Melbourne's Online Digital Media (MODM) #2 June 7, 2007

MODM is a new event for Melbourne's Online Digital Media community to socialize and talk about everything that's new in media:

+ Business models for podcasting, blogging, machinima, second life, mobile content, YouTube, MySpace, etc.

+ Using new media to change the world

+ The intersection of mainstream media and new media

+ How to build an audience, raise funding, legals, etc.

If you produce digital media, or want to produce digital media, this is the event for you.

UPDATE: Our guest at this event will be acclaimed Australian futurist Dr Peter Ellyard!

Dr Peter Ellyard is a futurist and strategist who lives in Melbourne. Peter is a graduate of Sydney University (BSc.Agr) and of Cornell University (MS , Ph.D ).

He is currently Chairman of the Preferred Futures institute and the Preferred Futures Group, which he founded in 1991 . He also chairs the Sustainable Prosperity Foundation and two start up environmental companies.

Peter is a former Executive Director for the Australian Commission for the Future. He held CEO positions in a number of public sector organizations over 15 years including two associated with Environment and Planning, and one with Industry and Technology, and was also Chief of Staff of an Environment Minister in Canberra for 3 years. He is Adjunct Professor of Intergenerational Strategies at the University of Queensland , and is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators, the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand ,and the Australian Institute of Management. He is an elected Member of the International Union of Associations, based in Brussels, which has 45,000 international NGO members.

Peter Ellyard has been a Senior Adviser to the United Nations system for more than 30 years including to the 1992 Earth Summit where he was a senior advisor on both the climate change and the biodiversity conventions. In this he was the only Australian and one of only 20 globally. At other times he has been a senior consultant to the UNEP, UNDP and UNESCO. He has also advised the OECD over 20 years. His the author of the best selling book Ideas for the New Millennium (1998,2001) and The Birth of Planetism (to be published in 2007).

We'll be meeting at the ACMI Lounge, first floor, ACMI.

I'd like to thank Simon Chen from Eight Black for offering to sponsor the night's drinks and snacks!

If you want to know more about MODM, join our forum.

http://forum.thepodcastnetwork.com/viewforum.php?f=21

Official Website: http://forum.thepodcastnetwork.com/viewforum.php?f=21