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Vermont Public Radio is doing lots of innovative things and reaping the results in audience and membership. The latest initiative launched today - a “Green Membership Drive.” There’s been a lot of talk about this, but unless I’m mistaken, there’s not been much experimentation with it yet.
VPR seems to have gone the distance on this [...]

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 — [...]

Andy Carvin has seeded a list of public media people, programs and stations using Twitter. It’s already an impressive list and it will grow: it’s a wiki, so if you or your station or program belong on the list, go ahead and add yourself.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Public Media’s Twitter Pack”, url: “http://toddmundt.com/blog/2008/05/02/public-medias-twitter-pack/” });

Some of us in public media are dipping the toes in the water of social media; some of us are still nervous about what all of this means and what risks we might as we increase our exposure to the great unwashed. Jeremiah Owyang, who is a Senior Analyst at Forrester Research in the area [...]

Thanks to Carl Watanabe for pointing out the piece Doc wrote for Linux Journal, just before he joined Rafat Ali, Dennis Haarsager, and Diane Mermigas on the Technology and Trends panel at IMA. Searls presented a list of ten trends that he thinks will have an impact on public media. I’ve lifted them from his [...]

It looks like Chris Anderson (of Long Tail fame) is listening to public radio more than ever, but to public radio stations less - particularly during pledge drives. His iPhone gives him access to a wealth of public radio podcasts, effortlessly updates during syncing, which he uses to avoid everything from shows he doesn’t like [...]