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This is the panel that I was most looking forward to at the event. Nadia Nascimento and Will Pate, but panels are difficult to write about in a blog post format. Hopefully, most of the best content from their answers translates well.

What is the model around the community you are trying to grow?

Diana – Cineplex.com is a website for entertainment that includes social tools to compliment and extend the experience that people are having with our site and in the theatre. We also introduced blogs with comments, and areas for photos and videos to be able to have competitions and contests.

They currently have 10,000+ members that is okay by them, but they want more engagement but are still learning what works and what doesn’t work in growing and advancing the community and their bottom line revenue.

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Dominique-Sebastien Forest, Raja Khanna, and Barbara Williams were the main panelists of this session with Robert Montgomery as the moderator. Brad Murphy, VP Sales at Revision 3 was also supposed to attend, but he had the flu and didn’t want to travel. To me, that was a sad change, since I was hoping to meet him, but understandable as they slowly reduce their costs for running their business, despite announcing great numbers for their potential income.

Robert Montgomery took a fair bit of time to explain the broadcast business online, and what it meant to video productions, and valuations on investments.

“The web of 2002 was the web of destination… now the model has emerged to be more content focused” – Dominique-Sebastien Forest.

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