South by Southwest (SXSW)

Radar is honored to be involved with this year’s Beacon Lounge (aka: “the Lounge with a Conscience”) at the Convention Center where WhatGives.com is producing & streaming a half-hour webcast hosted by Mark Horvath from InvisiblePeople.tv (with special thanks to Portnoy Media Group). The multicam webcast will air on Saturday March 13th, Sunday March 14th & Monday March 15th at 10:30 AM CT. The webcasts feature some amazing people in the social media for social good world and topics include social media’s impact on efforts to increase support for charities and causes around the world.

You can click here for a complete schedule. Mark’s guests include Jeff Pulver from the 140 character conference; Chris Brogan of Trust Agents and Social Media 101 fame; Kari Saratovsky from the Case Foundation; Terry Storch and Tony Steward from LifeChurch.tv; Beth Kanter, nonprofit social media strategist; and Chris Noble, Founder and CEO of Causemedia Group.

To help us get the word out there, please use the following hashtags: #whatgives and #refreshGary (more info on that here, thanks to Kevin Hendricks).

If you have no idea what SXSW is, then keep reading:

There’s no doubt South by Southwest is a major event: SXSW is the highest revenue-producing special event for the Austin economy, with an estimated economic impact of at least $110 million in 2008. With more than 1,400 performers playing in more than 80 venues around Austin over four days, SXSW Music is really why people come here. But over the years, SXSW Film has become one of the world’s premiere film festivals while SXSW Interactive has attracted a strong following among web creators and entrepreneurs. SXSW Interactive’s focus on emerging technology has earned the festival a reputation as a breeding ground for new ideas and creative technologies. Twitter launched at SXSW Interactive in 2007.

Tags: austin, hardlynormal, mark horvath, sxsw, webcast, whatgives

Universal Studios Hollywood - Employee Breakfast

2010 marked the 5th consecutive year Radar has produced content for the annual Employee of the Year Breakfast at Universal Studios Hollywood. Throughout the year, Radar films a handful of employee and community events which are then edited together and played at the breakfast. Photos courtesy of Moses Sparks.

Tags: breakfast, highlights, universal, universal studios, ush

Public Storage 2010

For the third year in a row, Radar was asked to provide media elements and on-site stage management for Public Storage’s annual AMC event in Anaheim, CA. Hired by Ethos, Radar produced a highlight video that featured images & highlights from 2009, a spoof on the NBC TV series “The Office,” and a music video featuring some of Public Storage’s senior management staff, employees and field ops. Radar also provided on-site media management, PowerPoint design and operating, camera operators, show directing and stage management. Photos courtesy of Moses Sparks.

Above: Ron Havner, CEO of Public Storage, takes the stage.

Above: More than 600 people attended this year’s AMC event in Anaheim, CA.

Above: Ron Havner, CEO (left), Dale Trow (center) and Radar’s Matthew Warren (right) discuss the general session.

Above: Radar’s Drew Lucas at the tech table.

Tags: amc, public storage, stage management

Project Kindle’s Dance Marathon at UCLA

We’re helping out our friends at Project Kindle today by producing the live webcast of their Dance Marathon at UCLA. Dance Marathon at UCLA 2010 is the 9th annual event of its kind at the UCLA campus. Seeking to educate, fundraise, and spread awareness about the global pediatric AIDS pandemic, Dance Marathon unites over 3,000 students every year in Ackerman Grand Ballroom to literally take a stand against pediatric AIDS. More information on the event can be found here. Watch the stream, chat it up & say hello. We’ll literally be here all night (did we mention it’s a 26-hour dance marathon?). This year, they raised $407,223.73!

Stats update (posted at 1:00 PM PT on 2/14/10): The stream was shared 70 times on Facebook and 47 times on Twitter. The average audience was 65 viewers and peaked at 180+ viewers on 2/14 at 1:00 PM PT. The stream averaged about 90,000+ total viewer minutes).

Tags: aids, livestream, project kindle, ucla, webcast

Highlights from the 1st SkipDay - 9/1/09

Our first ever SkipDay was a huge success with more than 100 people showing up for one hour to help pack 10,920 pounds of food, 546 FoodPaks™ and more than 4,000 pounds of beans for children living in the Caribbean and Latin America. Thanks for your help!

Tags: 9/1, CHF, highlights, skip1, skip1.org, skipday

Radar Delivers for the DIRECTV Revolution

Dallas. April 21, 2009. More than 2,000 DIRECTV dealers experience a James Bond-themed casino night party complete with card tables, go go dancers, a unique raffle and dancing at the 2009 DIRECTV Revolution event. Eight 16×9-foot screens were strategically placed around the room and were controlled by an Encore system with multiple playback decks, graphics from laptops and 13 cameras (thanks to DMG). Steve Hand from the HAND Company tapped Radar during the development phase of the project and shared his vision for how the media elements would need to be integrated into the space. More than four hours of content was created for the event.

All eight screens needed to be independently controlled in order to match each corner of the room which featured a city theme: New Orleans, Moscow, Hong Kong and Monte Carlo (pictures and videos coming soon). In addition to the playback media, Radar controlled 13 cameras (6 remote, 2 operated, 5 hidden lipstick cameras) to create a sense of Vegas & Bond-like surveillance throughout the evening. Special thanks to the HAND Company, Kuki Design, Steve Kemble and everyone at DIRECTV for making this an amazing event. Radar’s creative director Drew Lucas headed up the media design & production while Tyler D’Askquith and Angel Banchs served as video director and Encore operator respectively.

Tags: club, dallas, directv, multi-screen, sync, vegas