Convergence Afternoon Session

Eastwoods Room - Convergence Afternoon Session
Listed below: main themes and ideas discussed during the session

General Questions for discussion:
-What are community media doing to reach their audience?
-Who should be collaborating and how should the be doing it?
-What training is needed for online production?
-How can we use broadband and keep avenues open, what are the policy issues?
-Do community media messages became scattered when distributed via Facebook, MySpace, etc.?
-There is a general need to use online collaboration alongside real-time, face-to-face meetings and events
-What would you and your group like to see community media do online?
-What resources do we need?
-What are some practical steps we can take to utilize interactivity?
-What do we want to do with communication?
-How do we pursue interactivity offline?
-Can web portals and discussion groups be used to communicate effectively for Texas community media?

General thoughts ideas and needs:
-Foster producer collaboration
-Announcements posted about face-to-face meetings and events
-Community media portal
-Appropriate topic tags
-Action and collaboration
-Caution: Portal is not a silver bullet
-Recognize media projects, what is being done and accomplished
-Issue (policy) of broadband
-Over reliance on technology with lack of understanding of communication
-Leadership models
-Sustainability and new information
-Aggregation of useful and relevant information
-Web portals
-Cost of infrastructure
-Online activism versus on the streets activism
-Use of discussion after public events
-Use schools to reach younger generation
-Gather new producers
-Workshops on production, training and sharing
-Communication between media producers and between media producers and community groups
-Search and access
-Media buyers for funding models
-Development of easy production models
-List of resources, procedures, and community groups
-Policy awareness
-General issues of funding
-Regular face-to-face meetings
-Service trading
-Net neutrality