The First Community Media Summit
by Michael HoffmanThursday, July 26th, 2007
The first Community Media Summit was held in Chicago on June 15th.
The purpose of this event was to explore what is “community media” and how new media and technology impact how we work with communities.
Among many others, the event included:
Alyce Myatt, Managing Director – Grantmakers in Film & Electronic Media
Richard Somerset-Ward, Media Consultant
Catherine Settanni, Digital Inclusion Task Force
Scot Rouke, President – One Community
Julia Stasch, Vice President, Human & Community Development – The MacArthur Foundation;
Alexandra Close, Executive Director – New America Media
What’s a Community Media Summit without media? We (See3 Communications) partnered with the Benton Foundation, CAN TV, Chicago Community Trust and the host, the Community Media Workshop to develop a 4-part video on What is Community Media. You can see this at the Community Media Workshop’s site and at DoGooderTV.
This effort was made possible by the vision and pushing of Charles Benton, the financial support of the Community Trust and the hard work of many people, including Thom Clark and his staff at the Community Media Workshop.
Here’s one of the four videos:
