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At the invitation of Bernadine Joselyn, Director of the Blandin Foundation’s Public Policy and Engagement Program, I spent the day at KAXE – Northern Community Radio’s headquarters in Grand Rapids, brainstorming on how to best foster the development of citizen journalism / community media in their bio-region. (Click photos to enlarge.) In the conference room, L [...] I’ll be in Grand Rapids, Minnesota today and tomorrow for meetings at the Blandin Foundation where we’ll be discussing citizen journalism / community media initiatives in rural Minnesota. Or to put it in my current favorite lingo: How can online “weapons of mass collaboration” be used to strengthen the fabric of local neighborhoods and communities? I [...] Stacy Becker is one of consultants I’m working with at the Citizens League on their MAP 150 project. (See her MAP 150 blog.) At a meeting last week, she told me about this book: Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams. I bought the book last night and read the intro and [...] I do a variety of consulting work for the Citizens League but I’ve also been a member since 1989. (They also were the fiscal agent for the grant that started the Utne Reader Neighborhood Salon Association that I headed for many years and it was a Northfield salon at my house in 1991 that gave [...] Yesterday, I spent an hour at the James Gang Hideaway visiting with Thor Henning Lerstad, News Director for the Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK). He’s visiting Minnesota this week to “study best-practice examples of Consultative/Participatory/Public Journalism.” (Last September, I spent an hour at the James Gang Hideaway visiting with a colleague of his, Jørgen Jensen, a journalist [...] |
  
  
 
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