Changes at The 4EVER Group

4EVER Group Focused on Membership Growth as Co-Founder Departs


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Feb. 26 2008 (Philadelphia, PA) The 4EVER Group, the leader in education and resources for the event video industry, today congratulated co-founder and former Director of Education Tim Ryan as he took leave from the organization.

“All of us who have worked with Tim wish him the best as he refocuses his efforts on growing his already-successful video production business,” said The 4EVER Group’s Director of Development Steve Wernick.

Ryan, along with his wife Lee Ann, own Treasured Memories Video in Massapequa, New York. He announced his leave from The 4EVER Group due to personal and private reasons February 25.

Wernick and Ryan established The 4EVER Group as the premier resource for event video production firms seeking professional development opportunities and access to networks of fellow event producers and the vendors that serve them. Event DV Magazine named Wernick and Ryan of The 4EVER Group to its inaugural Top-25 list of contributors to the industry in 2005. Since it’s founding in 2005, The 4EVER Group has hosted professional events and conferences attracting an international host of video professionals and vendors.

“We appreciate all that Tim has done with The 4EVER Group,” said Wernick. “The 4EVER Group was founded for the promotion and benefit of event video production companies exactly like Tim’s.”

Under Wernick’s continuing leadership, and with the assistance of a strong team that includes Ed Wardyga, Ken Ehrhart and LaDonna Moore, The 4Ever Group remains focused on growing its substantial membership and expanding the events, services, vendors and professional networks critical to assisting members in growing their businesses.

At The 4EVER Group’s most recent annual international conference, VIDEO 08, in Orlando Florida, members indicated expanding demand for newer areas of event production services such as the creation of video biographies and memorial productions for private clients, as well as sports- and school-based productions. Traditional areas of business include wedding video productions, corporate video productions and the production of photo montages for corporate and private clients.

In addition, The 4EVER Group’s 2007 Artistic Achievement Awards attracted global interest with entries from event video producers in Austria, Hong Kong, Puerto Rico, Canada, and the Philippines.

The 4EVER Group is the leading resource for video producers, especially those in the social event industry. For more information about the events and activities of The 4EVER Group, please visit www.4EVERGroup.org, or call 1-888-4EVERG1.

Why Get A Wedding Video?

An associate from California posted this Youtube clip;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP0UHCVyvtU&mode=related&search

In it, a couple discusses their wedding, and their decision to not have a video recording of the day. It's worth spending the 5 or 6 minutes there is you're unsure about hiring a wedding video producer.

NACE Conference

I recently celebrated my 4th anniversary as a member of the Philadelphia chapter of the National Association of Catering Executives (NACE). To celebrate, national NACE is having its annual convention in Philadelphia this summer. OK, that's not completely accurate, but the conference is coming to Philadelphia.

Since I'm part of the local chapter, and I know a thing or two about national conferences, I volunteered to serve on the committee assisting the national team. I'm serving as chair of the closing Gala. It suits me well, because the national is making most of the arrangements, and I will have little to do until the last month or two before the conference.

The local NACE chapter is an excellent place for industry professionals to meet and share. It's just another way of staying involved in the social event business.