Media

Local Media Show: Public Access to Government Record - Allen Gilbert, ACLU-Vermont 04/05/2011

Host Lauren-Glenn Davitian speaks with ACLU-Vermont Executive Director Allen Gilbert on Legislative initiatives addressing 'Public Access to Goverment Records'.

Public Service Announcements: Vermont Workers' Center Health Care is a Human Right- Universality 03/25/2011

PSA promoting Vermont Workers' Center Health Care is a Human Right Campaign.

Media Maven: Catch the Wave: The Latest in Nonprofit Technology 03/24/2011

Part of the continuing series of Media Maven Lunches.

Host Lauren-Glenn Davitian, shares insights from the 2011 NTEN Conference in Washington, D.C..

Do you have a communications plan? If so, do you use it? Is there more you can do to increase your visibility and make a difference? Jump start your marketing and outreach work with this month's Media Maven.Andrea Learned, co-author of Don’t Think Pink: What Really Makes Women Buy – and How to Increase Your Share of This Crucial Market (AMACOM, 2004), will give some marketing tips. Andrea is an internationally respected gender marketing expert, speaker and writer. While she focuses on women as the leading indicators of consumer behavior, she also emphasizes that 21st Century men are starting to travel similar buying paths. Andrea believes that storytelling and cause marketing are key ways to present a brand’s facts and attributes to today’s consumer – no gender about it. Andrea contributes to a wide range of publications/blogs, including HuffingtonPost.com, MPDailyfix.com, TomPeters.com, Women-omics.com, and LearnedOnWomen.com - where she presents her most current analysis of consumer/cultural shifts and marketing best practices. She presents regularly to global business audiences, and her opinions have been cited in publications from Adweek to the Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. Andrea has a B.A from the University of Michigan, and resides in Burlington, Vermont. Find her at: http://learnedonwomen.com , or on Twitter: @AndreaLearned. Join us for 90 minutes of stimulating talk and a good lunch (for only 5 bucks). Maybe you'll think-- "we should become members of CCTV!" (We'd love that!)

Dr. Lowell Monke - I'm So Full I'm Empty: Becoming Competent within our Consumer Culture 03/12/2011

Dr. Lowell Monke outlines the impact of digital technologies and consumer culture on young children and teenagers. He offers guidance for parents who want to set reasonable boundaries and educate children so they can be masters of media (rather than be mastered by it). See also:" Tweet, Text TV: Parenting in a New Paradigm". Dr. Monke's talk is part of the Lake Champlain Waldorf School's Life of the Child Conference held on March 11 & 12, 2011.

Dr. Lowell Monke - Tweet, Text TV: Parenting in a New Paradigm 03/11/2011

Dr. Lowell Monke outlines the impact of digital technologies on young children and teenagers. He offers guidance for parents who want to set reasonable boundaries and educate children so they can be masters of media (rather than be mastered by it). See also: "I'm So Full I'm Empty: Becoming Competent within our Consumer Culture". Dr. Monke's talk is part of the Lake Champlain Waldorf School's Life of the Child Conference held on March 11 & 12, 2011.

Wireless Pollution - How Electromagnetic Communication Affects You 02/16/2011

A panel of researchers and professionals discuss the dangers of wireless technology. From artists being affected by this technology to doctors researching the affects of wireless radiation on children in schools and adults in your home. Listen to these experienced members of the panel and others on the phone and chiming in from the internet about why you should be cautious about wireless technology. To get more involved and to learn more visit: www.emrpolicy.org www.emfsafetynetwork.org http://sagereports.com/smart-meter-rf/

Local Media Show: Social Unrest in the Digital Age - Jasmine Revolution and Beyond 02/01/2011

Host Nick Carter and guest Eli Harrington explore the current political events in Tunisia, Egypt and beyond and how social media plays a role in movement for political change. Tunisian - American, Gouta Carter shares her impressions via phone, of the emergence of a new government in Tunisia and unrest spilling over to Egypt.

Media Maven: Refresh Your Communications Plan 01/27/2011

Part of the continuing series of Media Maven Lunches.

A Conversation on Race - Community Leaders Speak Out 01/22/2011

Conversation on Race Now (C.O.R.N.) brings community leaders including Arthur Brooks, former Middlebury and Bennington College Professor, Jeanne Collins, Burlington Schools Superintendent, Ali Dieng, a recent Vermont resident, Dr. Fayneese Miller, UVM Dean and Chair of the Vermont State School Board, Mike Schirling, Burlington Chief of Police, into a community conversation moderated by Robert Walsh. For more information: Vivian Mason: vhm84@hotmail.com, Susan Linskey hhskl47@myfairpoint.net

Local Media Show: Winooski Refugee Film 01/04/2011

Host Nick Carter speaks with Laurie Stavrand, Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program, Winooski City Manager Deac Deccareau, Htun Sein, staff interpreter for VRRP and filmmaker Philip Fass on a produced film about Winooski's refugee population.

Featured Story

CCTV Receives NEH Grant to Support Community Archives

CCTV Center for Media & Democracy is pleased to announce receipt of a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant alongside 32 peer archival institutions across the country. This $49,927 grant award will support efforts to preserve and expand access to audio/visual community history materials in the CCTV Archives. Read more about this opportunity here!