Slide from Felicia Sullivan’s Community Media 2.0 presentation

I was asked to present the keynote at the Alliance for Community Media NorthEast Region conference this past Friday. I had some pretty big shoes to fill because Josh Silver, the Executive Director of Free Press, was supposed to be the speaker but couldn’t make it.

I titled my talk, “Our Viewers Know More Than We Do: PEG Access TV in a Participatory Culture,” after Dan Gillmor’s famous quote, found on the Center for Citizen Media site.

Not sure if the PowerPoint presentation I created for the talk is that useful without audio or video to go along with it, but I’ve made it available anyways for download here.

The purpose of my talk was to try and persuade a room full of PEG access TV folks to learn to embrace online participatory tools like blogging, podcasting, videoblogging and other the innovative uses of technology happening in access to connect and empower their communities - not just to connect their channels to their communities, but to connect their communities to the world.

I think this idea may have gotten through to some folks in the audience. And I know that it definitely put some other people to sleep . . . but, that’ll happen : )

I enjoyed sharing some of the things that I’ve learned and experienced over the past year, as many have been working hard to share their knowledge and vision about how to move forward, collaborate, and find our way together using the Internet as a platform for collective distribution.

I’d like to thank the folks at the ACM-NE Region again for giving me the opportunity to be there.

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