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Engage your Community with New Media
Sneak a Peek at the New NCO Web Site
RFP for "Depression" Grant Now Available
Activating Viewers with the WIRED SCIENCE Web Site
StorySHARE Holds Over 1,000 Stories

Engage your Community with New Media

Interested in using new media in your community engagement? Apply for Round Two of the Public Media Innovation (PMI) Fund. The Fund supports public broadcasters as they experiment and learn about the best ways to use new media. Round Two seeks projects that employ emerging platforms and Web 2.0 strategies to interact with a community.

To learn more, join the Public Media Innovation Fund webinar on Thursday, Sept. 20 at 4 pm. Send an email to publicmediainnovation@gmail.com to reserve your space.

Round Two applications are due by October 9, 2007. Complete information, including the RFP, is at http://www.cpb.org/grants/grant.php?id=107
and publicmediainnovation.org.

Sneak a Peek at the New NCO Web Site

Get ready for tools designed to help you in your engagement work. They're all in the new NCO Web site that launches Monday, Oct. 8. Here's a peek at some of the pages.

To help you get familiar with the new site, we'll conduct a webinar at two separate times:

• Wednesday, Oct. 17 at 2- 3 p.m. Eastern Time, and
• Thursday, Oct. 25 at Noon - 1 p.m. Eastern Time

You need a computer and a phone to participate.

Email Sarah Bradley at sarah.bradley@mediaengage.org to register.

Visit the NCO homepage to get the RFP with grant details for "DEPRESSION: Out of the Darkness" (w.t.), a co-production of WGBH Boston and Twin Cities Public Television. They will award eight to twelve $5,000-$7,500 grants to accompany the broadcast, tentatively scheduled to air in spring 2008 as part of Take One Step: A PBS Health Campaign. Applications can be submitted via PlanIT! starting Monday, Oct. 8.

A second grant opportunity is coming soon; watch for an email with the RFP for "The Truth about Cancer," a production of WGBH. Fifteen $5,000 grants will be available.

WIRED SCIENCE, premiering October 3rd, expands its television content beyond broadcast with a Web site launching Oct. 1 at pbs.org/wiredscience. The site activates viewers and builds an online community of science enthusiasts and WIRED SCIENCE fans. Features include:

• Online video: Segments from the TV episodes will be available.
• Wired Science blog: Commentary from some of the leading science bloggers plus posts from the show's reporters and hosts.
• WiSci Student Video Contest: Competition for high school students who can turn a scientific principle into a cool video.
• Kudos: Web site visitors can help choose the honored "Teacher of the Week" and "Student of the Week."

Look for more information posted to PBS Connect leading up to launch!

In the lead up to the broadcast of Ken Burns’s THE WAR, people across the country have submitted more than 1,000 WWII-related stories to StorySHARE. This number grows daily as people visit the online tool, sharing their stories via written messages, phone recordings and video.

In this video submitted via KACV in Amarillo, Texas, Clara Vick recalls the many WWII-POW camps built across the state.