Prescott Van Leer Joins FrontGate Media’s Audience Delivery Team as a Social Media Specialist

Orange County, CA – FrontGate Media; the leading faith-based, culture-engaged media & marketing group, and a leader in social media since 2007, announced today the addition of Prescott Van Leer to their Audience Delivery Services team as a Social Media Specialist.

Van Leer comes to FrontGate with experience in social media from his work for the California Clock Company, manufacturers of the iconic Original Kit-Cat® Clock. Van Leer is a perfect fit for the FrontGate Media service team: a creative thinker with experience creating success through social media, and a B.A in Marketing from California State University – Long Beach.

NewReleaseTuesday.com Ranks #1 & Welcomes 50,000th Member To Its NRTeam Christian Music Community

Boise, Idaho – NewReleaseTuesday.com (NRT), a Christian music and entertainment mega-site and part of the FrontGate Media family, has reached another milestone in its rapid ascension as the #1 Christian music website. The NRTeam, the largest crowdsourced interactive Christian music community online, recently welcomed its 50,000th member, immediately on the heels of record traffic posted in August 2011.

In the past three months, NewReleaseTuesday.com has consistently ranked #1 in Christian media sites on independent traffic aggregators Compete.com and QuantCast.com.

In just over six months, the site has added 10,000 members to its online community, averaging 1,650 new members a month, an increase of 28% over previous month to month growth in 2010.

Encounter with reality – guest Kenny Luck

This was powerful today so I’m reprinting the post from Kenny Luck’s “In Your Corner” email updates. Kenny is a friend as well as the founder of the Every Man Movement, and Men’s Pastor at Saddleback Church. Guys – subscribe to In Your Corner via the link at the top right of the Every Man Ministries web site. Enjoy this reminder and encouragement today. 🙂

Which film, television or digital media Exec would you like to meet personally?

We’ve announced the workshops for the Biola Media Conference! These breakout sessions are the best opportunity you’ll ever have to hear from Hollywood’s film, television and digital media experts in a very intimate setting where, in most cases, you can ask questions. I am not overstating that point. There is NO other event in the country where you can have this much access to this many professionals who share your faith.

AMC and Columbia Pictures VPs to Speak at Biola Media Conference on April 30, 2011

Halleen and Franklin join ten newly added workshop speakers including screenwriter for two Jerry Bruckheimer films Bill Marsilli, producer of “Scary Movie” Lisa Blum, director of Fox’s “Sunset Strip” Adam Collis, world-renowned Hollywood Economics lecturer Bobbette Buster, producer of “Like Dandelion Dust” starring Mira Sorvino, Bobby Downes, co-producer of “Mission Impossible III” Arthur Anderson, Co-Founder of the LA Film Festival, Thomas Ethan Harris, former supervising producer for “The Late Show” Dan Rupple, social media strategist Matt Meeks, production executive Susana Zepeda, and BMC host and founder of Cooke Pictures, Phil Cooke.

Biola Media Conference Adds World-Renown Lecturers To Line-Up: Bobette Buster On Hollywood Economics and Thomas Ethan Harris On Film Festival Strategies.

Consultant to Disney Animation, Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions and Twentieth Century Fox, Bobette Buster, and film festival strategist and producer, Thomas Ethan Harris, will join the Biola Media Conference speaker line-up. In its 16th year, attracting more than 700 attendees, the one-day seminar is assembling leading voices in the entertainment industry to inspire those working in cinema and media arts.

FrontGate Media Announces Affiliated NAMM Show Programming & Events Including NAMM’s H.O.T. Zone, Preview of WorshipTogether.com & Cornerstone Festival, and NAMM’s 2nd Annual Night of Worship

FrontGate Media, the largest faith-based media group in total reach to church musicians, announced today their media group’s NAMM Show activities and events.

Creator Leadership Network Premieres The Monica Coates Show

The Creator Leadership Network (CLN) is proud to announce the premiere of The Monica Coates Show. The 30-minute radio show, hosted by author, educator, and music industry veteran Monica Coates, begins its weekly run on CLN’s Creator Worship channel at www.CreatorLeadershipNetwork.com, today, Monday, January 10 at 12:00 noon EST (11:00am CST, 9:00 am PST) with encore presentations 3:30pm, 12 midnight and 4:30am Eastern time.

The Four P’s

Every business school teaches The Four P’s in their basic marketing class. The Four P’s are Product, Price, Place and Promotion. There have been attempts to expand the P’s but in the end, these four areas completely encompass the basics of any business or ministry. By the end of this article, you will be equipped to “wow” your Baptist preacher friends this four point “P” business sermon.

Kenny Luck’s Every Man Ministries Releases First 100 Videos In The “Secret Questions Men Ask” Series

Kenny Luck’s Every Man Ministries has encouraged, inspired and activated over a million men in the last decade. Kenny and Every Man’s driving force is to engage and equip men with powerful tools which help them deliver God’s justice and love to a waiting world. This vision, and the response of thousands of men who have taken the challenge, has inspired Every Man Ministries to create a YouTube channel focused on identifying and answering the core issues men face, often in secret and isolation. The channel, hosted by men’s expert and Every Man founder Kenny Luck, begins with the most frequently asked Top 100 Secret Questions from men. The video channel can be accessed from www.everymanministries.com, or directly at www.youtube.com/everymanministries.
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Wired Magazine Co-Founder, Kevin Kelly, To Keynote Biola Media Conference On April 30th At CBS Studios

The Biola Media Conference welcomes one of the most influential voices in the digital revolution, co-founder of Wired Magazine, and futurist, Kevin Kelly, as keynote speaker at the 16th annual Biola Media Conference to be held at the CBS Studio Center lot in Studio City, CA on Saturday, April 30, 2011.

Kelly is a leading voice in technology and its cultural consequences. He is editor and publisher of the Cool Tools website, which gets half a million unique visitors per month. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a journal of unorthodox technical news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service. He authored the best-selling books New Rules for the New Economy, Out of Control and just released his latest book, What Technology Wants and remains a popular contributor to the famed online lecture series “Ted Talks”.

Creator Leadership Network’s Worship Arts Experts Available for Interviews

reatorLeadershipNetwork.com (CLN), the first-ever online radio stations exclusively devoted to teaching and training for worship leaders and church musicians is offering up its experts to media outlets for interview opportunities. Through 2 online radio “channels”, CLN is committed to providing the best, targeted programming to train and encourage this unique community via online streaming radio and podcast access, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Creator Worship is the channel for worship leaders who lead a contemporary or even more progressive pop-culture service format. Creator Reverence creates a “home” for traditional music ministers and choir directors.

God’s Growth Strategy

To go from “zero to hero” can easily destroy just about anyone. Look at how the biggest secular pop sensations implode time after time with drug addictions, mental breakdowns, and suicides. That is often what happens when your world changes overnight from success. Even in the Christian world, it’s very tough. I think most people could not hold to the schedule Paul Baloche lives on.