Since I'll be out of the Library for the foreseeable future on maternity leave, there will be no new posts to this site for awhile. As always, you can still contact the Library with any requests you have for new materials or any other questions. Take a look at the options available on the "For Faculty" page on the Library's web site or feel free to use the Ask A Librarian service anytime.
Happy springtime to all!
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Monday, March 03, 2008
"Floored" documentary will highlight the end of the trading floor
From today's Chicago Tribune: The trading floors at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange close for good in the middle of May, marking the end of an era, and the end of a movie for filmmaker James Allen Smith.
In a feature-length documentary set for release later this year, Smith aims to chronicle the vanishing life and times of the open-outcry futures trader, highlighting the clash between technology and humanity, and the personal toll of progress.
If the film comes across as Smith intends, " Floored " will capture the incendiary thrill of trading hand to hand and profile the regular guys who became some of the business world's least-likely tycoons. These blustery masters of the free markets proved vulnerable when computers finally penetrated their sheltered club, and only a relative handful remain in the pits today.
Smith feels their pain.
Read the whole article HERE (stable link).
Link to the Tribune's site HERE (with some video clips from the documentary)
In a feature-length documentary set for release later this year, Smith aims to chronicle the vanishing life and times of the open-outcry futures trader, highlighting the clash between technology and humanity, and the personal toll of progress.
If the film comes across as Smith intends, " Floored " will capture the incendiary thrill of trading hand to hand and profile the regular guys who became some of the business world's least-likely tycoons. These blustery masters of the free markets proved vulnerable when computers finally penetrated their sheltered club, and only a relative handful remain in the pits today.
Smith feels their pain.
Read the whole article HERE (stable link).
Link to the Tribune's site HERE (with some video clips from the documentary)
Friday, February 01, 2008
Spring Semester reminder from the Library
Dear AEMM Faculty—
Spring Semester 2008 is here! Please remember that the Library is here to help. A few things you might want to consider implementing into your courses:
Course Reserves
Place books or articles on reserve in the Library (or on the Library’s web site) so that they are available to your students. You can put required textbooks on reserve or optional reading. Just use the Course Reserves link located on the For Faculty page. If we don’t own a copy or you don’t have an extra personal copy, we’ll purchase one.
Embed the Library in your Oasis or other online course page!
Want to point your students directly to our proprietary business databases and other resources? I can send you a tailored widget that will showcase the resources you’d like your students to make use of for their assignments.
Link directly to articles from your Oasis or other online course page!
Avoid issues related to copyright and make your reading assignments seamless for your students by linking them directly to articles from newspapers, trade publications and popular and scholarly journals. Follow the instructions on this page or feel free to email me the citations and I will build the links for you.
Library instruction for your class
Have an in-depth assignment that you’d like the students to go “beyond Google” to complete? Consider scheduling an instruction session or contact me to discuss ways in which the Library can help. From company profiles to industry research to consumer demographics and beyond, we can help your students develop critical thinking and competitive intelligence research skills.
Assignment consultation
Don’t want to spend a whole class session in the Library but know that there are tools and resources that your students should be using for certain assignments? Contact me to discuss the assignment and how we can integrate some database and research instruction into it.
There are many more ways that the Library can help support you and your students, so if you have questions please don’t hesitate to contact me. As the Library’s liaison to the AEMM department I am here to help connect you to the wealth of information available to you and your students through our books, videos, journals, research databases and other resources.
Good luck as we head into Spring ’08! I look forward to working with you—Celia
PS Please feel free to forward this post to adjunct or other interested AEMM faculty who may not have seen this. If you know of colleagues who should be added to the mailing list, just let me know.
Spring Semester 2008 is here! Please remember that the Library is here to help. A few things you might want to consider implementing into your courses:
Course Reserves
Place books or articles on reserve in the Library (or on the Library’s web site) so that they are available to your students. You can put required textbooks on reserve or optional reading. Just use the Course Reserves link located on the For Faculty page. If we don’t own a copy or you don’t have an extra personal copy, we’ll purchase one.
Embed the Library in your Oasis or other online course page!
Want to point your students directly to our proprietary business databases and other resources? I can send you a tailored widget that will showcase the resources you’d like your students to make use of for their assignments.
Link directly to articles from your Oasis or other online course page!
Avoid issues related to copyright and make your reading assignments seamless for your students by linking them directly to articles from newspapers, trade publications and popular and scholarly journals. Follow the instructions on this page or feel free to email me the citations and I will build the links for you.
Library instruction for your class
Have an in-depth assignment that you’d like the students to go “beyond Google” to complete? Consider scheduling an instruction session or contact me to discuss ways in which the Library can help. From company profiles to industry research to consumer demographics and beyond, we can help your students develop critical thinking and competitive intelligence research skills.
Assignment consultation
Don’t want to spend a whole class session in the Library but know that there are tools and resources that your students should be using for certain assignments? Contact me to discuss the assignment and how we can integrate some database and research instruction into it.
Questions about any of the above? Just 
!!!
There are many more ways that the Library can help support you and your students, so if you have questions please don’t hesitate to contact me. As the Library’s liaison to the AEMM department I am here to help connect you to the wealth of information available to you and your students through our books, videos, journals, research databases and other resources.
Good luck as we head into Spring ’08! I look forward to working with you—Celia
PS Please feel free to forward this post to adjunct or other interested AEMM faculty who may not have seen this. If you know of colleagues who should be added to the mailing list, just let me know.
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
The Soap Opera Saga Behind Burt's Bees
From Sunday's New York Times' Business section. An interesting behind-the-scenes look at a once-small green brand that has now been bought by Clorox:
IN the summer of 1984, Burt Shavitz, a beekeeper in Maine, picked up Roxanne Quimby, a 33-year-old single mother down on her luck, as she hitchhiked to the post office in Dexter, Me. More than a dozen years Ms. Quimby's senior, the guy locals called "the bee -man" sold honey in pickle jars from the back of his pickup truck. To Ms. Quimby, he seemed to be living an idyllic life in the wilderness (including making his home inside a small turkey coop).
She offered to help Mr. Shavitz tend to his beehives. The two became lovers and eventually birthed Burt's Bees , a niche company famous for beeswax lip balm, lotions, soaps and shampoos, as well as for its homespun packaging and feel-good, eco-friendly marketing. The bearded man whose image is used to peddle the products is modeled after Mr. Shavitz. Today, the couple's quirky enterprise is owned by the Clorox Company, a consumer products giant best known for making bleach, which bought it for $913 million in November. Clorox plans to turn Burt's Bees into a mainstream American brand sold in big-box stores like Wal-Mart. Along the way, Clorox executives say, they plan to learn from unusual business practices at Burt's Bees -- many centered on environmental sustainability. Clorox, the company promises, is going green.
But not even Clorox can sanitize the details of a fallout between Mr. Shavitz and Ms. Quimby that began in the late 1990s...
Read the whole article HERE
IN the summer of 1984, Burt Shavitz, a beekeeper in Maine, picked up Roxanne Quimby, a 33-year-old single mother down on her luck, as she hitchhiked to the post office in Dexter, Me. More than a dozen years Ms. Quimby's senior, the guy locals called "the bee -man" sold honey in pickle jars from the back of his pickup truck. To Ms. Quimby, he seemed to be living an idyllic life in the wilderness (including making his home inside a small turkey coop).
She offered to help Mr. Shavitz tend to his beehives. The two became lovers and eventually birthed Burt's Bees , a niche company famous for beeswax lip balm, lotions, soaps and shampoos, as well as for its homespun packaging and feel-good, eco-friendly marketing. The bearded man whose image is used to peddle the products is modeled after Mr. Shavitz. Today, the couple's quirky enterprise is owned by the Clorox Company, a consumer products giant best known for making bleach, which bought it for $913 million in November. Clorox plans to turn Burt's Bees into a mainstream American brand sold in big-box stores like Wal-Mart. Along the way, Clorox executives say, they plan to learn from unusual business practices at Burt's Bees -- many centered on environmental sustainability. Clorox, the company promises, is going green.
But not even Clorox can sanitize the details of a fallout between Mr. Shavitz and Ms. Quimby that began in the late 1990s...
Read the whole article HERE
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Start the new year off with info on the music biz
Here's an excellent article on the music business. It appears in last month's Wired magazine and is written by David Byrne (who knows a thing or two about music and the business of music).
Friday, December 14, 2007
Novelty gag gift industry
Here's a neat article on fake vomit--it actually contains quite a bit of industry data. The Chicago Tribune covered a local company who is a leader in this gag gift market:
"The building holds a secret.
A vile and totally eeeewwwww secret, one that brings together 12-year-olds and 12-year-olds at heart.
From the outside, it is another two-story brick warehouse on Chicago's West Side. Step inside, and visitors return to a certain back-of-the-comic-books kind of American childhood.
The secret is this: It's the world capital of fake vomit, where it's still made the old-fashioned American way, ladle by ladle, formed and coagulated for the next generation of pranksters and troublemakers.
Helping put the ick in America since 1941, Fun Inc. is a repository of practical jokes, magic tricks and gag items -- from chattering teeth to hot pepper gum, oversize sunglasses to oversize toothbrushes to oversize anything. The building, near Grand and Major Avenues in the industrial Hansen Park neighborhood, is where springs were once manufactured and, later, Cracker Jack prizes.
Guests walking into the office of Fun Inc. President Graham Putnam might expect to be greeted by a joy-buzzer handshake or a whoopee cushion planted beneath a chair seat. But it is surprisingly bare bones, a room he shares with his wife, Kathryn, the company's corporate secretary and a clutter of paperwork and faux wood paneling. Fake vomit, it turns out, is serious business..."
Read the whole article HERE
"The building holds a secret.
A vile and totally eeeewwwww secret, one that brings together 12-year-olds and 12-year-olds at heart.
From the outside, it is another two-story brick warehouse on Chicago's West Side. Step inside, and visitors return to a certain back-of-the-comic-books kind of American childhood.
The secret is this: It's the world capital of fake vomit, where it's still made the old-fashioned American way, ladle by ladle, formed and coagulated for the next generation of pranksters and troublemakers.
Helping put the ick in America since 1941, Fun Inc. is a repository of practical jokes, magic tricks and gag items -- from chattering teeth to hot pepper gum, oversize sunglasses to oversize toothbrushes to oversize anything. The building, near Grand and Major Avenues in the industrial Hansen Park neighborhood, is where springs were once manufactured and, later, Cracker Jack prizes.
Guests walking into the office of Fun Inc. President Graham Putnam might expect to be greeted by a joy-buzzer handshake or a whoopee cushion planted beneath a chair seat. But it is surprisingly bare bones, a room he shares with his wife, Kathryn, the company's corporate secretary and a clutter of paperwork and faux wood paneling. Fake vomit, it turns out, is serious business..."
Read the whole article HERE
Friday, November 30, 2007
Empty Bottle is looking for interns
Looking for a cool internship? The Empty Bottle, a hip nightspot and band showcase located on the West Side, is looking for a few good people. Check it out:
Interns
The Empty Bottle is looking for you… especially if you are looking for an internship. We would like to bring two interns on board to work with us here in the Bottle office. Internships run 5-20 hours per week, and cover a wide array of tasks and responsibilities. That said, we do need responsible and industrious folks who are interested in learning more about the concert industry. Internships are unpaid, but man alive, you want to talk about perks? Free shows are just the tip of the iceberg. School credit is preferred, but certainly not necessary. If you are interested, please send a resume to morgan@emptybottle.com or fax it to 773.276.3607.
Interns
The Empty Bottle is looking for you… especially if you are looking for an internship. We would like to bring two interns on board to work with us here in the Bottle office. Internships run 5-20 hours per week, and cover a wide array of tasks and responsibilities. That said, we do need responsible and industrious folks who are interested in learning more about the concert industry. Internships are unpaid, but man alive, you want to talk about perks? Free shows are just the tip of the iceberg. School credit is preferred, but certainly not necessary. If you are interested, please send a resume to morgan@emptybottle.com or fax it to 773.276.3607.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Behind the scenes on the Hollywood picket lines
From yesterday's New York Times: When the 12,000 members of the Writers Guild of America decided on Nov. 4 to strike, Hollywood wondered how hard the white-collar group would fight. The guild addressed the worry before the first pickets hit the streets.
"In years past, our picketing schedule has gone, 'Picket on Mondays for two hours and then meet at a bar until the following Monday,'" said David Young, the union's director, early this month. "That's not how we're going to do it this time."
Read the whole article HERE
"In years past, our picketing schedule has gone, 'Picket on Mondays for two hours and then meet at a bar until the following Monday,'" said David Young, the union's director, early this month. "That's not how we're going to do it this time."
Read the whole article HERE
Deadline Hollywood Daily: Alternative news source or Hollywood power broker?
From yesterday's New York Times: When some striking members of the Writers Guild of America created a series of videos depicting speechless actors in support of the writers' cause, they did not post them on the guild's Web site or on YouTube. Instead, the videos made their premiere exclusively on Deadline Hollywood Daily, a Web site owned and operated by Nikki Finke, a columnist for the alternative newspaper LA Weekly.
Since she began the site in 2006, Ms. Finke's Web site has become a critical forum for Hollywood news and gossip, known for analyzing (in sometimes insulting terms) the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of moguls.
But it has been the screenwriters' strike that may have finally solidified her position as a Hollywood power broker. For this article, more than a dozen executive producers, writers and agents offered to attest to her influence. But with those plaudits also come complaints -- only anonymous ones -- that Ms. Finke plays favorites.
"Like it or not, everyone in Hollywood reads her," said Brad Grey, the chief executive of Paramount and, like many executives, an occasional target of Ms. Finke's scathing reports. "You must respect her reach."
For many of her readers, Ms. Finke's Web site has supplanted traditional media as a primary source of strike news. Before the strike, Ms. Finke said Deadline Hollywood Daily averaged 350,000 page views a day. Since the beginning of the strike, she said the daily average had soared to about a million.
Read the whole NYT article HERE
Bloomberg News also covered Deadline Hollywood Daily. You can read the article HERE, but note that Ms. Finke has commented that there are some errors in this (although she doesn't provide details).
Since she began the site in 2006, Ms. Finke's Web site has become a critical forum for Hollywood news and gossip, known for analyzing (in sometimes insulting terms) the behind-the-scenes maneuvering of moguls.
But it has been the screenwriters' strike that may have finally solidified her position as a Hollywood power broker. For this article, more than a dozen executive producers, writers and agents offered to attest to her influence. But with those plaudits also come complaints -- only anonymous ones -- that Ms. Finke plays favorites.
"Like it or not, everyone in Hollywood reads her," said Brad Grey, the chief executive of Paramount and, like many executives, an occasional target of Ms. Finke's scathing reports. "You must respect her reach."
For many of her readers, Ms. Finke's Web site has supplanted traditional media as a primary source of strike news. Before the strike, Ms. Finke said Deadline Hollywood Daily averaged 350,000 page views a day. Since the beginning of the strike, she said the daily average had soared to about a million.
Read the whole NYT article HERE
Bloomberg News also covered Deadline Hollywood Daily. You can read the article HERE, but note that Ms. Finke has commented that there are some errors in this (although she doesn't provide details).
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
A new model for online entertainment sales
From today's New York Times: LOS ANGELES, Nov. 19 — Amway, the door-to-door peddler of vitamins and soap, wants to reinvent how Hollywood sells entertainment. The owners of the multilevel marketing company are pouring millions of dollars into a new online store called Fanista (pronounced fa-NEE-sta). The Web site, set to make its public debut this week, will initially sell DVDs and CDs...In the coming months it plans to add video games, digital downloads and books.
People can simply use Fanista as a place to shop. But the company hopes most consumers will join as members — signing up is free — and then recruit their friends.
The carrot: If your friend joins and buys something, identifying you as the reason for joining, you get 5 percent of the sale in cash or credit.
Read the whole article HERE
People can simply use Fanista as a place to shop. But the company hopes most consumers will join as members — signing up is free — and then recruit their friends.
The carrot: If your friend joins and buys something, identifying you as the reason for joining, you get 5 percent of the sale in cash or credit.
Read the whole article HERE
Stagehands and writers: What are the differences between their strikes?
From yesterday's New York Times: It was a good weekend for the labor that is organized around the creative arts.
Yesterday, Local 1, which represents the striking stagehands of Broadway, was in the midst of intensive talks with theater owners that seem destined to get the "Grinch" and other Broadway productions back in time for the holidays.
Meanwhile, the Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike since Nov. 5, agreed to go back to the bargaining table with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, although not until Nov. 26.
On the surface, the writers would seem to have all the cards, and the stagehands few. Hollywood writers fuel a much larger enterprise owned by publicly traded companies, have creative expertise and they even had Ron Howard walking a picket in front of Viacom in New York last Thursday. (When you're riding with Opie, your cause must be just.)
But the stagehands, who began striking almost a week after the writers, are most likely the ones who will be heading back to work first. The writers still confront the stalemate over distribution of revenues from digital content. So how will 400 or so (mostly) beefy guys in Manhattan accomplish what currently seems beyond the reach of the 12,000 members of the writers' guild?...
Read the whole article HERE
Yesterday, Local 1, which represents the striking stagehands of Broadway, was in the midst of intensive talks with theater owners that seem destined to get the "Grinch" and other Broadway productions back in time for the holidays.
Meanwhile, the Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike since Nov. 5, agreed to go back to the bargaining table with the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, although not until Nov. 26.
On the surface, the writers would seem to have all the cards, and the stagehands few. Hollywood writers fuel a much larger enterprise owned by publicly traded companies, have creative expertise and they even had Ron Howard walking a picket in front of Viacom in New York last Thursday. (When you're riding with Opie, your cause must be just.)
But the stagehands, who began striking almost a week after the writers, are most likely the ones who will be heading back to work first. The writers still confront the stalemate over distribution of revenues from digital content. So how will 400 or so (mostly) beefy guys in Manhattan accomplish what currently seems beyond the reach of the 12,000 members of the writers' guild?...
Read the whole article HERE
Behind the scenes look at producer Brian Grazer
From yesterday's New York Times: Brian Grazer, one of the most successful producers in Hollywood, would seem to be a memorable guest, with his energetic manner and elaborately spiked hair. But to make sure he is not forgotten, he will often leave behind a small photo of himself in an inexpensive heart-shaped frame after attending a dinner or party, hiding it among his host's family photographs...There is another level to the joke: despite Mr. Grazer's enormous success in the movie business, his public profile remains relatively slight when compared with his Hollywood peers. Imagine Entertainment, founded 20 years ago by Mr. Grazer and the director Ron Howard, has produced a strong slate of films, including "Liar Liar," "Eight Mile," "Inside Man," "A Beautiful Mind" and "The Da Vinci Code." His latest, "American Gangster," opened two weeks ago as the top film in the country, taking in more than $43 million at the box office its first weekend.
Read the whole article HERE
Tuesday, November 06, 2007
The strike is on!
Hollywood screenwriters have officially gone on strike. What will this mean for network TV shows and the viewing audience? Networks and advertisers are paying close attention.
Read the New York Times' coverage from today HERE
Read the New York Times' coverage from today HERE
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Bridges to Success Clothing Drive
Here's an opportunity to clean out your closets *and* help others:
A message from Fashion Retail Management:
COLUMBIA COLLEGE COMMUNITY: MAKE FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT!
Is your closet ready to EXPLODE?
Why don't you clean out the back of your closets and help put those clothes in the front of someone else's future?
WHO WE ARE
We are Fashion Retail Management seniors who are engaged in a service-learning project with Bridge To Success. Bridge to Success is a partner of Heartland Alliance and a program of Heartland Human Care Services.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
DONATIONS MUST BE ON HANGERS (sorry no folded donations except sweaters)!
Donations must also be CLEAN AND READY TO WEAR
WHEN
Donations will be accepted October 29th through November 9th.
WHERE
1104 S. Wabash Suite 301 Mike Bright, Film Office
1006 S. Michigan Suite 400 Chris Peak, Fashion / Retail Management Office
600 S. Michigan Suite 907C Allison Ratliff, SFPA Dean’s Office
624 S. Michigan Suite 700 Naomi Couch, AEMM Office
623 S. Wabash Suite 703A Lynda Roddy, Fashion Design Office
Have a question? Contact Dana Connell, dconnell@colum.edu
WHY
Donations help Bridge To Success maintain a clothing inventory large enough to wardrobe over 2,000 individuals annually.
Bridge to Success is currently the only workforce training program that offers services to both men and women in the Chicagoland area.
The Fashion Management students and Bridge Success appreciate your help.
"HHCS's mission is to achieve freedom from want, fear, and injustice for people marginalized by poverty, displacement, or situations of vulnerability by developing and providing a continuum of services that meet basic needs, build strengths, safeguard human rights, and provide opportunity for positive change."
THANK YOU FOR MAKING A DIFFERENCE!
And many thanks to our Columbia building partners who are accepting the donations in their offices!
Dana D. Connell, Faculty Fashion/Retail
Arts, Entertainment and Media Management
A message from Fashion Retail Management:
COLUMBIA COLLEGE COMMUNITY: MAKE FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT!
Is your closet ready to EXPLODE?
Why don't you clean out the back of your closets and help put those clothes in the front of someone else's future?
WHO WE ARE
We are Fashion Retail Management seniors who are engaged in a service-learning project with Bridge To Success. Bridge to Success is a partner of Heartland Alliance and a program of Heartland Human Care Services.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
ALL sizes (especially large sizes) of men’s and women's business appropriate attire
Shoes & Handbags
Jewelry
Ties & Belts
DONATIONS MUST BE ON HANGERS (sorry no folded donations except sweaters)!
Donations must also be CLEAN AND READY TO WEAR
WHEN
Donations will be accepted October 29th through November 9th.
WHERE
1104 S. Wabash Suite 301 Mike Bright, Film Office
1006 S. Michigan Suite 400 Chris Peak, Fashion / Retail Management Office
600 S. Michigan Suite 907C Allison Ratliff, SFPA Dean’s Office
624 S. Michigan Suite 700 Naomi Couch, AEMM Office
623 S. Wabash Suite 703A Lynda Roddy, Fashion Design Office
Have a question? Contact Dana Connell, dconnell@colum.edu
WHY
Donations help Bridge To Success maintain a clothing inventory large enough to wardrobe over 2,000 individuals annually.
Bridge to Success is currently the only workforce training program that offers services to both men and women in the Chicagoland area.
The Fashion Management students and Bridge Success appreciate your help.
"HHCS's mission is to achieve freedom from want, fear, and injustice for people marginalized by poverty, displacement, or situations of vulnerability by developing and providing a continuum of services that meet basic needs, build strengths, safeguard human rights, and provide opportunity for positive change."
THANK YOU FOR MAKING A DIFFERENCE!
And many thanks to our Columbia building partners who are accepting the donations in their offices!
Dana D. Connell, Faculty Fashion/Retail
Arts, Entertainment and Media Management
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Screenwriters eyeing walkout?
Unions representing 12,000 screenwriters asked members on Monday to authorize a strike at any time after their contract expires at the end of this month. If granted, authorization would set the stage for Hollywood's first industrywide walkout since writers struck in 1988...Negotiations between the guilds and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the makers of films and television programs, have been stalled over issues including the payment of residuals for the use of movies and shows after their initial screening.
Check out the New York Times coverage here: Movie Writers Eye Early Walkout and here: Guilds Ask Screenwriters For a Strike Authorization
Listen to NPR coverage from this morning HERE
Check out the New York Times coverage here: Movie Writers Eye Early Walkout and here: Guilds Ask Screenwriters For a Strike Authorization
Listen to NPR coverage from this morning HERE
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Local tea company profile
An interesting profile of Argo Tea, a local Chicago chain, from yesterday's NYT. You'll see that you can find market and company information throughout the article:
It isn't every cafe in America that responds to the complaint "I'm thirsty" with a glass of iced tea. But here in the nation's third-largest city, a fast-growing chain called Argo Tea is selling just that notion.
Argo Tea, a four-year-old homegrown company, has developed a distinctive brand that has captured the palate of young professionals. From its novel recipes for sweetened iced teas -- Bubble Tea, a mix of Indian black tea and coconut pearls from the Philippines, is very popular -- to its signature interiors of greens, reds and browns, the brand has become so well known that this month the company opened its eighth cafe, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood. It plans two more by the end of the year.
Along with hot and iced tea -- and Illy coffee -- the cafes sell sandwiches and pastries, some baked on the premises.
Sales are expected to reach $5 million this year and nearly $10 million in 2008, company executives say. The concept has proved so successful that Argo Tea is planning cafes in other cities, starting with Boston or Washington in 2009.
Read the whole article HERE
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Update: Job Fair employers announced
Don't forget! Tomorrow is the Fall Job Fair. More info from the Student Employment Office HERE
Here's a list of the employers who will be eager to interview our students for regular part-time and seasonal jobs:
American Girl
AVID Tutoring Program for Chicago Public Schools
Bank of America
Club Monaco
Chicago Bears Retail
DuSable Museum of African-American History
EXPRESS
Garmin International
Grassroots Campaigns, Inc.
Hamilton Communications
Mad Science of Chicago
NIKETOWN
Nordstrom
Photogenic, Inc.
TEFL Institute
The CAPS Group
The Chicago Theatre
University Center Conference Chicago
UPS
YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
Here's a list of the employers who will be eager to interview our students for regular part-time and seasonal jobs:
American Girl
AVID Tutoring Program for Chicago Public Schools
Bank of America
Club Monaco
Chicago Bears Retail
DuSable Museum of African-American History
EXPRESS
Garmin International
Grassroots Campaigns, Inc.
Hamilton Communications
Mad Science of Chicago
NIKETOWN
Nordstrom
Photogenic, Inc.
TEFL Institute
The CAPS Group
The Chicago Theatre
University Center Conference Chicago
UPS
YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Job fair next week!
Spread the word (and work!): Next Wednesday, September 12th, the Student Employment Office will be hosting a job fair. See this page for more information.
The ups and downs of movie distribution
This article from today's NYTimes details how a movie that was made over three years ago is just now being released. A behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of movie distribution: Anton Yelchin’s voice was still changing when, at barely 15 years old, he starred alongside Diane Lane and Donald Sutherland in “Fierce People,” an offbeat, surprisingly dark coming-of-age movie that Griffin Dunne directed in the spring of 2004... That a film with such a pedigree could sit on the shelf for so long (it’s already available on DVD in Argentina, Finland, Greece and Hungary) is one of the vagaries of a business in which too many movies from too many distributors are vying for too few weekends, good ones that are released theatrically often fail to attract an audience, and countless others go straight to video.
That “Fierce People” did not ultimately get tossed in the celluloid waste bin is a testament both to the persistence of its backers — among them the No. 2 executive at Lionsgate — and to the importance to a film’s marketing of not just money but attention. Read the whole article HERE.
That “Fierce People” did not ultimately get tossed in the celluloid waste bin is a testament both to the persistence of its backers — among them the No. 2 executive at Lionsgate — and to the importance to a film’s marketing of not just money but attention. Read the whole article HERE.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Entertainment marketing
From today's NYT: FIRST, television presented real news. Then came fake news on parody programs like “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” This weekend, Fox Broadcasting will send fake news vans onto the streets of four cities to promote a real show...In addition to the vans, the agency behind the campaign to publicize “Back to You,” A.D.D. Marketing and Advertising in Los Angeles (note from Celia: ADD is hiring), will put up a Web site that creates humorous images of users as news anchors, seated at a desk between Ms. Heaton and Mr. Grammer. The images, which can be sent by e-mail, will be at www.backtoyouanchorizer.com, which is to go live this weekend.
The “anchorizer” is arriving weeks after a corporate sibling of Fox Broadcasting, 20th Century Fox, promoted “The Simpsons Movie” with www.simpsonizeme.com, which creates images of users in the mode of characters from “The Simpsons.”
Read the whole article HERE
The “anchorizer” is arriving weeks after a corporate sibling of Fox Broadcasting, 20th Century Fox, promoted “The Simpsons Movie” with www.simpsonizeme.com, which creates images of users in the mode of characters from “The Simpsons.”
Read the whole article HERE
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