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I just received some amazing news this week that will change my life. I will announce it when I can!

Here are some great twitter friends that I highly recommend following. They share some great information on the wedding video industry. The last two categories are very important people in the news industry.

These are my twitter recommendations for my friends who I met at the conference I spoke at this past week #WEVAEXPO

here is also a twitter list you can follow of all attendees and presenters from the conference.

http://www.twitter.com/classicpixels

http://www.twitter.com/denniskor

http://www.twitter.com/willramos87

http://www.twitter.com/shmuelhoffman

http://www.twitter.com/da_films

http://www.twitter.com/mrtosh1980

http://www.twitter.com/garynevittjr

http://www.twitter.com/mixmediasalad

http://www.twitter.com/michaelpbuffa

http://www.twitter.com/misagarcia

http://www.twitter.com/jag35

http://www.twitter.com/belvederefilms

http://www.twitter.com/briantroyfilms

http://www.twitter.com/phocusvideo

http://www.twitter.com/loydcalomay

http://www.twitter.com/midtownny

http://www.twitter.com/tejbabra

http://www.twitter.com/classicpixels

http://www.twitter.com/denniskor

http://www.twitter.com/everaftervideos

http://www.twitter.com/sandyberman

http://www.twitter.com/romanmf

http://www.twitter.com/canonfilmmakers

http://www.twitter.com/dynastyvideo

http://www.twitter.com/jillporto

http://www.twitter.com/ctrlfollow

http://www.twitter.com/mo_love_99

http://www.twitter.com/kmacalpine

http://www.twitter.com/stlservices

http://www.twitter.com/johnmillervideo

http://www.twitter.com/kaipz1

http://www.twitter.com/johnhyland

http://www.twitter.com/amy_r_reese

http://www.twitter.com/cristinavaldivi

http://www.twitter.com/jonconnorfilms

http://www.twitter.com/todd_harter

http://www.twitter.com/lori_idofilms

http://www.twitter.com/matt_idofilms

http://www.twitter.com/epicmotion

http://www.twitter.com/erickmetz

http://www.twitter.com/ryankoral

http://www.twitter.com/defrees

http://www.twitter.com/loukulynych

http://www.twitter.com/adamforgione

http://www.twitter.com/rayromanfilms

http://www.twitter.com/maribethr

http://www.twitter.com/phxxx

http://www.twitter.com/reaganzugelter

http://www.twitter.com/jenmoon

http://www.twitter.com/donpham

http://www.twitter.com/dpslider

http://www.twitter.com/stevemoses

http://www.twitter.com/serendipitytrav

http://www.twitter.com/yfcandmee

NBC #FF

http://www.twitter.com/rozzy

http://www.twitter.com/nbclocal

http://www.twitter.com/nbcnewscrew

http://www.twitter.com/newmediajim

http://www.twitter.com/nbcnewspr

http://www.twitter.com/russertXM_NBC

http://www.twitter.com/williegeist1

http://www.twitter.com/morningmika

http://www.twitter.com/todayshow

http://www.twitter.com/nbcnews

CBS #FF

While in Orlando Florida as a presenter for conference I was kindly invited to visit the Walt Disney World Parks by my good friends from JAG35 Misa and Jehu Garcia. The first thing that I couldn’t wait to do was photograph Spaceship Earth at EPCOT. Here are just a few of the images I took.

John Hyland and I will be giving a 1 hour presentation next week at the WEVA EXPO in Walt Disney World’s Dolphin Resort in Orlando Florida on Wednesday August 25th, 2010 at 5:00pm.

Many people have heard how amazing social media is and how powerful it can be. I think we are beyond that now and most people realize that. Many people head over to Facebook and Twitter and sign up and realize they know absolutely nothing about how to operate their profile or how to use the application properly. That is where John and I come in. Our presentation is a detailed explanation of many of the key terms that are used on these social media sites like “Hash Tag” “Re-Tweeting” “Checking in” and many other features that Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Youtube and more have. We also will be showing how twitter works and how to use it properly. I have seen many business’s failed attempts at using social media. They sign up and improperly setup a GROUP page on facebook instead of a FAN page.  After a month or so they leave it sitting there with no interaction with their clients and the page goes cold.

John and I will not only show you how to use these tools but what you have to do after your signed up. After WEVA John and I will be continuing our presentation online with video tutorials, live online webcasts answering your questions about anything related to social media. Stay tuned to my website all week August 23rd – 27th as John and I will be tweeting, facebooking, blogging and more from orlando. We would love it for anyone attending our presentation or anyone else, to post any questions they might have regarding how to use social media in the comment section of this post or to tweet with the hashtag #WEVAEXPO. If you plan on attending our presentation we would love it if you RSVP on our facebook event page

Were both very excited to see you all in Orlando.

It was a very intense game between the two networks but in the end NBC Today Show came back from being down by 2 runs to win 6-4 against CBS Early Today. Some that were in attendance were CBS News Anchor Chris Wragge and CBS Cheif Weathercaster Lonnie Quinn. Here are photos of today’s game taken by me (Anthony Quintano)

UPDATE: August 19th 12:00 AM – Places feature is now visible. I can see friends checking in but I am not able to check in myself

UPDATE: 11:40pm ET: Just installed the facebook update that includes the new “Places” application and this is what I see

On the afternoon of Wednesday August 19th 2010 Facebook has announced a new experience on its website, Facebook Places. Facebook Places is a new feature where members will be able to “Check-in” and tag your friends in those check-ins as well as share with friends where you are and as well as what places you are in is your favorite place.

There has been much speculation that with facebook coming out with location based services for its site that it would kill other location based services like Foursquare, Gowalla, Booyah, and Yelp. Well at the live launch of Facebook Places along with the announcement was that all the location based services are partnering with Facebook to really expand the experience and still be able to enjoy receiving badges on foursquare and stamps on your passport on Gowalla.  The new feature for facebook is set to be released tonight.

Tonight I have the pleasure of assisting the production of the first ever live streamed #Journchat run by NBC News Director of Social Media, Ryan Osborn. If you follow the hashtag #Journchat you can get a glimpse of what it was like during the event. On the panel tonight:

Host: Sarah Evans

Panel: Alana Russo, Jen Brown, Ryan Osborn, Alexandra Wallace

Behind The Scenes: Nicole Ravlin, Heidi Sullivan, Melissa Kondak,

Here are some photos:

I would like to thank you Ryan for inviting me tonight and for being a great friend. I really hope to work along side you in the future with all the wonderful things you are doing for NBC.

So #follow friday’s have been becoming much harder to do the more people I start to get to know on twitter. It really is hard to try and include everyone so what I have decided to do is put together a list of recommended twitter followers each week right here in a blog post on my site. This way im not spamming all the wonderful followers I have with tons of user names. So here it is my Follow Friday for August 6, 2010:

Social Media Experts:

http://www.twitter.com/ckanal

http://www.twitter.com/rozzy

http://www.twitter.com/johnhyland

http://www.twitter.com/mrtosh1980

DSLR Filmmakers:

http://www.twitter.com/johnhyland

http://www.twitter.com/cristinavaldivi

http://www.twitter.com/jonconnorfilms

http://www.twitter.com/tommarkz

http://www.twitter.com/kaipz1

http://www.twitter.com/quanti_chad

http://www.twitter.com/iamfilmguy

http://www.twitter.com/dcreels

http://www.twitter.com/nickweeks

http://www.twitter.com/timeinator

http://www.twitter.com/mobiledivide

http://www.twitter.com/loukulynyc

http://www.twitter.com/mixmediasalad

http://www.twitter.com/goforjared

http://www.twitter.com/anniefeighery

http://www.twitter.com/wynddan

http://www.twitter.com/cinemacake

http://www.twitter.com/adamforgione

http://www.twitter.com/rayromanfilms

http://www.twitter.com/michaelpbuffa

http://www.twitter.com/kevinshahinian

http://www.twitter.com/garretob

http://www.twitter.com/orivision

http://www.twitter.com/briantroyfilms

http://www.twitter.com/misterperry

http://www.twitter.com/davideo_hall

http://www.twitter.com/fuji27

http://www.twitter.com/amy_r_reese

http://www.twitter.com/jimmymoreland

http://www.twitter.com/rkoral

http://www.twitter.com/epicmotion

http://www.twitter.com/erickmetz

http://www.twitter.com/safesolvent

http://www.twitter.com/trstudios

http://www.twitter.com/cinemachic

http://www.twitter.com/joesimon

http://www.twitter.com/bruce_patterson

http://www.twitter.com/julie_hill

http://www.twitter.com/cameratown

http://www.twitter.com/mikespins

http://www.twitter.com/jag35

http://www.twitter.com/misagarcia

http://www.twitter.com/philipbloom

http://www.twitter.com/jj_orange

http://www.twitter.com/romanmf

http://www.twitter.com/mf_films

http://www.twitter.com/michaschmidt

http://www.twitter.com/cristinafaith

http://www.twitter.com/planetmitch

http://www.twitter.com/emonome

http://www.twitter.com/defrees

http://www.twitter.com/filmbot

http://www.twitter.com/parkerdigital

http://www.twitter.com/tejbabra

http://www.twitter.com/chipperd

http://www.twitter.com/jakeloskutoff

http://www.twitter.com/rhedpixel

http://www.twitter.com/liveaslz

http://www.twitter.com/loydcalomay

http://www.twitter.com/deejay_viloria

http://www.twitter.com/kristen_bliss

http://www.twitter.com/chrisdumalo

http://www.twitter.com/monvillacorta

The WCBSTV News Team

http://www.twitter.com/kjohnsonnyc

http://www.twitter.com/chriswragge

http://www.twitter.com/robmorrison1

http://www.twitter.com/louyoungny

http://www.twitter.com/olivingstonnyc

http://www.twitter.com/bettynguyencbs

as of 5:20pm Thursday afternoon eastern time Twitter started out with numerous over capacity errors and now the site is down entirely.

Update 6:02pm : from twitter’s tumblr account : We’re currently experiencing a high error rate on Twitter. Our infrastructure and operations engineers are responding to the incident.