Jul
Today is a great day for 709 Media Room. We announce the launch of Red709.com, our social network dedicated to audiovisual professionals.
For us, this project has taken almost two years of work. We are truly proud to have reached this point today, after so much time of sacrifice, effort, planning and economic investment, based exclusively on our resources.
Sometimes, as professionals, we have things to tell, things we are proud of in our daily work. There are other times when it is urgent and necessary to find that advice, that hint, in order to solve a situation while we are fully involved in our projects. Sometimes, when time permits (or forces us to do so), we want to improve our training in a constantly evolving sector. The problem is that we often don’t know where to turn.
This is the true meaning of Red709: a space in which the professional user can share and search for knowledge. Of course, in an orderly and clear way. After all, those of us who are behind this “monster” suffer these same concerns and spend a lot of time looking for information that is really useful to us.
At such a hard time for the profession, affected, like any other industry, by a deep crisis, we want to show that this same crisis does not have to affect ideas. If, instead of looking for this information in the praiseworthy initiatives existing in other languages, the Spanish-speaking professional user would do so in Red709, the objective we set ourselves would have been achieved.
It’s what drives us since we founded 709 Media Room.
For the time being, it will only be possible to enter by invitation. We have to do it this way to guarantee the correct functioning of the platform.
Our viability plan depends to a large extent on those who joined forces to move this platform forward. Because behind Red709 there is a team that has bet a lot on the project and that has to see their efforts rewarded. We are a small family that, almost two years ago, reached an agreement: to make Red709 possible.
We also announce that the first brand, although not directly linked to this market, who believed in us when all this was just a pile of papers with ideas, is Nominalia. Thanks to their partnership, we have the right technology to host a platform as complex as a social network. We would like to thank them publicly for their faith in us. Apart from that, a pile of papers, they were brave enough to pronounce the magic word “go for it“. Without this faith, in all sincerity, this could not have been possible. At least in the way we dreamed of.
Nominalia also offers special discounts for Red709 users. In fact, anyone who registers a domain, or contracts hosting with Nominalia will get a 50% discount for the first year. This is an exclusive offer for Red709 users.
Also, we cannot forget that 21 users spent a whole week “playing” with the platform in a testing phase we organized at the beginning of May. As much as we have told them, we want to reiterate that their work as “testers” has turned out to be crucial. We owe them a debt, at least a moral one, that we want, at some point, to repay in order to show them all our gratitude. Their criticisms, their doubts, their problems and fights with the network have been the best way for us to come out of our shell and see with regenerated and fresh eyes what we were failing in.
Finally, we continue to work on improvements to the project. It doesn’t end here. For us, this is the Beta phase of the project. The good thing is that we will improve faster thanks to the daily input of all users.
