One of the projects that I work on is the Knight Drupal Initiative, which is an ongoing grant process for funding Drupal-based community publishing. I have had a chance to get to know the team at Knight Foundation and work towards some common goals.
As a result, I also get to meet some of the winners of the Knight News Challenge and talk about their projects -- especially the Drupal-related ones.
So it was that I was introduced to Jayme Swain at the PBS Engage* project.
The PBS Engage Web site is a laboratory for experiments with new kinds of media. We hope it helps you connect with us better. It’s part of a bigger program, funded by the Knight Foundation, to help PBS, member stations and programs use new technologies to serve the public better.
And, yes, they use Drupal as a piece of core technology.
Well, as of today, I am now a member of the PBS Engage Social Media Advisory Board. I am very excited to be part of the board and to see where this might lead.
* Note for those of you outside the U.S. PBS is the Public Broadcasting Service, a national network of non-profit community- and government-funded television stations.
Great to See
I am diving through the panels2 mysite conversations and remember you from a great session at DC-Boston and on the street in Boston. Then I see you are at Palantir now! Great to see and I hope to catch up with you at DC-CHI in two weeks!!
-KeVroN