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Monday, July 14, 2008

Semi-Permanent 2008 prize for yMedia teams

One lucky student team will win tickets to Semi-Permanent 2008 being held at The Edge in Auckland between August 15th and 16th.

Semi-Permanent is a design event consisting of a conference and side events including exhibitions, competitions, workshops and parties. It's a week long celebration of all things design. Graphic Design, Film, Art, Illustration, Web Design, Photography, Visual Effects, Animation, Graffiti, Motion Graphics, Stop Motion; all these things and more. Semi-Permanent explores the diverse and exciting design world bringing together exceptionally talented artists and designers to speak at the event.

The prize is being sponsored by The Church - a collective of designers, motion artists and interactive bodies whose purpose in life is to challenge what is, connect with what is possible and be the creation.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Industry members confirmed!

Thanks to the following industry members who have offered prizes, workshop space, speakers and judges! The 2008 yMedia challenge would not be possible without the assistance of:

APN Digital Media
Creo
Chrometoaster
gardyneHOLT
IBM
InternetNZ
Microsoft
Recruit IT
SilverStripe
Sun Microsystems
Telecom
Terabyte
The Tindall Foundation
Xero

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Community registrations are open!

Join the yMedia Group in 2008 for a fantastic winter of digital-savvy workshops, informative and engaging newsletters, opportunities to engage with tertiary students and the chance to be selected for the yMedia Challenge '08! (plus plenty more...) Don't miss out!

Click here to learn more >>

Monday, March 17, 2008

"I need a job to get experience; I need experience to get a job. Lame."

Following the successes of last year's Challenge, the yMedia Challenge 2008 is in full swing to help fix this conundrum faced by so many students.

The yMedia Challenge is a two week competition that matches students with community groups, helping community groups get a head-start in the digital space and providing opportunities for that much needed experience that is so often demanded of graduates entering the workforce for the first time. It was created in July 2007 by the yMedia Group, a social enterprise born in the same year.

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Thursday, Novemeber 29, 2007

Websites offering passive content are “yesterday’s technology”, says Pamela Minett of yMedia, a company formed to help media graduates make contact with the industry, and one of the "youth" delegates at the conference.

The future lies with interactivity and social networking — finding other people and exchanging ideas with them in a multimedia channel where you can “watch them and see what they’re thinking”, she says. More >>

Monday, December 3, 2007

Young People have always been a mystery to the adults. We look at our kids and see, at once, miracles and enigmas. Young People are, in a parent's eyes, perfect and also mysterious.

What on earth are they thinking?

Because we don't really understand them, and because they insist on speaking a different language, we assign all sorts of value to their usually grudging pronouncements. More >>

Thursday, Novemeber 29, 2007

Websites offering passive content are “yesterday’s technology”, says Pamela Minett of yMedia, a company formed to help media graduates make contact with the industry, and one of the "youth" delegates at the conference.

The future lies with interactivity and social networking — finding other people and exchanging ideas with them in a multimedia channel where you can “watch them and see what they’re thinking”, she says. More >>

Friday, October 26, 2007

Real world experience can be hard to get in the dog-eat-dog digital domain - but two graduates have made their own solution.

Keen to apply their skills to quality projects, Pamela Minett and Adele Barlow set up a group called yMedia to 'create more effective relationships for students integrating real-world experience and industry links to media training institutions'.

It also turned into a win-win project for students and non-profit organisations. More >>

 

Congratulations to the winners of the yMedia Challenge 2007
Nathan and Red spent their two weeks in the YouthLaw offices teaching them everything they knew about reaching young people (their target market) and how to make best use of technology to help the organisation internally. They experimented with a wide range of tools and technologies.