I'm going to try kickstarting our awesome program, "This Week on IAOCblog.com," with a program about online video. Every day, I release a new 2-minute video at the AuthorViews web site. It's a daunting pace and requires that my head be firmly fastened to developing issues in online video. The business press breaks major online video stories almost every day. Google, Amazon, Apple, Sony, Microsoft -- they are all making major video-related deals every week. It's an exciting, difficult time for this nascent industry. I'll try to talk about some of the most pressing issues this week.

I'd also like to introduce everyone to one my associates, Morty Schiller, whom I've asked to assist with "This Week on IAOCblog.com." Morty is a copyrwriter extraordinaire, a blogger (his blog is called Wordrider), and has a wonderful sense of playfulness in his postings. Morty recently conducted a blog PR campaign for the book, The Case for Peace, by Alan Dershowitz, with me kibbitzing. Morty has a write-up about that campaign on his blog.

I'm hoping that Morty will assume the duties that PR Diva Gwendolynn Gawlick performed so admirably last fall: scheduling guest presenters for "This Week on IAOCblog.com," getting them passwords and usernames, and introducing the weekly topics and bloggers.

So, if you would like to take a week on the blog, please send topic ideas and dates to morty@mortyschiller.com, and we'll try to get this party started and keep it rolling to Valley Forge!

I am very excited to let members know that I will be bringing a camera crew to the Valley Forge IAOC Conference.

On Thursday, March 23, I will be videotaping interviews in the morning. In the afternoon, I'll be presenting a program following a video from where it goes into the camera lens until it comes out on an iPod! This should be a fascinating overview of issues in making and using online video, including: shooting, capturing, editing, titling, rendering, serving, uploading as a podcast to iTunes, and downloading to a handheld device. You need to come to Valley Forge a little early to get in on this. You won't want to miss it!

Please feel free to e-mail me with any questions about this program. More details will follow on this blog.

STEVE O'KEEFE
V.P. IAOC