This Week in Civic Media: Video, "Design for Vulnerable Populations"; VoIP Drupal webinar Thursday
Andrew Whitacre
Communications Director
Andrew conducts the communications efforts for CMS (websites, press relations, and project and event publicity) as well as those for MIT's Center for Civic Media and the MIT Game Lab.
A native of Washington, D.C., he holds a degree in communication from Wake Forest University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College. His marketing and P.R. skills were honed at Houghton Mifflin and Tufts University. He was also the long-time fiction editor for Identity Theory and followed up with a literary tool website, called Readsfeed.
This Week in Civic Media: Video, "Design for Vulnerable Populations"; VoIP Drupal webinar Thursday
Submitted by Andrew on May 9, 2011 - 4:07pm
From the Center
- Video: Civic Media Session, "Design for Vulnerable Populations" http://cot.ag/k3oKc3 moderated by @cdetar
Events this week
VoIP Drupal webinar, Thursday 1pm. Learn how easy it is to use VoIP Drupal to build websites that pick up the phone, make calls, record messages, broadcast audio, and more.
More on VoIP Drupal
- Leo Burd and Owen Barton discuss VoIP Drupal, a platform to integrate voice and web through Drupal... http://cot.ag/jCQoAR
Between the Bars, our prison blogging platform
- @ReganStP: New Site Helps Inmates Blog from Behind Bars http://cot.ag/kqN9PS via @TechNewsDaily @c4fcm
Bin Laden death
- In race to be first, major news orgs wildly misreport bin Laden death, but "facts" stick http://is.gd/RsQm4a
- @dangillmor: Lots of non-US perspective of Bin Laden killing from Global Voices: http://bit.ly/jL9Q0t
- Bin Laden death led to record 3,000 tweets/second (including tweets from man down the road from compound) http://cot.ag/jstscP
"Kabletown" regulation may come to Boston
- Despite higher competition, Comcast may be subject to rate regulation in Boston after raising prices 60% in three years http://cot.ag/k57dpg
Elsewhere
- "What can Journalists Learn from The Daily Show: An Interview with Amber Day" http://cot.ag/ktdetV via @henryjenkins
- Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.: "Update Presidential Records Act so we can archive communications via all staff devices" http://cot.ag/lLNIW3
- Win a Newsroom Fellowship by Rethinking Video Storytelling http://cot.ag/jgB96D
