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February 17, 2013 — 12:55
The Washington Horse Expo offered equestrian events in three arenas on February 15 through 17, here at Vancouver’s Clark County Fair Grounds. My granddaughter and fledgling Tweeter joined me for the event. Read on for where it led.
Dreaming the dream at Washington Horse Expo
Storified by Deborah T McIntosh· Sun, Feb 17 2013 12:36:22
First the dream @Cor_Features @WestWahorseexpo http://pic.twitter.com/dN1zT8qzDeborah T McIntosh
@Cor_Features we’re here but where are the horses? http://pic.twitter.com/S0g89QwzDeborah T McIntosh
RT @Cor_Features: This looks fun http://pic.twitter.com/4VoiEIOF walking the floor at #WestWahorseexpoDeborah T McIntosh
@DTMcIntosh @Cor_Features Oops, where are they? #WestWahorseexpo http://pic.twitter.com/pQDKpOcmDeborah T McIntosh
Jordan dreams of joining Teens & Oregon Mustangs, is the horse dreaming with her? At #WestWahorseexpo @Cor_Features http://pic.twitter.com/eRFgvicbDeborah T McIntosh
February 11, 2013 — 21:22
Author: | Category: Getting Social | Tags: book-tour, business starup, Chris Guillebeau, non-conformity | Comments: Off
Guillebeau’s latest book, $100 Startup. He’s kicking off a new book tour on February 21.
Guillebeaus’ digital 3 X 5 card
Folksy appeal of $100 Startup wins big
On Chris Guillebeau’s website, the 3X5 card image links his visitor from the blog page to the author’s Suggest a Tour Stop page inviting people to fill out a form including all the key information he would need in order to actually plan and execute a stop.
If you click around on his site, it moves you over to a companion site where he has an embedded Google map along with a very lengthy list of book tour stops that are currently only loosely planned. He is depending on his followers to set up stops and to fill out his itinerary.
While Guillebeau’s website is functional, it isn’t sleek or polished. But that campy, down-home DIY look is part of what his followers want from him, so it very much fits the mood he sets for his entire presentation.
One of the things I like is that he books stops on the fly, while he’s traveling, and doesn’t have it all planned out ahead, but still ends up successful!
I think one of his best tools is the way he seems to show a personal interest in his audiences such that they get energized and involved, and start working with him before he ever arrives.
He induces one person to find friends and widens his circle of influence through the sense of community these people develop as they help to organize his visits. He is appealing to that vast iconic group of people who value individuality and buck the tide in whatever ways they can, and he taps into their hope of autonomy in order to energize them.
Guillebeau gives an impression that he does all this on his own, but when you drill down, you learn that it actually is not a one-man-show. At the very least, there is someone whose job it is to keep the twitter feeds moving, answer the emails, pay the webmaster and do all those things an agent or “community manager” does.
Plan for the crisis
One of the problems with Chris Guilebeau’s sites is that once you leave http://chrisguillebeau.com, and you arrive at http://100startup.com, there is no link back. Maybe he wrote his pages that way on purpose; after all, neither is there a way back in real life. That’s unlikely, and it’s unfortunate.
Any page that doesn’t take the visitor HOME is going to lose customers. And, what would happen if his tour map crashed? It is flawed; it could crash at any time.
Well, for that, he maintains and comments profusely on Facebook and Twitter and a journal with turning pages.
These mediums, too, each have a purpose and contribute, no, not where he is and who he’s with, but serious reflections on life and purpose. Not cute little paragraphs, but blog length anecdotes that are organized into “Notes”, notes that can be, and were, posted anywhere. Like, Liberia, Ethiopia…
and, oh, he answers his emails.
February 10, 2013 — 18:19
Author: | Category: Someone I met along the way | Tags: audacity, editing, transcribing, writing | Comments: Off
For COM333 textual description for February 13
Better organization saved my nerves and (I think) produced a better result
A story I interviewed for on Friday is going to be more complicated, and may serve better as a video piece. But the same afternoon presented the opportunity to report on Douglas Rushkoff’s visit to Vancouver and the story that goes with it.
I tried a different tactic for this audio piece. On previous weeks I’ve suffered over those illusive word gobs that skitter away or break off like wild horses.This week I decided to attack my nemesis with order. Here’s what I did.
1. I listened to the entire recording, transcribing parts I thought I might want to use. I wrote down the timer where each clip was located in the recording.
2. I went back and reviewed my results. I actually transcribed verbatim the parts I wanted to use, so that I would feel very confident of the content of my clips and the choices I made.
3. I reviewed the results on paper, and I felt I made better decisions about which clips I should use.
4. I dumped what I thought were the best clips into a table as you see below, and then started writing my script, which ended up taking very little time.
5. Finally I started depositing the sound clips onto the tracks in Audacity, and it too, took only a few minutes.
6. The hardest part was cutting the piece down to two minutes, because I had three minutes of material I wanted to use. But I learned that I could take out a repetitive phrase here and an interesting but non-essential tidbit there, and finally got it pared down.
I hope you like the result, and that I’ll see you at Rushkoff’s visit or out doing your part to share digital ethics within your sphere.
Here is the format I used for my table:
| Who: | Why: | What: | How: | Who cares/ So what: |
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February 10, 2013 — 16:21
Author: | Category: Someone I met along the way | Tags: AHA!, City of Vancouver, Clark College, Columbia River Economic Development Council, Evergreen School District, Fort Vancouver Library Foundation, Law offices of Schwabe Williamson and Wyatt, The Community Foundation, the Fort Vancouver Regional Library, The Heathman Lodge, Vancouver Public Schools, Washington State University | Comments: 1
February 27: Community leaders help the Digital Technology program launch city-wide reads
Special thanks to: City of Vancouver, Fort Vancouver Regional Library, Columbia River Economic Development Council (CREDC), Clark College, Vancouver Public Schools, Fort Vancouver Library Foundation, Evergreen School District, the Law Offices of Schwabe, Williamson and Wyatt, AHA!, The Heathman Lodge, The Community Foundation, Washington State University and additional sponsors.
DENE GRIGAR, WILL LUERS AND A STUDENT TEAM OF DIGITAL TECH MAJORS ARE ROCKING VANCOUVER USA ONTO A NEW TRACK THAT COULD REWRITE THE CITY’S STATUS IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. ALONG WITH BUSINESS SUPPORTERS, THEY ARE PLANNING A THREE YEAR DIGITAL LITERACY PUSH.
IN: this is the first time in the history of this city…
RUN:: 8
OUT: … these groups have come together to do ANYTHING together.
THE PROGRAM’S OFFICIAL LAUNCH IS FEBRUARY TWENTY SEVEN WHEN DIGITAL LITERACY WORKSHOPS WILL BEGIN. THE WORKSHOPS ADDRESS QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DIGITAL AGE THAT IS ROCKING OUR WORLD. THE CITY HOPES TO ALSO WIN RECOGNITION AS AN INNOVATIVE PARTNERSHIP ZONE.
IN: There are a thousand books…
RUNS::24
OUT: … five hundred copies or so are going to be in the library.
CENTRAL TO THIS YEAR’S LAUNCH IS A VISIT FROM DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, MEDIA THEORIST AND PIONEER OF MEDIA ETHICS. HASHNEXTCHAPTER AND ITS SUPPORTERS WILL HOST TWO TALKS BY RUSHKOFF ON APRIL EIGHTEENTH, ONE ON THE WSUV CAMPUS AND THE OTHER AT FORT VANCOUVER’S MAIN LIBRARY.
IN: there are things that bind us together as human beings
RUNS:: 17
OUT: … we’re trying to build a new vision of what community can be with these new tools and we’re sussing it out as we go
WHAT IS THE GOAL? HERE’S WHAT WILL LUERS HAD TO SAY:
IN: I think that’s what the whole book is about…
RUNS:: 12
OUT: ..grounding in a digital world and in a, you know, social world.
GO TO HTTP HASH NEXT CHAPTER DOT ORG TO LEARN MORE.
DEB MCINTOSH REPORTING. THIS IS COUG RADIO.
February 4, 2013 — 19:02
Author: | Category: Someone I met along the way | Tags: Austen Williams, Parkinsons, University of Indiana School of Journalism | Comments: Off
There were so many high quality audio pieces on the University of Indiana School of Journalism website, that it was hard to choose one over some of the others. They all seemed excellent, and I spent way more time listening to them than I really had time for.
The University of Indiana seems to have a very strong journalism program going there with many high profile internships available to their students and it would be well worth it to return to the site again and again.
Before deciding on one of these student pieces, I also considered a clip from “The Kitchen Sisters“. It is an NPR show and also has some wonderful work.
One reason I chose Austen Williams’ audio piece, “Fighting Parkinson’s“, is because I loved the way she mixed her background noise in with her story. It served to give the idea of action and activity just outside the listeners view.
I also like the way she involved several people in the piece without it getting confusing. It was easy to understand each person’s perspective, even when she wasn’t necessarily going into a lot of explanation about who was who.
The content clearly communicated the depth of the struggle these people were going through, yet without anybody getting into a pity party. Their statements served to make the listener keenly aware of what the people with Parkinson’s go through day after day.
The way she threw in the plays on words about fighting back was cute, but restrained, so that it wasn’t overdone or trite.
February 4, 2013 — 18:26
Author: | Category: Someone I met along the way | Comments: Off
Where was the newsworthiness?
T – timely because submissions for enrollment are about to close for the 2013-4 academic year
O – is academic excellence odd? Is it odd when a student is identified as a candidate to conduct research?
P – proximity? Honors students are in our midst and we all have the opportunity to be one.
I – impact?
C – conflict?
A – about?
L – larger issue? Alienation real or imagined felt by people outside a narrow spectrum?
Involving a second source presented a logistics problem for me. I’ve started working on a solution to that problem by planning stories further ahead, but that didn’t help for this week. I wanted to either talk with another honors student or talk with a faculty person involved with the honors program. If I had extra time to spend being social on campus, this problem would be reduced. The big lesson learned here was to start earlier.
Other than struggles with the newsworthiness of my piece, I really struggled with my voice. I recognized that my voice was very different when recording the voiceover portions of the story than it was while I was engaged in conversation during interview. By the time I was ready to record, it was way after my bedtime and neither my brain nor my mouth were working right. Fortunately, I conducted my interview early enough that I still had another day and could record my voiceover again, but I wasn’t that much happier with it the second day either.
I also struggled with the background noise. We interviewed outside a Starbucks and it seemed quiet there until I had to compare it with the stillness when I recorded the voiceover. I did watch a tutorial about how to level out the background noise throughout an entire piece, but my effort almost lost the entire clip so I abandoned it.
February 4, 2013 — 17:56
Author: | Category: Someone I met along the way | Tags: two minute radio, William Kice, WSUV honors scholar | Comments: 2
BROADCAST SCRIPT: Nevada Scholar Values Honors Program
IN: The honors program at washington state university is …
RUNS::9.5
OUT… the honors college does function on other campuses.
IF YOU ARE OUTSTANDING INDEPENDENT AND RESEARCH ORIENTED, LISTEN UP. THE WSU UNIVERSITY SCHOLARS PROGRAM OFFERS OPPORTUNITIES TO COMPLETE ACADEMIC RESEARCH PROJECTS UNDER THE MENTORSHIP OF CAMPUS RESEARCH FACULTY
WILLIAM KICE DIDNT HAVE RESEARCH ON HIS MIND WHEN HE TRANSFERRED TO WSU FROM A COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN NEVADA BUT DURING HIS FIRST SEMESTER HERE A FACULTY MEMBER HAD A CHALLENGE FOR HIM
IN I received a solicitation once I transferred that asked if I was
RUNS::20
OUT:…and how could you contribute
ACCORDING TO WSUVS ACADEMIC AFFAIRS ANY STUDENT WITH A CUMULATIVE GPA OF THREE POINT FIVE AND A RECOMMENDATION FROM A FACULTY MEMBER CAN APPLY TO THE PROGRAM. ACCEPTANCE INTO THE HONORS PROGRAM IS NOT SO MUCH ABOUT DIGGING THROUGH THE STACKS FOR OBSCURE ACADEMIC JOURNALS, ITS MORE ABOUT COLLABORATION MENTORSHIP[ AND EVEN TRAVEL.
IN: .. It’s a very diverse group
RUNS:13
OUT: we all have faced some of the same challenges
IF YEARLONG RESEARCH AND WRITING ON ONE QUESTION SOUNDS LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY OF A LIFETIME, UNIVERSITY SCHOLARS MIGHT BE YOUR DREAM COME TRUE. TUCKED AWAY UPSTAIRS IN THE DENGERINK ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, HONORS FACULTY ARE THERE TO HELP, AND THERE NAY STILL BE TIME TO TURN IN AN APPLICATION FOR FALL TWO THOUSAND THIRTEEN.
DEB MCINTOSH REPORTING THIS IS COUG RADIO
