Free BE THE MEDIA galleys for select attendees of the 2008 Alliance for Community Media Conference in Washington DC

The Alliance for Community Media Conference will take place from July 9 through July 12 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington DC.  The Pre-Conference workshops will be held on July 9. 

The Alliance for Community Media is a nonprofit national membership organization that is committed to assuring public access to electronic media.

The Conference Track Schedule includes many subjects that are included as chapters in BE THE MEDIA:

• New Media Issues
• Media & Telecom Public Policy
• Collaborations, Outreach and Fundraising
• Technical Issues and Equipment
• Community Media Center Management
• Programming/Training/Content Development
• Media, Civic Involvement & Community Development

To register and learn more about The Alliance for Community Media Conference download their brochure or visit the website.

We will be giving away free galleys of BE THE MEDIA to select attendees of this conference.  Chapter 17 teaches you how to create a Public Access TV Show.  Chapter 18 teaches you how to create a Community Media Center, and is based on how community media advocates from Media Action Marin (Marin County, California) lobbied Comcast during their cable franchise renewal and won $2.5 million to run their own Public, Education and Government channels. 

For more information on this, see the blog entry from August 14, 2006.

Thanks to interim ACM Executive Director Deborah Vinsel for this opportunity. And once again thanks to David Rubinson for underwriting the cost of the books and 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 learn how to create a Community Media Center or a Public Access TV Show, see chapters 17 and 18
in your copy of BE THE MEDIA: