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NarrativeArc: Storytelling Journalism Goes Digital

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:52:41 -0500

Start: 02/23/2012 - 00:00

End: 02/25/2012 - 00:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

The NarrativeArc Conference celebrates and explores narrative journalism, a powerful, unfettered, public but individually voiced genre, as it expands into many digital media.

Rethink Music

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:06:29 -0500

Start: 04/21/2012 - 00:00

End: 04/24/2012 - 00:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

Rethink Music is a solutions-focused event, with workshops, presentations, and panels designed to foster solutions for tomorrow's music industry. Our goal is to give a voice to industry executives, musicians, and academics and create a real debate about how to move the industry forward.

amplify! 2012: Turning up the Volume on Healthy Media

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:32:31 -0500

Start: 04/10/2012 - 00:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

Teen Voices will be celebrating 21 years of girls turning up the volume on healthy media at the sixth annual Amplify!

For 21 years, Teen Voices has published the experiences, opinions and dreams of teen girls around the world. Join us as we celebrate the amplified power of girls' voices to create social change through writing and art.

Dream of a Nation: Multimedia Presentation

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:26:18 -0500

Start: 12/05/2011 - 19:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-5

The Odyssey Bookshop is pleased to welcome Dream of a Nation contributor Greg Speeter and others for a multimedia presentation of this groundbreaking new book.

Panelists will include:

Jo Comerford - National Priorities Project
Greg Speeter - National Priorities Project
Steve Schnapp - United for a Fair Economy
Josh Stearns - Free Press

Broadband Project to Blanket Massachusetts

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:31:40 -0500

Full article: Telegram & Gazette
Lynne Klaft
If the Massachusetts Broadband Institute fulfills its mission, high-speed, high-volume Internet service will be in every corner of northern Central and Western Massachusetts in the next few years.

Boston Town Hall Meeting on Media and Democracy

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:39:45 -0400

Start: 10/21/2011 - 18:00

End: 10/21/2011 - 21:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

This fall the FCC will face massive corporate pressure to gut media-ownership rules and pave the way for more media consolidation. In Congress the “Super Committee” will weigh cuts to public media as it trims the federal budget. Meanwhile, Net Neutrality protections preserving the free and open Internet are under increasing threat.

Digital Media Conference and Grassroots Use of Technology Conference

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:49:33 -0400

Start: 10/20/2011 - 23:00

End: 10/22/2011 - 23:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

The Digital Media Conference 2011, which will incorporate this year's Grassroots Use of Technology Conference, centers on "Social Movements/Digital Revolutions," a frame connecting technology and social change.

Bioneers By the Bay

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:30:37 -0400

Start: 10/20/2011 - 23:00

End: 10/22/2011 - 23:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

A solution-based gathering that brings together diverse constituencies to create deep and positive change in their communities. Join the movement.

National Conference for Media Reform Wraps in Boston

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:55:57 -0400

BOSTON -- Sunday marked the end of the 2011 National Conference for Media Reform in Boston -- an energetic and inspiring gathering that brought together more than 2,500 grassroots activists, policymakers, journalists and scholars from across the country, as well as thousands more online.

Broadband: The Next Step for Western Massachusetts

Stevie Converse — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:35:55 -0400

Full article: Berkshire Eagle
Every town that offered voters the option of taking part in a Western Massachusetts broadband initiative approved the idea, sending advocates into the next stage of development. The next step is to form a non-profit to plan and build a fiber optic network in all the region's unserved or underserved towns.