New Media TV BETA

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Join us for the fourth interactive episode of TrentTV. This episode’s topic: local government.

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Connecting to chat room…

Welcome to the ‘newmediatvorg’ room

11:26 The chat room has been cleared by the moderator.

11:49 mitch : TrentTV is on June 23, 2009 at 12:30pm EST

11:26 Nicole Sauce : We are so popular that we are getting video based commercials sometimes now!

11:27 mitch changed their nickname to mitch.

11:27 mitch : haha  i saw that!

11:27 Nicole Sauce : I’ve been working on a rate to get rid of those – shoudl be done within the next two weeks

11:28 mitch : awesome.

11:28 Nicole Sauce : i will not be on yahoo im

11:28 mitch : oh. and why?

11:28 Nicole Sauce : Oh boy – 2 minutes until go live time!! Yahoo is not working well on my computer and I want to SEE the show!

11:29 mitch : 1minute..

11:29 Stevenadamswv : SteveAdams reporting in

11:29 Nicole Sauce : Hello Steve

11:29 Stevenadamswv : howdy

11:30 Stevenadamswv : hi Lee Ann

11:30 Stevenadamswv : hi Jennifer

11:30 Nicole Sauce : Three pretty faces

11:30 mitch : hello all!

11:31 JP : hello, chat folks

11:31 Nicole Sauce : Happy to see Trent made the whirlwind drive from the airport

11:32 Stevenadamswv : My problem is I never really know how specific I need to be with a FOIA

11:35 Benjamin B : This is protected by HIPPA

11:36 Stevenadamswv : HEY HEY

11:36 Stevenadamswv : ignore the caps

11:36 Nicole Sauce : Enter your questions in the chat window

11:37 Stevenadamswv : Is it better to simply ask before actually going to the effort to file a FOIA? I figure it’s best to ask first and build relationships.

11:38 Nicole Sauce : texaswatchdog.org

11:40 Nicole Sauce : When you find something juicy, do you give folks the head up before publicly releasing it?

11:43 Nicole Sauce : We are taking questions today via chat – feel free to ask what is on your mind.

11:44 Nicole Sauce : Is the Tennessean aware that they have provided many orgs with top rate reporters?

11:44 Nicole Sauce : (through staff reductions)

11:46 Stacy N fr TN : Is your organization dedicated to Texas? Are their other agenices like yours in other states?

11:46 Nicole Sauce : Oh thats a good idea

11:47 Benjamin B : OH I SEE

11:47 Stevenadamswv : Stacy, I do the same thing in WV. There are other state watchdog groups

11:48 Stacy N fr TN : Strikes me as something very needed in Tennessee.

11:48 Nicole Sauce : Good point

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11:49 Nicole Sauce : you are still on

11:50 Nicole Sauce : In fact, if “normal people” who are not doing this for a career learn how to FOIA info, we coudl have so much great stuff out there

11:50 Nicole Sauce : <I think I just called reporters abnormal>

11:51 Stevenadamswv : you did

11:51 Nicole Sauce : As a GEEK, what does my opinion mean anyway?

11:51 Stevenadamswv : do you have your own policy for people to submit tips for stories

11:53 Nicole Sauce : With cheap and easy ability to post things online on blogs and such, it is SOOO easy for citizens to post information and comment on it.

11:53 mitch : thats great!!!

11:53 Stacy N fr TN : Love it!

11:54 Stacy N fr TN : I can talk to Jennifer off line– but it may be cool for her, as a vandy alumna, to come to Vanderbilt to talk about citizen journalism and blogs.

11:54 Nicole Sauce : wordpress.com

11:54 Nicole Sauce : use that one if you can, the seo is better than blogger

11:55 Stevenadamswv : used to use blogger but switched to wordpress

11:55 Nicole Sauce : YAY

11:56 Nicole Sauce : scribd.com

11:56 TracieSharp : Nicole rocks

11:56 Stevenadamswv : scribd.com

11:56 mitch : yes she does.

11:56 Nicole Sauce : so does #trsharp

11:56 Nicole Sauce : #trasharp i mean

11:56 Stevenadamswv : ok, got to sign out, writing about cap and trade. Thanks Trent and gang!

11:57 Nicole Sauce : flash can be your friend, but don’t use it for a splash page on your website

11:58 Nicole Sauce : Have you ever posted documents online and gotten tips from those documents from people looking at it?

12:00 Nicole Sauce : This could be great when budget drafts are released.

12:03 Nicole Sauce : 713-980-9777

12:03 Stacy N fr TN : Thanks so much for this. I am new to blogging and citizen journalism. Very cool.

12:03 TracieSharp : very helpful – thanks!

12:03 Nicole Sauce : Stacy, what is your email – I am in tn too

12:03 mitch : thanks so much you guys!

12:03 Stacy N fr TN : tnfeminist@gmail.com

12:03 Nicole Sauce : archive of this will me up in 2 hours

12:04 TracieSharp : tune in to the next Trent TV!

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Journalists and concerned citizens, bring your public records questions to the Texas Watchdog staff in this interactive episode.

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11:13 TomGrassroot : whats the ROI

11:15 TomGrassroot : thanks

11:15 TomGrassroot : return on investment

11:15 nicole sauce : Return on Investment

11:15 IHS Laura Schonmulle : return on investment

11:16 TomGrassroot : sounds like our last board meeting!

11:16 nicole sauce : Should we all source the same wiki or make our own?

11:17 nicole sauce : Should we participate in wikis, or build  different ones

11:18 nicole sauce : awww people helping people

11:19 nicole sauce : what if we want a distinct domein name for our wiki, can we still participate in ohio sunshine?

11:19 nicole sauce : i mean sinshine review

11:20 nicole sauce : If my article on wikipedia keeps getting deleted, should i get a friend to contact them for help?

11:21 IHS Laura Schonmulle : have you all experimented with giving trusted, active wiki users admin privileges, to save yourselves som eupkeep?

11:21 TomGrassroot : who manages and who owns$ Wiki?

11:21 jmorris : I am a litte confused. What is sunshine review?

11:22 TomGrassroot : How many viewers/hits… what does success look like

11:23 TomGrassroot : a good site reaches how many people

11:23 Bryan SC Policy Cncl : sunshine review is a website

11:24 TomGrassroot : thanks

11:24 TomGrassroot : works with mac and pc right?

11:25 TomGrassroot : Aloha!

11:25 corey davis : When you say link to the top 10 search results, do you mean link that to a Sunshine Review article?

11:25 corey davis : thanks

11:25 TomGrassroot : is that webinar here?

11:26 nicole sauce :

11:26 nicole sauce : email you?

11:26 Kristinpedia : Kristinpedia@sunshinereview.org

11:26 TomGrassroot : awesome

11:26 IHS Laura Schonmulle : great, thanks, Kristin!

11:26 nicole sauce : thank you Kristin!!

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