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I guess I will introduce myself and my organization. I'm the Associate Director of the Puffin Cultural Forum, a gallery performance space in Teaneck NJ. Our mission is generally to nurture the arts in the area and bring challenging programming to the community. We have music performances, fine art exhibits, author interviews, workshops and much more. We're a pretty busy space for sure.
I just started here about two years ago after graduating from Rutgers University with a degree in communication. I was hired to maintain the website, assist the program director, manage press relations and make the coffee.
I have been interested in new technologies for a few years now and as time passes here I try to bring my knowledge to practical use. I'm just starting to realize the possibilities of using technology to broaden our reach. We are thinking about developing a blog with podcasts of our events and video streaming of performances. This all falls on me to figure out.
Hopefully this will chronicle my struggles to the benefit of others.
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Hi Karin,You might want to
Hi Karin,
You might want to connect with another attendee from the art world, Erika Block, at the conference. She has two interesting projects you to check out, the walking project and mapping desire lines.
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Link between communications and these new technologies
The thing about these technologies -- heck, about the Internet in general -- is their link to communications. That's what it's about, right? The ability to find and communicate with one another. Given your background: I'm wondering what you think of that link? Is it really there? Is it about getting it out of the way or does organizational communication require more than that?
Marnie Webb
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Good question...
Communication is a great field to study because so much falls under its influence. As a college degree, it covers many diverse topics like journalism, speach therapy, media, technology ect...I think understanding communication's general princibles can help develope better tools to cope with the challenges of technologies like the Internet and vis versa, we can learn more about communication by studying the general atributes and potentials of the Internet. I'm not sure I'm answering your question...
I'm not sure there is an answer to my question
Karin,
Maybe it's just, well, a conversation. I just keep wondering about how these tools can facilitate the best in communication -- and how we can use them to communicate not just what we say but what we mean -- and not the worst. I used to think it was about increasing the signal. You know, the signal vs. noise ratio thing. How can we increase the signal? From my outside perspective, that's alot of what communications professional learn and do: make sure they are producing signal and not noise. Increasingly, I'm thinking that it's actually about increasing an individuals ability to find their signal. That everyone's version of valuable information may not be the same and so we need remove the gatekeepers so that people can find their own value information, their own signal.
Marnie Webb
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The almighty gatekeeper
I agree with what you said about helping people "find the signal" being at the crux of what we want to do. I hope that after all is said and done, I will be able to get the 'signal' out there where people will find it. But, I'm worried about it being a 'signal' valuable to them. It seems like, as you mentioned, it boils down to the gate keepers. Social networking like blogging determines who gets what information when. But, I don't think we should get rid of the gatekeepers...sometimes they are the only way to cope with the massive amount of information on the web. They have a lot of power, yes, but with things like social bookmarking, blogging, etc...real people are behind it not machines...for once!! (p.s. excuse my spelling if I've mis-spelled, I'm a horrible speller!)