National Professional Videographers Association of New England

A very important online member survey is being conducted currently within NPVA -- one that will help guide the direction and programming of the organization over the next several years. The anonymous survey was distributed in an email message Thursday morning.

If you have not received it, please check your spam folder just in case...and if you still don't see it, please contact Michael Kolowich at michael@diginovations.com.

In the 36 hours since the survey was launched, nearly 50% of the NPVA membership has responded...which is great! Surveys rarely get more than 50% response. Still, that's about 40 voices that haven't yet been heard, and we urge everyone to take the 10 minutes required to fill out the online survey.

Michael Kolowich
DigiNovations / MemoryWorks Studios
Concord, Massachusetts

Just a Few Days Left before Free Membership Drawing

NPVA members have been doing a great job in building links to www.npva.org into their websites.

Over the summer, after a membership meeting talk by NPVA web guru Michael Kolowich about the importance of links to traffic and search rankings, the board decided to challenge the members with a contest.

Just before the October membership meeting, we'll take an audit of all the member sites that are linking in to www.npva.org, and we'll hold a drawing among those linked-in members.  Some lucky member will have his/her dues paid for in 2007 by winning this contest.

There's still time to make it happen.  Here are the member sites that we know of that link to www.npva.org:

• www.alexvideo.com/
• www.alloccasionvideography.com/
• www.beaconvideo.net/
• www.cookproductions.com/
• www.diginovations.com/
• www.eastcoastvideoservices.com/
• www.fairytaleproductions.biz/
• www.familymemories.net/
• www.halslifervideo.com/
• www.joyofvideo.com
• www.kvimedia.com/
• www.mcvideography.com/
• www.memoryworks.net/
• www.richardtalmageimages.com/
• www.silvercityvideo.com/
• www.strathamheightsvideo.com

  www.thevideohistory.com/
• www.video-sensations.com/
• www.video-services.net/
• www.vitalmemories.com/
• www.wingstv.com/

If your member site links to us, but you aren't listed above, please post a comment to this entry, and we'll be sure to include you in the official drawing!

Last night at the WEVA Town Meeting at NAB in Las Vegas, WEVA Chairman Roy Chapman talked about an interesting new program which will bring literally many hundreds of commercial videography assignments to members in our region later this year.  WEVA has struck a deal with ImageSpan, an international digital rights management company, to source thousands of videography assignments for national ad agencies and commercial clients to WEVA members across the country.  At last night's meeting, Chapman talked about the growing appetite companies have for video content for internet and mobile applications, and how they're now turning to a national network of videographers like WEVA to create these clips.

The program is being tested in the southeast US region, but will be rolled out to New England as part of the national program launch at WEVA Expo in August.  Read more about it here.