Archive for May, 2008
Tony Shawcross Wins Knight News Challenge Grant
Tony Shawcross of Denver Open Media was recently awarded $380,000 by the Knight News Challenge to develop new “Tools for Public Access TV“:
“This project will enable public access TV stations and community technology centers to use common tools to create web sites that enable the transfer of video between the web site and the TV [...]
Migrating to a Content Management System
Jason Daniels from Medfield Community Cable Access posted notes from the Alliance for Community Media Northeast Region Conference on “Migrating to a CMS.”
“The goal of this session is to get an Access center in the right frame of mind to begin the process of moving their website from a static html site to a dynamic [...]
“Keep Us Connected”
From Matt Schuster, Chair of the Alliance for Community Media’s Board of Directors:
“With media consolidation, the further commercialization of media and a reduction of public affairs programming and independent voices on commercial television, the role of community media is more valuable today than ever.
Over the past several years, community media has faced many challenges [...]
Community Media 2.0: It’s Still About Us and Our Physical Communities
My co-workers and I had a meeting today to discuss plans for our new website. Two important things caught my attention in thinking about how to frame the work we’re doing through our visual and semantic design.
First, visual design. The thing that sets us (community media centers) apart in a REALLY important way [...]
YouTube AND Public Access Television
On my way into work this morning, I noticed an article in the Boston Metro entitled, “Pol eye YouTube for city life.” In it, Greg St. Martin talks about how Boston City Councilor, Rob Consalvo is interested in using YouTube to “broadcast” PSA’s to reach younger audiences. Martin adds,
“Consalvo said the city [...]
