PEG Access TV, MySpace and Social Networks
There’s a lot of activity on MySpace these days. That’s no surprise. But, lots of activity from lots of Public Access TV stations on MySpace? Now, that’s really interesting.
Why would a cable access TV station join a social networking site? I have an idea. But, I’d definitely like to know more.
To investigate the topic, I thought I’d head over to MySpace to start my own collaborative-graduate-thesis MySpace page, Community Media in Transition.
For some background on why a PEG Access TV station or community media center might be interested in participating in online social networks, TechSoup published an article by last November, titled “How to Use MySpace to Raise Awareness.” In it, the author writes
“Designed to help like-minded individuals and organizations connect and share information, social networks are showing promise as low-cost, high-impact marketing channels because they are both highly visited and highly targeted. In particular, many nonprofits are starting to set up profiles on social-networking sites like MySpace to keep ‘friends’ up to date on the latest activities. These friends then invite more friends to join the group and so on, ultimately allowing the nonprofit to reach people well beyond its original circle.”
This is a great summary of the possibilities that MySpace and other social networking sites can provide to folks in access. It’s worth checking out MySpace to see for yourself the level of activity and participation going on with PEG Access TV online.
A PEG Access TV center, with limited resources, could even use MySpaceTV to upload and get the embed code to post video on its website. However, I would recommend using blip.tv before MySpaceTV. That’s because I heart blip.tv.
In any case, see you on MySpace.
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