PANMA - Philadelphia Area New Media Association

The PhillyCreative Mega Social will rock out again this year on December 3, from 6 to 9pm at North Bowl, 909 North 2nd Street in Northern Liberties!

Naturally, PANMA will be there! Come join us for a great time!

The Creative Mega Social is Philadelphia’s largest annual gathering of creative professionals. It’s a night for you to join your compatriots from all walks of Philadelphia’s creative community to network, enjoy free food, bowl, drink and win some cool prizes! All at Northern Liberties’ nightlife hot spot – North Bowl Lounge n’ Lanes.

When:
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 – 6:00pm to 9:00pm

Where:
North Bowl Lounge n’ Lanes (http://www.northbowlphilly.com)
909 N. 2nd St.; Philadelphia, PA 19123

Get Directions (http://tinyurl.com/northbowl)

Register Now for the Mega Social – Space is Limited!
http://www.phillycreativeguide.com/rsvp

The cost? Absolutely free with a donation of canned food that night to Philabundance.

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Participating Organizations:

American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP) – http://www.asmpphilly.com
Philadelphia Area New Media Association (PANMA) – http://www.panma.net
Philadelphia Flash Platform Adobe User Group (PFPAUG) – http://www.pfpaug.org
Greater Philadelphia Film Office (GFPO) – http://www.film.org
Philly Illustrator User Group (PIUG) – http://groups.adobe.com/groups/1d8136263d/summary
Philadelphia Flex User Group – http://www.phflex.org
Social Media Club Philadelphia (SMC Philly) – http://socialmediaclub.pbworks.com/Philadelphia
Philadelphia Photoshop User Group – http://groups.adobe.com/groups/020002a345/summary
AIGA | the professional association for design – Philadelphia – http://www.aigaphilly.org
PhillyCHI – http://phillychi.acm.org

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Sponsors:

the boss group – http://www.thebossgroup.com
Marketing Capital Management – http://www.mcm-i.com
North Bowl Lounge n’ Lanes – http://www.northbowlphilly.com

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With over 400 attendees last year, the Creative Mega Social is an event you won’t want to miss!

Space is limited! Don’t wait, register now!
http://www.phillycreativeguide.com/rsvp

We look forward to seeing you there!

Geoff DiMasi Presents Designing & Implementing a Web App for a Large Organization
Do you have a lot of departments in your organization? Do you each have your own brand or web site? How do you get each group to work together to centralize the look and feel? If you currently work within a large company or university, join us for this great case study on how P’unk Avenue helped Duke University develop, design and integrate into their workflow. During his discussion, Geoff DiMasi of P’unk Avenue, will demonstrate how urban planning techniques can be applied to design and technology challenges that everyone faces. He’ll also discuss, how they launched a open source tool, from this development and how you might use this in your web developments.

Some of the topics that will be discussed:

• How can you use design to respect the goals/mission of individual departments or entities inside a large organization?
• Shouldn’t there be a strict brand guideline for all organizations?
• Won’t you end up creating choas if you allow for individual design solutions?
• What is the balance between design control and freedom in a horizontal organization?
• Do you have to redesign and rebuild all of your websites at once (if you have more than one)?
• What are basic urban design principles?
• Should universities be using open source or enterprise solutions?
• How does an open source solution advance the mission of my higher education instituation?
• Why is respect so important in the design process?

About the Speaker: Geoff DiMasi heads up P’unk Avenue and co-founded Independents Hall. He organizes the Junto, co-organizes IgnitePhilly, and helped get BarCamp Philly going. He founded the Passyunk Square Civic Association in South Philadelphia and was an artist member and board member of Vox Populi gallery. He currently serves on the Marketing Committee for the Board of the Free Library of Philadelphia. A former full-time Multimedia professor at the University of the Arts, he now serves as adjunct member of the faculty.

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Space is limited! Please register to save your space!

Pizza & Light refreshments will be provided by PANMA

PANMA is pleased to announce the 2009 release of our web site.  We hope our new site will continue to help us connect the community and continue to share and inspire everyone. We’d like to give a special thanks to Chris Morrell for the great job he has done in developing the site and we look forward to everyone working together to continue to demonstrate how great the Philadelphia technology innovation community is.

We’ve had a great start to 2009 with our Learning Events on Social Media, The Latest in Hosting, Search Engine Optimization 2009, Making Philly Work for You Resources for Creative Professions and we have several new events planned.  Stay tuned!