Technology Archive

  • Learn and Use Latest Internet Technologies Here At Pannell Center

    Learn and Use Latest Internet Technologies Here At Pannell Center

    By   Charles E. Hughes  –  The Pannell Center will be working with the staff of Access Sacramento, and other community entities, to establish a Neighborhood News Service that will be built and managed by high school and college aged youth from the Pannell Center community. The Pannell Center is now in the process of [...]

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  • Stop Media Madness – “I Won’t Take This Anymore!”

    Stop Media Madness – “I Won’t Take This Anymore!”

    by Amy Lawrence If you’re fed up with getting unwanted calls, texts, mail, e-mails and faxes, like I am, there are a few simple steps that you can follow to cut down on them. According to an article in Consumer Connection, published by the California Department of Consumer Affairs, three common types of unwanted mail, [...]

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  • Watch Journalism Panel Recorded in Partnership With Sacramento Press and Sacramento Bee

    Watch Journalism Panel Recorded in Partnership With Sacramento Press and Sacramento Bee

    by Ron Cooper This photo along with several others, by Colleen Belcher, can be found at www.SacramentoPress.com Continuing in our series of collaborative media partnerships, the Hometown-TV crew documented the six person panel of local media managers entitled “Paying for Content? Searching for New Media Revenue in the Digital Age”. Please read the very thorough [...]

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  • Access Sacramento and Other Nor Cal Media Centers Seek Congressional Help from Senator Boxer

    Access Sacramento and Other Nor Cal Media Centers Seek Congressional Help from Senator Boxer

    Ron Cooper joined with executive directors from PEG Access organizations in Marin, San Jose, Monterey, Gilroy, Palo Alto and Sacramento based consultant Sue Buske asking California Senator Barbara Boxer’s office for legislative help in Congress. The leaders met with Jennifer Tang, Senior Field Representative and Hillary Bishop Pearson, Special Projects Director for Senator Boxer in [...]

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  • Filmmakers meet – Ten PCS Productions Now Underway

    Filmmakers meet – Ten PCS Productions Now Underway

    On Saturday June 12, the ten films now in production met for the first time since the highly successful 2010 “Cast & Crew Call” mid-May. The ten teams are in the process of holding cast auditions, selecting crew members for key positions, and identifying key location sites for their productions. Several of the films have [...]

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  • “Community Journalism” and Sacramento’s Neighborhood News Bureau Site

    “Community Journalism” and Sacramento’s Neighborhood News Bureau Site

    Dedicated to studying new media trends in the United States, staff members at the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism, have written an article titled, “Community Journalism,” where they analyze the roles of community journalism and its relationship to traditional journalism.  They also seek to uncover the ways in which community journalism can fill gaps [...]

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  • “Neighborhood News Bureaus”: My Community is Interested – What Comes Next? How Can I Help?

    “Neighborhood News Bureaus”: My Community is Interested – What Comes Next? How Can I Help?

    by Ron Cooper This is the fifth and concluding article on the NNB project. In articles #1-4, we outlined our efforts to build volunteer based “Neighborhood News Brureaus: (a) using Word Press on-line softare to organize remote digital media content for a new “aggregated” web site – AccessLocal.TV, (b) design on-line community reporter training (including [...]

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  • “Neighborhood News” Tipping Point Pt. 1 by Ron Cooper

    “Neighborhood News” Tipping Point Pt. 1 by Ron Cooper

    The “Tipping Point” – A Strategy to Motivate South Sacramento County Community Reporters to Create “Neighborhood News Bureaus” … (Part 1 of Five Part Series) By Ron Cooper Since last October, with our first application for Knight Foundation “News Challenge” grant funding, and continuing on into the future, Access Sacramento is embarked on a purposeful [...]

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