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Boulder Video Production
May 1st
Our Multimedia Production Services
Web Design:
We offer first class web design. We will build you a 1 page site for $300 or a site like ours for 3.5 million dollars. This is what we do. We will rebuild your current site with new technology. If you need a site in 3 days we will get it done. We will come to your location and give you personal service. We have been in business since 1987 so we are not new and we will be here next year when you need us. We will custom design your site to your budget. see examples below. Also look at this sight and look at all of the customers we have. http://c1n.tv/advertising/
Internet Site management and marketing:
We manage sites that we build or rebuild. We will do updates as needed on a regular basis , manage your search engines, key words , meta tags ad-words paid clicks, and free search engines for a monthly fee. Now in our case we actually do manage your site, send a monthly report and tell you what you need to do to come up on page one of search engines. We work differently than most companies because our own site has 4.5 terabytes and we are constantly upgrading. We are in the business 24/7. We charge differently also: Our rates start at $200 per month. http://c1n.tv/advertising/
We will Market your site base on season or busy times where your needs are greater. Also everybody here is involved in your project so we stay on top on your site. We are an upscale boutique service Web Design company . The World Channel networks says it all.
We do not host sights but will hook you up with a first rate service oriented provider and we will follow your project all the way through. We will be you webmaster or set up your sight so you can master.
See examples of sites we have designed http://c1n.tv/advertising/
Commercials: We produce 3, 5, 10, & 15 Second for the internet. and we also produce 10,15 & 30 Second for the Television.
Documentaries: Boulder channel 1 produces many client documentaries a year. We become your in house production company managing everything from concept to distribution and company management turn key.
Family remembrances: These are personal family videos and slide show where we interview family members, integrate family photos, art and video to make a beautiful documentary for all the family and especially the children and future generations.
Corporate Videos: We specialize in executive and company profiles. We do not make product, manufacturing videos or training. We produce high quality story telling videos with flare.
Social Media Marketing: We build and manage social marketing on over 100 sites, collect manage emails, send out statements 24 hours a day. Our focus is on large daily campaigns for medium and large companies. We are pioneers in this field and believe in results not myth.
Press Campaigns: With our long background in news and public relations, we offer tailored media and public relations campaigns.
Blogs: Blogging is where we come from. We will set up, write and distribute daily and weekly blogs.
Vlogs: Channel 1 Networks LLC are pioneers in the Video blogging world. We invented the short video blog segment distributed on the web back in 1998. So our expertise is unsurpassed. Here we will cast, write, shoot , edit, market and distribute Vlogs.
In Store Video displays: These are retail flat screen video displays where we shoot and edit video, add photos, install and manage for a monthly fee.
Advertising Sales:
On all of our internet channels we offer advertisement opportunities, from links, commercials. 3 minute video segments, embedded websites and more.
Contact our sales department regarding advertisements contact@boulderchannel1.com. Or call 303-447-8531
Television Show and video blog Production :http://c1n.tv/advertising/
This year we have been producing 3 minute “video Blogs” or TV shows for business’s with a special interest. It has been a huge hit. we will come to your business . shoot a 3 minute show daily, weekly or monthly , edit it, put it on your website and put it on our corresponding Channel. Cost only $800 per episode. (minimum six)
Examples of shows we produce are listed. http://c1n.tv/advertising/
CU-BOULDER SPACE SCIENTISTS READY FOR ORBITAL INSERTION OF MERCURY SPACECRAFT
Mar 15th
NASA’s MESSENGER mission, launched in 2004, is slated to slide into Mercury’s orbit March 17 after a harrowing 4.7 billion mile journey that involved 15 loops around the sun and will bring relief and renewed excitement to the University of Colorado Boulder team that designed and a built an $8.7 million instrument onboard.
“In 2004, this milestone seemed like it was a long, long way away,” said Senior Research Associate William McClintock, a mission co-investigator from CU-Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. “But here we are at last, poised to help solve some of the many tantalizing mysteries about Mercury.”
The smallest of the solar system’s four rocky planets, Mercury is about two-thirds of the way nearer to the sun than Earth and has been visited by only one other spacecraft, NASA’s Mariner 10, in 1974 and 1975. CU-Boulder scientists say learning what makes the hot, rocky planet tick will help them better understand the formation and evolution of planetary systems.
The refrigerator-sized spacecraft is carrying seven instruments — a camera, a magnetometer, an altimeter and four spectrometers. Designed and built by CU-Boulder’s LASP, the Mercury Atmospheric and Surface Composition Spectrometer, or MASCS, is a power-packed, 7-pound instrument that will make measurements of Mercury’s surface and its tenuous atmosphere, called the exosphere.
MASCS breaks up light like a prism, and since each element and compound has a unique spectral signature, scientists can determine the distribution and abundance of various minerals and gases on the planet’s surface and exosphere, said McClintock. “We now know Mercury’s exosphere is constantly changing,” he said.
During a 2009 MESSENGER flyby of Mercury, MASCS detected magnesium, an element created inside exploding stars, clumped in the exosphere. The team determined magnesium, sodium and potassium and several other kinds of atoms flying off Mercury’s surface were being accelerated by solar radiation pressure to form a gigantic tail of material flowing away from the sun, said McClintock.
“All of the instruments on MESSENGER had to be extremely light, which stretched our imaginations and creativity,” Lankton said. “We have learned a lot, and wound up getting a lot of bang for our buck.”
LASP Director Daniel Baker, also a co-investigator on the MESSENGER mission, is studying Mercury’s magnetic field and its interaction with the solar wind, including violent “sub-storms” that occur in the planet’s vicinity. Since Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, MESSENGER is equipped with a large sunshade and heat-resistant ceramic fabric to protect it, said Baker.
“The three successful flybys of MESSENGER past Mercury have already rewritten the textbooks about the sun’s nearest neighbor,” Baker said. “We are pleased by all we have learned about the space environment of the planet. But we think there is so much more to learn — we’ve probably just scratched the surface, so to speak.”
Baker said the orbit insertion of Mercury will be celebrated by all of LASP, including a solar science team that saw its $28 million instrument crash into the sea March 4 due to problems with a NASA-contracted launch vehicle. “A very important aspect of LASP is that it is like a big family,” Baker said. “Everyone shares the joys of success and the sorrow of failure, which has been a blessedly rare occurrence in our history.”
“We have all of our appendages crossed for a successful orbit insertion,” said LASP’s Mark Lankton, program manager for MASCS. “MESSENGER is part of NASA’s Discovery Program, and I’d be surprised if we don’t continue to be surprised. Once we are in Mercury’s orbit we are going to be getting a bounty of new data every day.”
Dozens of undergraduates and graduate students will be involved in analyzing data as information and images begin pouring back to Earth from MESSENGER, dubbed “the little spacecraft that could” by LASP scientists. “This mission is going to be a field day for students, not only at CU-Boulder, but for students all over the world,” said Baker.
CU-Boulder’s LASP is the only space institute in the world to have designed and flown instruments that have visited or are en route to every planet in the solar system. LASP also has a student-built dust-counting instrument on NASA’s New Horizons Mission, launched in 2006 to Pluto and now approaching the orbit of Uranus.
“LASP has some of the best people in the world pursuing great science, great engineering, wonderful mission operations, and superb administrative and managerial achievement,” said Baker. “When such a team is given the facilities and resources to thrive, the sky is the limit. But it all starts with our people, including our students.”
The data will be sent via NASA’s Deep Space Network to the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University — which is managing the mission for NASA — where mission scientists, including researchers and students at LASP’s Space Technology Building at the CU Research Park, will access it electronically, he said.
Sean Solomon from the Carnegie Institute of Washington in Washington, D.C., is the chief MESSENGER scientist. For more information on the MESSENGER mission, including images, photos, animation and videos, visit the website at http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/. For more information about LASP, visit http://lasp.colorado.edu/.
Located at 1234 Innovation Drive on CU-Boulder’s East Campus, LASP is hosting an open house March 17 to celebrate the MESSENGER spacecraft’s insertion into orbit around Mercury. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Lankton will give a talk on the mission and Clark Chapman of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder will give a talk on Mercury beginning at 6 p.m. NASA’s broadcast of the orbit insertion — a 15-minute maneuver — will take place beginning at 6:45 p.m.
City of Boulder Named IBM Smarter Cities Challenge Grant Recipient
Mar 9th
The grant provides Boulder and 23 other cities worldwide with access to IBM’s top experts to analyze and recommend ways Boulder can become an even better place in which to live, work and play. The approximate value of each Smarter Cities Challenge grant is equivalent to as much as $400,000.
The IBM Smarter Cities Challenge is a competitive grant program in which IBM is awarding a total of $50 million worth of technology and services to 100 municipalities worldwide over the next three years. Teams of specially selected IBM experts will provide city leaders with analysis and recommendations to support successful growth, better delivery of municipal services, more citizen engagement, and improved efficiency.
In its application for the IBM Smarter Cities Challenge, Boulder identified three potential projects to work with an IBM expert team. The projects focused on developing new technology applications to support community action in key areas: community engagement, sustainability indicators, and smart grid-enabled energy management. The project selected by IBM focuses on the smart grid, as Boulder is the home of the nation’s first fully integrated smart grid. The City of Boulder will explore the project scope and details with IBM over the next few weeks, as well as with Xcel Energy, which owns and operates the project, known as SmartGridCity™. IBM will help the city explore the potential for consumer-facing devices to help residents and businesses become more savvy energy managers, and increasing the potential for distributed renewable energy generation in the city.
“Over 46,000 homes and businesses have been enabled with communications technology that supports a smart grid platform,” said City Manager Jane Brautigam. “Energy management tools in the hands of our residents could be an integral part of optimizing smart grid technology for Boulder and other cities throughout the nation.”
IBM selected cities that made the strongest case for participating in the Smarter Cities Challenge. During these engagements, IBM technical experts, researchers and consultants immerse themselves in local issues and offer a range of options and recommended next steps. Among the issues they examine are healthcare, education, safety, social services, transportation, communications, sustainability, budget management, energy, and utilities.
“We selected the City of Boulder because of its commitment to the use of data to make better decisions, and for its desire to explore and act on smarter solutions to their most pressing concerns,” said Pete Lorenzen, IBM Boulder Senior Location Executive. “The cities we picked are eager to implement programs that tangibly improve the quality of life in their areas, and to create roadmaps for other cities to follow. The stakes have never been greater but we’re excited at the prospect of helping cities tackle the most pressing challenges of our time.”
Smarter Cities Challenge draws upon IBM’s intrinsic technological savvy, but also upon the field experience accumulated by IBM over the last three years from the company’s ongoing pro bono Corporate Service Corps grant program. Corporate Service Corps has deployed 100 teams of 1,000 top IBM employees from around the world with skills in technology, scientific research, marketing, finance, and business development. They work with local government, non profit civic groups, and small business to develop blueprints that intersect business, technology, and society.
Here are the 24 cities that earned IBM Smarter Cities Challenge grants in 2011:
Antofagasta, Chile
Boulder, CO
Bucharest, Romania
Chengdu, China
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Delhi, India
Edmonton, Canada
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Glasgow, UK
Guadalajara, Mexico
Helsinki, Finland
Jakarta, Indonesia
Milwaukee, WI
New Orleans, LA
Newark, NJ
Nice, France
Philadelphia, PA
Providence, RI
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sapporo, Japan
St. Louis, MO
Syracuse, NY
Townsville, Australia
Tshwane-Pretoria, South Africa