Community-Media.com

For those who wonder, we’re now well settled in North Vancouver. Our contact information is now:

Community-Media.com
832 Hendecourt Rd.
North Vancouver BC V7K 2Y2
Phone: 778-848-5586

At this juncture I’ve stepped away from non-profit and radio work for a job that pays better than non-profits, allows me to work a regular work week, and which requires no meetings!

If you have radio, podcast, or non-profit needs you should certainly contact Victoria Fenner at Sound Out Media. She’ll be glad to help you out.

Community-Media.com is heading West! Until established in Vancouver, we can be contacted at:

Community-Media.com
465 Ziprick Rd
Kelowna, BC V1X 4H2

Note also that we have a new, temporary, phone number:
Phone: 289-441-0629

As you may have guessed, our regular e-mail did return after about a day. There have been further shorter outages at Primus, and we’re looking seriously at moving to new web host.

On the upside we have finally added Skype to our communciations tools. You can now Skype us at appalbarry.

A couple of years ago Magma Communications, a superb Internet company that we not only relied on, but recommended to many, many people, was bought out by Primus Communications, about the worst communications company anywhere.

Since then they have been in a slow downward spiral. That culminated today when all e-mail stopped working at 1:00 pm. No-one is answering phones at the Business Support number. Four hours after e-mailing them, and submitting a support ticket on their web site They finally responded with:

We are experiencing some issue with Magma mail server today, it is currently under invetigation. please try after some time, we hope that it
will be resolved soon.

If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us at
1-888-222-8577 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You can
also submit and monitor your Support Tickets with us by logging into
https://myaccount.magma.ca or the ecare portal https://ecare.primustel.ca/.

Knowing Primus my suggestion is that until further notice e-mail should be addressed to barry.rueger@gmail.com.

5:41 pm - this was followed by another Primus email claiming that all problems had been resolved. They haven’t. If you have e-mailed us on this fine Sunday please resend that note to our Gmail address above.

The Successful Grantwriting workshop scheduled for this Friday has been postponed. Check back for further news.

Friday December 7th, 2007
10 AM to 4 PM
$99.00 + GST (includes lunch)

This very popular workshop is geared towards individuals who are new to grant writing, either for individual projects, or for small non-profit organizations. The day will include both lectures and hands on group activities. At the end of the workshop participants will have enough knowledge to complete a typical funding application such as the Ontario Trillium Foundation application. A workbook will be included.

Details and registration are at
http://www.community-media.com/?page_id=35

All workshops will take place at:
The Factory: Hamilton Media Arts Centre
126 James Street North, Hamilton
http://www.hamiltonmediaartsorg

Pre-registration is required at:
http://www. community-media.com/CM_Workshop_Form.html

Your registration is confirmed only when payment has been received. All workshops are subject to cancellation. Call us at 289-439-2841 or e-mail info@community-media.com

We’re pleased to announce that after a longer than planned delay we are beginning to return our many Community Radio resource pages to the web. You can either log into our Community Radio Blog and click on Community Radio Resources, or go directly to each of:

• How To Start an FM Community Radio Station
• Community Radio FAQ
• Temporary FM Radio Stations for Special Events

There will be more radio content resurfacing in the Radio Blog in coming weeks, so spread the word.

Barry Rueger

Moments ago we hit the switch in the new Community-Media.com web site.  We hope that you like it.

There are still some tweaks and content to be taken care of over the next few days, but all in all we think that you’ll feel right at home.

A word to the radio folks, we haven’t abandoned you, but are moving radio content over to our Community Radio Blog.  That will happen soon, but in the meantime any pages that you bookmarked are still on line.

Just as the shoemaker’s children go barefoot, the webmaster’s site is the last to be improved.

We’ve decided to launch our new look, even though it will be a while before all content is moved over. Please bear with us.

Special thanks to Tore Christian Skobba the creator of the gorgeous leaf in our header.