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| Local Odyssey program lauded in Richmond |
The Monster Storms students capped their project with a weather broadcast
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Twitter for Event Promotion, Collaboration and Community Building
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"It all started on Twitter," said Steve Whitaker , kicking off the first-ever pie bake off in the community of Charlottesville, Va. The C'ville Pie Down , as the event came to be known, started with an innocent tweet. First, Jamie Schwartz of Brown Automotive , a local car dealer, wondered who made the best pie in town. I modestly mentioned that "I am the pie master" and Brian Geiger, The Food Geek , asserted that his pies are pretty darn good, too. Thus inspiring the following tweet: That's all it took, and over the next 16 days, the execution of the event moved pretty quickly. The hashtag #cvillepiedown trended throughout the local Twitter community and within the first day, four judges self-identified, via Twitter. A wiki was set up so the judges and competitors could frame out the competition with rules, criteria and event details. Over Twitter, a local coffeeshop offered space with free coffee for the judges, free Wi-Fi (for on-site tweeting), signage and promotion for the event. One of the judges set up a Web site. There was a promotional photo shoot and ongoing Twitter buzz to promote the event. I set up the event in Facebook to keep track of attendees. The event took place on May 24 and gained significant media coverage, with the local NBC affiliate filming and interviewing participants, the local daily newspaper covering the event with a fabulous photo slideshow and the next day, page three, color, half the page, above the fold, fantastic story with photos. No wonder, because the event saw more than 50 people in attendance (whole families turned out for the Sunday afternoon fun). The mayor of Charlottesville and Congressman Tom Periello (also invited via Twitter ) even made an appearance to taste some pie. The blogosphere was just as eager to cover the event, an impressive number of links to the local blogger community's posts following the Pie Down appear below. In short, the C'ville Pie Down turned out to be a remarkable case study in what a community can do using Twitter and other forms of social media ; how online interaction turned into real-life interaction and got the attention of traditional media in doing so. This is, so far, the most compelling demonstration of Twitter at work in a community that I have witnessed firsthand. http://shoulderblog.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/pie-and-social-media-go-together-like/ http://www.molliecoxbryan.com/journey_of_a_cookbookbiog/2009/05/spreading-the-pie-love.html http://pyle-associates.blogspot.com/2009/05/piedown-on-may-24.html http://www.gocho.com/airport/blog/1st-annual-charlottesville-piedown-what/#When:18:11:00Z http://www.finecooking.com/item/10652/competition-pies http://pyle-associates.blogspot.com/2009/05/2009-pie-down-results.html http://www.realcentralva.com/2009/05/26/charlottesville-pie-down-ridiculously-good-fun/ http://www.stlworkingmom.com/2009/05/17/cville-pie-down-the-web-site-and-details/
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On CPR’s ‘Worldview’ on Tuesday, March 9
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I just recorded a segment on Syria for next Tuesday's 'Worldview' program on Chicago Public Radio, with Jerome McDonnell. The program will air at 1pm EST-- not sure yet which segment. Anyway, you can livestream it there from their website. We talked quite a bit about Turkey, as well.
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New reading program for adults at J-MRL: With prizes!
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Some people like the beach, yeah, it’s okay, but me — I like a nice air-conditioned library when summer’s hot and the living is humid. New summer programs are revving up at the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library:New Program: JMRL Grown-Up Summer Reading program will be held at Central, Northside, Gordon Avenue, Crozet, Nelson, and Bookmobile [...]
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Deadline for Community Arts Handbook: July 31
Don’t forget to submit your listings for the 2009-10 Community Arts Handbook! The deadline for entries is July 31! For artists, educators, groups and organizations providing arts learning opportunities to K-12 school groups: Piedmont Council of the Arts ( PCA ) is updating the Community Arts Education Handbook, a directory of area arts programs and opportunities offered to school groups during the academic year. The handbook provides K-12 educators with a single resource for arts programs available to their classes. This strengthens the connection between schools and the broader arts community. If you offer any arts learning opportunities for school groups, either scheduled or open-ended programs, we want to include you in the 2009-10 Community Arts Education Handbook!
To get listed, please complete the ARTS ED PROGRAM SURVEY , which will allow you to send us exact information about the programs you offer. Use the link above to submit your program details to PCA by Friday, July 31st. PCA will make arts advocacy presentations for area school leaders throughout the year to promote this resource. At the meetings, we’ll distribute the 2009-10 Community Arts Education Handbook and encourage administrators to make the arts a priority in their schools. We appreciate your involvement and hope to receive your completed survey soon. If you have questions, please email education@charlottesvillearts.org or call the PCA office at 434-971-2787.
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Sanity-check features in MySQL
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MySQL has a couple of sanity-check features to help keep you from doing dumb things.max_join_size is a configuration option for the mysqld server program. It throws an error if you write a query that the optimizer estimates will examine more than this number of rows.–safe-updates is a command-line option to the mysql client program. [...]Related posts: 5 ways to make hexadecimal identifiers perform better on MySQL One of the How to find un-indexed queries in MySQL, without using the log You probab Extended covering indexes As you can Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin .
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