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11/16/11 – Photo Club

Posted on November 16, 2011 by MillerNo Comments

5/25/11 – Utica Firefly

Posted on May 26, 2011 by MillerNo Comments

What an amazing night of storytelling in Utica. I’m very proud to have been a part of organizing this evening along with Geoff Storm and all the amazing staff at The Tramontane, especially Robin and Garrett. I’m sure we’ll do this again real soon.

Michael Patrei and Ballou

Posted on April 17, 2011 by MillerNo Comments

When I gave a talk about Bootstrapping in the Mohawk Valley to the MV Young Professionals group last month, one of the points I tried to drive home was that you need to surround yourself with people that make things…and that you should make something too. Whether those things are businesses, films, music, art, pieces or writing -whatever- I think it’s really important, no matter where you live. They will inspire you to build your own projects, or form partnerships that can accomplish more than either of you could on their own. And we have a lot of people locally that are doing some awesome work.

Recently had a chance to sit down at the Tram with Michael Patrei who is a film maker here in Utica to talk about a project he did a couple of years back called Ballou. The film was shared with me by Rick Short and I thought it was a really excellent documentary that was done on a marching band in an impoverished section of D.C. Michael’s film changed the lives of many of the kids in that band and the film took him as far as a festival in Belarus and was even screened at the White House.

I just wanted to share Michael’s story as yet another example of the cool things that are being done by people right here in Utica. You can watch the documentary online at Hulu by clicking here or find out more about the film at the official website.

Michael’s next project is a human rights film festival called called Unspoken.

Rick Short of Indium Corp gets social with me.

Posted on January 8, 2010 by MillerNo Comments

This past week I had the chance to sit down with Rick Short, director of Marketing / Communications at Indium Corp. Rick has been blogging and using social media to help Indium build contacts and grow its business well before social was on the map. I’ve got the full videos over at the Romanelli Communications blog.

The conversation was so good, I had to break it up into parts. Really great points, especially for peeps whose business is B2B. You can also connect with Rick by visiting his blog or following him on Twitter.

Check out the videos here.