Spam is a problem for virtually everyone with email accounts. Understandably most companies and email providers, such as Google Mail and Yahoo! Mail, have taken steps to reduce the amount of spam email their users receive.

Users of MovieSite, our solution for Film Commissions, can send emails to crew, facilities, locations and other contacts easily through the system.

One of the ways in which companies prevent spam is through Sender Policy Framework (SPF). Put simply, this is a list identifying which computers are allowed to send email on behalf of a company. For example, there are a handful of servers in the world which are authorised to send email on behalf of openbrolly.com. Email purporting to come openbrolly.com but not from one of these authorised servers is, most likely, spam.

If we are sending email on behalf of one of our clients it is important that, where their company uses SPF, they include our servers in their list of authorised servers. This means that, when an email is sent through MovieSite, it is recognised as valid and not spam.

We have made it easy (if you know what you are doing) to do this.

In the current SPF record for your domain add:
include:spf-c.openbrolly.com

Please contact our support team if you need more information.

Best wishes,
David.

This iPad Magazine offers an insight into the event, including a full programme and a specially commissioned interview with Dr Marek Kukula.

After the event the magazine will be updated with a record of the event – something rarely done due to the costs of printing new brochures and distributing them.

An iPhone version of the brochure will be available shortly.

The iPad version is available for download from the Apple iTunes Store.

For those who don’t have an iPad there is also a web version for the latest browser versions.

Dark Skies Orkney comes about through funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Orkney Islands Council.

We will be on hand to discuss demonstrate our MovieSite application for Film Offices covering locations, crew and facilities and production tracking / relationship management. We will also have an official launch of our MovieSite mobile application and What’s On systems.

Cineposium is the Association of Film Commissioners International’s premiere member educational event, held annually in conjunction with AFCI University courses. Film commission staff seek out this lively event for its incredible educational and networking value to their profession.

This year’s Cineposium looks at strategic futures. Any discussion or exploration of future strategies, must seriously consider phrases such as “working sustainably” and “working in partnership”. Any effective organisation has to constantly consider what their back-up plan could be, should the funder or investor decide to withdraw or cut back. To be effective and withstand the ups and downs of decisions that may impact negatively, commissions have to think strategically.

To contact us about MovieSite before the event, or to arrange a demonstration, please email enquiries@openbrolly.com or telephone +44 1309 638077. See you there!

Benefits:

• Low cost of distribution
• Easily include multimedia – video, audio, images
• Easily construct magazine editions using skills within the organisation
• Pull content from existing websites to avoid rekeying
• Immediate updates and correction of content
• Most magazine content available offline
• Works across most tablet devices, including iPad and Android, as well as on modern mobile phones.

ExpressBOX will enable organisations to easily manage and create compelling magazines delivered over the web to the iPad and most other tablet devices and suitable mobile phones. It offers an opportunity for organisations to reach millions of tablet owners with attractive and compelling content, updated as often as required. Magazines can include text, images, audio and video.

As well as allowing magazine editions and pages to be readily managed through an easy to use text editor, expressBOX can source content from existing websites or databases. It can also offer interactive content – such as a directory search facility – within the magazine.

The magazine is distributed using a high speed network, maximising speed and reliability of delivery.

For more details and a demonstration, please contact David Sim: david.sim@openbrolly.com +44 (0) 1309 638077.

Search forms, search results and all database content can all now be integrated directly into third party web sites and portals. For example, a tourism marketing organisation could offer nearby attraction listings to its member businesses to display on their web site, updated in real time. A screen agency could provide a dynamically changing selection of locations on an industry portal.

Key advantages:

• More control over the look of the site by site designers
• Your database content becomes part of (virtually) any web site – change the look or navigation of your site without penalty.
• More control for web designers
• Leading edge search tools possible – on site widgets, fast retrieval of search results, offline mode

For more information contact David Sim (david.sim@openbrolly.com) or @davidrsim on Twitter.

Screentourism 11 will appeal to tourism operators, destination and attractions managers, film and tv executives, tourism and media consultants and academics from the UK and overseas.

The London International Film Tourism Conference will be the most significant event to date to explore the huge marketing and visitor impact phenomenon of film and television tourism. One which takes film tourism further than ever before, into destination product placement, the digital screentourism challenge, and opportunities for everyone in 2011 & 2012. Cameras roll!

For more information see the official Film Tourism Conference web site.

The festival runs from 18th to 25th February. The symposium is part of The International Love Film Festival of Mons, created under Elio Di Rupo’s initiative in 1984, and is aimed at uniting so-called intellectual cinema with more popular cinema.

Geoff Wilcock will be speaking about new projects, new technologies and new perspectives. David Sim will lead a workshop covering new technologies that can be used in cinetourism / screen tourism / film tourism, including social media.

http://www.fifa-mons.be/

MovieSite is our online service for screen agencies, film commissions and film offices, enabling management of information relating to locations, crew, facilities and productions. See http://moviesite.biz for further information.

The new service will officially start in January 2011 and will replace the locations services offered by Screen East.

With support from Hertfordshire County Council, Film Link aims to provide help to film-makers interested in filming on location in the East of England. Kerry Ixer, director of filming-related services at Film Link, said: “Film Link recognised the opportunity left by Screen East, made a bid and has successfully acquired Screen East’s locations and film crew database.

“It is our intention to continue to offer a high quality film and television locations service to the filming industry.”

Last year £38.5m was spent on location filming in the East of England.

It also delivers tourism information to third parties and to mobile phones.

Ask for access to portals being delivered to clients.