Media

VPT's "Profile" with CCTV's Lauren-Glenn Davitian 10/16/2009

Media Maven: Google for Nonprofits: What’s in the Toolshed? 10/15/2009

From spreadsheets to maps, email, blogs and, video and websites, widgets, web analytics and (even) 3 D Modeling, a Google account gives your nonprofit tremendous capacity to collaborate and manage its work flow. Join us for a scenic tour and to answer your "how-to" questions.

Google has steadily amassed a suite of online tools that can be used to the advantage of the connected nonprofit organization. From spreadsheets to maps, email, blogs and, video and websites, widgets, web analytics and (even) 3 D Modeling, a Google account gives you access and storage. Learn the basics of these applications from nonprofits—including how Google hosts noprofit office email networks. With Matt Dunne, Google Evangelist. This is the second installment of Google Workshops co-sponsored with United Way of Vermont, Common Good Vermont, and Google Community Affairs. Live Webcast at www.cctv.org

Part of the continuing series of Media Maven Lunches.

Local Media Show: Retiring WCAX anchor Marselis Parsons 10/06/2009

Retiring WCAX anchor Marselis Parsons

A Conversation with Marselis Parsons, WCAX 10/01/2009

Lauren-Glenn Davitian talks with WCAX's Marselis Parsons, News Director and Anchor of WCAX News. Marselis is retiring on October 12th, 42 years after he started at Vermont's family owned CBS affiliate. He reflects on changes in the media business, Vermont and the future of local news. Click here to watch an interview from 1991.

Vermont Council on World Affairs: Russian Television Host Bairma Radnayeva Interviews CCTV 09/28/2009

Ten Russians from Buryatia, near Lake Baikal, visit Vermont as part of the Community Connections program of USAID. Hosted by Vermont Council on World Affairs, participant Bairma Radnayeva, TV Jounalist form Buryat State Television Company, interviews CCTV's Nick Carter.

Ward 4 & 7 NPA Meeting 09/22/2009

Neighborhood Planning Assemblies (NPAs) are grassroots, neighborhood organizations that were established in each of Burlington's seven Wards to empower citizen participation in City government. Working as neighborhood advocacy groups, Neighborhood Planning Assemblies facilitate communication between the citizens of Burlington and city government through regular meetings scheduled in each Ward. Wards 4 & 7 meet the third Tuesday of the month. Meeting place: Robert E. Miller Community Center 130 Gosse Court.

Media Maven: 4th Annual Media Maven Fall Luncheon "The Mobile Matrix of Social Change: What’s Next" 09/17/2009

Part of the continuing series of Media Maven Lunches.

No nonprofit leader has failed to notice the accelerated nature of their work! From significant trends to day-to-day realities, nonprofits contend with ground shifting technology, finance and demographic change--along with increasing demands for service.

CCTV's Lauren-Glenn Davitian talks about how nonprofit leaders can position themselves and their organizations in the real-time media matrix that is now the reality of the world we live in. The presentation can be found here.

Public Service Announcements: Bike Hybrids 08/06/2009

Learn more about different kinds of commuter bicycle options in this short public service announcement created by community television producer, Jessica Tanner.

The Council of State Governments Eastern Regional Conference 2009: Panel: Creative Approaches to Clean Energy Financing 08/04/2009

Part of The Council of State Governments Eastern Regional Conference 2009. Panelists: Senator Ginny Lyons, Chair of Senate Committee on Natural Resources; Mark Sinclair, Clean Energy States Alliance; Tom Buckley, Burlington Electric Department; David Blittersdorf, Earth Turbines, Inc.; Dorothy Wolfe, groSola speak of the range of creative financing tools making small-scale clean energy solutions more affordable.

BTV Social Media Breakfast Club 08/03/2009

This event will focus on social media and public relations.Speakers: Jason Kintzler is the Founder and CEO of PitchEngine, a web app enabling PR professionals to package and share press content via the social web. He’s a former print and broadcast journalist turned PR pro and now, entrepreneur. He speaks about branding, public relations and social media at corporate events, conferences, trade shows and other venues and he blogs on the PitchEngine Network, a social community he created to cultivate ideas and help “PR meet social media.” Sarah Evans is the director of communications at Elgin Community College in Elgin, Illinois. Prior to ECC, she spent five years with Advocate Health Care, the largest health care system in Illinois, as the manager of communications and government relations at Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital. For more information, click here.

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Summer Video Production Internship - Applications Open

Town Meeting TV is hiring two paid interns to join our production team for the summer! The program will run from Monday, June 24th until Friday, August 16th (8 weeks). $17 an hour, approximately 8 hours per week. We are looking for folks who have basic or intermediate experience with video recording and editing on Adobe Premiere. Interns will work with the Town Meeting TV Co-Directors to pick stories or events that they would like to cover in our community, practice outreach skills, then shoot and edit video that will be broadcasted on Town Meeting TV's YouTube and cable channels. Interested applicants should send their resume and cover letter (including why they are interested in this position and any relevant experience) to Jordan at jmitchell@cctv.org. Applications close Friday, May 24th at 5:00PM. For more information, please contact outreach@cctv.org or call 802-862-3966.