Great post on Urban InFill yesterday about the Social Media Cafe event on Monday. I’m still collecting my own thoughts to share via video. Perhaps tonight. Been busy.
Columbus Sustenance
December 11, 2007 by JeffLast night’s smaller, but no less effective, group met for the second Social Media Cafe’ hosted by WOSU and COSI. There were new faces in the mix, too. Break out discussions included topics such as how WOSU can gather and produce more local content, creating training sessions for social media (blogs, podcasts),urban exploration, as well as the creation of a hyper-local food segment for WOSU.
In working with the group surrounding the gathering of more local content, we exchanged ideas about the programming we’ve seen and heard from other public broadcasters, such as DIY Portland, where locals present on most any topic where one can “do it yourself”. We tossed around ideas for podcasts, web content and radio programming. There’s a true desire to bring forth the voices of local residents.
Daniel Fox of SKREENED suggested that the identity of Columbus is derived from everyone here, and not in how we compare ourselves against other cities. Walker Evans and Andrew Miller talked about why this young city is attractive and Lisa from Restaurant Widow maintains that living in Columbus offers her, as well as others, a chance to be heard and be involved, whereas in larger cities, doing so is much more difficult.