[cma-l] Website and news round-up 09/01/09

Fri Jan 9 16:56:49 GMT 2009

Dear Colleagues

Happy New Year to you all from the Community Media Association.  The
festive break seems a dim and distant memory after only a week back at
work...

Below is our website round-up of the week and Twitter feed summary.

In the 'Twitterverse' the CMA feed has only been going 57 days but our
rank from TwitterGrade means that @community_media scores higher than
95.5 percent of 926898 users that have been graded.  And
@community_media is placed 2nd in our locality on Twitterholic:

http://twitter.grader.com/community_media
http://twitterholic.com/community_media/

All good stuff.

Website:
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Only one major story this week on our website as we ease into what
promises to be a significant and yet again busy year for community
media:

Sector Qualification Strategy: Have your say
http://www.commedia.org.uk/2009/01/06/sector-qualification-strategy-have-your-say/

If anybody still would like to comment on the the DRWG report
published on 19th December the invitation to submit feedback to the
website Comments space still stands:

http://www.commedia.org.uk/2008/12/19/digital-radio-working-group-report/#comments

Twitter:
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If you use Twitter yourself then try to mark your posts with the
following hashtags (http://hashtags.org/) to make them easier for
other community media
practitioners to find: #communitymedia, #communityradio, #communitytv,
#DAB, #Ofcom etc.

Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/community_media - last three
weeks' 'tweets' below:

RT @CharityFinance Lib Dems announce new third sector spokeswoman
http://tinyurl.com/8wckkk about 1 hour ago

#SocialTV Coming Soon: iPlayer On Boxee, MySpace On Telly:
http://tr.im/3fr2 about 1 hour ago

Delay requested for #digitaltv migration in US due to depleted funds
available to consumers switching to new equipment: http://tr.im/3fjz
about 1 hour ago

#Guardian summary of some key submissions to #Ofcom's PSB Review Phase
2 ahead of final recommendations published soon:http://tr.im/3fhf
about 1 hour ago

Submissions to #Ofcom re Public Service Broadcasting Review phase 2 -
final recommendations published later this month: http://tr.im/3ffz
about 1 hour ago

Princes Trust - Get Into Digital Media Course – #communitymedia course
4 young people to create short films 27/01/–10/02/:
http://tr.im/3f7i... about 2 hours ago

Crescent #communityradio is planning a number of new shows to improve
community relations & attract new listeners: http://tr.im/39hH about
18 hours ago

Bidders for new #localtv licences in Manchester & Cardiff have until
26/01 & 18/02 respectively to submit their proposals:
http://tr.im/39h0 about 18 hours ago

Official opening of Frikanalen (www.frikanalen.no/) national
#communitytv channel today in Norway (Google translation):
http://tr.im/37mq 2:57 PM yesterday

UK #communityradio trainers can now pass on their skills as vocational
experts and fill key learning delivery roles: http://tr.im/37gq 2:14
PM yesterday

#Communityradio station Gateway FM has teamed up with Chalvedon School
to set up a studio in their media department: http://tr.im/378d 12:57
PM yesterday

New #communityradio station Vixen 101 (http://www.vixen101.co.uk/)
starts broadcasting this weekend in Humberside: http://tr.im/377m
12:47 PM yesterday

Third Sector Indicators Community of Practice online consultation 10am
15/01/09 re HMGov & Third Sector working 2gether: http://tr.im/3745
12:08 PM yesterday

#DAB takes low-profile compared to internet media devices at the
International Consumer Electronics Show [CES] in LA: http://tr.im/34ds
9:11 PM Jan 7th

Preston FM (http://www.preston.fm/) #communityradio offers free
training courses to local people: http://tr.im/33ka 5:20 PM Jan 7th

Lifelong Learning UK begins collection of workforce data for
work-based learning & adult and community learning providers:
http://tr.im/33jn 5:11 PM Jan 7th

Future Radio (www.futureradio.co.uk) #communityradio has plans for
expansion - Norwich first, tomorrow the world: http://tr.im/32va 12:20
PM Jan 7th

Soundart Radio #communityradio goes live covering the Totnes area on
Monday, January 26: http://tr.im/31f5 9:00 PM Jan 6th

#Ofcom has today published its Radio Licensing Update for December
2008: http://tr.im/30f4 12:50 PM Jan 6th

#Ofcom has published the application details for the auction of two
radio spectrum licences in Manchester & Cardiff: http://tr.im/30c2
11:21 AM Jan 6th

The UK Commission 4 Employment & Skills (UKCES) is developing a Sector
Qualification Strategy for the UK third sector: http://tr.im/30b1
10:48 AM Jan 6th

UK migration to #DAB could prove advantageous to small local
commercial & #communityradio stations (The Insider): http://tr.im/2zik
11:23 PM Jan 5th

#Communitytv goes national in Scandinavia with inauguration of
"Frikanalen" on 08/01/09 by Norwegian Minister of Culture:
http://tr.im/2zai 9:47 PM Jan 5th

UK Radio stations invited to enter the 2009 NAB International
Broadcasting Excellence Award - deadline February 13th:
http://tr.im/2za3 9:42 PM Jan 5th

Opinion - ahead of Lord Carter's 'Digital Britain' review, internet
radio is 'poised to eclipse #DAB': http://tr.im/2z82 9:25 PM Jan 5th

FM-enabled mobile phones are the 'sleeping giant' that could
reinvigorate radio listening particularly amongst the young:
http://tr.im/2z6w 9:02 PM Jan 5th

Statistical critique of DRWG's timetable towards #digtalradio take-up
in the UK: http://tr.im/2z6l 8:56 PM Jan 5th

BT to be freed from universal phone service obligations in exchange
for universal broadband access, wireless or wired, http://tr.im/2y8f
12:29 PM Jan 5th

Bay FM, an Exmouth-based #communityradio station, is looking for new
premises and hopes for a full-time licence: : http://tr.im/2xdr 10:49
PM Jan 4th

Tynedale, UK has bid to build a new state-of-the-art £5 million
#communitymedia centre to put it on the national map:
http://tr.im/2xdd 10:43 PM Jan 4th

#DigitalTV switch 'caused madness and mayhem' - Borders region
retailers hit out at analogue switch-off: http://tr.im/2xd8 10:38 PM
Jan 4th

Complaints against Thornbury FM #communityradio station completely
dropped by #Ofcom: http://tr.im/2x7y 8:38 PM Jan 4th

MBE for Muhammad Irfan Faizi Chishti, an Imam at 2 prisons in
Manchester and has set up a local #communityradio station:
http://tr.im/2x7k 8:36 PM Jan 4th

Verizon US to reserve 3 channels for #communitytv & contribute a
portion of its user fees to Chelmsford TeleMedia (US):
http://tr.im/2w3m 11:54 PM Jan 3rd

Norwegian Minister of Culture to launch "Frikanalen" on 08/01/09 - a
#communitytv channel to broadcast from Oslo on DTT: http://tr.im/2w35
11:42 PM Jan 3rd

Saint FM #community radio station in Burnham, Essex has transmitter
stolen: http://tr.im/2w28 11:16 PM Jan 3rd

Opinion: #DAB to become the main #digitalradio platform:
http://tr.im/2w1e 10:44 PM Jan 3rd

Paradise Radio in Keighley, UK in bid for 5-year community radio
licence: http://tr.im/2w0m 10:21 PM Jan 3rd

EU definition of and report on #communitymedia 24/06/2008:
http://tr.im/2rty 11:30 AM Dec 31st, 2008

In the ditch with DAB radio - opinion from The Register:
http://tr.im/2rrl 9:05 AM Dec 31st, 2008

RT @ farmradio: talking billboards & print media give a voice to the
voiceless: http://twurl.nl/5rpali 7:51 PM Dec 30th, 2008 from web

£3m UKGov initiative to recruit 20,000 volunteers to link generations
together & tackle critical issues in communities: http://tr.im/2o9z
7:10 PM Dec 27th, 2008

Wireless device gives African women a voice in #communityradio:
http://tr.im/2lka 9:30 PM Dec 23rd, 2008

Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Christmas message to the UK voluntary
and community sector: http://tr.im/2l9g 5:30 PM Dec 23rd, 2008

Vixen 101, East Yorkshire's new #communityradio station, is preparing
to launch in Market Weighton on January 10th: http://tr.im/2kxa 10:58
AM Dec 23rd, 2008

RT @hannahsassaman: Remind Barack Obama that he co-sponsored the bill
to bring community radio into America's cities: http://tr.im/2ku8 8:23
AM Dec 23rd, 2008

WSF Radio Forum, Belém do Pará (Brazil), 2009 - a workspace for
#communityradio networks, associations & collectives:
http://tr.im/2ku0 8:12 AM Dec 23rd, 2008

#Communitymedia group Tenantspin has built a #communitytv TV studio in
an art gallery for internet broadcasting: http://tr.im/2huy 10:38 AM
Dec 20th, 2008

Digital Radio Working Group reports on #DAB, but ducks #DAB+:
http://tr.im/2huu 10:24 AM Dec 20th, 2008

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