The colloquium is aimed at updating teachers, advisors, professors, editors, bloggers, and citizen journalists on cutting edge methods of promulgating the news.
It will take place from 9AM to 4PM in the Alumni Library in the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. A detailed program and information on registration for the event can be found here.
David Mathison, compiler of BE THE MEDIA, will open the session at 9:30AM. His fellow speakers include:
Doug McGill, former foreign correspondent and business writer for The New York Times and current teacher at Carleton College
Wayne Sutton, community content manager for MyNC.com, a hyper-local news website produced by WNCN, Channel 17, the NBC television affiliate serving Raleigh-Durham, NC
The Allied Media Conference will be taking place this weekend, June 20 through 22, on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. The conference will be a parley of alternative media makers and social justice workers from across the country and around the world.
We are delighted to announce that BE THE MEDIA will be distributing 50 free galleys to attendees of this conference. According to Adrienne Maree Brown, executive director of the Ruckus Society, "The upcoming Allied Media Conference is all about bringing tools and skills back into the community: video-blogging, creating web zines, low power radio production,etc."
BE THE MEDIA is an appropriate book for attendees of this conference because it discusses all of that and more. The first half of the book teaches people how to self-publish blogs, music, film, podcasts, zines, etc. and the second half covers community media such as Low Power FM radio, Public Access TV, Community Media Centers, and much more. See the Table of Contents for further information.
BE THE MEDIA would like to thank David Rubinson for volunteering to underwrite the cost of the books and for getting them into the hands of people who can use them. David was the founder of the Automatt Recording Studio in the 1970s and produced an astounding list of musicians, including Herbie Hancock, the Pointer Sisters, Santana, Janis Joplin, Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, and Taj Mahal. He was also the music producer for the film Apocalypse Now (1979).
To register for the Allied Media Conference, you can fill out an online conference registration form here, or visit the conference's website at www.alliedmediaconference.org.
If you can't make it to the conference, but you still want to check out BE THE MEDIA, you can visit our website or purchase your own copy of the book by clicking the button below:
Slash: former lead guitarist of Guns N' Roses; current lead guitarist of Velvet Revolver
Phil Donahue: former talk show host; producer of Body of War
Larry Lessig: professor at Stanford Law; founder of Creative Commons
Bill Moyers: host of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS; former White House Press Secretary; President of the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy
Craig Newmark: founder of Craigslist.org
Garrison Keillor: host of the radio show A Prairie Home Companion on Minnesota Public Radio
Amy Goodman: journalist and host of Democracy Now!
Marty Kaplan: Associate Dean for Programs and Planning of the USC Annenberg School for Communication; Director of the Norman Lear Center for the Study of Entertainment; member of the faculty advisory council of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy; former host of the radio show So What Else is News?
Arianna Huffington: founder of The Huffington Post
Robert Greenwald: director, producer, and political activist
Catherine Crier: former anchor of Catherine Crier Live on Court TV
Robert Kiyosaki: investor, businessman, and creator of Rich Dad, Poor Dad motivational series
Tracey Van Slyke: director of The Media Consortium
John Nichols: Washington, D.C. correspondent for The Nation magazine; editor of the Capital Times; prolific political blogger
Steven Ekstract: founder and publisher of License! Global Magazine
Michael Copps: Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
Tica Lyons: member, Media Action Marin; Social Justice Center of Marin
Representative Lynn Woolsey [D-CA]: representing California's 6th Congressional district
Peter Franck: Chairman of Media Action Marin; Intellectual Property and Entertainment Attorney
Jane Hamsher: founder of the blog Firedoglake; producer of the film Natural Born Killers
Jeff Cohen: founding Director of the Park Center for Indepedent Media at Ithaca College; former producer of MSNBC's Donahue; founder of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting
Dan Poynter: founder of Para Publishing; author of The Self Publishing Manual
Vint Cerf: Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google; "person most often called 'the father of the Internet'"
Jonathan Adelstein: Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission
Van Jones: President and founder of Green For All
Tim Wu: Professor at Columbia Law School; chairman of Freepress.net; writer for Slate Magazine; coined the term 'network neutrality'
Code Pink: women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement
Douglas Rushkoff: New York-based writer, columnist and lecturer on technology, media, and popular culture
Amit Schejter: Professor at Penn State's College of Communications; head of the Future of American Communications Policy Working Group
Marcy Wheeler: prolific blogger; contributes to many blogs including Firedoglake, Daily Kos, and The Huffington Post
Shawn Chang: Deputy Policy Director of Freepress.net
Peter Phillips: director of Project Censored; professor at Sonoma State University
Peter B. Collins: radio talk show host of the syndicated "Peter B. Collins Show"; owner of a progressive radio station in Monterrey, California
Lloyd Dangle: creator of the syndicated weekly comic strip Troubletown; writer and visual artist
Josh Wolf: journalist, filmmaker, and activist
Reverend Lennox Yearwood: President of the Hip Hop Caucus in Washington, D.C.
David Rubinson: founder of the Automatt Recording Studio (1976-1984); producer of Herbie Hancock, the Pointer Sisters, Santana, Janis Joplin, Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, and Taj Mahal; music producer for the film Apocalypse Now
Ben Scott: Policy Director of Freepress.net
Bill Densmore: director and editor of the Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Mark Pesce: co-inventor of VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language); writer, researcher and teacher
Last weekAlan Canton, the President of Adams-Blake Company, Inc., checked out Be The Media's booth at Book Expo America 2008 in Los Angeles.
Alan's company is the creator of the popular software Jaya123, an application that simplifies many tasks for small businesses.
He has been updating his blog weekly for 10 years on issues related to book publishing, the software industry, and small businesses.
On June 4, Adam posted a 'BEA Diary' on his blog, A Saturday Rant, in which he selected some booths from the show and wrote a short review on what he saw.
It appears as though he found something that he liked at Be The Media. His entry is below:
"If celebrity testimonials can make a book into a bestseller then Be The Media should be huge. This author/publisher has done his homework and I predict this will sell very well. The book was badly designed but they say they are going to re-do it before the final print run. No one in their right mind would print a 300+ page book in a san-serif typeface!"
The galley that Alan saw at BEA was an "uncorrected proof" intended only for reviewers and the press. For those of you reviewing the galleys, the final version of the book will include:
* Index * Introduction * Syndication chapter * High resolution images, graphics, and illustrations * And of course, a larger, serif font for the interior text
The publication date for the final version of Be The Media will be September 1st, 2008.
If there are any bloggers or members of the press interested in reviewing the galley, please send us an email here.
To learn how to create your own blog see chapter 1 of BE THE MEDIA:
This short video was designed to give animators and musicians at the Licensing International Expo in New York some ideas for our upcoming book trailer.
It is just the storyboard for what is very much a work in progress.
If there are any animators, cartoonists, filmmakers, musicians, or songwriters who would like to work with us in the creation of our book trailer, please contact us here.
"'Cause I always think I know how to be. But I always thought I would end up with you eventually." - The Kooks: Always where I need to be
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citizens to meet, tell their stories, share tactics, listen to great speakers
and build the movement for better media in America.
NCMR 2008 will be in Minneapolis
on June 6-8, 2008. Register now!
On Saturday, June 28
, the New England News Forum
will present a unique, one-day workshop entitled "Sharing the News: Fresh Approaches to Reaching Students and Training Citizens." 
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