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Due to the inclement weather, New America Foundation is closed today and they are not able to host in-person attendees. The previously scheduled conference, "Making Media Work" will not be held. This event, however, is proceeding as scheduled in a webcast-only format. You can tune in on this page at 12:15 ET / 9:15 PT today.

Please join in the conversation via Twitter -- use the hashtags of #beyondecho and #mpinaf.Read more...

On Thursday January 28th, American University's Kay Spiritual Life Center' sponsored a panel, Tweets & Blogs: Social Media as a Voice for the Voiceless. (CSM cosponsored.) The speakers included:.

Emily Jacobi is the Co-Founder and Director of Digital Democracy, a New York-based nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering civic engagement through digital technologies.Read more...

The Center has partnered up with organizations and schools all over campus in an effort to remember survivors of a prison camp from World War II in a city northwest of Prague called Terezin.

The camp, during the course of the war held about 100,000 people, a large number of which were artists and musicians.Read more...

The Center's Pat Aufderheide was nominated as a GameChanger by members of the WeMedia community. If enough people vote for her, Pat could be chosen to give a keynote at the WeMedia annual conference, where cutting-edge strategies in collaborative and participatory media are featured. It was Pat's work on fair use that attracted attention in the WeMedia community. Fair use, which creates a "floating" public domain composed of copyrighted work, is a critical tool for a vibrant participatory culture. Read more...

Don't miss this recent short by Nonso Christian Ugbode of the National Black Programming Consortium on why public media 2.0 matters:Read more...