4/30/ 2012 LAST DAY of Class

Last two weeks I been working on community out reach. I made two video about Thai restaurant call " Orchid " thai cuisine. I made one clips with introduction of restaurant and couple menu. Also, I met up with the restaurant's owner and filmed her telling story and her message to the Rollins college. It was very difficult to hold of owner because she was not in the restaurant very often. When I finally met up with the owner, she was very corporate-table. Since it was new attempt for the CMC both teachers and students, CMC350 was difficult through out the year, but I think that every did great job putting thing together for first time. It was bit easier, one of the staff member knew owner.

4/23/12 College media and convergence

"At many university, student media has become a testing ground for convergence, with varying levels of success. Often, the success of those efforts is tied directly to the students' level of "buy in." Students need to have clear understanding of difference between professional journalism and college level of journalism.  Students who were exposed to convergence were more positive in their ratings of the benefits of convergence, although no differences were found between the groups when assessing the drawbacks of convergence. These findings have some value, in that it is clear that students are capable of finding value in this approach to journalism but have not been blinded to some of its negative ramifications.

4/23/12 Victoria's Network

Vitoria's Network is great example of modern day community that share ideas with different people and creating synergy. Informations are traveling and shared extremely fast since the invention of internet. However, people did not know how to share information efficiently. Internet network like Victoria's network can allow people to share information not only locally but also globally. VICNET was developed as means of "Empowering Victorians to create an electronic form online communities both locally and globally." Rollins college is small community, yet it is having hard time forming well connected community. Campus media is one of the most effective organization to bring Rollins community. Rollins students are good at involving, but they are having hard time sharing and receiving news around the campus. Therefore, campus media should connect students body with providing with informations around campus. (Personal opinion: I personally love  working for campus media. However, I feel a lot a limitation of time. I think Rollins should come up with department that only doing and focusing on campus media. It was very difficult to work for R-TV with all my other classes and works. I wish I had more time for R-TV.

April 9th Reading: Community Outreach Strategies for Media (7 Ways to Take Your Media Brand to the Streets)

Sponsor a Community Event: Rollins media should film any kind of event that is going on around Rollins college. Events like that is provide to advertise Winter Park and Rollins college. However, campus media should not expect to get a lot of money out of it. Campus media should volunteer and film events for the good cause.  Working with  a charity and other organization is another way to get involve in community engagement.  Reaching local business and being a partner can be one of the greatest way to reach out to community. It is good for the local business and campus media, it can create synergy. 

Downtown Community Television: cultural politics and technological form

DCTV is a great example of how media organization should be. The way they train their people in order to  reach well organized and long run media organization. DCTV trained ten's of thousand people. DCTV is the most democratic and individual media that can provide true information to the people. DCTV is a organization where everyone can come and join. Also, they don't have to worry about being influence by financial threat and media censorship herefore, they can come up with uninfluenced information for the public. It is great tool to teach public that media can be created by anyone and media is own my public and for public. Media does not necessarily have to run by mega corporations, and  it is something that anyone can be part of.

Personal project

I went to Alumni weekend, Friday, 3/23/2012. Few people showed up, and we had one table provided for us.  I was disappointed that not many people showed up. I and Aron filmed Alumni, ask them for station ID. During tabling WPRK people and I tried to make people fill out the survey and gave them WPRK stickers. Also, I am filming athletes.

3/26/2012 Reading: Volunteer Management Capacity Study Series

The reading "Volunteer Management Capacity Study Series" ring the bell in my mind how important it is to get right people for right charities or volunteers. I very much agree with the idea that "Charity adopts a particular management practice depends on its specific needs and characteristics. Not all practices can or should be adopted by all charities." Volunteering should not be forced or recommended with certain degree of peer pressure. It should be done by one's own will and person who does it have to be earn happiness in the process. Therefore, finding interest group is critical in a long run. In addition, people should not only help other but also help their self and earn proudness by volunteering. Professional recruitment and retention does not work. Therefore, organization should provide easy to join and welcoming environments for the people to join. Trying not to give them pressure to people before they even think to volunteering, and avoid word "Volunteering." Put people in position that they enjoy doing. Also, giving people recognition about what they do, and give them complements to feel proud of what they doing.