Converge

There’s another term for that, which I won’t use here.
An unexpectedly heavy workload prevented me from posting the third of my pieces on Peak Oil and public media, but I’m happy to report that I’ll be able to publish it here tomorrow.
Thanks for your patience!

Certainly the new iPhone is great news. I’ve owned an iPhone since June 29, 2007 and it’s been the best phone I’ve ever owned. It’s the first phone I’ve used every day (despite having owned a cell phone since 1996), the first phone (since a Samsung I owned in 2000) that was rock solid reliable [...]

One of NPR’s newest blogs showcases the work of the Knights in Training - the journalists who are training to integrate video and other media elements into their reporting. Knight Digital Media Center provided the funding.
Posts are thin so far (the blog is barely launched), but it looks like a great platform for reporters to [...]

Since I noted, in passing, the difficulties at KWMU a few weeks ago, I want to follow up on the news of Patty Wente’s termination yesterday.
I think there are a couple of things worth noting: as of this morning at least, if you check out the comments on the Riverfront Times blog, they are generally [...]

We’re increasing our use of video at Louisville Public Media. We’ve conducted a few experiments along the way - in-studio interviews, etc., with more expensive cameras, but what you see below is something we shot with a Flip cam last week.

Reporter Gabe Bullard interviewed Louisville’s Mayor for a story he was doing; in addition to [...]

John Proffitt speaks… and the community responds.
I’ve already written about John’s excellent question: where are the female public media bloggers? This gets to the wider question of who is blogging about public media. A few of us are working on a couple of ways for you to tap into the stream of thinking in our [...]

A few of us got an email from John Proffitt a short while ago:
Guys (and I mean that in a gender-specific way),
I was exchanging e-mail with a public media colleague of the older persuasion and mentioned the names of the various bloggers / thinkers that I follow — and each of you was mentioned — [...]

Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo.

Common sense says you don’t jump into everything new that comes along with no coherent plan. If you don’t trust common sense, read the excellent new book Groundswell, which emphasizes careful (BUT quick) planning and implementation of social media tactics.
WFPL News went live on twitter about a month ago, after some brief conversations here in [...]

Last week, I posted our draft document… the final version is below. It’s largely the same, but we added a piece about building audience online, since that’s been a difficult issue for most public stations with web sites. If you have any thoughts, or your organization has a similar strategy to share, please do so. [...]

You don’t need to be a Brightkite user to see Adam Flater’s pictures from Parkersburg, IA, a scene of devastation after Sunday’s tornado, which killed four people in Parkersburg, and two others in a nearby town.
I don’t know a lot about Adam; we’ve been fellow Brightkite “friends” for a few weeks. But seeing his pictures [...]

I’ve been happy to tell anyone who would listen about the tremendous work Cindy has done as Executive Director of Iowa Public Radio, but in fact, her work speaks for itself.
Cindy has announced her decision to leave Iowa Public Radio at the end of June. She’ll return to Minnesota to spend time with her family [...]