Texas Community Media Summit Website

The Texas Community Media Summit is taking place on March 1 this year at UT at Austin. The website explains that the Summit will take place with the purpose of:

• “Understanding and knowledge of the Texas community media landscape
• Inclusion of ethnic, social and cultural diversity in community media
• Collaboration and partnerships among Texas community media
• Cohesive political focus aimed at influencing state / federal media policy”

The website (built on Drupal) caught my attention because of how the content in the left sidebar is laid out. After the list the contents, including overview, summit agenda and other details, the site provides a list of TX community television stations followed by a list of TX vloggers, and TX community and free radio stations. It is great to see community television stations and vloggers highlighted next to each other within the context of community media in TX.

The website also has a link to the four-part documentary from the 2007 Chicago Community Media Summit that, as the site explains, “examine the voices, the content, best examples and practices, and the potential of community media to serve basic human and community needs.”