I’ll be utilizing this blog for the next several months to organize my thoughts and reflect upon my broadcasting experiences.  In short, it’s a pace where I can be me.  Though more appropriately, it’s a place where I can unpack my journey through Capstone, and relate the experiences I develop there.  I hope you’ll enjoy the posts I create here, along with the extra content I provide. As a bargain, I challenge myself to both update and entertain you, while you should feel challenged to frequent this area.  It’ll be an exchange, of sorts, though obviously the communication will be more directional.  This is a blog, after all.

To begin, I’d like to discuss my recent “promotion” to Executive Web Producer of wcn247.com.  This is a new website, developed by the Broadcast Department, and seeks to move beyond the Westminster bubble in terms of news.  Sometimes The Holcad can become too campus-centric.  The exciting part is that, given recent technological advances (such as the Flip), content can be quickly uploaded to the site, leading to instantaneous reporting.  But more importantly, it’s a way of giving more access to student reporters while providing visitors with campus and community news.  The idea is to have a constant flow of news information—one not limited by a radio newscast or television show.

My role in its development is still being defined, but so far it is one I am enjoying.  I am responsible for the general upkeep of the site (design and such) along with motivating our student reporters to gather and post content.  And that’s the coolest part.  On the web, it’s fairly easy to integrate video, audio, pictures, and the like.  Which, in turn, makes it a cooler experience for you, the viewer.

Today is the official campus release of the site.  We’re promoting it on Titanradio (listen here), through TUB banners, and signs around campus.  We’ve been working hard over the last week to boost our campus news, and I think we’ve been successful in doing that.  I’ll have to report back later tonight after traffic statistics are finalized.  At this point, however, I would expect to have higher averages.  The true test will come near semester’s end, when student knowledge should be much more widespread.

For now, I’ll continue my Executive Web Producer role, along with my responsibilities in the radio and television stations.  Also, I’ll be working on additional episodes of Weekday Rave—a vlog exploring hot campus issues.  And finally, I’ll be updating this blog as a way of unpacking my broadcast life.

Check back soon…