Connecting Community TV and The Social Web

SuzeMuse is posting a series of stories about the author’s experience growing up and working in community television in Canada. The series was inspired by a post written by Chris Brogan about social media. In response, the author writes, “Hmmm. Sounds to me like Community Television to me. Over the next few blog posts I shall endeavour to explain.”

In the second post, “Online Media: Community TV Comes Full Circle - Part II,” the author writes:

“A few months after I started volunteering, a job opportunity presented itself. At barely 20 years old, I was hired by Skyline Cablevision to be a Staff Producer, one of 5 paid producers who were hired to manage the productions and the volunteer crews. I had 7 different shows to produce. I was the youngest person on staff, I was in charge of building a community of people, developing their skills to produce good quality programming delivered to targeted audiences, and engaging people in an interactive way (something that mainstream TV networks did not do very well back then). It was social media delivered via television!”

Read more at suzemuse.wordpress.com.