quick post about shiny new stuff for communicators

Lillie Paquette, MIT Sea Grant

Video (YouTube, Vimeo)

How to start: find an intern, intern teaches staff. When intern leaves, experience left behind with the staff.

Jill Gambill (Georgia Sea Grant) University public affairs may be willing to pay for video shoot if they can be convinced of value to the university.

Moira Harrington, WISG – Audio podcast series

Earthwatch radio was a 30-year old news service that was folded into another group, which then took news service in another direction, causing Earthwatch to disappear.

Instead, WISG started an audio podcast service and hosted it on their website.

A player was built that allows metrics to be measured of downloads. Podcast and podcast player surprisingly effective. (40 minutes average time spent on podcast page, 2500 browsers in a little over three weeks.) Willing to share custom podcast player

Roy Kron, LSG

Flickr used as photo server, but also has social tools

It’s used as a photo server that does not require logins (like Facebook) to see, share, or download images.

Ron Ohrel, Delaware Sea Grant

SeaTalk (PSA) facelift (75 words for 30-sec spot, 150 words for a 60-minute stop)

Social media broaden audience from radio only

Added MP3 files with still photos (Ken Burns effect) and converted to video. Voila, new product for new channels

quick post about Mobile websites/apps at communicators meeting

Rich Dellinger, Wisconsin Sea Grant, emphasizing the rise of mobile websites over mobile apps. Most new users don’t necessarily need static of off-web capabilities available through most mobile apps. Additionally, it’s easier to repurpose skills from website developers to mobile websites and adaptive website that resize themselves based on the dimensions of an app.

Mark Farley, Oregon Sea Grant, described their steps taken to become mobile developers and has offered to share that information.

Cindy Knapman described a Hawaii fish app. There are additional hoops to jump through to get a paid app into and through the Apple app store that don’t apply for free apps.

Jill Gambill from Georgia Sea Grant described a non-Sea-Grant funded app that’s intended as a logger for marine debris. There were questions about how to share development efforts, engines and data warehouses.

Tweeting from Sea Grant Week

Follow https://twitter.com/MITSeaGrant for MIT Sea Grant communicator Lillie Paquette’s bite-sized rundown on yesterday’s communications meeting, and more as the week progresses.

Communicators’ meeting – presentations

Presentations from the Sea Grant Communicators’  meeting, Sea Grant Week 2012, provided as .pdf files:

• NSGO-Communicators-SGW2012 (Elizabeth Ban/Amy Painter, NSGO)
  • Sea-Grant-Visibility-NOAA-DoC (Ban/Painter)
• NSGL-SGW2012 (Cynthia Murray, NSGL)
• Focazio-SocialMedia-SGW2012 (Paul Focazio, New York SG)
• AKSG-PublicationsSGW-2012 (Kurt Byers & Kathy Kurtenbach, Alaska SG)
• SeaTalkRAdio-SGW2012 (Ron Ohrel, Delaware SG)

Welcome (again) to the Sea Grant Week blog

Welcome to the 2012 Sea Grant Week blog, AND the archives of the 2010 Sea Grant Week blog.

We will continue to post content here from the 2012 meeting, and we are still hoping for a small cadre of guest bloggers to help. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, email Carol Kaynor.

Another good source for information is the Sea Grant Week 2012 website.

Sea Grant Week 2010: A handy index

A day-by-day index to Sea Grant Week 2010 coverage, including presentations in both Flash video  (for viewing) and downloadable .pdf format. (Note: Some .pdfs are very large; if you have trouble downloading them and would like a copy, contact Pat Kight)

Thursday, Oct. 14-Friday Oct. 15

• Focus Area meetings:
  Background presentation |.pdf

Saturday, Oct. 16

• Fiscal Officers meeting
• Educators meeting
• Communicators meeting:
  Summary
  LaDon Swann: Impact statements
  Telling the Sea Grant Story to NOAA (Rochelle Plutchak, Linda Joy, OAR):
  presentation | .pdf
  Using Social Media in Public Communication (Felicia Song & Masudul Biswas, Louisiana State University)
  presentation | .pdf
• Legal network meeting
• Sea Grant 101
• Annual reporting (Sami Grimes, Heather Treizenberg, NSGO):
  presentation | .pdf
• Topical workshops:
  Offshore renewable energy
  Sea Grant Response to Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster
• Information Management Systems for Tracking and Reporting

Sunday, Oct. 17

• Sea Grant International Symposium:
  • Indonesian Sea Partnership program:
    presentation | .pdf
  • Strategic action plan for implementation of Gyeonggi Sea Grant Program:
    presentation | .pdf
  • Habitation state of Wando coastal soft coral/marine protected area:
    presentation | .pdf
  • ChungCheong Sea Grant Action Plan & 2010 Activities:
    presentation | .pdf
  • A study on the development of Korea style mud boat for marine tourism resources:
    presentation | .pdf
  • Yeongnam Sea Grant College Program
    presentation | .pdf
• Field Trips and Service Projects:
  • Legal Program field trip
  • Educators field trip (see Photo Gallery, below)
  • Communicators service project – “Armed and dangerous”

Monday, Oct. 18

Rethinking the Sea Grant Model

• Social Science and Sea Grant (Heather Triezenberg, National Sea Grant Office): presentation | .pdf
• Shaking the Sea Grant Tree (Margaret Davidson, director, NOAA Coastal Service Center)
• Science, the Next NOAA and Sea Grant (Paul Sandifer, NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science: presentation | .pdf
• OAR Next and Sea Grant (Craig McLean, acting assistant administrator, NOAA OAR): presentation | .pdf
• Allocation Committee update, Ross Heath, National Sea Grant Advisory Board: presentation | .pdf

Shifting Sands of Sea Grant in a Changing World

• The Evolution of Sea Grant as a “National” Program (Leon Cammen, Director, National Sea Grant College Program)
• Crisis du Jour, or Where is Sea Grant Going Over the Next 20 years (Gordon Grau, president, Sea Grant Association and director, Hawaii Sea Grant)
• Panel: The Sea Grant Model (Q&A highlights)

Photos from the evening poster session

Tuesday, Oct. 19

International program field trip to Plaquemines Parish

Moving Forward with and Adjusting the Focus Areas

• Focus Area Reports
• Presentations: Moving Forward
  • Toward Greater Hazard Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World, Susanne Moser, Susanne Moser Research and Consulting
    presentation | .pdf
  • Safe and Sustainable Seafood, Robin Alden, Penobscot East Resource Center (no presentation)
  • Sustainable Coastal Development: Finding Certainty in UncertainTimes, Mayor Tom Murphy, Senior Resident Fellow, Urban Land Institute
    presentation | .pdf
  • Healthy Coastal : Landscapes on the Edge, the Mississippi River Delta System, Robert Twilley, vice chancellor of research, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    presentation | .pdf
  • The Sea Grant Challenge: Coastal Communities and Climate Change, Jeremy Harris, former mayor, Honolulu, Hawaii, and National Sea Grant Advisory Board member
    presentation | .pdf

Wednesday, Oct. 20

• NOAA and Sea Grant – Larry Robinson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
• Wrapup: Focus Area reports

Additional content:

• A Sea Grant Week photo gallery (from our blogging team)
• Sea Grant Week photos from Louisiana Sea Grant:
  Communicators’ Day of Service
  Plenary sessions
  Poster session
• “The Peculiar Nature of Sea Grant …” and the Characters Within

Presentation: Science, the Next NOAA and Sea Grant

Paul Sandifer, Senior Scientist, NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
(Presented Monday, Oct. 18)

(Downloadable .pdf)

Presentations: International Symposium (Part II)

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Presentation: Toward Greater Hazard Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World, S. Moser

Oct. 19 presentation by Susanne Moser, director and principal researcher, Susanne Moser Research and Consulting:

(Downloadable .pdf)