Photographers can’t do much with their pictures if they can’t find them or get them off their cameras. Eye-Fi added wireless capabilities to SD media cards to make it simpler to get images where consumers ultimately want them, whether it be on their computers or a variety of photo websites. Additionally, GPS data makes it even easier for consumers to find the pictures they want to share or print. In this AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Eye-Fi Chief Product Officer Yuval Koren tells Future Image Report editor Paul Worthington how customers are using the combination of GPS and Wi-Fi capabilities, and how these benefit photography.

Interview starts - 3:39
Interview ends - 18:40

Scallop Imaging, Boston, Mass., recently debuted its new Digital Window surveillance camera head that delivers 7-megapixel resolution and a wide view without the distortion you'd get from wide-angle or fisheye lenses. The device instantly stitches together the output of five low-resolution sensors and lens modules to create a high-resolution, seamless 180-degree-wide image in real time. In this AIE Imaging Executive podcast, at www.imagingexec.com, Ellen Cargill, director of product development with Scallop Imaging, tells The Future Image Report Editor Paul Worthington how the technology was created. In the interview Cargill also discusses how the technology might improve all kinds of imaging, from surveillance to landscape photography, with improved dynamic range, realistic resolution, and wider views.

Interview starts - 4:17
Interview ends -  21:56

"Leadership from the Inside Out," quickly became a bestseller after its release 10 years ago. In response to the changing world of business, author Kevin Cashman recently released a second edition of the book. In today's AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Cashman -- who is also founder and president of LeaderSource, a Korn Ferry International Co. that specializes in leadership development, executive coaching, team effectiveness and talent management -- explains many of the concepts presented in the new edition. Included are the importance of reflection, personal mastery, and purpose in leadership.  

Interview starts - 3:54
Interview ends - 24:01

Few things are as critical to business success as hiring the right people --
yet very few business owners and managers are ever taught how to do this well. Today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast presents an interview with Roberta Chinsky-Matuson, president of Human Resource Solutions in Northampton, Mass., and former HR careers expert for Monster.com. She discusses behavior-based interviewing, what steps should be involved in the hiring process, how to get a reference to really tell you about a candidate, and much more.

Interview starts - 2:57
Interview ends - 12:55

Fotolia, a worldwide provider of stock images, has a completely remote office system. All of the company’s 20 employees work from their homes, located across the globe; many have never even met in person. In today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Chad Bridwell, director of U.S. operations for Fotolia, explains how the staff communicates and works together, and how the company thrives -- while saving a lot of money -- as a virtual office.

Interview starts - 2:57
Interview ends - 21:51

In this episode of the AIE Imaging Executive podcast, The Future Image Report Editor Paul Worthington speaks with Geotate Marketing Vice President Mark Terry. Geotate's patented approach, using a technology first developed by Philips Research in 2000, gathers raw location data from geosynchronous satellites. It's an approach that saves on camera power, manufacturing costs, and user time.

Interview starts - 2:46
Interview ends -  53:00

In this episode of the AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Paul Worthington, editor of The Future Image Report, speaks with Tanguy Leborgne, the worldwide marketing vice president of Pinnacle Systems Inc., about his company's latest video editing software. Pinnacle Systems, a part of Avid Technology Inc., is a provider of home video editing and TV viewing tools for the consumer market. In this podcast, Leborgne also discusses how to work with high-definition video and what's next in video technology. (To see the Toshiba video mentioned in this podcast, visit  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYPn1BrTNCE .)

Interview starts - 4:04
Interview ends - 26:32

In today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Quint Studer, named a “Master of Business” by Inc. magazine, explains why consistently excellent leadership is the key to long-term business success and profitability. Studer is founder of The Studer Group, a consulting firm that helps businesses develop great leaders today, and instill the mechanisms and mindset that will continue to foster great leadership in the future. He is also author of the book, “Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top.”

Interview starts - 5:19
Interview ends -  19:54

For business owners and operators, the demands of running a company can be so great there is little time or energy left for anything else. In today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast, PMA Senior Editor Jennifer Kruger interviews Daniel Murphy, president and founder of The Growth Coach, a national, professional business coaching franchise, and author of “Becoming a Strategic Business Owner.” The book, available for free at http://www.thegrowthcoach.com, defines Murphy’s “Strategic Mindset Process,” which allows owners of small companies to achieve both greater business success and greater balance in their personal lives.

Interview starts- 2:22

Interview ends - 21:36

In this episode of the AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Paul Worthington, editor of The Future Image Report, speaks with photo industry veteran John Larish who is a contributing editor for the Photo Industry Reporter. Larish reports on photokina: the business climate, visitors, and some of the most impressive announcements at the show. He also shares two stories from his new books, "The Seat Next To Me," and "From Silver to Silicon."

Interview starts - 2:36
Interview ends - 21:57

In this episode of the AIE Imaging Executive podcast, Paul Worthington, editor of The Future Image Report, speaks with Bill Heuer, vice president of Sales for Casio's Digital Imaging Division. Heuer discusses the new Exilim EX-FH20 camera, which features ultra high-speed burst shooting at 40 frames per second (fps) and can record high speed movies at up to 1,000 fps.

Interview starts - 1:58
Interview ends -  26:24

In this episode of the Imaging Executive podcast, we speak with Glen Hopkins, Vice President and General Manager of Printing Platforms Research & Development at HP.

Interview starts - 3:00
Interview ends - 27:51

Today's AIE Imaging Executive Podcast presents an interview with Dr. Todd Dewett, associate professor of Management at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and author of the new book, "Leadership Redefined." Dewett explains why the "great man" theory of leadership fails, and what skills "real" business leaders must possess.

Interview starts - 4:14
Interview ends-  29:41

In the first of two episodes this week of the Imaging Executive podcast, Canon's Chuck Westfall provides details on a new SLR that also captures full HD video; And Dianna Booher, author of  Communicate with Confidence, shares strategies every leader needs to know.

In our second interview, the AIE Imaging Executive Podcast welcomes Dianna Booher, CEO of Booher Consultants, a Grapevine, Texas communication training firm whose clients have included 22 of the 50 largest corporations in the United States. She is also author of the bestseller titled “Communicate with Confidence,” as well as a new book called “The Voice of Authority: 10 Communication Strategies Every Leader Needs to Know.” She is going to share some of her insights from that new book with us.

Chuck Westfall Interview 3:39-16:07

Dianna Booher Interview 16:20-35:32

In this episode of the Imaging Executive podcast, co-founder Sol Lipman tells us about his new video service that avoids boring barriers to communication by limiting everything to just 12 seconds.

Interview starts - 3:58

Interview ends-  27:03

Pure Digital has sold more than a million of its simple-to-use Flip video family of camcorders. The company says it's succeeded in its goal to "make video fun again -- and we transformed the camcorder market in the process." Marketing VP Simon Fleming-Wood tells how Pure Digital changed the consumer video business, and what to expect in the near future.

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Learn how to navigate the dangerous waters of leadership in todays AIE Imaging Executive Podcast

Marty Linsky is co-author of the book Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive though the Dangers of Leading. Linsky and his co-author, Ronald A. Heifetz, serve on the faculty of John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and are principles of Cambridge Leadership Associates. In todays AIE Imaging Executive Podcast, Linsky explains why leadership is dangerous, and how to survive the dangers.

The 6Sight Future of Imaging conference is coming soon ‹ and here chairman Alexis Gerard lets us know what we can look forward to this November 18-20 in Monterey, CA.

You can pose and re-shoot to get the perfect portrait -- but what about those snapshots captured in real life, in special moments where you can¹t do an instant retake -- and you don¹t know until after the moment¹s passed that the photo is not right?
For a few of us, there is Photoshop and its brethren that let us painstakingly fix our shots.
For the rest lacking either the skills or the time, there haven¹t been affordable options -- until now.
In this week¹s podcast we speak with Daniel Ciraldo, founder of a new service called PicWash that will make your photos look their best for just $7 a shot.

The AIE Imaging Executive Podcast welcomes Noel Tichy, a professor at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, and an advisor to CEOs around the world, including Jack Welch and Howard Schultz. He is the author of several bestselling business books, including his newest: “Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls,” which he co-wrote with another author of several business bestsellers, Warren G. Bennis. Tichy discusses the crucial role that judgment plays in running a successful business.

In this week¹s podcast we have news of a smaller SLR design, an eyeball-like camera, and a new web service for really short videos.
Then  Jennifer Kruger interviews Wally Adamchik:
A Marine for ten years, he is now the President of FireStarter Speaking and Consulting.
He tells us the lessons found in his new book, No Yelling - The Nine Secrets of Marine Corps Leadership.

Adobe has just delivered the improved Photoshop Lightroom 2, adding powerful image editing and management tools. Adobe's Senior product manager Tom Hogarty discusses the overall market for photographic software, and describes the enhanced capabilities of Lightroom 2.

For more than 100 years, Nestle Corp.’s Carnation Milk brand has been claiming its milk is superior because it comes from contented cows. Richard Hadden and  Bill Catlette, founders of Contented Cow Partners, are firm believers that like Carnation’s cows, contented employees willingly give more on the job. In today’s AIE Imaging Executive Podcast, Hadden, who along with Catlette is co-author of two books, “Contented Cows Give Better Milk,” and their newest, “Contented Cows Moove Faster,” explains how business owners can get their staff members to put more oomph into their work.

Kodak has introduced two exciting new consumer HD products, and we have two interviews to get the details on them.

Product marketing manager Steve Jean discusess the Theatre HD Player that displays photographs on an HDTV.

And Product manager Andrei Andrievsky tells us about the pocket-sized Zi6, an uncomplicated HD video camera that will sell for just $179.

This week on the AIE Imaging Executive podcast we speak with one of the true computer pioneers who is now leading the charge in a new arena: using 3D cameras as input devices for virtual worlds, computer applications, and more.

Mitch Kapor is the developer of the first spreadsheet, Lotus 1-2-3.

He is now chairman of the board for Linden Research, the creators of the Second Life simulation.

Today, it's my pleasure to welcome to the Imaging Executive podcast John Mariotti, former president of both Rubbermaid Office Products and Huffy Bicycles, and current president of the Enterprise Group, a coalition of executive advisors.

Kodak is offering its imaging science to mobile phones, and they¹re appearing first in the new Motozine ZN5 from Motorola. John Blake, general manager of the digital capture and imaging devices group, tells us more on Kodak's future plans in mobile imaging.

Today, The Imaging Executive presents  the second half of our series on handling difficult management issues. Amie Devero, the author of the book Powered by Principle and founder of The Devero Group, a Tampa, Fla.-based consulting firm specializing in strategy, tells PMA Senior Editor Jennifer Kruger all about the management advice she has given to leaders of businesses of all sizes.

In this podcast. which is the first of a two-part series on handling tough management issues, PMA Senior Editor Jennifer Kruger interviews Dodd Camera president Mark Leonard. Leonard has been with this 17-store specialty retail chain for 30 years, and in that time has tackled all sorts of  challenges common to many in our industry. 

Interview starts - 5:35
Interview ends- 20:10

Evernote -- which may be one of the most practical applications for your camera or phone ... ever. It’s designed to be an expansion and extension of your own memory this service lets you combine your documents, notes -- and your photos -- into an account you can access from anywhere on your phone or you PC.

Interview starts - 7:04

Interview ends-  37:54

In this week’s episode of the AIE Imaging Executive Podcast, Kerul Kassel, author of “Productive Procrastination: Make it work for you not against you,” explains how to procrastinate the right way. 

Interview starts- 5:10

Interview ends- 17:34

This week our podcast presents Luis von Ahn, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon university. He and his team have developed what they call "Games with a purpose" to help improve computer intelligence.

 

The site provides what they say are "fun tasks that are easy for humans -- but beyond the capability of computers."Among them are two imaging-specific games:ESP, in which players guess what words another will use to describe an image-- which helps create descriptions of uncaptioned images.Matchin, in which players are asked which of two images they like best -- which helps computers recognize what images people prefer.

 

You can now easily make online video adds with your own photos voice over, and movie clips. Consumer online video editing site One True Media noticed that many businesses were using its service for their advertising -- and so the company launched SpotMixer, a video ad creation site aimed specifically at small- and medium-sized businesses.

We'll talk with CEO Mark Moore about how these tools can benefit your business, and how you can work with them to help your existing customers as well."

This edition of The Imaging Executive Podcast will present the second in our two-part series on what makes a great workplace. PMA Senior Editor Jennifer Kruger interviews Jane Weiss, senior consultant for The Great Place to Work Institute. Weiss discusses specific employee problems and issues that arise in any workplace, and how owners and managers can resolve them in a positive way.

Interview starts- 5:05

Interview ends-  19:00

The Imaging Executive Podcast presents the first in a two-part series on what makes a great workplace. Starting the series is PMA Senior Editor Jennifer Kruger's interview with Mary Corbitt Clark, executive director of Winning Workplaces in Evanston, Ill., who explains what really matters to employees, and how business owners can create the kind of environment that keeps workers happy. 

Interview starts- 1:17

Interview starts- 21:36

Entrepeneur and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki kicks off the first AIE Imaging Executive podcast with a discussion of the basics of entrepeneurship, the new models of the internet business, and what it takes to compete in the next wave of the internet.

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