After Conference

The week after the conference we didn't work on Monday because some of the employees went to Chicago for a short vacation. I had to stay behind and go to classes, but we resumed business hours the rest of the week. Wednesday, 11/14 I worked for 2 hours and Friday 11/16 I worked for 6 hours, which brings the contact hours up to 126.5 hours. Both of these days were spent reviewing what we learned at the conference, which was actually a whole lot. Additionally, we will be hosting the 2008 ACM Regional Conference here in Mt. Pleasant, which means that a) it is very important to make notes of what we liked and what we didn't like about this conference, b) start making lists of where we could hold the conference, where people could stay, who we could get as a keynote speaker, etc etc. Our first choices: hold the conference at the casino and hopefully cut a nice deal with the tribe so we can get cheap rooms for the conference guests. Also, get Jeff Daniels to come as the keynote speaker, because he is very involved with public theater and community events. For the Philo Award ceremony we will use the Broadway Theater downtown, which is partly why we want Jeff Daniels. This will tie in the public with the event and since we are closely tied with the Broadway it will be easy and cheap to use. There is so much left to do, and hopefully we can get our first choices of locations and such, but it's looking hopeful because we still have a year to plan. Luckily, the tribe is very involved with MAC3TV in terms of productions and community activities, so we're hopeful that this will work to our advantage. I've started a file in my drawer at the station with any relevant information or ideas that pertain to the next conference. We were thinking about having it right around Halloween week; the elections are in November so that would be an inopportune time to host it on account of low attendance rates. The cool thing about having it around Halloween is that the theme could be "Philoween" and we could do a midnight showing of the Rocky Horror Picture show at the Broadway. I've started on a few ideas for the Philoween graphic, which I think will have a pumpkin "carved" with an image of a television with Philo T. Farnsworth's head in the screen. I'm pretty sure I can use Photoshop to design the image; I've had enough classes with graphic design that I can work the program pretty well- I'm excited about the whole idea and it's going to be fun seeing how it progresses.