PublicMediaCampOPB has been rescheduled for Tuesday, September 21, 5:30-9pm

Calling all technology enthusiasts, journalists, students and media makers! Bring your ideas, your wish lists and your “what ifs” and join us for brainstorming and discussion about how public media and the community can better support each other.

When: Tuesday, September 21, 5:30-9pm; light dinner provided

Where: Oregon Public Broadcasting, 7140 SW Macadam Avenue, Portland OR 97219

Registration: Online at http://pubcampopb.eventbrite.com/

Thanks to our sponsors — OPB, CPB and  NPR — it’s all free, though advance registration is required.

Many of you might be wondering what you’ll be doing during tomorrow’s PubCampNC. Here ’tis:

Thanks so much for being a part of PubCampNC (@pubcampnc) in-person; and remotely; and via live stream. North Carolina’s first-ever PublicMediaCamp, a one-of-a-kind unconference hosted by UNC-TV (@unctv) and MCNC (@mcnc), seeks to strengthen the state’s public media engagement through ongoing collaborations with the public: i.e., you.

This collaborative environment begins with content creation and sharing. Content creation and sharing is not only the cornerstone of public media, but also an essential part of the PublicMediaCamp experience. To begin, we want to let you know the many ways you can contribute and let your voice be heard before, during, and after PubCampNC:

PubCamp NC| Where Everything is on the Record | All presentations and sessions at PubCampNC are on the record; blogging, podcasting, live tweeting, and presentation-sharing are all strongly encouraged using the Twitter hashtag #pubcampnc. As such, you are encouraged to bring your laptops, tablets, smartphones or any other connected device and plan to connect, collaborate, and engage throughout the day.

PubCampNC Blog | (http://www.publicmediacamp.org)
As part of the national PubCamp blogging experience, PubCampNC is currently participating in posts at publicmediacamp.org. This site is used to begin conversations, where you can then comment on posts and link to them in your own blogs, tweets, and other social media presences.

PubCampNC Wiki | (http://wiki.publicmediacamp.org/PubCampNC)
In conjunction with the broader PubCamp wiki, PubCampNC has set up a local camp wiki—a collaborative space where PubCampers can edit pages and plan their own camps. Think of it as an active repository for the work we’ll be doing on August 20. From the PubCampNC wiki you can “Join the Workspace,” and add your session comments, session notes, share and embed presentations, and start your own PubCamp.

PubCampNC on Slideshare | (http://www.slideshare.net/group/publicmediacamp)
In addition to being a part of the in-person conversation, during PubCampNC your organizers will be focused on content creation and publishing, detailing who attended, what happened, and what emerged. This is crucial, as content is the key form of social currency that will be exchanged between PubCampNC and other local camps. In order to add content to the body of knowledge around PubCamp, we’ll leverage media-sharing sites like Slideshare and its playlists to distribute information on the wiki and blog. To get involved, create an account at http://www.slideshare.net and join the PublicMediaCamp group (URL listed above).

PubCampNC Google Group | (http://groups.google.com/group/public-media-camp)
As much as we encourage the use if social media for content sharing in PubCampNC, e-mail remains a primary channel of communication for most people online. As a result, e-mail discussion lists such as Google Groups are very effective tools to connect our local community during and after Camp. As North Carolina’s PubCampers, we encourage you to join the national group (see URL above).

PubCampNC on Twitter | (https://twitter.com/pubcampnc)
Share your content, comments and questions with the Twitter community via the hashtag #pubcampnc. Got a little extra space in your tweet? Add the hashtag #pubcamp and let a national audience of PubCampers know what you’re up to. And follow PubCampNC now (and from now on) at @pubcampnc.

As mentioned, PubCampNC adopts an unconference format, during which there is no audience, only participants. In addition to being a partner in content creation, be prepared to take an active role in making the conference what you want it to be—both online and off.

On Friday, you’ll be putting the “public” back in public media. And we can’t wait.

Thanks again.

Want to start the discussion early?  Join us for a pre-camp happy hour at the Scottish Arms!  6 p.m. on Friday, August 13th.

Location – The Scottish Arms

PubCampSTL is just around the corner!  So far, we have about 100 people registered, and we can all look forward to a day of community, public media, and talking about how we can collaborate to make St. Louis a better place!  In preparation for PubCamp, consider the following questions:

1. The biggest issue facing St. Louis is…
2. My one hope for the St. Louis region is…
3. If public media could do one thing for me and my community, it would be…
4. I’d be really interested in working with public media on…

When you check in on Saturday morning, we’ll give you a post-it note so you can write your responses down and post them so the whole group can see what everyone’s saying.

See you Saturday!!

We see Boston as both a media-rich and tech-rich city. We think Boston’s pubmedia presence should draw upon its resources and become a leader in media innovation. By throwing open the doors of the imposing new WGBH station for one day, we want writers, producers, designers, hackers, developers, community leaders and long-time media makers to bring in talent and leave with work to do. We want to increase the new media reporting we see growing throughout public media. We expect public media staffers to form new working relationships with guests who can inform their stories on local and national levels. We expect guests to leave having a new sense of access to their local public media stations. We expect to have new seedlings of ideas to incubate in our local news and public media stations, with the help of new friends. We expect the people of Boston to know “something happened” at 1 Guest Street on August 21 that changed how their media stations work together.

When: 8 a.m. – 7 p.m. Saturday, August 21

Where: WGBH Educational Foundation | One Guest Street, Boston MA, 02135

This event was organized with the help of people from WGBH, WBUR, OpenMediaBoston.org, PRX and PEG access stations in Brookline and Cambridge.

Learn more about our goals for the PublicMediaCamp here

After registering, you may suggest a session you would like to lead on the wiki at http://wiki.publicmediacamp.org/PubCampBostonSchedule

Based on the insights of Kivi Leroux Miller (@kivilm), a leading source of information and guidance for nonprofits with limited resources, @unctv, host of PubCampNC has put together a little Prezi on “The New Realities of Public Media.” What do you think?

On Friday, August 20, 2010, UNC-TV will partner with MCNC to host North Carolina’s first-ever PublicMediaCamp (PubCampNC). PublicMediaCampNC will take place at 10 AM-4 PM from MCNC’s Research Triangle Park’s facility [3021 E. Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2889]. [map this] Event check-in will begin at 9 AM.

For general registration:
http://members.unc-tv.org/unctv_pmc

For remote registration:
http://members.unc-tv.org/pmc_remote

Join us!

PublicMediaCampOPB has been rescheduled for Tuesday, September 21, 5:30-9pm

Calling all technology enthusiasts, journalists, students and media makers! Bring your ideas, your wish lists and your “what ifs” and join us for brainstorming and discussion about how public media and the community can better support each other.

When: Tuesday, September 21, 5:30-9pm; light dinner provided

Where: Oregon Public Broadcasting, 7140 SW Macadam Avenue, Portland, OR 97219

Registration: Online at http://pubcampopb.eventbrite.com/

Thanks to our sponsors — OPB, CPB and  NPR — it’s all free, though advance registration is required.

On August 14^th, 2010, St. Louis will host its first PublicMediaCamp.  KETC/Channel 9 is partnering with St. Louis Public Radio and the St. Louis Beacon for the first PubCamp in the “Gateway to the West.”  The focus of PubCampSTL is the community—how can public media and the St. Louis community collaborate to find creative solutions to important issues in our region?

Attendees will be a mixture of community members and public media staffers—everyone brings a unique, diverse perspective to the day and we’re eager to talk about tangible ways we can work together to make St. Louis an even better place to live.

So, as PubCampSTL approaches, I ask you to consider this question: What is the biggest issue facing the St. Louis region today?

On Friday, August 20, 2010, UNC-TV will partner with MCNC to host North Carolina’s first-ever PublicMediaCamp (PubCampNC). PublicMediaCampNC will take place at 10 AM-4 PM from MCNC’s Research Triangle Park’s facility [3021 E. Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2889]. [map this] Event check-in will begin at 9 AM.

Based on the national PublicMediaCamp (PubCamp) initiative and incorporating the theme of “strengthening public media’s relationship with the public through the creation of collaborative projects,” PubCampNC will employ an unconference format: allowing participants to plan their own conference sessions and schedule throughout the day of the event.

To introduce the event to our participants, we’ve been using a short Prezi to kick off North Carolina’s first-ever interactive media unconference. Enjoy!