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I didn’t have time to blog this yesterday, after news hit the streets, but CONGRATULATIONS to Jody Evans, who will be leaving Vermont Public Radio to become program director at KUT in Austin TX in September.
I’ve come to know Jody in my time on the PRPD board. What I appreciate most about her is that [...]

Or, easier than you think.
In last week’s PRPD Webinar about Social Media on a Budget, Bruce Warren talked briefly about video. He told participants it was easy to get started, and the cost was low.
If you’re looking for examples, here’s one from Poynter Institute’s Al Thompkins. His kit is versatile and reasonably low-cost. Check out [...]

Bruce Warren led an excellent webinar a few minutes ago, on a subject that many stations are struggling with… and frankly, ALL stations should be struggling with.
Disclosure: I’m on the PRPD Board of Directors, but if I thought this webinar was crappy I wouldn’t be writing about it, would I? PRPD has introduced a new [...]

The PRPD board wrapped up its annual retreat yesterday in Miami Beach, and apart from about one hour total on the beach, we pored over the results of our recent survey of members and began work on a strategy for the organization over the next 1-3 years.
In the next couple weeks, we’ll publish the results [...]

PRPD’s blog covers the particulars of Jay’s departure to CNN - and rightly notes the meat of the announcement: the more broad programming role that NPR is considering as it moves to replace him - the multi-platform approach that Ken Stern, Mitch Praver and others are thinking about. This bears watching.

I’m in Miami Beach for a couple days, with other members of the PRPD Board, at our annual retreat. It’s great to see my colleagues again and catch up with them - what I love more than anything are the exchanges about programming tactics and strategies that follow dinner late into the evening.
We have a [...]