Using the Web to Connect Your Community & Encourage Civic Engagement in Cambridge

Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Cambridge Community Television: 675 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA

**Registration required by April 6**
www.cctvcambridge.org/Net_to_Neighborhood

Cambridge Community Television's NeighborMedia hosts "Using the Web to Connect Your Community & Encourage Civic Engagement in Cambridge". Our Chris Csikszentmihályi moderates:

From raising awareness about important local issues to gathering people for community events, ordinary people are making use of inexpensive, easy-to-use web tools to organize in their communities. We’ll cover strategic uses of blogging, web video, social networking, web sites, and more. Learn how six Cambridge individuals are using these tools for positive change in their communities, and how you can too!

Panelists Include:

  • Moderator: Chris Csikszentmihályi, Director of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media;
  • Garrett Anderson, Cambridge Energy Alliance, on social networking tools;
  • Toni Bee, Area 4 correspondent for NeighborMedia;
  • D.C. Denison, Boston Globe technology writer, Porter Square Neighborhood Association webmaster;
  • Anita Harris, New Cambridge Observer blog, Harris Communications Group, former PBS journalist;
  • Mark Jaquith, East Cambridge correspondent for NeighborMedia;
  • Karin Koch, NeighborMedia correspondent and producer of of Vida Latina

For more information and to register to attend, visit
www.cctvcambridge.org/Net_to_Neighborhood. Also airing live on CCTV.