So Far...

Radio Engage has been an amazing journey. As we watch the project unfold, morph and define itself, we are discovering that our goal is to create more than a turn-key Drupal CMS for public radio stations, it's to teach our community how to embrace new technologies. We want to start a conversation platform where local news can be discussed, shared and disseminated.

This is a huge job. And it's taken us these last 6+ months to figure out how to approach this task. Our team has:

• Gone to countless meetings, conferences, bar camps, salons, and events to educate ourselves about public media
• We've talked, we've planned, we've charted, and we've disassembled and reassembled KUSP's current website to accommodate the changes Radio Engage will bring
• We've networked with the KUSP Board of Directors, Staff and Community Advisory Boards
• And finally, we've strategized how to deal with the resistance that our project has sometimes met within the community

Because for our project to succeed, we need the community's buy-in. It's coming slowly but surely. Public Media Camp, which we held in November, was a turning point. We realize now that our task is to work with the community, training is crucial if Radio Engage is going to succeed in its' goal of giving the Santa Cruz community a new, richer way to obtain local news.