[cma-l] Website and community media news round-up: 28/02/09 - 14/03/09

[CMA-L]

Dear Colleagues

Details of the CMA's Conference & AGM are online.  Join us at De
Montfort University, Leicester on 3rd April for the Media Literacy
dissemination event and on 4th April for the Conference & AGM 2009 -
more details on our website or sign-up right now at:

http://conference.commedia.org.uk

We've got an great venue at De Montfort University and there are some
excellent sponsors on board - look forward to seeing you there!

Below is the website round-up and Twitter feed summary from 28th
February until 14th March 2009.

Website:
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Community Media Association - Conference & AGM 2009
http://www.commedia.org.uk/2009/03/11/community-media-conference-agm/

Ofcom’s Community Radio Annual Report: Communities are the radio stars
http://www.commedia.org.uk/2009/03/09/ofcom-community-radio-annual-report/

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, #lpfm etc.

Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/community_media - community
media news round-up from 28/02/09-14/03/09 below:

#Ofcom publishes its reasons for the award of 4 #communityradio
licenses in #Suffolk, #lpfm: http://tr.im/hll0about 4 hours ago

#YouTube rights row over music videos could spread to #MySpace,
#music, #copyright, #guardian: http://tr.im/hiem8:38 AM Mar 12th

#YouTube vs PRS row re UK music vids rolls on, #rights, #licensing:
http://tr.im/hfEC8:13 AM Mar 11th

RT @ArtsnetMcr really useful step-by-step guide to "Running your
group" courtesy of Voluntary Arts England:
http://tinyurl.com/cns5957:45 AM Mar 11th from web

Seven year old DJ on Bristol Community Radio, #communityradio, #lpfm,
#Bristol: http://tr.im/hcr83:21 AM Mar 10th

Community radio – a rare success story, #communityradio, #lpfm,
#guardian, #blog: http://tr.im/hcle2:09 AM Mar 10th

Advice and support for #thirdsector during the recession, #funding:
http://tr.im/haqm7:45 AM Mar 9th

New bibliography on #ethnic #minority #media has begun on the
Alternative Media Global Project, #communitymedia, #lpfm:
http://tr.im/h9Wz3:14 AM Mar 9th

#Ofcom publishes first Community Radio Annual Report
(http://bit.ly/ofcom09), #communityradio, #lpfm, #community, #radio:
http://tr.im/h9Rt2:07 AM Mar 9th

Community Media & European Policy: Workshop & Panel Discussion,
#Halle, 12-14 March 2009, #communitymedia, #lpfm, #EU:
http://tr.im/h9Rf2:02 AM Mar 9th

Latest Upstream Journal now available focussing on the role of
#communication for #social change: http://tinyurl.com/upstream...3:07
AM Mar 5th from web

Home Office £4.5m Community Fund – helping the #community tackle guns,
gangs and knives, #funding, #thirdsector: http://tr.im/h0nS6:41 AM Mar
4th

House of Commons debates, 02/03/09, Oral Answers to Questions — #DCMS,
#communityradio, #lpfm, #Labour, #Conservatives: http://tr.im/gXTi5:52
AM Mar 3rd

#Ofcom gives #BT green light to deploy 'super fast' broadband (just
ignore what's available to domestic users in #Japan):
http://tr.im/gXyV2:44 AM Mar 3rd

#Ofcom says pirate radio 'puts lives at risk', #lpfm:
http://tr.im/gXqH12:28 AM Mar 3rd

#Communityradio in #Australia short-changed in digital switchover,
#podcast, #lpfm: http://tr.im/gTLH6:29 AM Mar 1st

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