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Mingle Media TV’s Red Carpet Report host Danielle Robay were invited to come out to cover the 3rd Annual SET Awards at the Beverly Hills Hilton. The SET Awards are presented annually to movies, TV series, radio, comic book, television news programs, print and online journalism and multimedia productions for accurate and impactful entertainment portraying and promoting the fields of science, engineering, technology and math.

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About EIC and the SET Awards
EIC, a non‐profit organization, was founded in 1983 by leaders of the entertainment industry to bring the power and influence of the industry to bear on communication about health and social issues. The organization is considered to be the chief pioneer of entertainment outreach and one of the premiere success stories in the field of entertainment education. EIC provides information resources for entertainment creators through innovative and timeproven services and methods of "encouraging the art of making a difference" from within the entertainment industry. EIC produces the simulcast national television special PRISM Showcase which addresses accurate portrayals of prevention, treatment and recovery from drug, alcohol and tobacco use, and mental health concerns. The organization also produces the S.E.T. Awards, honoring positive and non‐stereotypical portrayals of science, engineering and technology. To learn more about us and topics we cover www.eiconline.org/about‐us/

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IAWTV Announce Nominees for Inaugural Awards Show in Las Vegas

It’s the start of award season and to have the web where more video is produced, published and consumed to finally have an awards show that acknowledges them is very welcomed and why we’re excited to share the nominations with you.

The Inaugural IAWTV Awards show will be held at CES in Las Vegas (where Mingle Media TV will be attending and covering) so you get all the latest news.  The winners will be honored Thursday, January 12, 2012 at a live ceremony at the Venetian Resort Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas during the prestigious International CES.

Without further ado – here’s the list of nominees for this year’s event:

Nominees

Best Comedy Web Series
•Gigi: Almost American
•Pretty
•The Guild
•The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
•Video Game Reunion

Best Drama Web Series
•AIDAN 5
•Anyone But Me
•CELL: The Web Series
•Pioneer One
•RCVR/Web Series

Best Hosted Taped Web Series
•A Comicbook Orange
•ETC – Entertainment, Technology, Culture
•Immersion
•NextMovie Daily
•The Web.Files

Best Hosted Live Web Series
•Geek Beat LIVE
•Indie Intertube
•Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show
•Stupid For Movies
•What’s Trending with Shira Lazar

Best Animated Web Series
•CliffsNotes Films
•Dick Figures
•Red vs. Blue
•Sketch 22
•The World of Bruce McCall

Best Documentary Web Series
•Beyond the Gallery
•Deja View
•Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
•The Founders
•White Collar Brawler

Best Variety Web Series
•Fanboy Funhouse
•Kids React
•Mark Malkoff
•Stripped Down Live
•Team Unicorn

Best News Web Series
•Breakout
•Daily Ticker
•Tech News Today
•The Philip Defranco Show
•The Woodward Report

Best Educational Web Series
•DadLabs
•Engineer Your Space
•Financially Fit
•The Great Camera Shootout 2011
•What You Can Do

Best Writing (Comedy)
•Felicia Day, The Guild
•Jeff Lewis, The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
•Marilyn Anne Michaels and Dominic Conti, The Best Friend
•Jessica Mills, Awkward Embraces
•Steve Silverman, Pretty

Best Writing (Drama)
•Vidas Barzdukas, AIDAN 5
•Mark Gardner, CELL: The Web Series
•Susan Miller and Tina Cesa Ward, Anyone But Me
•David Nett, Rick Robinson & Andrew R. Deutsch, Night of the Zombie King
•David Van Eyssen and Brian Horiuchi, RCVR/Web Series

Best Writing (Non-Fiction)
•Benny Fine and Rafi Fine, Kids React
•Grace Helbig, Daily Grace
•Rudy Jahchan, A Comicbook Orange
•Scott Lynch, The Great Camera Shootout 2011
•Nar Williams, NextMovie Daily

Best Directing (Comedy)
•Sean Becker, The Guild
•Sean Becker, The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
•Sandeep Parikh, Legend of Neil
•Steve Silverman, Pretty
•Frederick Snyder, SOLO: The Series

Best Directing (Drama)
•Ben Bays, AIDAN 5
•Tina Cesa Ward, Anyone But Me
•David Nett, Night of the Zombie King
•Chris Preksta, The Mercury Men
•David Van Eyssen, RCVR/Web Series

Best Directing (Non-Fiction)
•Danny Cameron, DadLabs
•Benny Fine and Rafi Fine, Kids React
•Sandra J. Payne, The Web.Files
•Brett Register, What’s Trending with Shira Lazar
•Mike Rotman, Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show

Best Female Performance (Comedy)
•Alexis Boozer (Brynn Arbor), Leap Year
•Emma Caulfield (Emma Caulfield), Bandwagon The Series
•Felicia Day (Codex), The Guild
•Julie Ann Emery (Emily), Then we got HELP!
•Hillary B. Smith (Ellie), Fumbling thru the Pieces

Best Female Performance (Drama)
•Jourdan Gibson (The Woman/Sarah), CELL: The Web Series
• Rachael Hip-Flores (Vivian McMillan), Anyone But Me
•Jeri Ryan (Sonya Blade), Mortal Kombat: Legacy
• Maya Sayre (Det. Morgan Riley), AIDAN 5
• Taryn Southern (Jamie Phillips), BlackBoxTV: The Series

Best Male Performance (Comedy)
• Yuri Baranovsky (Aaron Morrison), Leap Year
• Jeff Lewis (Vork), The Guild
• Jeff Lewis (Stan), The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour
•Jonathan Nail (Scott Drizhal), SOLO: The Series
• Sandeep Parikh (Zaboo), The Guild

Best Male Performance (Drama)
• Dingani Beza (Patrick Aubert), Asylum
• Bryan Michael Block (Det. James Aidan), AIDAN 5
• Daniel Bonjour (Luke Weber), RCVR/Web Series
•Maxwell Glick (Hicks), Night of the Zombie King
• Kevin McCarthy (The Man), CELL: The Web Series

Best Host (Taped)
• Khail Anonymous, ETC – Entertainment, Technology, Culture
• Burnie Burns, Immersion
• Kristyn Burtt, The Web.Files
• Casey McKinnon, A Comicbook Orange
• Brad Powell, DadLabs

Best Host (Live)
• April Grant and Amanda Shockley, Indie Intertube
• Mark Keizer and Wade Major, Stupid For Movies
• Shira Lazar, What’s Trending with Shira Lazar
• Kevin Pollak, Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show
• Curt Smith, Stripped Down Live

Best Cinematography
• Andrew R. Deutsch, Night of the Zombie King
• Christopher Charles Kempinski, Riese: Kingdom Falling
•C. Kim Miles, Mortal Kombat: Legacy
•Iskra Valtcheva and Michael Morlan, CELL: The Web Series
•Joost Van Starrenburg, RCVR/Web Series

Best Design
•Greg Aronowitz, Dragon Age: Redemption
•Ben Brown and Jason Mowry, AIDAN 5
•Jonathan Nail and Michael Levine, SOLO: The Series
•Kelly Wasserman, RCVR/Web Series
•Eric Whitney, Continuum

Best Costume Design
•Katie Broad, Fallout: Nuka Break
•Jenny Green, Dan Crawley and Thais Yuki, Video Game Reunion
•Kristin Ingram, The Guild
•Megan Leson, Riese: Kingdom Falling
•Shawna Trpcic, Dragon Age: Redemption

Best Makeup/Special Effects
•Greg Aronowitz and Kimberly Graczyk, Dragon Age: Redemption
•Michael Del Rossa, RCVR/Web Series
•Kimberly Graczyk, The Guild
•Ralis Kahn, Bianca Appice and Shintaro Kakioka, Fallout: Nuka Break
•Jamie Register, A Good Knight’s Quest

Best Visual Effects
•Chad Briggs, Continuum
•Lawson Demming, Rocket Studios and Tunnel Post, RCVR/Web Series
•Keegen Douglas, Mortal Kombat: Legacy
•Shawn Likley, AIDAN 5
•Chris Preksta, The Mercury Men

Best Editing
•Fawaz Al-Matrouk, Goldilocks
•Jeff Cowan, RCVR/Web Series
•Matthew Lyons and Kirby Jinnah, Riese: Kingdom Falling
•Chris Preksta and Tyson VanSkiver, The Mercury Men
•Tony E. Valenzuela, BlackBoxTV: The Series
Best Original Music
•Rob Gokee, Night of the Zombie King
•Rob Gokee, SOLO: The Series
•Mike Jackson, AIDAN 5
•Peace Nistades, Dragon Age: Redemption
•Brian Satterwhite, CELL: The Web Series

Best Supplemental Content
•Kids React
•RCVR/Web Series
•The Further Adventures of Cupid and Eros
•The Mercury Men
•Vampire Zombie Werewolf

Best Interactive/Social Media Experience
•CliffsNotes Films
•Kids React
•RCVR/Web Series
•Stupid For Movies
•What’s Trending with Shira Lazar

Best Web Site Design
•AIDAN 5 
•Engineer Your Space
•RCVR/Web Series
•Ruby Skye P.I.
•The Guild

Best Distribution Platform
•Blip.tv
•Crackle
•Dailymotion
•Hulu
•Joost

Nominees for the Inaugural IAWTV Awards were chosen by majority vote of the active voting membership of the IAWTV from over 350 officially submitted web series. Only episodes of a web series as defined by the IAWTV that were released during the period of January 1, 2010 through October 31, 2011 were considered for nomination in the Inaugural IAWTV Awards and only so long as at least two or more episodes of the web series were released within the eligibility period.

About the IAWTV Awards
The IAWTV Awards is an official web television industry awards show established for content creators, by content creators. The event serves as a platform for members of the IAWTV to honor the best of their profession, while networking among industry luminaries and supporting the IAWTV. Proceeds raised from the show are used for the betterment of the community by providing more member resources as well as professional development and education for professionals working in web television. For more information, please visit http://iawtv.org/awards/ or follow us on twitter at @iawtvawards.

About The International Academy of Web Television
The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) is a nonprofit organization comprised of leaders in the field of Web television, Web video and the digital entertainment industries. Founded in 2009, the IAWTV is helping to shape the rapidly evolving Web television industry while providing a venue for the acknowledgement of artistic and technological achievement in original entertainment distributed on the open Internet. IAWTV members include actors, agents, composers, content developers, directors, editors, producers, technology innovators, writers, and other industry professionals all of whom joined the organization based on their passion and dedication to advance the craft of Web television. For more information, please visit www.iawtv.org or follow us on twitter @iawtv. 

How a $4.99 App Gave Parents Hope After the 9.0 Earthquake in Japan on March 12th

As many of you know, I am a total geek when it comes to using technology to do more with less. As the owner of a marketing services company, I also work with tech clients as a consultant to help them  figure out their sales and marketing go-to-market strategy. One of my clients creates audio and GPS tour guide apps (GeoRoamer Yellowstone is the first of several new apps coming this spring) so when I heard about this story using similar technology, I had to share it with you, and after reading this, I know you will be sharing it with your friends too.

Let’s go back to the devastation of the 9.0 earthquake that hit Japan on March 12, 2011. We were all watching in shock as the news videos and reports were coming in. The toughest thing was for families and friends to try to reach their loved ones by phone, email, and any means to see if they were okay… and of course, hundreds and thousands of people could not be reached, phone lines that were working were over wrought and calls were not getting through – remember that awful busy sound you’d hear when trying to call someone 20+ years ago?

Well, one family had made a purchase of an app called TekTrak. (Okay, my son also has this app and was successful in getting his lost phone back by tracking it using this app so I know first hand it works and saved me from buying a new iPhone to replace it if he couldn’t have gotten it back…) But I digress.

This family in Japan, whose daughter was at school which was about an hour’s ride from home began to worry about how their daughter was doing after the earthquake – they remembered the app they put on her phone which had a GPS component to track the phones location… so they immediately began to track her movement, which was encouraging because she was moving.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I would be running out the door towards her school to get her to safety. But these parents had the presence of mind to check with the tracking system. They saw that she was not staying in the same place and through the GPS (which does not require cell service to use) they could see where she was going as they tracked her with TekTrak.

Oh – yeah, it took 7 hours for the daughter to get home… to her anxious parents. But they knew she was on her way as they tracked her with technology!!

Location tracking after the earthquake with TekTrak

I can tell you that skipping a Starbucks or dessert and putting that $5 into an app that you may never need but could be a lifesaver is well worth it… Okay, I admit I won’t give up my Angry Birds app for it but there are plenty of other things you can do for yourself and your family… and one of them is getting an emergency preparedness kit together (here are several to check out www.quakekare.com, www.essentialpacks.com and a list from the Ready.gov site to put together yourself: www.ready.gov/america/getakit) – no matter where you live – you should have one… and if all possible, get this app from TekTrak, if cell service goes out… you can still track your loved ones via the TekTrak app!

3D TV – Web Series? Yup, Award-winning “Safety Geeks” Releases 1st 3D Comedy Series

If you haven’t been following what’s happening with video online – or the growing community of Web TV Series (oh, yeah… hello, all of us here at Mingle Media TV want you to go to sign up for our weekly reminders for our 30 LIVE web shows...) then you will want to start at the TOP with the “Safety Geeks: 3D” award-winning, scripted, web series.

Some background… Mingle Media TV met the cast of Safety Geeks on the Red Carpet at the Streamy Awards…

They hinted about their 3D production for season 1 and then invited Mingle Media TV to a LIVE press conference where we were able to SEE with our own eyes (using 3D glasses that are super cool looking – not like the ones from the 1950’s) the awesome FX of what 3D looks like in your living room… (Sony, Samsung, Panasonic – this is a shameful plug in hopes of sponsorship)… All I can say is Christmas can’t come soon enough, I want a 3D HD TV (my son says 72″ but I don’t think I can sell him for enough money to pay for that model).

Here’s some background on how they made the 3D web series along with our reaction to viewing it during the press conference yesterday:

Now, if you still haven’t seen the Safety Geeks series… we’re gonna make it easy for you -> here’s Season 1 Episode 1 entitled: Sexy Lap Dance of Doom!

Here’s the back story: Produced by Dave Beeler and Tom Konkle, “Safety Geeks: 3D”, follows the comic adventures of a semi-elite force of safety experts; the P.O.S.H. (Professional Occupational Safety Hazard) team who is obsessed with making the world along with bits of Canada a safer place. The CSI-like team investigates accidents to find out what went wrong and who is to blame, however, their involvement causes far more damage than they prevent, leaving a trail of chaos and destruction in their wake.

Be sure to visit http://www.yabazam.com to download your 3D version of this hysterically funny web series today!