The Community Media Association is delighted to be an official marketing partner of the Guardian's Oxford Media Convention 2012.

David Abraham, CEO, Channel4 is confirmed as a keynote speaker – he’ll be joined on January 25 at the Saïd Business School by the great and good in media policy, regulation and business strategy, including:

• Lord Chris Patten, chairman, BBC Trust
• Ed Richards, CEO, Ofcom
• Neil Berkett, CEO, Virgin Media
• Susan Pointer, director, public policy & government affairs EMEA, Google
• Harriet Harman MP, shadow secretary of state for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport

The Oxford Media Convention is a sell-out event attracting 250 of the most influential figures in UK media and politics as speakers and delegates – we hope you are be able to attend.

The Community Media Association will be present at the Oxford Media Convention representing the views of the community media sector.

Wishing you all a great start to 2012 from everyone at The Guardian and IPPR!

BOOK YOUR TICKETS TO RADIO FAST TRAIN NOW!

Free training day for radio professionals in independent production companies, freelancers, commercial and community radio.

The booking site for the unmissable Radio Fast Train opens at 10am on Tuesday 10th January 2012. The CMA has negotiated up to 100 places at Fast Train for the community radio sector. Please do book your place now, the event is free. To book go to www.bbc.co.uk/academy.

Hosted by the BBC Academy on 7th February at their London headquarters, the event will be hosted in partnership with Skillset, and produced in association with the Radio Academy, Radio Independents Group, RadioCentre, the Community Media Association and BECTU.

The free training day will focus on four themes: ideas, technology, skills and business. Sessions will range from creative thinking, pitching workshops, microphone techniques and location recording, live studio production, editorial values, social media, how to make apps and podcasting, to finance for freelancers and coaching one-to-ones. There will also be masterclasses from future radio to sports and drama, presented by industry professionals. Scott Mills from Radio 1 and Jane Garvey from Radio 4’s Woman’s hour and their producers will share their ideas on building successful creative partnerships.

To qualify for a place you’ll need to work in the radio industry in the UK and have at least 2 production credits.

Further information/Key contacts:

• BBC Academy: Debbie Kilbride/Rosie Bartlett fast.train@bbc.co.uk
• BBC Academy: Janie Ironside Wood, Head of Communications janie.ironsidewood@bbc.co.uk
• Skillset: Tamzin Caffrey, Head of Communications and Brand, tamzinc@skillset.org

ALISA bridges the gap between your online streaming and your Listen Again platform. With ALISA you can record your station's output and automatically upload it to the Listen Again platform. Just complete an online schedule with details of your shows and everything you want to record gets automatically uploaded and can store up to 20 gigabytes of programmes.

Cost: £10 per month or £100 per year +VAT with a podcasting account only from Canstream!

Our "Station Manager's Toolbox" features some of the web's best resources to help with managing your station and your volunteers. We particularly like to highlight free and open source resources.

The Guardian has long been known for its coverage of the arts and is now building on that with the launch of the Guardian Cultural Professionals Network – the newest addition to the Guardian's portfolio of professional community sites, established to share sector-specific ideas, insight and best practice. And they'd like you to be part of it.

Gradually, social networks are beginning to have a bigger role in building community and catalysing neighbourhood co-operation and social action. The recent post-riot clean-up Twitter campaign was one example of how social media can be used to inspire people to get involved in community life.

Ofcom has published new guidance for radio broadcasters (PDF) on the use of offensive language. The Ofcom Broadcasting Code rules on the use of offensive language on radio remain unchanged. However, the new guidance is designed to explain these rules in more detail and assist radio broadcasters in their compliance with them. Particular focus is given to: lyrics in music tracks; live music performances/interviews/studio conversation; and speech and comedy content.

Fourteen cities across the UK have the chance to become super-connected cities, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced. In the Autumn Statement, the Chancellor George Osborne announced up to 10 cities would share £100m and become super-connected with 80-100Mbps broadband access. The four capitals – London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast – will benefit while the others will be chosen through a competition. Details of those eligible to apply have been published along with guidance for bidders.

On behalf of the thousands of community media around Europe, the Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE) and AMARC-Europe wrote a letter to the European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda to ask:

- To include necessary actions in the Digital Agenda to accommodate community (local) media to enter the digital broadcasting era;
- To enforce the use of open standard, hybrid digital radio receivers;
- To support and promote the adoption of DRM+ and
- To monitor the revision of national FM frequency policies among member states.

Gateway 97.8, a community radio station in Basildon which aims to enrich the lives of young people and to tackle antisocial behaviour, is the latest winner of the Prime Minister’s Big Society Award. Gateway is run entirely by volunteers and as a community station it also offers free advertising and support to local charities. They have been able to offer work experience to over 200 school children in the last year, many of whom had behavioural problems.

The BBC is to introduce a new radio website, codenamed ‘Audiopedia’, to contain virtually its entire archive of speech radio programmes going back to the 1940s. The service is being developed for launch “within the next 12 months”, said Tim Davie, director of BBC Audio and Music. "Audiopedia", its working title, may yet become its formal name, he added.

Audiofil.es is a new website from the US showcasing public radio and podcasts from the big guys like NPR and This American Life to local stations, independent producers and ground-breaking podcasters: storytellers from across the country who are doing work that deserves to be heard.

Try our Canstream "RSL Bundle". We have a package aimed specifically for stations about to start a Restricted Service Licence. With any of our live streaming accounts you also get 2 months Listen Again alongside.

From just £60+VAT you can stream live 24hrs a day for a month and upload over 8 hours of your best bits with no download restrictions. Also included are complete online statistics. Tell your mates about us with [FORWARD].

Canstream is delighted to tell you about our free service. If you webcast with Canstream then we can automatically email you a warning if you become disconnected. This is an opt-in service for all clients using Canstream for their live streaming.

What if you are away from your desk or don't have a smart phone? Not a problem because if your stream becomes disconnected we can also send you an SMS text message!

Email notification is free, the SMS text service is priced at £5 per month. Email us for further info or to sign up.

The London Sound Survey is a growing collection of Creative Commons-licensed sound recordings of places, events and wildlife in the capital. Historical references too are gathered to find out how London sounds have changed.

This social media guide offers a good introduction to video and photo sharing tools accessible online. The following articles are helpful in thinking about how and what to share online, and what the options available are "Video Sharing Online" and "Photo Sharing Online". The toolkit focuses on web uploading but many of the same tools can be used on mobile phones.

Twitter is the contemporary postcard-social updates that are limited by size, but not imagination. For a month, with a billion stamps, this correspondent moved his tweets from the laptop to the post office, and rediscovered the joy of mail.

Un-Convention at Roundhouse Rising 2012 looks at political voices and social messages through spoken word, hip hop, social media, art and culture. Two simultaneous events connecting with each other in real time: Roundhouse, London UK with The Museum of Modern Art, Medellin Colombia, explore the voices and messages of young people through music, art and digital media.

Panels include Female MCs, Hip Hop (live from the barrios of Medellin), Social Media in Places of War, Digital Innovation, Latin American Music in the UK (curated by Como No), intermixed with spoken word and hip hop performance.

[cma-l] F- word on Radio - Seems its all OK?
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[cma-l] Fwd: Ofcom update: Local TV locations proposed
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[cma-l] Community Station Breaches
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