Project: Digital Convergence
harness what you’ve got, what others have and what you
collectively need
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Ever been bogged down with your Station’s technology
and wondered...
“Surely - someone else has found an
easier way”?
Ever been snowed
under with work
and pondered...
“How can I keep my Station relevant
with all this ‘New Media’ stuff”?
Ever spent some of your Stations hard
earned time and money on a system thinking...
“Gee, I hope
this works”?
Over the past five years, I’ve met dozens of Community Radio
Station Managers, Staff and hard working Volunteers who have aired these
thoughts.
As traditional media continues to transition into the
digital age, more of our colleagues will begin to have similar thoughts.
This project is an opportunity to answer these and many other questions.
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Overview
The project aims to establish
collaborations within the community radio sector to identify
digitalCONVERGENCE options and resources for station program production,
digital support material (including text and graphics) and music catalogue
information for output through new digital delivery platforms (including
online playout, mobile devices and digital radio).
The phrase ‘DIGITAL
CONVERGENCE’ can
be interpreted to highlight two core opportunities
for project participants.
1.
The opportunity to converge your station’s information
technology (IT) and information systems (IS) knowledge and resources
with other stations, to develop mutually beneficial solutions to meet
digital and New Media challenges.
2. The opportunity to identify ‘best practice’ mechanisms for stations to harness and converge traditional broadcasting and information systems with digital and new media platforms.
Intended
Outcomes
- To act as a ‘lightning rod’; maximising the collective
clout of sector stations to generate digital information management and
content solutions for stations.
- The Identification of practical digital
service options for the sector, by collecting important information for
the sector from stakeholders, and
- (Where immediate capacity is
identified), create digital projects to facilitate the delivery of
resources to the sector: Stakeholders will be connected to develop a
resource further.
- (Where immediate capacity is
identified), broker project timelines for specific collaborative projects
to be implemented by stakeholders.
- (Where scope to develop a
resource is identified) digital project models will be established for the
sector to utilize. Models will include practical and cost effective
development options, recommendations from third party stakeholders
(programmers, third party industry representatives) and development/
rollout
recommendations.
How do
we start?
Please click the link below to register as
a project participant. The more the merrier, so encourage your colleagues
across station departments to register to provide input too! We will
facilitate a number of online discussion boards to ‘nut out’ what digital
and new media resources you’ve got at your Station and what resources
you’d love to have. We can then identify collaboration opportunities
between you and other community radio stations and
stakeholders.
So…. click below and get converged!
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