Thursday, November 27, 2008

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Speaking out for Net Neutrality...

Got this at my yahoo account today and wanted to share:

Dear Friend,

Big phone and cable companies are trying to get rid of Net Neutrality, the fundamental principle that prevents them from discriminating against your favorite Web sites and services.

Unless we speak out to our members of Congress, they could move to allow large telephone and cable companies to control what you do, where you go and what you watch online.

Visit the URL below to learn more about what's at stake and send a loud message directly to Congress:

https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?id=162
To take action on this issue, click on the link below:
https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?s_oo=BiMcpwV7HGJluXEzviVUQQ..&id=162
If the text above does not appear as a link or it wraps across multiple lines, then copy and paste it into the address area of your browser.

Thursday, November 13, 2008

New Google Video/Voice Chat Feature

Hi all! Just saw that Google now offers a video/voice chat feature. Go to http://www.google.com/mail/help/videochat/learnmore.html for more information if you are interested. (NOTE: when I made this URL into a hyperlink it doesn't work but it should if you copy and paste the URL into the address bar of your browser. Feel free to contact me if this doesn't work for you).

Best,
Yvonne

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Vyew meeting dates (11/08 to 12/08)

Future dates for meeting in Vyew...

11/14/08, 11/21/08 and 12/05/08 at 8pm in Vyew

My 1st website

http://www.cpcs.umb.edu/~Sara%20Hamadane/acote.html

Agenda for November 6, 2008 Conference Call

Agenda for November 6, 2008 Conference Call

Link to Tactical Syllabus: http://fredjohnson.mwg.org/?page_id=21

Tactical Media Wiki: http://tacticalmedia.wikispaces.com/


• Chair/call facilitator?

• Additions to agenda?

• General discussion, clarifications, and feedback on the Web/Internet class

• Reminder Web/Internet class meetings next week:
November 10th, 12th, 17th and 19th?

• (3)Future on-line gatherings: Tutorials and Reports [Jay Cleary]

• Discussions of other on-line venues

• Setting dates for future meetings
http://tacticalmedia.wikispaces.com/Calendar

Discussion of assignments – Identifying Reporters
Reporters will use the capabilities of the on-line web tools chosen to make the reports.

Assignment #1
Two members of the group make a presentation discussing our work with Community Media and comparing and contrasting elements of the report.

The Council of Europe has recently released a study of community media that treats it as a “Third Sector”. The report, titled, Promoting Social Cohesion: The Role of Community Media, by Peter Lewis, can be downloaded as a PDF at this address:
http://www.coe.int/t/dghl/standardsetting/media/MC-S-MD/H-Inf(2008)013_en.pdf


Assignment #2
Two members of the group make a report on the potential of new citizen and activist on-line media tools for strategic communications purposes.



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Current Assignments

Primary competencies
:
Media and Community Building, Communications Policy and Developing a Media Strategy.

Below are the activities I would like participants to undertake for Tactical Media. They are an updating of the criteria in the Tactical project outline.

• Actively engage in the social networking experiments undertaken by Tactical Media

• A community based media project

• Research and writing

• Engagement with the on-line presences of Tactical Media

Theory work [all papers are a minimum of 5 double spaced pages]:

• One paper defining and discussing Community Media, key references the text Community Media and What’s Going on in Community Media, and other references that you identify and choose to use.

• One paper on Communications Policy that picks out and issues [net neutrality for example] and discusses it while placing it within an outline of the process of communication policy formation at the local, state and federal level. Key references will be identified, starting with the Benton Communications Policy headlines.

• One paper exploring some aspect of citizen media, citizen engagement, activist media strategic communications and use of media for empowerment.

• One strategic communications outline and plan for one of your projects.

What you have to do to demonstrate these competencies.
• Prepare and share the short definitions listed in this syllabus
• Complete the research assignments and make them available on and the Tactical Media blog.
• Participate in the on-line discussions and activities.
• Contribute to the on-line experiments and projects that fit your competencies.
• Actively use the Tactical Media Blog.