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TWIG IS GIVING AWAY A J300A SONY CELL PHONE!

nobody@vox.com(birdman) — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 20:29:08 -0230

Hey guys
Birdman reporting with some decent good news :)
Today at Mt Bellies we were able to raise about 200 bucks for littlegeeks.org :)

We had our live show and our video stream go over extremely well!
ALSO, we STILL have one Sony Ericcson CELL PHONE TO GIVE AWAY!
Check our website for details
www.thisweekingeek.net
It's SO easy, it's criminal !
So check us out and WIN a phone from THIS WEEK IN GEEK!

Birdman
OUT!
Thanks to our many sponsors

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TALKSHOE and TWIG INFO for LIVE SHOW TOMMOROW

nobody@vox.com(birdman) — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:19:00 -0230

Hey Folks
This is the Birdman reporting in!

We have SUCCESSFUL test of our TALKSHOE show and actually had calls from the UK and Algeria as well.
So that was awesome!

Here is our link for tommorow 's show
http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/talkCast.jsp?masterId=34665&cmd=tc

and here is the FAQ for talkshoe as you WILL need the client
http://www.talkshoe.com/se/help/FAQ.html

Anyway folks
COME and check it out and get ready for an awesome show and stuff :)

Birdman
out!

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More prizes from www.thisweekingeek.net and Littlegeeks.org's Fundraiser

nobody@vox.com(birdman) — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:33:27 -0230

Hey boys and girls

Birdman once again reporting in!
So now, I have some MORE good news to report from the front .
I have received MORE confirmation of prizes for our Fundraiser so that means more prizes and more chances to raise money for a great charity like www.littlegeeks.org

So far we have prizes from
Lexmark
Motorola
Adobe
TechSmith
McAfee
Sony Ericsson
Andy Walker
Mt Bellies Restaurant

Anyway, potential prizes on the way as well as the date draws closer.

Birdman
out!

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Busy @ This Week in Geek and a round up

nobody@vox.com(birdman) — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:04:38 -0230

Greetings mortals and autobots alike!

Birdman as always reporting in from the Birdman Blog and as you can see by the time stamp, it's late and if it's late...it means I am up working and doing some sort of production work or I am doing some ludacris amount of show research or emails...man I work ALOT.

Anyway, as things have been progressing here at TWIG at a breakneck pace..........actually Steve and I have recently done an interview on Tv Cogeco for thier show "In Touch" and it was fun experience. Actually alot of things were discussed in the green room and one of them was....pitching TWIG as a TV show...so whose to say that we won't bring TWIG into your home. However, we went out there and recorded our set with the host and it went really well. So watch our Interview to be playing this week on Tv Cogeco in the Niagara region and it will certainly NOT be the last you see of us on TV.

So the fundraiser is starting to come up on the weekend and I personally will be thankful for the end of the stress but I have made ALOT of really cool contacts from this and even have made some interesting things happen for TWIG for the summer. I really have to make a particular shout out to Betsy Weber and the group at TechSmith and to all our other sponsors like Motorola and Lexmark who have really gone above and beyond and stayed in constant contact with me and been amazingly friendly.

I have finally got a list of the prizes confirmed and there sitting in the studio and thier presence will be missed as mostly they make a nice place to put stuff on when I walk into the studio. So it has really been a smashing good time going around and doing what I can for littlegeeks.org and has even spun into several new oppourtunities for myself and my fundraising skills.

So now as the time has wound down, I wonder what TWIG will be headed into the new season as the summer moves forward, well we have some ideas. I have been working with some ideas and actually will have some cool stuff for the summer and will include specials on the Transformers and actually have press kits from Hasbro and Paramount and will even do shows on Ghost Hunting and space sciences and so much more.

However, the Birdman will be flying the coop for a few weeks on a much deserved vacation and Steve "Snowball" Saylor will be having various guest hosts during that time. However you all know me by now. you know I'll end up doing some work doing . Which reminds me....

Steve and I will be MC'ing a Canadian Cancer event for the Cape Croker Relay for life on June 22nd from 7pm till 7am...that's right, Steve and I will be on the air for 12 hours. So this will be our third MC event in as many months more or less, so we will have done the Podcamp C'est what event, and our Littlegeeks.org Fundraiser and now this. This is a great event and many like them are held in communties across this country. However, I'll post a brief link here but this will be as best as I can do

http://www.thehealthline.ca/eventdetails.asp?eventid=1629

and here

http://www.cancer.ca/ccs/internet/standard/0,3182,3543_354813_1753836594_langId-en,00.html

In closing, we have an Interview with the composer of Battlestar Galactica and his name is Bear McCreary and his website can be found at http://www.bearmccreary.com/

We are recording this tommorow and hopefully should be up ASAP but we'll be LIVE this week at 1pm from Mt Bellies here in Welland as first remote on location

I'll post our talkshoe stuff as soon as I know it.

Anyway, folks

Birdman

OUT!

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THIS WEEK IN GEEK! Charity Fundraiser for Littlegeeks.org

nobody@vox.com(birdman) — Tue, 29 May 2007 20:26:16 -0230

Hey guys

This is Mike "Birdman" Dodd of This Week In Geek and I decided I finally better crawl out of the rock I have been hiding under and playing XBOX live and come out and advertise our podcast here on Vox!

Also doing what I can to bring our little podcast and radio show some real attention .

Also, to promote our season 1.5 primere and Charity fund raiser for littlegeeks.org and to post our Press release :)

On Thursday I'll be interviewed on a local TV Station regarding our event :)

So anyway......

I'll post the link to the LIVE show as soon as we get active :)

Birdman

OUT!

*Media Advisory: Interview and photo opportunity*

In a celebration of geekdom, This Week in Geek hosts Steve "Snowball"
Saylor and Mike "Birdman" Dodd, will kick-start summer with a
fundraiser to support up-and-coming geeks.

With the duo's off-the-wall humour and enthusiasm, the event promises
to be filled with non-stop entertainment.

Saylor and Dodd created a cult-like following of "Big Geeks" through
Niagara College's radio station after their first episode in January.

Interest soon spilled over to the much larger Internet audience as

podcasts of episodes and special features were made available on the
show's website, thisweekingeek.net <http://thisweekingeek.net>. To

date the site has had more than 75,000 hits and more than 3,000
downloads from those interested in what's going on in the wide world
of geek.

This Week in Geek's popularity was further displayed when the
first-year students' show was awarded Best Specialty Show during

April's Graffiti Awards – the Niagara College broadcasting awards. The

show beat out nominees from second- and third-year programs and was
the only first-year show to be nominated in the category.

To celebrate the show's popularity and the beginning of a new season,

a party will be held on Saturday, June 9 from 1-4pm at M.T. Bellies
restaurant in Welland.

Attendees will have the opportunity to walk away with prizes donated
from companies including Lexmark, Motorola, TechSmith and Andy Walker

of labrats.tv <http://labrats.tv>.

All proceeds from the show will go to support Walker's Little Geeks
foundation, which provides financially disadvantaged children with
computers and one year of Internet service free of charge.

Fellow broadcasting students Pierce Derks and Brandon Chambers, hosts

of the show Punk the Dial, will MC the event. In true This Week in
Geek fashion, the event will also be broadcasted live on the website.

For more information, contact:

Michael Dodd, Host/Producer

289-228-1406

mikejdodd@gmail.com , feedback@thisweekingeek.net

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TWIG Is BACK! 60,000 Hits and 2500 downloads? WHOA!

nobody@vox.com(birdman) — Wed, 09 May 2007 03:04:19 -0230

Hey guys

Birdman reporting in from the NEWLY moved in TWIG studios and finally getting around to getting the equipment wired and the debts paid off for the new stuff and figuring what wires and cords go where but we are comfortably getting settled into our new surroundings.

So anyway, I am back from the week and change hitaus and it finally feels good get to back on the horse and get back to work. Which means I have a slew of emails and phone calls to return and see what I can to get my charity event moving a bit further along. I have made some progress and gotten some confirmations but I'll have to make some additional follow up emails and phone calls and work with Andy Walker and see what I can find our little geeks fundraiser.

I am excited for this event to happen as I see it as a major step in Steve and I's career as broadcasters. Speaking of that, I have applied for a scholarship from Native Affairs which would outfit us with new media equipment worth 5000 bucks. I am fairly optimistic about being able to receive this and with that, we'll get some snazzy new equipment and really take things up a notch and increase our media presence.

This summer is already shaping up to be fairly busy and already I am thinking of applying for the Canadian Television Fund and seeing if we can take TWIG to a broadcaster like G4 or even someone like City or something like that. It'll be a project that I'll develop as time goes on and who knows it could be something to do after I am done school. I also have been toying with the idea of a TWIG movie....or more like a documentary and have it be Steve and I's evolution from podcast to Broadcast or even something like our trip across North Amercia to the San Diego Comic con or some HUGE geek event and have it be our adventure and see where it goes.

Alot of this depends on luck and happenstance but I am a huge believer in that good things will happen if you work hard enough at time and are persistant. I said to Steve, a few weeks ago, prepare to be famous and I most certainly meant it....i intend to be successful before I have a diploma....I have a grand vision and I believe I already have all the right people in my life to make it happen....

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