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Be a Media Volunteer: Photo, Video, Blog, and Twitter!

The mission of the Volunteer Media Team is to document the spirit of the Body-Mind-Spirit Conference & Live Healthy Expo. We want you to share it with the world. We are collecting video, photos, blogs, and tweets as a community-sharing project to spread the benefits of Mind-Body movement & healthy lifestyles. We will showcase the best media on the bodymindexpo.com website, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, etc., providing you with great exposure as a Mind-Body Media leader.

Benefits:

Free 3-day registration to the conference & expo hall
Free Body-Mind-Spirit T-shirt
Your media and credits on the bodymindexpo.com website
Great experience for your resume

General Requirements:

Morning check-in and 15 minute orientation on Thursday, April 15th. Check with the Media Team coordinator for exact time and location.
Bring your own equipment: cameras, mobile devices, etc. See Media Team descriptions below for details.
Ability to work self-directed.

Photography Team

Description: Roam around the Conference and take photos on a theme of your choice! After the festival, sort your best-of and upload them to Flickr for the world to see. Your goal is to collect 20-50 high quality final shots that capture the spirit of the Body-Mind-Spirit Conference & Live Healthy Expo.
Requirements

Must choose a theme for photographs. Suggested themes are listed below for reference.
Must bring your own digital camera and spare batteries. More professional cameras are better in indoor light situations, but any digital camera will do. A tripod and flash are useful for avoiding blurry or grainy shots.
Must have a Flickr.com (Yahoo) account to upload final photos. Final Delivery
Upload ‘best-of’ photos to Flickr.com, adding them the appropriate Group. Ask for details.
Upload only your favorite and best quality 20-50 pictures. We recommend taking many photos and editing down to a ‘best-of’ set. - Upload the largest size/resolution you can, ideally 1024 pixels or larger.
For all photos, set Copyright setting to: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike Creative Commons. This means that people can repurpose your photo for non-commercial means, but they must attribute you (give you credit) and they must also allow people to share their derivative work. Learn more about this Creative Commons copyright at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Final photos are due within 1 week following the festival. Our Flickr Group administrator will be notified when you upload the new photos.

Suggested Photo Themes

Speaker Close-ups: Volunteers with telephoto lenses for their cameras are encouraged to capture close-up shots of speakers at the event.
Exhibitor Booth Photos: Ideal to capture with the owners/employees and the logo of the booths in each shot.
Candid Photos: Candid shots of attendees, overview shots of the crowd, candid photos of anywhere in the event that is visually inspiring to you.
Crowd Shots: Capturing the bustling crowds gathered at the event.

Videography Team

Description: Your goal is to create a short video that captures an aspect of the Body-Mind-Spirit Conference & Live Healthy Expo that inspires you. Choose a theme (i.e. Pilates, Gyrotonic®, expo presentations, etc.) and film enough media to be able to easily edit into a final 3-5 minute piece.
Final Delivery: When completed, upload to YouTube and e-mail Renee (rs@bodymindexpo.com) the URL to your video. It will then be added to the Body-Mind-Spirit Conference & Live Healthy Expo channel on youtube.com
Suggested Video Themes

Speaker Videos: Volunteers with tripods for their cameras can capture segments from speakers.
Exhibitor Interview: Get interviews with business owners, asking how their Expo experience is going.
Candid Interview: Candid interviews with attendees, overview shots of the crowd; anywhere else in the event that is visually inspiring to you.

Twitter Team (new!)

Description: Your goal is to make at least 25 meaningful tweets on site throughout the event week. We aggregate all Tweets live on the Body-Mind-Spirit Conference & Live Healthy Expo website. High quality tweets we will ‘retweet’ to our followers.

Content Ideas:

Speaker quotes/summaries
Happenings & Events (i.e. Lunch with the Master)
Exhibitor highlights (i.e. “you gotta checkout the new line of Pilates active wear at….”)
Your personal experience and reflections
Tweetpics (i.e. “Check out this photo of …..)

Blogger Team (new!)

Attend the Body-Mind-Spirit Conference & Live Healthy Expo as a Citizen Journalist! Take notes and photos of your experience, construct a story, and write a high quality blog post when you get home. Exceptional blog posts will be promoted by the Body-Mind-Spirit Conference & Live Healthy Expo social media and website.

Requirements: You must have your own blog. If you are just getting started, we recommend Wordpress, Blogger, or Typepad.

Final Delivery: Final blog posts are due within 1 week following the festival. We expect at least 3 paragraphs and 1 image minimum. E-mail the link to rs@bodymindexpo.com .

Content Ideas: