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Welcome to MEISA.org. The Music
and Entertainment Industry Student Association is an organization
comprised of college and university students with an interest in the
music and entertainment industries. Students can gain both experience
and the opportunity to network with industry professionals through
local, regional, and national activities and events.
Please peruse our website to learn more about our organization. If you
have further questions, do not hesitate to contact the MEISA Executive
Board or MEISA Regional Representatives.
Also, our National MEISA Conference is only weeks away! Make
sure you and your chapter are renewed your
membership MEIEA and then get yourself registered
so you can enjoy this year's conference at Five Towns College!
Sincerely,
2007-2008 MEISA Executive Board
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Conferences news!
The Alumni mixer is set for the 56th Fighter Group Restaurant (less than .2 miles from the host hotels) They will serve us some light food and a cash bar will be provided. We have the room from 8-10:30 pm. All current and alumni MEISA members are welcome to attend!
Both the Townplace Suites and the Courtyard Marriot are now booked. If you have not booked your room yet, email Nikki at president@meisa.org ASAP so we can pin down the 3rd hotel.
In order to change over from online to onsite registration, online conference registration will close at midnight Tuesday March 25. Pre-register for the conference at www.meiea.org. If you have a group from your chapter that plans on registering on-site, please let us know so we can prepare your badges ahead of time. Email Nikki at president@meisa.org.
If you are interested in applying for either an executive board position or a regional rep postion, we will be accepting applications until Friday at noon. Check out the Election Resources for more details.
And if your chapter would like to host a fall regional conference, you can also find the regional conference handbook on our website. Proposal submissions are due to be presented at the spring conference. If you are interested but will need an extension, please email Nikki at president@meisa.org.
Looking forward to the conference!
Newsletter
The newest MEISA newsletter has been uploaded and can be found here!
MEISA Alumni!
News and information for you concerning this year's conference is ready and available for you on the Alumni Relations page. Just click here!
February Newsletter
February National MEISA Newsletter is now up and available by clicking here.
National MEISA Contests!
Deadlines for our national contests are coming up quickly!
Chapter List + Browser Updates
Several of you have emailed in and sent us updates and information about your new chapters. All of your requested updates have been added! Please keep them coming!
Also, the website has been picked apart and recoded in several areas, solving the Firefox versus Internet Explorer debacle. If you have any problems with viewing certain parts of the site, don't hesitate to email!
Chapter List!
The updated chapter list had been coded and uploaded for all of you to peruse! It can be found in Membership > Chapter List. Or you can just click here! The chapter listings were made with the most recent information that was provided to the E-Board. If your listing is incorrect or just completely absent, do not hesitate to email me and I'll fix you up. Enjoy!
Important Dates
February 15: Battle of the Bands submission deadline
March 1: Scholarship, Outstanding Chapter of the Year, Marketing Contest, and National and Regional Officer Application deadline
(Guidelines and applications available on the Resources pages)
March 28-29: International MEIEA Conference at Five Towns College in Long Island, NY. Information and registration is available at www.meiea.org.
Don't forget to renew your dues ASAP!
MEISA's version of March Madness!
March 2008 will be the first annual MEISA Service Month! In one month, our nation-wide network of MEISA members at over 40 universities and colleges will be supporting music-related causes. Each MEISA chapter will participate in community service activities to benefit a national, regional, or local organization of its choice.
What can you do?
Get your chapter together to volunteer for an organization’s upcoming event or fundraising effort, host a benefit concert to raise money and awareness for an organization, or organize a community event such as a music forum or class for local schools, shelters, etc. And those are just a few ideas!
Who can you support?
It’s up to your chapter but if you can’t find a cause, let us know! There’s tons of music non-profits out there so do some searching and find one to latch onto. March also happens to be Music In Schools month. Some potential organizations on the national level may include Music For America, Future of Music Coalition, Support Music, VH1 Save The Music, Experience Music Project, Artist Empowerment Coalition, and To Write Love On Her Arms. Locally, there is Club Passim (Boston), Rock For Kids (Chicago), Heart and Soul (Salt Lake City), Lady Slipper (Durham, NC), and Justice Through Music (Washington, D.C.).
We’re counting on your involvement and support so MEISA can really make a difference this March!
Internet Explorer vs. Firefox
It also recently come to my attention that some people swear that they cannot see specific content around the site. However, upon checking, myself and others always find the pages to be perfectly fine. While doing a little research, I found the common trend in everyone's problems. A majority of this site uses tables in order to keep everything aligned and well put together. This was a common feature of the original design and something that I tried to continue using. However, for anyone using Internet Explorer, the tables are often misaligned due to the browser attempting to set things the way it finds suitable. The rest of us who are seeing the site fine are usually using another browser called Mozilla Firefox. Firefox is free, has less security leaks and bugs than IE, and also prevents issues such as these from popping up. If you have not already, for now, we suggest that you download and install Mozilla Firefox from this site. These content problems will be looked at and fixed in the near future.
Chapter of the Year Application!
Have amazing events? A dedicated membership and adviser? Perhaps you have quite possibly the best MEISA chapter of them all? Then, head over to the award resources page and download the application for the 2008 Chapter of the Year Award!
Marketing Contest, Scholarships, and Newsletter!
Think you have the skills to put together not only a decent but awesome marketing campaign? Then, head over to the awards page and download the guidelines and application! Or, if you're think you're qualified and deserving the national MEISA scholarship award, visit the same page to check out the guidelines, deadlines, and application. The December 2007 National Newsletter has also been uploaded and can be found here for reading and download!
2008 Battle of the Bands!
For anyone interested in the 2008 National MEISA Battle of the Bands Competition, the guidelines and application are now available for download! Check it out and show the rest of us what you got!
October Newsletter!
The October issue of the monthly MEISA Newsletter has been uploaded to our website. If you have not already received the email with the link, please click here to read it! Also included in the newsletter is an interview with a MEISA alum, Kate Dore, who graduated from UMass Lowell and speaks about her experiences about working in various positions throughout the music industry. To read the entire interview, click here.
Election Resources!
Thinking about perhaps running to become a regional representative? Or maybe even a National E-Board member? Information and applications are now available at the Election Resources page. Check them out!
Update!
After a long and static hiatus, the MEISA website has finally been updated! Information and files are currently being organized, and rearranged to keep the website in order, clean and easy to read.
On that note, there are still some areas that are under construction, so if you reach an error, try refreshing the site. If the error persists, it's because the page has not yet been updated completely. Please bear with me.
Please feel free to look around. If there's anything you'd like to say added or changed, feel free to let me know!
Rate Your Internship
We have a NEW Internship Central section on the MEISA Forum called RATE YOUR INTERNSHIP! This section will help us trade REAL information with each other about internships. As people post internship listings and reviews, you can find direct advice and contacts from other MEISA members in the similar situations. Please start by posting your own internship rating in the Rate Your Internship section, then go from there and respond to some others. The more information, the better! |
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