Join Patrick White and Aziz Isham of Arcade Sunshine Media as they host a panel of experts including Debbie Weil, Melinda Wittstock and Lisa Schaefer talking about the latest trends in electronic publishing. An open forum and opportunity to pitch the panelists will follow.
How will the digital revolution alter the landscape of traditional publishing and what will these changes mean for authors and publishers? What will the future of reading look like? With ebook sales exploding, and brick-and-mortar bookstores shutting their doors for good, is the future of the written word in peril or do bookworms have a hope?
How can you take advantage of apps, tablets, ereaders and mobile technology to get your message in front of the right audience at the right time?
Arcade Sunshine Media (www.arcadesunshine.com) is a multimedia publisher working to transform the print industry by integrating social media, videos, animations, images and more.
This panel is open to authors, journalists, media junkies, publishers, bloggers and anyone else interested in new modes of digital storytelling. After short presentations by each of the panelists, audience members will have a chance to ask questions, followed by informal workshops and opportunities to pitch ideas to the panelists.
More details released soon, but FMI on Arcade Sunshine:
http://www.arcadesunshine.com/
Featured Panelists:
Debbie Weil is an international speaker, author, veteran blogger, marketing strategist and Web pioneer. She was named one of the Most Influential Women in Technology by Fast Company and a DC Top 100 Tech Titan by Washingtonian.
She recently founded Voxie Media to focus on e-books and entrepreneurial publishing. Voxie is a boutique publishing imprint for business authors and content creators with kick-ass ideas. Voxie also provides consulting to navigate the new world of self-publishing. Go to
http://voxiemedia.com/contact/ to contact her about Voxie Media. She’d love to speak with you if you’re interested in self-publishing or indie publishing (through Voxie Media) a business book.
Melinda Wittstock is a serial entrepreneur, social media evangelist and award-winning journalist. She is the CEO and Founder of NewsiT, a mobile 'crowd-reporting' platform for creating and curating news of high quality and personal relevance. NewsiT makes its official debut early next year, and is her second company. Her first was Capitol News Connection, the award-winning news Congressional news service focused on ensuring voters can hold power to account. She created 'Ask Your Lawmaker' - a site and widget that lets citizens ask and vote for questions they wish accredited journalists on Capitol Hill to put to lawmakers. Melinda's career spans The Times of London, where she was variously a business reporter and columnist, media correspondent and investigative journalist, BBC TV where she anchored many of the big stories of the 1990s and created the acclaimed nightly news-magazine 'USA Direct', ABC News, Financial Times, CNBC and MSNBC. She lives in Washington DC with her husband, two highly-energetic and creative children and a golden retriever as disruptive as Melinda intends NewsiT to be.
Dr. Lisa Schaefer is the Chief Futurist of RoleModel Enterprises, a startup that's developing the Future of Books. She is the writer-producer of Budget Justified, a 50-episode web series, movie, and book about a woman engineer.
Dr. Schaefer earned her B.S.E. and M.S. in civil engineering and Ph.D. in industrial engineering from Arizona State University.
Aziz Isham was a TV executive and documentary filmmaker before launching Arcade Sunshine Media in 2010. He started his career in media at 60 Minutes, and went on to develop and produce numerous films and series for History, Discovery, National Geographic and several other broadcasters. He co-produced, with Patrick White, the critically acclaimed multimedia book Here on Earth for iPad -- which has been called 'the benchmark for interactive books in any genre' (appadvice.com) and was the first ebook to incorporate social networking. He graduated from Yale University with a BA in Anthropology, and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Patrick White is an independent documentary producer and writer. He ran the development department for JWM Productions, produced award winning films about public health in east Africa, created multiple series for many of the largest networks in commercial television and recently directed My Life is a Zoo - the highly rated National Geographic series. He was also named as one of the area's best DJ's by the Washington Post…a title he's earned three years in a row. He holds a BA from George Washington University and a MA in Film from Boston College.
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