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Media Makers was founded in 1993 by Jon Bowen. Jon loves production and design and enjoys helping people use video to deliver messages effectively. Jon grew up in Los Angeles and began his career at an early age working with his father, Al Bowen, an industry pioneer. Jon's love of production started with his first big project, the CBS Pro-Bowlers Tour in 1978. Jon co-founded Bowen Video Facilities in 1980. While working full-time, Jon got a degree in Media Management from Cal Sate Northridge in 1984. He worked on hundreds of projects providing broadcast services to network and regional TV productions - commercials for Robinson's, Sears, Stater Brothers, to name a few. Jon also worked on many music industry projects, including Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's Born in the USA Tour (receiving album credits), hundreds of sporting events including the LA Olympics for ABC, many projects for TV Ministries, and numerous corporate videos. Jon won an EMMY Award and has been nominated for another, both for work he has done for ABC. In 1990, Jon began working on more specialized projects for different entities and this led to the formation of Media Makers in 1993. Media Makers came about from a need to provide service to a few businesses and non-profit clients for select and particular video production needs. Media Makers is dedicated to helping businesses with promotion, marketing, and video production. Among many other projects, Media Makers has produced Project ALERT for the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation for the past twenty years . Project ALERT is nationally acclaimed and recognized as one of a few scientifically validated programs that teach kids the dangers of using substances. The program is video-based. It has been a very satisfying project to be involved in and Jon has received many industry awards for his work in the program.

The Idea Factory provides services focused on transforming the corporate innovation process, taking into account the velocity required to thrive in the New Corporate Eco-system. Our unique products and services have been thoroughly developed, tested and refined during the past three years with over two dozen of the world's most significant companies. In our workshops, we weave together talent, ideas and facilities to enable participant involvement and foster innovative solutions focused on a particular task, project or strategy. Workshops serve to raise awareness within the client and can serve as a catalyst for change, usually applied for client's strategy sessions. We also serve as an outsourced innovation department, creating a blueprint for new business ventures built around a customer-centric vision of the future.

WE SHARE CONNECTIONS WHO ARE WE AND WHY DO WE EXIST? We're really glad you asked these questions. We are a couple of Boomers who woke up one day and decided that just because we are over 65, we are not going to roll over and die inside. And so we made a decision. Why should we as digital immigrants waste all the years of valuable knowledge and experience acquired in the old analogue world, without sharing this treasure with the new digital citizens. Its our aim to blend Youth and technology with Boomers and experience. We are not professing to be experts at anything, but wait just a minute that is not exactly true. Michael the 1945 model has over 5 decades of experience in Fashion Retailing, Manufacturing, and Marketing in North America and England where he was born, and Brian, a 1948 model graduated in 1974 at Wits University in Johannesburg as a Chartered Accountant. Now, have we made mistakes on the way?, absolutely, but as Oscar Wilde said "Experience is the name we give to our mistakes" We pride ourselves after all these years on possessing good judgment, because as everybody knows, good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. Whoever visits our website will not find any old speak, hucksterism, or blather. You will however find integrity, as we try together to figure out a solution to what we as Boomers consider to be one of todays major economic issues.. Retail today, is it in crisis or not? With so many major retailers closing their doors, that's why we asked this question. There is no doubting that traditional Bricks and Mortar stores have taken a hit since the online revolution. We believe there are solutions and we would like to share them with you. Please visit www.socialstrategygroup.com