IPPA Followup (late)

Wayne Gillman and I manned a table at the IPPA annual convention October 27th.

 Met some neat photographers and answered lots of questions about usage rights contracts and the like.  12 people added their emails to our email list as well.

Feedback continues to be positive regarding more business oriented classes and that will continue to be our focus for the coming year.

Questions, comments and volunteers always welcome and appreciated.

 

S

Blake Discher seminar

Blake’s seminar was great.  Very informative.  Looks like more clients are seeking unlimited usage these days and this trend will likely continue to grow.

We had over 20 members, nonmembers and students show up.

 

More of these events in the works for 2010 so get on our email list if you want to know what’s coming up.

S

New Website

We have the go ahead to start on our new chapter website. 

YaHoo!

If there is anyone interested in helping out (especially if you know Druple) shoot me an email.  We need a few more hands to get things moving by years end.

We will be building it with the backend of the new ASMP.org site.  So things will look similar.  Content is customized by our chapter and I hope to add features like a calendar and other chapter specific info.

Once completed, this will be the jumping off point for promoting  Chapter photographers/resources and Utah as a commercial photography destination.  There are a few opportunities we have to do marketing to the western US, including the west coast, at little cost to the chapter.

I need a few people to assist with this as well.

So sorry for the gaps in updates.  We have alot of good things to come and, hopefully, revenue to generate.

 

Thanks

Stephen

What we are up to

We, the board and I, have been spending much of our time with fairly boring nuts and bolds things in our first few months.  Next week I’ll post information on some of the projects we are working on…

The Utah sales tax audit has taken up a bit of time as you might imagine.

I’m hoping for an update on that soon as well.

 

S

Regarding the Scott Highton Petition

I’ll keep this short. 

I’ve signed the petition for his removal from ASMP.  I agree with all included in the email sent today.  Having met and interacted with almost every board member and many staff members at the Bradshaw leadership conference in February, I find almost all of what Scott is saying or implying to be false.

It is a huge drain on all of our time and resources.

So if you agree with the petition, please sign it.  And if you don’t, let National know as well.  This is an unpleasant task and our leadership needs to know where as many of us stand as possible to make a good decision.

 

Thanks

Stephen

We have a new member

Mike Schirf has joined us as an emerging associate member.  Welcome Mike!  He has some slick outdoor/sports stuff in his portfolio.  Check it out.

http://www.mikeschirf.com

Sales tax Audit updates 4/1/09

At the request of Matt Cook and Randy Grimshaw, Michael Shoenfeld’s attorneys, I’ve taken down the previous posts regarding the self audit and their opinion of it.

This is for legal technicality reasons only.  As I understand it, it is to protect attorney – client privilege.  Things are still moving forward.

I’ll post more information as it comes available. 

Contact Randy or Matt directly for more information.

Thanks

Stephen