FINALLY! Working with Gates Foundation

Ghana, Africa - Just landed in Ghana to shoot the documentary film for Women Thrive. The Africa operation of Women Thrive is funded by the Gates Foundation...so thanks Bill & Melinda! Tomorrow morning we head to Burkina Fasso, where the founder of the NGO will attempt to live on ONE dollar a day for three days straight. I'm all about roughing it, but I'll be doing it from the comfort of my clean Insect Shield socks every day...

Bad Ass Business Woman

After taking 8 months to develop and launch my last brand, I'm doing an experiment. My advertising colleagues just might kill me for being hasty, but I'm jumping on the Internet marketing bandwagon. I came up with the idea for www.BadAssBusinessWoman.com 8 days ago, and in the last 8 days have written a mission statement, developed a logo, gobbled up about 15 "BadAss" URLs, shot videos, gotten a business partner, received free ad space in several magazines, designed an ad, developed an auto-responder system and launched a website. I'm probably missing about 17 things... It has been an interesting week. :)

In Love with Google

Amazing what got accomplished in this short Google commercial. Just goes to show the power of audio when you're watching the screen. Go video!

Speech to the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce - Tues 1/19

On Tuesday January 19th Jessica Kizorek will be speaking at the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce to the Women's Networker. The speech - "Why Bother With Social Media?" - is not a how to. Instead it deals with two questions you will need to ask yourself if you are going to be successful in social media.

Speech to the Association of Women in Communication

On Wednesday, January 20th, The Association of Women in Communication and Life Is Art have teamed up for an event and invited Jessica Kizorek to give the keynote speech. The talk, "Using Video to Gain Exposure & Build Community" will teach you how to use the technology at your finger tips to create video communications that impact and build relationship with your target market.

http://www.awcsouthflorida.org/insidepages/meetings.cfm

What You're Doing Wrong on Social Media

Murry Izenwasser gave a great presentation to PRSA a few months back called, "My Little Rant, You're Doing Social Media Wrong, Tired of Your Excuses, Something I Hate, What 1 Fan of Yours Can Do." Here's his slides.

PRSA Miami Presentation Social Media Strategy - 140 CHARACTERS OR LESS: My Little Rant, You’re Doing Social Media Wrong, Tired of Your Excuses, Something I Hate, What 1 Fan of Yours Can Do

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Kizoreks Awarded Lisle Film Contract

For Immediate Release: November 11th, 2009
Contact Bill Kizorek 630-347-4777 BillKizorek@gmail.com

The Village of Lisle is serious about its image. The Village Board has just approved the hiring of Two Parrot Productions to create three films. One film would be a six to eight minute documentary style film about the Village, its services, and the way of life that has been so appealing to many of the residents: living in a community so infused with and surrounded by nature.

Two other segments are to be produced. One is a lead-in for the Village Meeting broadcast, and another is a thirty second commercial.

Videotaping will take place over the next seven months and include Village services, such as leaf pickup and snow removal, as well as well and police and fire department segments. A committee of four village officials: Catherine Schuster, Dennis Gilbertson, Eric Ertmoed, and Marcia Amos studied proposals from a variety of firms and eventually chose a Lisle production company. Two Parrot Productions is owned by Bill and Jessica Kizorek, a father and daughter team that has filmed in over 40 countries. Bill has lived in Lisle for over twenty years and has, during that time, appeared on, or helped produce shows for Oprah, 20/20, the BBC, and all the major networks. Jessica went to CU Boulder, graduated magna cum laude, and has won the Vision Award Gold Medal for Excellence in Video Production.

According to Bill Kizorek, "this is a real honor for us to be involved in the project. The Village officials we interviewed with were determined to create a set of films that would reflect the quality of life of the residents here, and why this is such a great place to live. Money Magazine cited Lisle as one of the best 20 places in the country to live, and we will be illustrating those reasons in the final production. This will include festivals, like the Lights of Lisle that opens up with a parade December 5th."

The Kizoreks have created documentary films around the world, most recently for Lions Club International Foundation, filming in Cameroon at the Jimmy Carter Center for River Blindness. Some of their films can be seen on line at www.twoparrot.com and theviralpulse.com. In the event any resident wants to contact Bill with comments or ideas, he can be reached at bill@twoparrot.com.