Digital Arts Service Corps - pso

PSO Presentations

Bill Brown — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:30:23 +0000

The following presentations are attached below:

Welcome to PSO: The first presentation at PSO given by Ben. Explains the Transmission Project, the Digital Arts Service Corps, and why we are all here.
Nonprofit Realities: Ben's presentation on the structure of nonprofits, nonprofit culture, and some the realities we might expect to find once we start our year of service.
Media Asset Mapping: Explains the Asset Mapping project.
Intro to the Field: Slide from Belinda's presentation with a graph of different organizations and where they lie in the field of public media. The rest of Belinda's presentation was adopted from Benton Foundation Community Media report by Fred Johnson and Public Media 2.0 report.

New June CTC VISTAs

Ben Sheldon — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:51:56 +0000

Last Thursday the CTC VISTA Project swore in 25 new CTC VISTA members to begin a year of service to their community. These new VISTAs are a diverse and energized group hailing from across the country and serving in a wide array of capacities: community wireless, accessibility and inclusion, fundraising and outreach, youth storytelling and many more exciting capacity-building technology and media projects.

These 25 new VISTAs brings our current size of the CTC VISTA Project to an astonishing corps of 90 VISTA members.

June 2007 CTC VISTA Members: (Right to Left) First Row: Danielle Martin (VISTA Leader), Marylin Taylor, Cecille Isidro, Victoria Edwards, Julie Adler, Anita Lie; Second Row: Morgan Sully (VISTA Leader), Angela Saylor, Rian Graves, Tony Brown, Karl Otto, Ashley Mathews, Kelli Williams, Dianne Boro; Third Row: Ross Musselman (VISTA Leader), Rob Heck, Rayna Ramirez, Sarah Pierantoni, Charles Farmer, Jack Doherty, Dianne Curtain, Jim Mora, Kevin Palmer (VISTA Leader); Fourth Row: Meegan Kelly, Alexis Walker, Josh King, John Van Houdt, Sil Green, Jack Waugh, Ben Sheldon (Assistant Director); Not Shown: Donna Licata

Live from Project HQ

Kevin Palmer — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:00:43 +0000

The PSO is finished. Deep Breath. Exhale.

On to the exciting portion of the VISTA year! Many from June's PSO started at their organizations Monday and some will begin shortly. Already heard good things coming from Rayna at YES in MA, Kelli at The United Way in NC, and Rian at the Davis Community Network in CA. Sounds like people have really hit the ground running.

Here at HQ, we're catching up on filing and sorting all the PSO paperwork, updating some Website odds and ends, following up with everyone, and still recovering from the PSO.

Things to look for: The CTC*VISTA Wiki has a front page that now links to the new Working Groups categories. Check it out at: http://ctcvista.org/wiki . I'm heading up the Volunteer Management working group and also the Business/Marketing working group. I've been adding/re-organizing the Volunteer Management section the last 2 days. Check it here: http://ctcvista.org/node/609

I'll be checking in mid-week next week with all the East Coast VISTA's to see how things are going after the first week and a half. Talk to you folks soon!

Decompressing from the PSO

Ben Sheldon — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:09:11 +0000

I am back in the office this morning after taking a couple days off from the successful completion of last week's PSO. Boston has been baking under 90-plus degree weather and it's actually comforting to be back in the air-conditioned cave that is UMass Boston.

Despite the completion of activities from the PSO, there is still a lot of paperwork to process, evaluations to read and improvements to be documented down for next time. We've ran four PSOs in the last year, which has kept the process fresh in the Project's mind. Fortunately for our stress-levels, our next full-PSO won't happen until next summer; unfortunately, that leaves a lot of time to forget what we've learned unless we document it.

Even with the Lowell PSO over, there are a few more VISTAs that will be joining us in August. They will be attending the Corporation's PSO in Providence, RI, which is gentler since the Project won't be running it, but we'll still have to orient them to all the CTC VISTA specific info and procedures. All of the paperwork for those incoming VISTAs is due next week!

Photos from June PSO at UMass Lowell

danielle martin — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:35:14 +0000

More of daniellemartin_2000's photos tagged with pso

First Day

Anita Lie — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:44:48 +0000

The first day of CTC VISTA I learned a lot of information about what the project is about. It was nice to see all the different people coming from all over the U.S who work in the same field with diverse background. I look forward to the many network I can find and built. I want to be able to built up my social skills as well as learn more about technology, especially in digital media. Hopefully I'll get to learn more as time past on. =)

CTC*Vista PSO!!

Sil Greene — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:31:53 +0000

Boston ROCKS! Well, Lowell anyways. I haven't seen any of Boston except from the interstate. But Lowell? Well, last night we crashed the Brewery Exchange. Fun times. Tomorrow night we'll go back for Bull Riding. Tonight we're hoping for karaoke, pool and drunken darts at the PITA bartender. Savage, I know, but this is Boston and apparently all bartenders are required to be rude here.

This morning I woke on the 16th floor to a squeaky bed and bright lights, feeling the burn for my two greatest needs: caffeine & nicotine. I thought briefly of stealing my roommate's lighter, but he's a black man from D.C. and I had no interest in finding out what sort of retribution he might deliver for such an affront. Instead I went wandering through the streets. At 7 am. For a lighter and coffee.

So this girl beside me thinks she looks like a monkey without shaving her legs. I'm not sure how to tell her that's ridiculous, but I suppose this'll work. She looks nothing like a monkey. A lizard, perhaps....

Heh. Gonzo journalism at it's finest. Hunter, eatcher heart out.

Reporting from Lowell

Julie Adler — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:31:03 +0000

Greetings from the CTC*VISTA PSO at UMass Lowell. It is a lovely week here in Massachusetts. Hopefully the West-coasters are pleasantly surprised.

I think this is a great communications tool, and very usable, which will probably make me more eager to post. I'm excited that so many of us will be in the Boston area. That makes it even easier to communicate!

More to come!

First Day at PSO

Marilyn Taylor — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:28:11 +0000

Today was the 1st day of PSO. Mostly, we had meetings and filled out paperwork. It was nice to discover that not everyone was right out of college. A few of us had several years of work under our belts. Even my roommate had years of experience in teaching and photojournalism.

Digressing a bit, it certainly is warm and humid. It made for a sleepless night last night since there was no air conditioning. It gets warm in eastern Washington state, but the humidity there is in the teens rather than the eighties. I also have air conditioning at home.

Learning how to submit a field report

Rayna Ramirez — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:27:30 +0000

This field report is fairly self explanatory. We are at the point in our PSO where we learn about field reports. Morgan and Ben are showing everyone how to do this they're making it pretty funny in the process. Now I am going to submit this and go read my fellow PSO groups field reports.