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Televised Panel on Web & Civic Engagement to include New Cambridge Observer

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I am pleased to have spoken about New Cambridge Observer on a panel presented by Cambridge Community Television–and televised on Cambridge’s Channel Ten (CCTV) on April 13 at 6:30 pm! It’s now posted at  http://www.cctvcambridge.org/Net_to_Neighborhood . My presentation is about 6 minutes in…after two introductions.

 Here’s the scoop:

 

Using the Web to Connect Your Community & Encourage Civic Engagement in CambridgeFrom raising awareness about important local issues to gathering people for community events, ordinary people are making use of inexpensive, easy-to-use web tools to organize in their communities. We’ll cover strategic uses of blogging, web video, social networking, web sites, and more. Be sure to tune in to learn how six Cambridge individuals are using these tools for positive change in their communities, and how you can too!Panelists Include:

  • Moderator: Chris Csikszentmihályi, Director of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media;
  • Garrett Anderson, Cambridge Energy Alliance, on social networking tools;
  • Toni Bee, Area 4 correspondent for NeighborMedia;
  • D.C. Denison, Boston Globe technology writer, Porter Square Neighborhood Association webmaster;
  • Anita Harris, New Cambridge Observer blog, Harris Communications Group, former PBS journalist;
  • Mark Jaquith, East Cambridge correspondent for NeighborMedia;
  • Karin Koch, NeighborMedia correspondent and producer of Vida Latina.

The panel goes 6:30-8:30 at CCTV, 675 Mass Ave (enter on Prospect St), Cambridge. I hope you can make it!

–Anita M. Harris

New Cambridge Observer is a publication of the Harris Communications Group of Cambridge, MA. We also publish Harriscom Blog and Ithaca Diaries Blog.