The Actor's Checklist serves as a news and information source for media arts and communication professionals, and entertainment entrepreneurs. It achieves this by providing networking and connection tools site visitors use to accomplish their goals. Chief among this are dynamically updated news and information items found throughout the sites many pages as typified by the news and events page. There is also a site blog archiving all events, an RSS/XML feed to plug into a news reader, an SMS text alert group that signals your cell or Blackberry of news and information updates, and now a podcast directory. <br /> <p>The focus is on media and entertainment industry news, conferences, networking events, talent competitions, media financing, workshops and contests, new digital media distribution technologies, and upcoming event information for producers, agents, actors, models, advertising professionals, record industry, musical performers and all other media professionals in aligned communications industries.</p>