On Saturday October 10th The New Foundry in Boulder will host an all day music event to honor the memory of Jon Henderson and raise money for local cancer patients through The Rocky Mountain Cancer Center Foundation.

Jon Henderson, the founder of this event, lost his 9 year battle with cancer in April 2008. However, his inspiration and contributions live on and will be remembered once again through this event. Jon spent the last 2 years of his life writing, producing and directing the “BIG C” a 16 song CD and DVD Documentary. Jon wanted to prepare people for the cancer journey through music, so they can better understand the challenge of living with cancer. The “BIG C” CD doubles as the soundtrack for a DVD documentary which features real life perspectives from people living with cancer and their families.

Once again, some of Boulder’s best bands will perform to generate donations to the Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers Foundation. The Rocky Mountain Cancer Center Foundation (RMCCF) provides funding to cancer patients for bills and other unexpected expenses incurred as a result of their cancer and cancer treatment. Go to their web-site, http://www.RMCCF.org, to find out more about this wonderful charity

THIS YEAR’S EVENT INCLUDES:

- Special Screening of Jon’s “Big C” Documentary

- Live Band performances by:

2:00 pm – Slopeside
3:30 pm – Danny Shaffer
5:00 pm - Highwater
7:00 pm – SPYZ
9:00 pm - The Henderson Brothers Band

- Special Merchandise only available at the event – all proceeds go to The Rocky Mountain Cancer Center Foundation (RMCCF)

- Big C DVD
- Big C CD
- The 6th Annual Jon Henderson Beating Cancer T-shirt

DONATIONS APPRECIATED!

If you’d like to make a donation in advance please click here:

LIVE USTREAM VIDEO FEED

If you can’t attend live. We will be broadcasting the event live on Ustream here:
http://bit.ly/Iel0k

MORE INFO ABOUT JON HERE:

Where everybody knows your name
Local musician Jon Henderson leaves a powerful legacy
By Gene Ira Katz
http://bit.ly/sMap4

Songs in the key of Big C
By Vince Darcangelo (editorial@boulderweekly.com)
http://bit.ly/info/1mmtvh

Photos of Jon:
http://bit.ly/7jQRL

For more information on this event please contact David Henderson.

Facebook Event Invite Here

Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet – by Eric Clemons on March 22, 2009

Couldn’t agree more Eric. This is my theory.

Advertising is the creation of the 20th century Mass economy – Mass Production – Mass Media – Mass Marketing.

In this economy:

1. Content was scarce
2. Distribution was controlled
3. Consumer attention was abundant

Advertising works great in this economy because consumers lacked choice.

Flash forward to the 21st century where the Mass economy doesn’t exist any more. It’s more like the fragmentation or social economy.

In this economy:

1. Content is abundant and free
2. Distribution is totally open
3. Consumer attention is scarce (severely overloaded)
4. Social engagement is the new Content

Advertising doesn’t work in this economy because consumers have limitless choice. Who’s going to choose advertising? Give a user a TiVo and what do they do? Consumers are also spending proportionally more time (attention) in social engagement rather than content consumption.

Eric is right we need to start exploring some new models. I think those models will be based on consumer intent, social influence and community engagement.

We’ve written extensively about this is years past.

We were testing this out today with Microsoft. We sent out a link to a “win and Xbox promotion” and look what came back.

Here’s the page:

Here’s the Fan Newsfeed.

Don’t think companies or brands will be too happy with this. Imagine trying to manually moderate comments made to every status update.

Huge thank you goes out to the amazing Left Hand Fire Protection Department! You guys saved our home!

Also a huge thank you to FoxNews31, SkyFox, Rob Marshall, Melissa Mollet  and Josh for spotting this flair-up 15 feet from our home from SkyFox and calling 911. You guys also saved our home!

Thank You! Thank You!

Here’s our story in Video – Click on links to see

Flames Threaten Homes – My Home live on FoxNews31

Tami Henderson talks about watching firefighters save her home on TV

Interview of Tami and I on FoxNews31

Interview of Tami and I News4

Firefighters Battle to Save Homes in Boulder Co.

Flames threatened homes in what appeared to be Four Mile Canyon in Boulder County. Jan. 8, 2009

By KDVR.com and The Associated Press

The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office allowed people who live east of U.S. 36 to return home Thursday morning, after they spent the night under an evacuation order because of a wind-driven winter wildfire that destroyed at least two homes. An evacuation order remained in effect for people who lived west of U.S. 36.

Boulder Fire Evacuees Return Home

BOULDER (AP) – Thousands of residents returned to their homes Thursday, thankful that an erratic, fast-moving wildfire fanned by high winds in Boulder County spared all but two homes.

Crews made steady progress encircling the blaze and called the lack of casualties and significant property damage nothing short of a miracle.

“I’m shaking and I’m so grateful we have our homes and our pets,” said Darlene Steiner, a resident of the Lake Valley Estates neighborhood north of Boulder, as she chatted with neighbors outside her home following an overnight evacuation that affected an estimated 3,000 people.

UGC from YouTube:

Photos – these are all just over the ridge from my house!

My Mother Joan Coale Henderson.

Joan Henderson Memorial Video from David Henderson on Vimeo.

Joan “Joanie” Coale Henderson, 80, passed away suddenly on November 9th, 2008.

Predeceased by her late husband, David Sr. in 1990 and her son Jonathan in April 2008. Joan is survived by her children, David Henderson, Jr., Susan (Henderson) Tyler, Jeffrey Henderson, and six grandchildren. Joan will be greatly missed by many other close friends and extended families.

Joan was born on August 16, 1928, in Towson, Maryland. She was the youngest daughter of Francis and Edmund Starr Coale. Married in 1951, Joan was the loving wife of David E. Henderson, a very successful television broadcast executive and former CEO of Outlet Broadcasting Company. That 40 year broadcast career saw the Henderson family make numerous moves from television market to television market as David climbed the corporate ladder – from Philadelphia, PA to Westfield, NJ, to Wellesley, MA, to Berwyn, PA, to Ruxton, MD, to Oyster Bay Cove, NY, and finally to East Greenwich, RI in 1973. With every move Joan designed, built and decorated brand new homes for her family, making sure to keep similar designs so her children would feel at home.

Joan was a pioneering broadcaster and talented actress in her own right. Her television career started on a live variety show on WMAR-TV in Baltimore in 1949. In 1951, while working on another live television show on WFIL-TV in Philadelphia, she met and married a young television director, David Henderson. Throughout the 1950′s Joan worked on numerous live television shows and with some very soon to be famous television personalities. She worked with Ed McMahon, who went on to the Johnny Carson Show, Jim McKay, who went on to become an ABC Sports legend, and Dick Clark of American Bandstand legend. Joan appeared in live TV commercials on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand in the mid 1950′s. In 1956, Joan went into labor with her first child, David Jr., while on live television!

The next 20 years saw Joan raising 4 children, making 6 moves, designing 6 homes and doing lots of local community theater. Then in the late 1970′s Joan returned to television as co-host of the first PM Magazine Show with Charlie Jefferies on WJAR-TV in Providence. In the early 1980′s Joan went on to be Entertainment Reporter for WLNE-TV, Rhode Island channel 6.

Joan tragically and unexpectedly lost her husband David in 1990 just 3 days after a family Christmas. From the mid 1990′s on Joan enjoyed life as a loving grandmother to David III, Coale, Weller, Sophie, Phoebe, and Paige, to whom she was known as “Noanie”. She also had a devoted companion during these years, William F. Buckley, of Wakefield, RI, who became an important part of her life and family. Joan was also blessed with the incredible care given to her over the years by Wanda Bonacore of Carolina, RI. She too, has become a part of Joan’s family.

In April of this year, Joan lost her 2nd son Jonathan after a 9-year courageous battle with cancer. This past summer, Joan celebrated her 80th birthday with a wonderful weekend with all her family and a lovely party with her closest friends at the Dunes Club, where she has been a member for over 30 years She made a heartfelt and very inspirational speech about her loving son Jonathan and his amazing cancer battle. It was by far her finest hour!

Joan will be remembered as a loving wife, a wonderful mother, a loving grandmother, a talented actress, with two amazing television careers and a lifetime of Community Theater. She was a woman of enormous talent and passion with endless energy for love of family and love of life. She will be greatly missed. As her loving husband, David, coined the phrase, she truly was our “Joanie Only”.

Ok, who really thinks this looks better?

Give us back the old look… pretty please!

Lijit Closes $7.1 Million Series C Round – Readies Advertising Network – ReadWriteWeb

Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 12, 2008 11:13 AM / 1 Comments

lijit_logo.jpgLijit, which provides search services to bloggers and blog networks, announced today that it has closed a $7.1 Million series C round led by Foundry Group. Lijit had raised a small Series A round in January of 2007 and a larger $3.3 million Series B in July 2007. With this new round, Lijit is planning to use this new influx of money to finance the launch of its search-powered ad network.

Congrats to Todd Vernon and all our friends at Lijit!

Where’s the party?

Groundswell

Here Comes Everybody

Web Analytics: An Hour a Day

The New Influencers

The Art of Strategic Listening

and one more….

Marketing to the Social Web

Pictures of Jon….

Jonathan Henderson Lives

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