…: Thanx for watching & commenting on my video John... (you're not just April
foolin' me, right? ha). I appreciate TCCs vision/focus, glad to be a part...

At 10:38am on February 19, 2009, Hugh Jedwill said…: John, I'm interested in approaching Eric Easter from Johnson Publishing about an engagement with the AMA (American Marketing Association). He spoke at the CNMS'08. Would you be able to put me in touch with him? A short intro would be helpful (vs. a cold call).

We are selecting people to speak at our Ethnic Marketing conference and have marketers from P&G and Pepsi. We'd love to get someone from Johnson Publishing given their deep history and authenticity in the African American community.