Welcome PublicMediaCamp attendees!
You may be wondering, “What — or who — in the world is Gravity Medium?”
Well, the short version is this:
- my name is John Proffitt, I currently live in Anchorage, Alaska and this is my blog
- I’ve worked in public media in the past (radio, TV, web and news)
- I’ve been blogging here since early 2008 on public / digital media topics
- I’ve been on Twitter — @jmproffitt — since early 2007; I also have @gravitymedium on Twitter
- I lead a Twitter community called Alaska Tweets
- I’m a huge fan of Umair Haque, Seth Godin, Robert Paterson, Clay Shirky, Jay Rosen, Jeff Jarvis and all the hard-working web pros in public media today
- more than anything, I want the legacy values and services of traditional public media moved to the web, where I and the generations that follow me already live most of our lives
And perhaps most importantly…
- I’m damn excited to be attending PublicMediaCamp 2009 in DC!
I chose to become a “sponsor” because, well… it’s going to be a great conference (or un-conference, if you prefer) and I feel kinda bad about getting in for free. And, c’mon — let’s get real — a little blog traffic wouldn’t kill me. 😉
Blogging & Tweeting
Right now (early October), I’m firing the blog back up with a revised site design and more postings. Plus, I’m expanding my Twitter community via @gravitymedium. Gravity Medium has been largely quiet for months as I’ve made some professional changes and as I’ve worked heavily on building a social media community in Anchorage.
The PublicMediaCamp has given me new energy to fire things back up. And I owe special thanks to both Karen Olstad, COO at WOSU Public Media and to the Energizer bunny of digital media at NPR — Andy Carvin — for suggesting I attend. They moved me from “meh” to “Yeah!” and I can’t thank them enough.
PublicMediaCamp Tweetup: Friday
Thanks to @acarvin and @jdcoffman for organizing one of my favorite things: a Tweetup!
Photos
My photos from the conference are all posted to Flickr. Check out my photos or all the photos in the Public Media Camp group.
Finding me online
If you’re looking for me anywhere online, you can find pretty much everything on my Google Profile.
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