February 2012
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Found Time: How To Spend The 24 Hours Of Leap Day... →
npr:
An extra day. How will you use it? Start by reading our hour-by-hour guide. Here’s a sample:
Feb. 29, 2012, Hour By Hour:
Midnight. Too excited to sleep, you can click on the fascinating site of the Long Now Foundation, timekeepers of the 10,000 Year Clock. Computer wizard Danny Hillis first dreamed up the idea of a massive timepiece that “ticks once a year. The century hand ...
NCME: EXPERT SPEAK: SHANE GUITER ON HOW YOUR... →
shaneguiter:
From more ways to share content to tighter budgets, there’s no doubt the public media landscape is evolving. So, how can stations take advantage of new opportunities? Shane Guiter invites your station to start thinking like a start-up.
Join us for our first-ever Expert Speak webinar on Wednesday, February 29 at 2 p.m. ET featuring Shane Guiter, director of development...
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“The pitcher cries for water to carry
and a person for work that is real.”
– Marge Piercy, from her poem, “To Be of Use“
(I’ve been reading and thinking a bunch on work, which is how I came upon this gem.)
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Announcing Teacher Wall Grants
Thanks to a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to CPB, NCME is excited to announce a new American Graduate grant opportunity: Teacher Wall Grants. This grant helps stations amplify teacher voices by interviewing local educators and adding their videos to TeacherWall.org. You can apply here.
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Think like a start-up with Shane Guiter
Do you follow Shane Guiter on Tumblr? He’s director of development at KLRU-TV and always has excellent insights and ideas to share on public media innovation. That’s why we tapped Shane for our first-ever “Expert Speak” webinar coming up February 29.
Shane will talk about how your station can think like a start-up, including advice on how to create creativity, keep your...
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January 2012
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Project Argo delivers blogging best practices
Don’t miss these tools and best practices developed by a team of bloggers from 12 NPR member stations. They blogged daily for over a year to learn what worked, what didn’t and to share it with you.
The Joy of Social Media: How Bob Ross Sees It... →
An infographic that captures the “wisdom of Bob Ross” with a commentary on social networking is certainly worth sharing.
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Resource of the week | Measuring community... →
Chicago Public Media (WBEZ) is no stranger to community engagement. (See here, here and here.) For years, connecting with their community has been a vital part of their production process.
Now, the station is taking it to the next level: Assigning metrics to their engagement work so they can better evaluate their impact. Breeze Richardson, Chicago Public Media’s director of strategic...
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Engagement resource of the week: Social Media...
There are thousands of blog posts out there about using social media effectively. And some are fabulous resources. But we here at NCME wanted to make sure that public media had guidance specific to its needs. That’s why we teamed up with iStrategy labs and CPB to offer the Social Media Handbook. It’s got:
Relevant tools and social media outlets
How to develop effective campaigns for...
Oh hey: Public Media on Tumblr →
teresagorman:
Tumblr: Orgs/Shows/Projects
American Experience: http://americanexperiencepbs.tumblr.com/
American Public Media: http://americanpublicmedia.tumblr.com/
Beyond Broadcast: http://beyond-broadcast.tumblr.com/
Bob Edwards: …
Thanks for including us on the list!
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Google Analytics v5 for public media →
We’re still getting rave reviews about last month’s Google Analytics webinar with iMA. If you missed it, check it out here and learn how to use all the gorgeous new features in this latest update.
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What would it take to get you to move to the city... →
“As part of WDET’s Crossing the Lines series, WDET created and fielded a survey that was designed to test our hypothesis that the two sides, city/suburb, Detroit partisan and skeptic, are speaking past each other….This survey is a big listening project. We hope our findings open the door to some committed listening and real collaboration.
The first investment a station can make in...
December 2011
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ianhillmedia: Social media, journalism and life... →
ianhillmedia:
Here are links to some of the posts wrapping up 2011 and making predictions for 2012 when it comes to social media, journalism and the Internet.
2 guest posts: 2012 predictions and “Social media and the evolution of the fourth estate” (Online Journalism Blog)
2011 Social Media Hits and…
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Our top five popular posts of 2011
As usual, the end of the year offers a great opportunity to look back at the best of 2011. In turn, I took a look under the hood of our blog to see what the most popular posts were this past year. Here are the top posts you loved to read.
CPB launches American Graduate initiative Our post about the launch of American Graduate was the most popular of the year. We’re glad you paid attention: This...
american graduate: We're here, let's make it... →
newshouramgrad:
And we’re up and running with our first Tumblr post!
For the next 18 months, the PBS NewsHour will be sharing with you highlights from the American Graduate project, a public media initiative reporting on the nation’s high school dropout crisis. With help from the Corporation for Public…
Welcome! Looking forward to reading and sharing.
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A new way to fund Women and Girls Lead →
Is your station involved with CPB’s Women and Girls Lead initiative?Find a PI partner on this CRPA grant funded through the Research on Gender in Science and Engineering program at NSF.
November 2011
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“Four qualities of Facebook’s most-shared stories of 2011:
1. The stories...”
– Cory Bergman on Lost Remote. (via ianhillmedia)
Some very useful things to think about when you’re sharing on Facebook.
Tumblr's Mark Coatney will take part in a live... →
rachelinbrooklyn:
shortformblog:
Starts at 3 p.m. EST. Be there or be something other than a journalist.
Can I DVR this?
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October 2011
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WatchShane Guiter with KLRU on lessons public media can learn from Silicon Valley: “You might say we’ve been around a little too long to be considered a startup… I think what’s important is that we’re in a position where the way we think about business and distributing content we create is changing. That’s an opportunity for us to change. That’s an opportunity...
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“…teachers who leave the profession, who cite behaviour as one of the main...”
– Tim McDonald in Classroom Management: Engaging Students in Learning, p. 184 (via alisonteaches)
I’ll take “Things That Are Important To Realize” for $500, Alex.
(via world-shaker)
(Shout out to American Graduate and all of the activity going on right now.)
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Public media Tumblr list from PBS NewsHour →
newshour:
Happy Tumblr Tuesday all. A while ago we posted a short list of Public Media-ites on Tumblr. On Columbus Day, NPR Fresh Air posted a similar thread asking for the employees to step up.
So, here is a new recommendation list of active and semi-active public media shows and stations and more here on Tumblr…
September 2011
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Watchnprfreshair:
Something for your afternoon: Every year there’s a contest online for grad students to “dance their thesis.” Four of the “Dance Your PhD thesis” videos are now posted. Above, my personal favorite: Anna Robson dancing to her PhD thesis, “Nanosensing protein allostery and peptide interactions using SERS.”
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StoryCorps launches its National Teachers Initiative (via NPR)
(this is part of the American Graduate initiative)
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People of FBH Blog: Who’s Using Tumblr? →
peopleoffbh:
Unique visitors to Tumblr have skyrocketed since May 2010
Tumblr, the social blogging site, has seen solid growth since its launch in 2007. More users are publishing on the site and viewing others’ posts, while brands, media outlets and marketers are experimenting with how best…
Congrats to Latino Public Broadcasting! →
Latino Public Broadcasting was honored with the prestigious Norman Lear Award at the 26th Annual Imagen Awards gala in August. Click through for the award PR.
Watch clips from The Longoria Affair here. LPB shepherded this fantastic film with ITVS & WGBH/Boston. Partnerships in action!
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WatchDenzel Washington on NewsHour talking about the dropout crisis and work with the Boys and Girls Club and American Graduate (via NewsHour)
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Watchmarkcoatney:
The Discovery Channel has the BEST lobby art
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“After analyzing over 3 million tweets, gigabytes of YouTube content and...”
– Take that, Gladwell. (via curiositycounts)
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WatchFor the educators out there, Tavis Smiley’s “Too Important to Fail” airs this week (via PBS.org)
This is also the start of CPB’s American Graduate programming.
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“Once upon a time teachers stood in front of a blackboard writing letters of the...”
– iPads Make Better Readers, Writers (via world-shaker)
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Watchlincolncenter:
Jazz at Lincoln Center is the focus of the latest edition of WNET’s This Week at Lincoln Center, with the segment featuring the second annual Coca-Cola Generations in Jazz Festival.