Mark your calendars - PubCamp West 2 is set for Aug. 25 at Work Evolution Laboratories in Long Beach! Public media staffers from around the west coast will once again be gathering to discuss ways to address some of the challenges we’re facing.
Click here to register, and follow this Tumblr for more details in the coming days.
Here are links to some public media organizations in communities affected by what had been Hurricane Irene, a storm which left more than 20 dead, knocked out power and disrupted transportation on the east coast Aug. 27-29.
More than 60 bloggers, community organization representatives and public media employees gathered at KPCC in Los Angeles last weekend to discuss public media’s future at PubCampWest. Check out photos by Vincent Close from both days of the event below.
We’ll begin posting video of interviews with several event attendees next week.
Many public media organizations are looking for ways to expand their audiences to match the diversity of their communities. During PCW participants talked about different ways to reach and engage a larger audience.
Here are links to iPhone photos of the conference whitesheets listing ideas for reaching the whole community; audio of the full discussion and project pitches follows. For more, check out this Storify from the event.
Whitesheet one: reaching the whole community
Whitesheet two: reaching the whole community
Whitesheet three: reaching the whole community
Whitesheet four: reaching the whole community
Whitesheet five: reaching the whole community
Whitesheet six: reaching the whole community
Whitesheet seven: reaching the whole community
Whitesheet eight: reaching the whole community
Another topic discussed at last weekend’s PCW was how to bring online and broadcast content departments closer together at public media organizations. Participants emphasized the need for organizations to stop thinking about online content as “web extras” which are not as important as broadcast content.
Here are links to iPhone photos of the conference whitesheets listing ideas for integrating online content at public media organizations; audio of the full discussion and project pitches follows. For more, check out this Storify from the event.
Whitesheet one: integrating online
Whitesheet two: integrating online
Whitesheet three: integrating online
Whitesheet four: integrating online
Whitesheet five: integrating online
Whitesheet six: integrating online
PubCampWest was a two-day event. On the first day, conference attendees met in small groups in an effort to create ideas for collaborative projects in three areas: reaching the whole community, integrating online and covering the 2012 election. The following day members of each small group pitched their project ideas to the entire conference.
This week we’ll be posting audio and photos from those pitches. First up: ideas for covering the election.
Below are links to images of the pages that contain the ideas discussed - they’re links instead of embedded photos so you can get a closer look at what’s written. (I apologize if they’re a bit blurry; they were shot with my iPhone.)
Election idea: the station as a hub of voter information
Election idea: civic education
Election idea: a collaborative effort for local fact-checking
And here is audio of the discussion about the election ideas, taken from the conference live stream.
One of the topics discussed at the 2011 PubCampWest conference was the importance of online content. Content posted on the web should not be considered an “extra,” participants said, but should be seen as vital in its own right. In this brief audio clip, one of the conference attendees - a station intern - describes how she consumes news and talks about why online content is important.
Steve Saldivar took a lot of great photos this weekend at PubCampWest. Click here to see his Flickr slideshow from the event. Below is his Storify, which also includes some interesting perspective.
Did you miss PubCampWest? Fortunately, there are at least two great Storifys out there curating Tweets from this weekend’s conference. Below is a Storify by the Association of Independents in Radio’s Jessica Clark; I’ll post a second Storify later today.
Thanks to Kim Bui for all her hard work, KPCC who hosted and everyone who worked to make it a great success. Come back to this tumblr this week for archive video of today’s presentations, additional photos and video and more!
Good morning, and welcome to the second day of PubCampWest! This morning we’ll be presenting the results from yesterday’s discussions on three topics: Election 2012, integrating online and reaching the whole community. Discussion most likely will start between 9-9:30am. We have live streaming video below, as well as a feed of Tweets using the #PubCampWest hashtag. If you can’t see the video, please let us know with a #PubCampWest Tweet. (Audio is muted until the event begins; we’re set to mobile quality for the sake of the bitrate and stream, so it might be a tad delayed and/or pixelated.)
Here are links to some of the resources and projects we discussed today. Feel free to add your own in the comments.
Tiki-Toki: create your own embeddable timeline.
Qrank: create a quiz.
KCET’s Departures: an online exploration of Los Angeles neighborhoods.
Visual.ly: create infographics, still in beta.
KPCC’s OnCentral: a news site for neighborhoods around L.A.’s Central Avenue.
WDET’s Truck Stop: residents can report trucking violations via text.
WBEZ’s Dear Chicago: Chicago residents discuss the problems affecting their lives.
This afternoon we’ll be discussing election 2012 and integrating online. Check out Tweets from the event below:
Good morning, and welcome to the first full day of PubCampWest! We’ll be breaking into groups today and discussing three topics: Election 2012, integrating online and reaching the whole community. You can follow the conversation below; I’ll (hopefully) be taking comments in the conversation window below as well.
We’ll be using the hashtag #pubcampwest for this weekend’s conference. Check out the Twitterfeed below, and keep coming back to pubcamp.tumblr.com for more content from the conference!
If you RSVPed, you’ll get this in your e-mail soon. If not 1) You should RSVP and B) You now have it here.
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We’re so excited to have you be part of the first ever #pubcampwest! As promised, a full and detailed schedule is below. Let us know if you have any questions!
The Final Schedule
Friday
6-8 p.m.
Happy Hour! (King’s Row, 20 E Colorado Blvd Pasadena, CA 91105)
We will gather at the station to welcome everyone and walk to the restaurant at 6 p.m. You’re more than welcome to meet us there as well.
Saturday
On Saturday we will be breaking up into groups to discuss the topics you voted on. We’ll ask you to come up with real, workable solutions to the problems we all face.
10 a.m. Welcome and breakfast (Courtesy of KQED and Heirloom LA)
10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Reaching the Whole Community
12:30 p.m. - 1: 30 p.m. Lunch (courtesy of Wood Ranch and KPCC)
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m. Working with Online
3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Election 2012
5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Relax and grab some drinks courtesy of PBS SoCal and Silverlake Wines
Hackathon
This group will gather at 1:30 p.m. and discuss what they’re building Sunday
Sunday, 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
(with breakfast, courtesy of PBS SoCal)
We’ll ask the selected presenters of each group to come up and pitch their idea. We’ll give each person 5 minutes to pitch, and discuss the pitch for about 20 minutes.
After all the pitches are done, we’ll talk about how we can all go back and implement our solutions in our communities/stations.
Hackathon
The hackathon will start its build day, concluding at 5 p.m.
Wifi and charging stations will be provided.
The Evening List — Adam Westbrook creates a handy list of the things that prevent us from innovating:
- You don’t have enough time.
Truth: You will never have enough time, so just get on with it.- You don’t have enough money.
Truth: You will never have enough money, so just get on with it.- You don’t have a good idea.
Everyone has good ideas; they just don’t write them down – so start writing every one down.Click through for the rest.
RSVP!
If you’re planning on attending, please RSVP as soon as possible to ensure we have space for them at the event.
Help us decide on topics!
While #pubcamps are always unconferences (meaning loosely styled, no agenda), we know many of you are coming from far and wide. So help us decide what we should talk about. Vote on ideas and submit your own. We’ll announce the sessions when we get started Saturday. VOTE HERE.
A hackathon!
As part of the first #pubcampwest, we will be holding a developer-driven hackathon to help engage journalists, producers and developers to create better public journalism in a slightly more structured, but equally open and creative atmosphere.
The focus: building a better future for online audio.
Whether curating and presenting archives of public agency meetings, creating new ways of referencing or using online audio in stories, or thinking of ways to allow the public to access and/or augment online audio, we’re seeking ideas for projects that can goad us to think of how we can better present audio to the online world.
Ideas? Skills? Let’s plot them HERE.
The hackathon will happen in conjunction with the rest of the unconference, but with a slightly different schedule: Introductions and rapid-fire presentations of potential projects August 20, after which we’ll review and vote on the best. We’ll start hacking Sunday morning through 5pm, when we’ll wrap things up with 10-minute project presentations.
We’re looking for a head-count on interested parties for the hackathon. Please email Eric Zassenhaus <mailto:ezassenhaus@scpr.org> and let us know if you’d like to be part!
Parking and more details
Parking is available on Raymond Avenue and at the Metro parking structures located a few blocks north and south of the Mohn Broadcast Center:
Del Mar Metro Station 230 S. Raymond Avenue Pasadena, CA 91105
Fillmore Metro Station 95 Fillmore Street Pasadena, CA 91105
We encourage you to take the Metro Gold Line as SCPR is conveniently located between the Del Mar and Fillmore stops.
We will soon have local hotels, directions to the conference and a loose schedule for the weekend up here soon. Stay tuned!
In this social business report issued by Net Prospex, The New York Times was ranked number 1 across a survey of the 100 most social companies in the U.S. beating off established tech companies like Google, Apple, eBay and Amazon.
To out rank giants such as Googe, Apple, eBay and Amazon is no small feat. Moreover, a newspaper, a publication that was supposedly obsolete, is now the front runneer in a list of social companies.The Gray Lady is known for setting standards in its own rite, but can the social media world expect other publications to follow suit?
Will the journalism industry be synonymous with sociability? Liz Heron of the New York Times identifies their short list of standards when merging social media with journalism with a few short words: “Don’t be stupid.”
H/T: Lauren Fisher, Simply Zesty, “How newspapers are leading the way in social media. Yes, really”
Several social media and communications professionals discussed how they used Facebook to reach different communities at the PR News Facebook conference Aug. 9 in San Francisco. They also shared several interesting ideas and best practices. Here’s a look at the conference through Twitter.
We redesigned! Thanks to Ian Hill for putting it together.
While we’re at it, don’t forget to RSVP!!
Have you RSVP’d yet?
(P.S. I hope to have this tumblr redesigned VERY soon!)
“Twitter for Newsrooms is a bit redundant for me because Twitter is my newsroom,” says Mediagazer founding editor Megan McCarthy. Indeed, I’ve heard many journalists compare watching the news cycle on Twitter to being in a physical newsroom when breaking news would come in on the wire.
Except now, instead of the modest hustle and bustle of a newsroom filled with tens of people, the “newsroom” experience of incoming and outgoing information has the potential to reach millions, with 200 million pieces of content produced a day.
” —Alexia Tsotsis (via soupsoup)
“During the Mumbai terror attacks of 2008, Carvin noted, a rumor spread on Twitter that terrorists were using social media to coordinate their actions — and there was a rumor on top of that that the Indian government had told its citizens to refrain Twitter. ‘So there was a period of several hours,’ Carvin noted, ‘where some of the best eyewitnesses got skittish.’ From what we can tell, he said, the rumor likely started on TV, and found its way to Twitter. ‘But in situations like that,’ Carvin said, ‘I’d want to be able to know, in real time, ‘Who started this?’’”
The full details of #pubcampwest:
What: We’re looking at tackling at least three topics: Integrating Online, Election 2012, and Reaching the whole community
When: August 19-21
Where: KPCC’s Crawford Family Forum, 474 Raymond Ave, Pasadena, CA
Everyone is invited. That means public media folks, bloggers and lay folk.
We’ll have an RSVP link up soon.
Want to help? E-mail Kim Bui: kbui (at) kpcc -dot- org.
Be sure to mark your calendar for #pubcamp West Coast, August 19-21. More details coming soon! - Ian
Save the date for the biggest, coolest #pubcamp the Pacific Ocean has seen.
August 19-21, 2011.
Be there.
Yes, we’re holding a #pubcamp this summer for California and the West Coast.
Keep an eye on this space.
