It's in this week's NCPR newsletter by email so I am spilling the beans. I got asked to participate in this and am reeally excited:
Next week NCPR staff will be attending a retreat guided by Rob Paterson, a Canadian media and community provacateur. Among our goals is to find ways to deepen NCPR's relationships with the communities we serve, and to increase the opportunities for two-way and many-way conversations among those communities. While some of the new technologies offer opportunities for us to achieve this, it is new ways of thinking about our role in the public conversation that will make the real difference. Pretend for a moment that it is 2020. What should NCPR be doing? How will the job and the toolbox change? Let us know what the future of public radio should look like.You will know Rob from the comments around here and while we moved in certain circles in PEI before we moved almost 3 years ago, it is through blogging that I have really gotten to know him. While I only have an afternoon's worth of workshopping, radio nerd that I am, the idea of actually meeting Radio Bob and the gang has be worried about being star struck. The interesting question for me, however, is how to express the fantastic job my neighbouring comunity's station NCPR does representing the community in a responsive networked discussion through blogging.
So while Humblebub, born of the North Country, might worry when I speak about getting interested, I am sure he will agree that this is a most interesting project to be invited to join.
Comments
portland - January 26, 2006 8:53 pm
so where is it. i'm coming up to stay in your hotel room and eat at the conference buffet. fabulous syracuse? beautiful rochester?
portland - January 26, 2006 8:54 pm
east or west mooers?
Alan - January 26, 2006 8:59 pm
No such luck - it is a day tripper from here at Canton.
humblebub - January 26, 2006 9:18 pm
An interesting event, Al. Sure to be filled with interesting people talking about interesting things. (Yes, I am pulling your well-fleshed leg - it does sound like a fun event that you will be sure to bring enthusiasm to.)
Canton can be fun. I once came close to meeting my maker there - one of the coldest places I have visited and while considering going to University there, I learned the perils of drinking to much beer in an overheated bar and stepping outside to -35.
Alan - January 26, 2006 9:58 pm
We were over once before and that is exactly right. It was likely -10 in Kingston and -32 in Canton.
BTW, I am thinking of recommending a "new for those away" segment for you and the others in the North Country of the mind.
Humblebub - January 27, 2006 9:08 am
"new for those away"...
Even with an absence of 30 years, I would listen.
Alan - January 27, 2006 9:09 am
Sure you would - so would 100,000 others. I listen to Radio Scotland somedays to thrill to the traffic congestion reports from Greenock where the clan lived from the 1850s to 1950s.
portland - January 27, 2006 10:07 am
coco crisp is from scotland
Alan - January 27, 2006 10:09 am
Coco McCrispie.