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In
this issue....
News
1.
Join us for iLunch Next Friday featuring Google
2. Looking forward to seeing you at iNTERACT!
3. 5 Ontario game companies in top 10
4. ICE 07 News: ICE Team grows in manpower
5. Tax credit comes through for Interactive Digital Media
6. Things to check out
7. Member highlights
Business
8. New job posting!
9. Last call for India!
10. Speak at SaskInteractive
11. Go to the GDC with Canada Games
12. Win €100,000
in development cash for creative content!
13. Wanna be nominated for an ACT award of excellence?
General
14. NMBA welcomes 3 new members!
15. Add iLetter to your Press
Release list!!
16. Renew your membership online!
17. Become a NMBA Member
18. Newsletter subscription information
iLunch
5.02: Google and the Digital Book
January 26 @ The Gladstone Hotel
Join
us January 26 to discuss how book publishers can take advantage of
new digital opportunities!
iLunch will take place at the Gladstone
Hotel (ballroom), 1214 Queen Street West.
One-on-One Meetings with the panelists:
Sign up for one-on-one meetings with the panelist(s) of your choice. Sign-up
now and book your meeting(s) in advance to make sure you don't miss this opportunity
to have the panelists get to know you!
Click here for panelist info
Click
here to set-up your meeting(s)!
Register now to secure your space! Registration includes lunch at the Gladstone.
iNTERACT
- January 31
Talk, mingle, say hi to old
friends, meet some news ones, build relationships, and strengthen the
interactive
digital media community in Ontario. Join us for NMBA's monthly networking event, iNTERACT coming JANUARY
31! Stay tuned for more details...
5
Ontario Game Companies in the Top 10
Five
of ten finalists in Telefilm Canada's Great Canadian Video Game Competition
from Ontario.
Ontario
game developers make up 50% of the ten finalists announced January
15, as part of the first round of Telefilm Canada's Great Canadian
Video Game Competition. Nearly 70 submissions were received from across
Canada
to vie for up to $2 million in financing and
invaluable
industry mentorship
as part of the competition.
Our congratulations to Big
Blue Bubble, Cerebral Vortex Games,
Dark Matter Entertainment, Hop
To It Productions Inc., murmur
inc.,and all other finalists.
NMBA members shine! Big Blue Bubble, Hop To It Productions Inc., and murmur
inc. are NMBA members!
Read
Telefilm press release
ICE
Management team grows in strength
Toronto,
January 18, 2007 - The New Media Business Alliance (NMBA) is pleased
to announce today
that
Kim Gertler, former Executive Producer
of nextMedia, has joined the ICE 07 team as Director of Production.
In this role, Gertler will bring his extensive expertise to the creation
of the new ICE Marketplace, an international Interactive Media partnering
forum and showcase, which will take place alongside the ICE
2007 Conference
March 21st and 22nd at the Carlu in Toronto.
Recently, Gertler held the position of Executive Producer (2005, 2006)
for nextMEDIA, an interactive media festival based in Banff, Alberta,
helping to transform it into a major international event.
Kim joins Alan Sawyer, author of the 2006 report "The End Of Television
As We Know It", who is ICE 2007 Director of Conference Programming.
Read full story...
Ontario
Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit gets official boost
The enhancements to the Ontario
Interactive Digital Media Tax Credit (OIDMTC) legislation announced
in the Provincial budget on March 23,
2006 have passed into law effective January 9, 2007.
The OIDMTC rate has been increased from 20% to 30% for corporations that
meet the definition of a "qualifying small corporation" for expenditures
incurred after March 23, 2006.
Full details...
Things
to check out
Virgin
puts incentive into user-generated mobile content
Virgin Mobile Canada has launched a new user-generated content zone, Studio V,
at its website.
January 18 - MediainCanada.com
Canadian
Games Market Up 22%
According
to a report from the Canadian Press, total revenues for the video games
industry in Canada reached a record $933 million in 2006, up by 22 percent
on 2005.
January 17 - gamasutra.com
CanWest,
Goldman Sachs buy Alliance Atlantis for $2.3B
CanWest
Global Communications Corp. and the private equity firm Goldman Sachs
Capital Partners confirmed late Wednesday that they are buying
Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. — one of Canada's biggest
entertainment companies.
January
10 - cbc.ca
IPTV for Xbox 360 by 2008
Microsoft has revealed an IPTV service for the Xbox 360, with plans to launch
the on-demand service by the end of this year.
January
8 - gamesindustry.biz
MEMBER
HIGHLIGHTS
JPod
BookShort on Showcase.ca Online through February
JPod BookShort is now up and live at Showcase.ca/jpod. Sandy Hunter at Alliance
did an amazing job designing the site and encoding the film.
Showcase Website
BookShorts
Video Blog invites News Items
Information
is a very strong currency these days, and we want to know EVERYTHING!
If you have an event, news item, tip or tidbit,
send a squib over to BookShorts and they'll try their best to help
you spread the word with the BookShorts Moving Stories Blog. More info
here...
NMBA
member CFC Media Lab alumni mentioned in 30 people/companies to watch
2 alumni of the CFC Media Lab in the 30 people/companies to watch
in Toronto for 2007 adjudicated by the National Post. Congratulations
to the Virj team -- Rawl,
Rami & Geoff & Shawn Micallef of murmur.
ILC
provides interactive online tutoring for high school students
With
the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) provincial grade
9 math test being administered across the province between January
10 and 24, the Independent Learning Centre (ILC) is offering its Ask
a Teacher service for free at Ilc.org.
More info..
Shorts
in Motion: The Art of Seduction Nominated for Global Digital Award
in Barcelona
Featured
in a NMBA iLunch session in November 2006, the mobile
short film series by marblemedia, NFB and Bravo!FACT
was recognized for its interactive initiative. More info...
Last
call for India mission!
Feb 2-13, 2007
New
Delhi, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune
Looking
for business leads or curious about the market in India? Join the mission
to India! Only five seats are left for the India Business and Investment
Attraction mission lead by the Greater Toronto Marketing Alliance (GTMA).
Benefit from the contact and experience the GTMA and its partners have
made during previous visits to India.
More
information here...
Sask
Interactive calls for papers for Summit 2007
Submission
deadline: January 25, 2007
SaskInteractive is calling
for papers that help deliver an understanding in complex computer/communication
systems. Papers are welcomed dealing with topics that include, "Everything
you need to understand about Web2.0", "The latest developments
on mobile platforms", and "Marketing online".
More
info on SaskInteractive, March 8, 2007, Saskatoon.
More
info on the call for papers (pdf)
Canadian game companies offered
funding to do business at GDC
Take advantage of the funding being offered to game developers/companies in
Canada for participation in the Canada Games component at the GDC March
5-9.
Funding
support for Canadian games includes a 40% rebate on exhibitor registration,
and $200 reimbursement for travel expenses.
Full details (pdf)....
Deadline
to Register: January 31, 2007
CANADA
GAMES at Game Connection @ GDC is organized by Alliance numériQC
on behalf of CIAIC.
As
a CIAIC Member, all NMBA members
receive the member discount.
Call for Entries for Content 360 - Cross Media
Festival
Creative concepts for next gen TV, mobile & internet entertainment
Reward: €100,000
in development cash
Pitch original
cross media content ideas and applications to the global entertainment
Industry
FREE ENTRY is open to
anyone with original content ideas including digital media developers,
interactive agencies, independent producers, internet and mobile application
providers.
Submission deadline:
February 9, 2007
Content 360 takes place April 16 - 20 at MIPTV featuring MILIA,
the world's largest audiovisual and digital content market. More info here!
The
Alliance for Children and Television Launches Its 2007 Awards of Excellence
Montreal,
January 17, 2007—The Alliance
for Children and Television (ACT) today announced the launch of
its English-language Awards of Excellence. This edition of the awards
will honour outstanding achievement in English-language Canadian TV
programming for young viewers over the past two years.
Entry deadline: February 23, 2007, 5pm
Full
details...
Look who
is getting involved
Introducing
three new NMBA Members!
We
extend a warm welcome to murmur inc, Harlequin
Enterprises, and 76design --- and
thank them for their support..
murmur
inc.
Murmur Inc. is a consultancy and incubator for innovation in cultural
content on mobile platforms. Our wireless game, Echelon, was recently
selected to receive Round 1 funding, and to participate in Telefilm
Canada's Great Canadian Video Game Competition. Murmur Inc.'s namesake
project, [murmur] -- the celebrated location-based oral storytelling
project -- is now produced on a non-profit basis, in alignment with
its community-based approach.
http://murmur.info
Harlequin
Enterprises
Harlequin Enterprises Limited is the global leader in series romance and one
of the world's leading publishers of women's fiction, with titles issued worldwide
in 25 languages and sold in 94 international markets. The company produces over
115 titles monthly and publishes more than 1,300 authors from around the world.
The power of the Harlequin brand differentiates the company from other consumer
book publishers and creates a destination that readers seek out. We leverage
this destination concept not only in store, but in our various digital initiatives
including www.eHarlequin.com, Harlequin boutiques on Audible.com and various
eBook sites as well as a mobile phone subscription.
76design
At
76design we love design, but we know that metrics are a better barometer
of success than `Wow, that looks cool!` That's why we deliver
great user experiences, dynamic interactions and catalytic campaigns
with measurable results that help you achieve real business objectives.
Our campaigns will strengthen your brand experience at all touch points
and across all media, contributing consistency, intelligence and energy
to your identity.
Membership
renewal
NMBA's
membership plays a vital role in the future of the Interactive Digital
Media industry in Ontario and in Canada. We
thank all of our members for their continuing support.
For your ease we've set-up an on-line renewal system. This system will add
one year to your existing membership - which is dated to the month that you
joined.
For details
or to renew now...
Become
a Member and Take Control
We
need your support and participation to help create a strong industry
in Ontario and in Canada! Take control of your destiny and join Ontario's
leading interactive digital media content companies to help shape
the future of New Media.
For over five years the New Media Business
Alliance (NMBA) has
been helping to create new opportunities for companies in the interactive digital
media industry. We have worked hard to effectively communicate the priorities
and needs of our community to all levels of government which has resulted in
both increased industry funding and more diligent consultation.
Your
membership will help us build on our past successes to ensure a
bright future for the industry.
Take
control – your company’s NMBA membership will give
you a say in the future of our industry and the events, programs
and services NMBA offers will help your business grow.
Contact
us at (416) 516-0077, at info@nmba.ca or join
online.
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can now join NMBA via our online registration/payment form. DETAILS...
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