Striking Camp
The first Public Radio Camp is now history, committed to scores of tweets on Twitter, a hoped-for wiki entry or two, and a lot of work yet to be done.
Behold, a Wordle from Quiddities’ Margaret Rosas reflecting the Twitter traffic:
The second day of this event was much smaller than the first; about eight participants versus the 60-70 present on day 1. One of the things we did was spend some time discussing the overlapping spheres of public media; one model put public media organizations into three groups, shaped by significantly different histories and schemes for regulation… public broadcasters (over-the-air radio and TV) in one sphere, the community media centers with roots in cable TV public, educational, and governmental access (PEG for short) in a second sphere, and the print-based and/or Net-based media groups (Wikimedia, projects like Public-Press.org in the Bay Area, and so on) in a third sphere. Some public media efforts (Democracy Now! came immediately to mind) touch all three spheres, others only one or two. Thinking about these different approaches to public media might help us be more effective in the roll-out of RadioEngage.
Anyway, thanks to everyone who took part in the BarCamp, and we’ll push forward from here…