Public Media Innovation
Project Updates
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Projects Selected in October
Round Two of the PMI Fund invested in experiments that apply Web
2.0, social networking strategies to public broadcasting online
services.
Round Two Grantees received up to $20,000 each. They are:
| Grantee | Project | Online information and links | Reports |
| KET/The Kentucky Network | Connectivity, Choice and Participation. Testing a variety of social networking strategies to increase high school student proficiency and engagement in the study of German. | http://www.ket.org/ | |
| Oregon Public Broadcasting | Invasive Species Online Hotline. Employing user-generated content and social networking tools to connect the public with invasive species experts to help stop the spread of invasives in Oregon. | http://oregoninvasiveshotline.org/ | |
| WGBH/Boston | Virtual Radio Launching a branded virtual radio station in Second Life in the form of a concert hall/music café. | For a tour of the WGBH/Second Life project. For more go to http://wgbh.org/secondlife. |
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| WFUV/New York—WFUV Online Local Music Network. | Creating an online social network for musicians and music lovers to access independent, emerging music. | http://www.wfuv.org/ | |
| Penn State Public Broadcasting–Back from Iraq: The Veterans’ Stories Project. | Using a course-based model and Web 2.0 strategies to empower and train Iraq veterans to complete in-depth portraits of fellow Iraq veterans. | http://www.wpsu.org/ | |
| Northwest Public Broadcasting/Pullman, WA, Washington State University | Our Northwest News 2008. Testing the use of online game-playing, blogs, wikis and other strategies to engage the audience with regional news stories. | http://nwpr.org/News.aspx |
As projects end, their final reports will be posted here.
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