Andrew Swaney took these great notes from the March 11th meeting

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Public Media Collaborative

Meeting 3.11.09

About 35 people attended the second MC meeting in Berkeley. We followed the agenda, introducing our selves and discussion possible projects for the PMC.

Asks of help from those present involved/ w nonprofits:

1.    Joyce Kim –

-    Literacy Bridge--Adult literacy project – successful in Ghana – looking for fundraising assistance (grantwriting), scalability – tech based peer-to-peer

-    Device specs and expertise in developing mobile platform

2.    Mark Smolowitz

-    Full Circle Fund--Open source / data aggregation– use tech to be responsible real-time for nonprofits . Ideas:

o    Mapping bay area closure of NPs: where is pain being felt on the ground

o    Help guide funding to where the pain points on

o    Help nonprofits understand where others are to facilitate collaboration between NPs

o    Minimum requirement: 12 hours?

3.    Josh Wilson

-    Expo for the arts: now media exp w/ media draft and expose

-    May 1st (with early 4/30 reception) at USF Media studies dept: “Journalism Innovations 2”

o    Get involved:

•    Call for Panelists – education, fundraising, mentoring

•    Call for exhibitors – curate and give them away (

•    Sponsors

-    “News you might have missed” – need for interns on publishing/editorial leads – talk to Josh

4.    Lasica

-    Loss of support for his training programs due to budget cutbacks

-    Socialbrite.org: Workshops on public media training/social media bootcamps (new American media’s budget was slashed and cancelled workshops) – need is still there! – want people to join his project and contribute by blogging about how 2.0 is being used to contribute to social good

-    Using wordpress (30-40 widgets out there that could help)

-    Work with PMC to offer joint workshops

-    Develop materials for nonprofits : social media pamphlets for govt workers – bridging govt/nonprofit/media world and mobile technologies

5.    Andrew Hoerner

-    Redefining Progress: sustainable politics project – ask why should future be different from past? – “technopopulism” – grassroots activism is cheaper, so it will proliferate.

-    2 part project

1.    How-to plus wiki on using new media tools for nonprofit

2.    Survey of tools to see what we have and what we’re missing: what organizing mechanisms do we not have social media tools for

-    Looking for manuals and how-tos and studies

-    Want contributors to wiki

-    Looking for existing surveys of tools

-    Connections to funders

6.    Barry Briliant, West Marin

-    Looking for seniors who need remote assistance or those who wants to work with seniors/senior centers (write for seniors, donate time, money, hardware) – talk to TechSoup

7.    Matt Lockshin (California Democratic Party)

-    Since budget crisis, state of political media in flux, esp independent progressive media – how to develop program in capitol to report on topics of interest (pertaining to progressive movement) – don’t have business model or know what resources it would take to understands process

-    Need multimedia person (paid? # staff? Etc)

8.    Betsy Morris, Volunteer board member – friends of medial legislation (FCLCA.org)

-    100% donated

-    Hiring development/outreach director

-    Need tech/media involvement (cover social justice issues and criminal justice reform – to work with 2 full-time lobbyists to keep issues in front of legislators)

-    Need help reaching younger generations using web tools

-    Need for articles, and consulting (volunteer labor) for outreach coordinator

-    Update to newsletter (most popular in CA prisons) to bring it to next generation

9.    Kwan  Booth, otherside media

-    Wake Yo Game Up Campaign: west/east Oakland to get involved in criminal justice program (WAKEYOGAMEUP.org) – needs help making connections to journalists, media

-    Help w/ website, telling stories

-    Grantmaking, internet marketing, spread awareness for campaign and get tech aspect going

-    Oakland marketing – city of Oakland doesn’t know how to be tech savvy – develop websites, FB, twitter – need to figure out what to offer (how to work with city govt to be more open)

10.    Maudie Shaw

-    First Unitarian Church – Oakland for clean & safe ports –  wants to improve envt impacts of diesel trucking – pressure port of Oakland to put restrictions on truckers

-    May 2009 vote for 2 proposals

-    Attend events – raise awareness (read SpotUs)

11.    Eric (?) Cooperative corporation – developing toolkit – popular software for blogging, photoshare, wikis, and writing tutorials/how-tos

-    Take collective experience and write directions for specific groups to use tech

Susan’s Ideas on ways we can move forward:

-    Create training program and offer one day days of service and training to many groups at once in donated location with multiple trainers and parallel sessions, small groups with buddy follow up, one month of mentoring.

-    Bar camp training model – conferences too expensive!

-    Develop curriculum (using NTEN & Beth Kanter/Amy W Sample work and our own tweaks) to train the trainers

-    Launch date: June (Laney College (??) for un-conference)

-    Invite groups like Bay area social equity caucus, wake up your game for training to co-convene and bring in their  orgs staffs and others

-    Topics: social media strategy, blogging, microdonation, tools etc

-    Trainers would be “after-care” buddies to offer ongoing support – accountability

-    Comments:: to be continued on Wiki

-    Indie Arts – foster people who have great ideas in nonprofit setting – DIY workshops

-    NP group therapy – pair w/ subject matter experts

-    Peer mentoring

-    Size needs to be smaller (more jelly) – intimate to foster mentorship

-    Idea: provide incentive for attendees to be follow-up presenters

-    Invite decision makers to come along with implementers

-    Useful mechanism: “the hot seat” – the “action seat”  – slots where organization presents challenges, and people weigh in  and learn from others’ experience

-    Kwan: tactical needs (wordpress blogs, setting up email)

1.    Some things aren’t glamorous but are needed

2.    Be mindful of those we invite – how to stratify/categorize those in need

-    House parties: go to those in need

-    Andy : clever policy design, using incentives – has been working in climate/energy – would be open to helping out design policy in other areas

-    Post a “give” page on the wiki – what we have to offer

Discussin: Betsy—this is a big start-how about doing smaller ‘jellies’ first?

Josh- Come do one May 1 at SF State conference on media!

How’d you feel about meeting::

Tone:: connections, hopeful, approaching practicality, not feeling like we’re “doing something”. Balance, action, democracy, acting

 

Action Items::

•    Next meeting @ TechSoup Global –  April  2, 3

•    Potential action point – May 1 for Bar Camp—put call out to group for volunteers who want to engage

•    Homework: what do you want to do as a group? Asking for feedback

•    Create “next steps” wiki page