It’s the seventh time the firm has won JSPRAA recognition for its audio and video podcast productions.

The firm won a Silver JASPER Award in the “Television and Video – Video News Release” category, for two video news reports it prepared on behalf of PSE&G Children’s Specialized Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ.

One video news report featured a formal prom event held at the hospital for patients of all ages, including several teens who were missing their own high school prom because of treatment at the hospital.

The other report featured the hospital’s window washing company, whose workers volunteered to dress as Spiderman and Batman while rappelling down the side of the hospital, providing young patients with a surprise diversion from physical therapy and other treatments. The two superheroes also toured the hospital and posed for photos with the children and their families.

Lubetkin Media Companies also provided b-roll video of both events that the hospital distributed to the news media for use in their own reports on the two events.

The JASPER award was presented at JSPRAA’s awards dinner at the Robert B. Meyner Reception Center at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, Monmouth County, on November 21.

“We are extremely proud that our communications colleagues and peers continue to recognize the quality of our video work by bestowing JASPER Awards,” said Steve Lubetkin, managing partner of Lubetkin Media Companies. “Our work speaks for itself – and also speaks for our clients by helping them tell stories effectively with sound and images.”

About Children’s Specialized Hospital

Children’s Specialized Hospital is the preeminent provider of rehabilitation services for children with special needs. The hospital serves children affected by brain injury, spinal cord injury, premature birth, autism, developmental delays, and life-changing illnesses. Children’s Specialized Hospital has twelve sites in New Jersey and treats 20,000 children each year, making it the largest pediatric rehabilitation system of its kind in the nation. Services include outpatient services, acute rehabilitation, and long-term care through its sites in Bayonne, Clifton, Egg Harbor Township, Mountainside, Toms River, Fanwood, Hamilton, New Brunswick, Newark and Roselle Park as well as outreach programs in many communities.  Children’s Specialized Hospital is a proud member of the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Children’s Specialized Hospital Foundation supports the programs and services of the hospital. The Foundation is ranked among the top six pediatric hospital foundations in the country. To help, or find more information: visit www.childrens-specialized.org; join us on Facebook www.facebook.com/childrensspecialized, or follow us on Twitter @ChildrensSpecNJ.

About JSPRAA

In existence since 1965, the Jersey Shore Public Relations & Advertising Association (http://www.jspraa.org/) has grown into the Central New Jersey area’s largest communications association, with members from the advertising, graphic design, marketing, and public relations professions. It established the JASPER Awards in 1974 to honor excellence in communications.

Lubetkin Media Companies’ six previous JASPER Awards are:

• 2012: Gold JASPER Award in the Television/Video Documentary (10-30 minutes) category for its video tribute, “Leon Levy Honored by Congregation Mikveh Israel.”
• 2012: Silver JASPER Award in the Television/Video TV Special Programming category for a documentary about Congregation Mikveh Israel’s dedication of a new Torah scroll.
• 2011: Silver JASPER Award in the Television/Video Documentary (10-30 minutes) category for its video documentary produced for The Pines at Whiting, a continuing care retirement community in the Whiting section of Manchester Township, Ocean County.
• 2011: Silver JASPER Award in the Television/Video TV Special Programming category for a promotional video prepared on behalf of the 2011 American Transplant Congress, a joint event of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation held in Philadelphia.
• 2009: Silver JASPER Award won jointly with Take This Journey, another Cherry Hill-based video firm, for a video documentary, “Touching People’s Lives,” for the Samost Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Southern New Jersey.
• 2008: Silver JASPER Award for podcast audio programs it produced for NAPL, a global printing and graphic communications trade association.

The presentation included a question and answer period led by Ms. Clark and Dr. Generosa Grana, MD, director of the Cooper Cancer Institute.

We’ve just finished the latest in a series of video podcasts on health topics for the Samost Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Southern New Jersey.

In this program, recorded in Cherry Hill, NJ on April 10, 2011, Dr. Allen Seftel, head of the urology division of Cooper Health System, discusses men’s urinary and prostate health and men’s sexuality.

Caution: This program contains a frank discussion of men’s sexuality and may not be suitable for all viewers. Viewer discretion is advised.

Samost Jewish Family & Children’s Services of Southern New Jersey

The Shut-Down Learner: Helping Your Academically Discouraged Child

Professional Podcasts is using proprietary video technologies to incorporate live speaker video with slide presentations to produce a seminar experience for the web viewer that maps closely to what the live presentation would have looked like. Slides appear on a 3-D screen while the presenter remains on screen discussing the slides and appearing to be referring to the slides during the program. The production involves the use of multiple cameras for audience interaction as well.

The program, “What Parents Need to Know about Pediatric Concussion,” was recorded at the Katz JCC Family Activity Center, and includes an audience Q&A session.

Professional Podcasts uses proprietary video technology to combine Dr. Goodman’s slide presentation with his oral remarks in a video format that makes both elements visible to the viewer. The video will be available on the JFCS website shortly. You can also view it in the player below.

Speakers

Lydia Silpe, Samost Jewish Family & Children’s Services
Officer John Moyer, Cherry Hill Police Department, Community Policing Unit
Debra L. Bromson, Esq., Senior Counsel & US Chief Privacy Officer for Astra
Zeneca Pharmaceuticals

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A production of Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ

Take This Journey LLC and Lubetkin Communications/Professional Podcasts LLC collaborated on the video documentary “Touching People’s Lives,” for the Samost Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Southern New Jersey.

Celebrating the award are (from left): Steve Lubetkin of Professional Podcasts; Jennifer Dubrow Weiss, executive director of Samost JFCS; Lori Braunstein of Take This Journey LLC; and Sherry Wolkoff, public relations director of Samost JFCS.

The video was recognized in the JSPRAA competition’s “Video Documentary (10 to 30 minutes)” category. The JASPER award was presented at JSPRAA’s awards dinner at the Robert B. Meyner Reception Center at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, Monmouth County, on October 9.

Lori Braunstein, principal of Take This Journey, produced the video. Steve Lubetkin, managing partner of Lubetkin Communications/Professional Podcasts, wrote the script and recorded the voice-over narrations and the musical scoring used in the production.

The JFCS documentary can be viewed in the player above.

It is also available as a video podcast on the JFCS website at http://www.jfcssnj.org/about_us.

The documentary uses interviews with agency clients to illustrate the broader definition of “family” that guides the agency’s response to community members in crisis or needing support services.

“Our collaboration with Professional Podcasts so far has resulted in three emotionally powerful and moving documentary videos paying tribute to heroes in the South Jersey community – the hard-working counselors and therapists of Samost Jewish Family and Children’s Services; the extraordinary generosity of the Brown family in funding the relocation of Kellman Brown Academy, South Jersey’s only Jewish day school; and the inspirational philanthropy of three generations of impressive women, honored by the Jewish Community Foundation,” said Braunstein. “The JASPER Award demonstrates that Steve and I have found a highly successful formula for video documentary production that can be effective for many different organizations, and we’re very proud to be recognized in this way.”

“We’re absolutely thrilled to be recognized for a second time by our peers in the advertising and public relations communities for our content creation work with clients and partners, especially for meaningful projects like this one with Take This Journey,” said Lubetkin. “The Internet’s ability to serve as a broadcast platform for audio and video programs means the video documentary format can move far beyond the traditional TV screen or movie theater, making these productions highly accessible — and easily affordable — for organizations of all sizes to tell their stories to interested worldwide audiences.”

In 2008, Lubetkin Communications/Professional Podcasts won a Silver JASPER Award for podcast audio programs it produced for NAPL, a global printing and graphic communications trade association.

About JSPRAA

In existence since 1965, the Jersey Shore Public Relations & Advertising Association has grown into the Central New Jersey area’s largest communications association, with members from the advertising, graphic design, marketing, and public relations professions. It established the JASPER Awards in 1974 to honor excellence in communications. More information is at http://www.jspraa.org/.

About Take This Journey LLC

Take This Journey LLC creates documentary videos, family history videos, special event video montages, multimedia programs, and recordings of ethical wills, visual testaments in which individuals transmit their values, beliefs, advice and the stories of their families and their lives. Its website is http://www.takethisjourney.com/.

About Professional Podcasts LLC/Lubetkin Communications

Professional Podcasts LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lubetkin Communications, produces audio, video and other multimedia content and provides podcasting services for corporations and professional organizations. Since 2005, Professional Podcasts has been counseling clients about the effective use of social media, like podcasts and blogs (online journals) as tools that facilitate two-way communications with customers, employees, and others.

The firm produces high-quality audio and video content distributed as podcasts for such clients as the New Jersey Technology Council; the National Association of Realtors; the CCIM Institute; Foundations Community Partnership; the American Institute of CPCU/Insurance Institute of America; Amboy Bank, Sun National Bank, the Rutgers University School of Business Administration’s popular Quarterly Business Outlook Seminar; Leadership NJ; the New Jersey Bank Marketing Association, and the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians. The firm also produces its own podcasts focusing on public relations, computer technology, bond ratings, and interviews with book authors.

More information is available at http://www.professionalpodcasts.com. Video podcasts are available at http://professionalpodcasts.blip.tv/.

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Editors, Note: Ms. Braunstein and Mr. Lubetkin are available to discuss how video documentaries using podcasting technology can help organizations communicate effectively with their audiences. Please call Lori Braunstein at (856) 427-9426 or email lori@takethisjourney.com, or Steve Lubetkin at (856) 751-5491 or email steve@professionalpodcasts.com.

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Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA – Wednesday January 14, 2009: Samost Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Southern New Jersey held a seminar for members of the community in financial distress because of mortgage issues. Participants in the January 14 seminar were (from left): Marge Della Vecchia, executive director of the NJ Mortgage and Housing Finance Agency; Jennifer Weiss, executive director of Samost JFCS; Randy Nemeroff, senior loan officer, Oak Mortgage Company; ??, Samost JFCS; and Malcolm Block of Home Mortgage Solutions.

Photograph Copyright ©2009 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved.

A production of Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ

In this program, a roundtable discussion recorded December 1, 2008 at the Katz Jewish Community Center in Cherry Hill, NJ, “Coping with cancer through spirituality: A mind, body, and spiritual approach to healing.”

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Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA – Monday December 1, 2008: Yad b’Yad and the Cancer Connection Program of Samost Jewish Family and Children’s Service presented "Coping with Cancer through Spirituality," a panel discussion about how spiritual considerations can be important in the healing process for cancer patients. Members of the panel were (from left): the Rev. Debby Brincivalli of the Presbytery of West Jersey; Dr. Diane Gillum, breast surgeon; Rabbi Jeffrey Arnowitz of Congregation Beth El; Bonnie Mehr, director of the Diane Barton Complementary Medicine Program at Cooper University Hospital, Camden; and Margery Dannenbaum, Yad b’Yad coordinator and moderator for the program. A podcast recording of the program will be available at the JFCS website.

Photograph Copyright ©2008 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved.

A production of Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ

In this program, a roundtable discussion recorded July 22, 2008 at the Katz Jewish Community Center in Cherry Hill, NJ, “Ask the expert: A comprehensive approach to breast cancer and wellness.”

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Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA – Tuesday July 22, 2008: Samost Jewish Family & Children’s Service of Southern New Jersey held a panel at the Katz JCC on breast cancer and wellness. Panelists were (from left): Dr. Robert Sommer, director of the breast cancer program at Cooper University Hospital, Camden, NJ; Linda Miller, clinical director of the Breast Cancer Physical Therapy Center; Kathy King, survivor, vice president, and website manager for Hope Afloat USA Dragon Boat Team; Jamie Wood, fitness director, Moving On Program, Virtua Hospital; Alysa Cummings, survivor and leader of the Pink Ribbon Poetry Group at Virtua Hospital; and Margery Dannenbaum, JFCS Cancer Connection Coordinator.

Photograph Copyright ©2008 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved.

A production of Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ

In this program, a roundtable discussion recorded January 22, 2008 at the Katz Jewish Community Center in Cherry Hill, NJ, “Breast Cancer Prevention Strategies for High Risk Women: Who is at risk? And What Can You Do About It?”

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Featured Speakers and Time Codes
00:00:00 – 00:01:42Program intro and information, Steve Lubetkin of Professsional Podcasts LLC.

00:1:42 – 00:03:12 Opening Remarks: Margery Dannenbaum, JFCS Staff, Cancer Connection Coordinator +1 (856) 424-1333

Margery Dannenbaum

00:03:12 – 00:04:25 Moderator:Jennifer Weiss, Execuvive Director, Samost Jewish Family & Children’s Services.

Jennifer Weiss

00:04:25 – 00:12:52 Dr. Generosa Grana, Cooper University Health System.

Dr. Generosa Grana

00:12:52 – 00:17:32 Dr. Kristin Brill, Thomas Jefferson University Health System

Dr. Kristin Brill

00:17:32 – 00:34:24 Dr. Catherine Piccoli, a radiologist with South Jersey Radiology Associates

Dr. Catherine Piccoli

00:34:24 – 00:47:32 Bridget Legrazie, director of Fox Chase Virtua Family Risk Assessment Program

Bridget LeGrazie

Cancer Survivors
00:47:32 – 01:06:13 Breast cancer survivors Laura Dolan and Maria Irizzy relate their personal experiences.

Laura Dolan

Maria Irizzy

01:06:13 – 01:44:18 Question and answer period, Margery Dannenbaum moderates and closes the program
01:44:18 – 01:45:38 Steve Lubetkin concludes the podcast and provides contact information for Samost Jewish Family and Childrens Service.

Photos Copyright ©2008 by Steven L. Lubetkin. All commercial rights reserved.

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A production of Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ

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Moderator: Rena Essrog, director of programs and clinical services, Samost Jewish Family and Children’s Service

Panelists:
Dr. Gary Packin – read bio
Rabbi Jeffrey Arnowitz, associate rabbi, Congregation Beth El, Cherry Hill, NJ, on Jewish perspectives about infertility – read bio

Individuals telling about their infertility treatment experiences
Joel and Julie Schwartz, and Justine Cohen

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A production of Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ

Listen to the podcast here:

Download the podcast here (180 mb mono MP3 file, 02:11:07 duration).

Featured Speakers and Time Codes

00:00:10 – 00:02:03 Program intro and information, Steve Lubetkin of Professsional Podcasts LLC.
00:02:03 – 00:03:37 Opening Remarks: Margery Dannenbaum, JFCS Staff, Cancer Connection Coordinator +1 (856) 424-1333

Susan Bass Levin

00:03:37 – 00:18:39 Moderator: Susan Bass Levin, Commissioner of New Jersey Department of Community Affairs and former Mayor of Cherry Hill Township, an ovarian cancer survivor.

00:18:39 – 00:59:06 Dr. Randolph Deger a noted gynecological oncologist from Virtua Gynecology Oncology Specialists.

00:59:06 – 01:01:29 Susan Bass Levin makes additional comments, introduces Bridget Legrazie, director of Fox Chase Virtua Family Risk Assessment Program

01:01:29 – 01:21:48 Bridget Legrazie

Cancer Survivors
01:22:03 – 01:22:44 Susan Bass Levin introduces four cancer survivors to relate their personal experiences.

01:22:44 – 01:30:41 Linda Xerri, first diagnosed 14 months ago with Stage IV

01:30:41 – 01:44:11 Lynn Kaplan, first diagnosed six years ago at Stage IV-B

01:44:11 – 01:52:39 Karen Mason, first diagnosed six years ago, Stage III-C

01:52:46 – 01:57:07 Diane Steinberg, first diagnosed 12 years ago at stage I

01:57:07 – 02:09:56 Question and answer period, Susan Bass Levin moderates and closes the program
02:09:56 – 02:10:46 Steve Lubetkin concludes the podcast and provides contact information for Samost Jewish Family and Childrens Service.

A production of Professional Podcasts LLC, Cherry Hill, NJ