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Everything you Ever Wanted to Know About SoundExchange Reporting, but were Afraid to Ask
Wednesday, July 8, from 11:30AM to 12:30PM

Does your station stream online? Then you should attend this informative session brought to you by Public Interactive and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. CPB recently announced its selection of NPR’s Public Interactive (PI) to collect and report public radio music streaming activities to SoundExchange, a performance rights organization which collects and distributes royalties to artists and copyright owners. PI will serve as the central music stream reporting vehicle for all public radio streamers, including CPB supported stations, NPR, NPR member stations, National Federation of Community Broadcasters members, American Public Media (APM), the Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and Public Radio International (PRI).
Find out what will be required of your station, come with questions pertaining to your station, and leave with easy-to-understand info sheets.

RSVP:http://www.publicinteractive.com/prdmc2009.html

We’re getting ready for the PRDMC in a few weeks. We’re setting up meetings, trainings and demos for our services. If you are planning to be in San Diego this year, please let us know. We would love to meet for coffee or a drink. We’re focusing on:

• Pulse, a feature-rich integrated email marketing solution.
• Quick Pledge, an online pledge system that has enabled stations to raise $20 million from on-line giving in the last year.
• SoundExchange Reporting: We’re hosting a session: SX Education: Everything you Ever Wanted to Know About SoundExchange Reporting, but were Afraid to Ask
  Wednesday, July 8, from 11:30AM to 12:30PM
  Does your station stream online? Then you should attend this informative session brought to you by Public Interactive and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. CPB recently announced its selection of NPR’s Public Interactive (PI) to collect and report public radio music streaming activities to SoundExchange, a performance rights organization which collects and distributes royalties to artists and copyright owners. PI will serve as the central music stream reporting vehicle for all public radio streamers, including CPB supported stations, NPR, NPR member stations, National Federation of Community Broadcasters members, American Public Media (APM), the Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and Public Radio International (PRI).

As you may know, CPB has selected us to take on the central role in collecting and reporting public radio music streaming information to the SoundExchange.  To help you get started, we’ll send informative emails, host a series of webinars and speak at the major conferences, starting with the PRDMC. If you have reporting questions, please contact Phil Johnson, our SoundExchange manager, phil@publicinteractive.com, 617-423-4499 x138.

Stations that use both Public Interactive Composer and our live streaming services will not need to do anything beyond registering with the CPB and PI! Stations that do not use PI’s Composer or streaming services will just need to upload streaming usage or playlist log files to us.

If you’re interested in learning more about our Composer or live streaming services, please contact me or Joe Orlando at 617-423-4499 x123, moreinfo@publicinteractive.com

More Info
http://www.publicinteractive.com/sx-info.html

Press Release
http://cpb.org/pressroom/release.php?prn=740

PRNDI: NewsRoom Manager Angie Tung is excited to be at the annual PRNDI conference in Portland to update you on the latest projects and current initiatives.  She will share the latest Public NewsRoom improvements, as well as news on the Economy 2009 Collaboration.

Keep an eye out for Angie (angie@publicinteractive.com, 617.423.4499 x136), and say hi!

PRDMC: We also look forward to seeing you at PRDMC in July! Reserve your appointment for demos, questions and tutorials regarding:

• Quick Pledge™, our online pledge system that enabled stations to raise $20 million online last year
• Pulse, our integrated email marketing solution.
• PCI Compliance and security
• Sound Exchange reporting

CPB has selected NPR’s newest division, Public Interactive, to take on the central role in collecting and reporting public radio music streaming information to the SoundExchange, the performance rights organization that collects and distributes royalties to artists and copyright owners.

More Info
http://www.publicinteractive.com/sx-info.html

Press Release
http://cpb.org/pressroom/release.php?prn=740

A reminder about a recent new feature for stations that use our Quick Pledge online pledge product and Pulse integrated email marketing system — pre-filled Quick Pledge forms.  The fields to prefill include: Name, Title, Email, Address, City, State, Zip, Country, Home and Work Phone number. The information will come from the person’s profile in Pulse.

Send your Pulse e-renewal newsletter with a special Quick Pledge link.
Click, and it will take you to a Quick Pledge form, with basic personal information already filled in.

It’s that simple!

We are excited to announce that the latest upgrade. New features and improvements, based on your feedback, are listed below.

New, improved templates with Google maps to show the location of your event venue; Add your event to your iCal; Automatically resizes image; Add This /Share This option allows you to easily share events via Facebook, Digg, email and more. Automatically Browse Categories bucket shows the six categories with the most events.

New RSS feed options for this week, specific date range, category, and more.

New export options for exporting venues and presenting organizations.

Improved venue management to reduce duplicate entries.

Copy Event option for quicker event entry. And More!

Take a look:

http://events.publicbroadcasting.net/kwmu/events.eventsmain

http://events.publicbroadcasting.net/kunc/events.eventsmain

Throughout 2007 and 2008, Public Interactive has worked with public broadcasters to better understand how to effectively engage audiences online. We gathered experience directly from dozens of stations and programs such as KQED, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and Car Talk® using our online community engagement tool. One important lesson, particularly for those new to online engagement, is that it takes creativity and persistence to engage individuals and get their participation.

The Center for Social Media, as part of this year’s Beyond Broadcast conference, asked us to put together what we’ve learned to distribute to all conference attendees:

Eight Ways to Help Build Online Participation (PDF).

That thoughtful listeners have many opinions comes as no surprise to Michael Rass, senior online producer for PRI’s “The World.” He’s been using Public Action to invite listeners into online discussions, and he’s watched theworld.org’s community grow. Find out how he is creating a vibrant and dynamic online community around “The World’s” content.

In preparation for this year’s Beyond Broadcast conference taking place on June 17th in Washington, DC, The Center for Social Media featured a nice writeup on our Public Action software. Each year, Beyond Broadcast explores the evolution of participatory digital public media. Won’t you join us?

We’ll also be demoing Public Action at the 2:45 demo/networking session and again during the closing reception at 4:30. Look for the Public Interactive table - and we hope to see you there!