The 5th of June
How do you plan to go forward with your dream if the judges have a lapse of, well, judgement and leave you off their list ( by sheer mistake of course)?
For instance: will you start/continue to Podcast your work? Will you create a blogspot site, webpage or connect with the winner to pitch your work?
Are you interested in collaboration with any of the talent you found here?
Any ideas?
Sallyfranz.com
Hysterialanedotcom@blogspot.com
delicious
diggBack to work. My paying job, that is.
Spending time with cubs and Mrs. Bear.
Working on a series for PRX. Making music when I get 5 minutes of time each week.
Thinking about radio/voice networking.
Sleeping when I can.
Jimmy Bear
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My entry: http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/197
Blog?
http://blog.jimmybearpearson.com
Music, Singles, Samples?
http://jimmybearpearson.com/purchase.php
When I entered this contest I promised myself that I would give myself at least two months to work on projects that really matter to me. I was going to pretend that I only had a few months remaining on this planet -- what would I work on? What would be the body of work, and ideas that I would want to leave to the world? So that's what I'm committed to. I've worked on so many projects for other people and organizations, and for money -- this was going to be my summer of my contentment. This was going to be a gift to myself to explore issues and ideas that have been scratching at my heart and my mind for a long time. Soooo, I'm going to move forward with developing "All Fired Up," "Good Grief," and "Mind Over Matter in the World's Religions: exploring prayer, magic and positive thinking."
Of course, I would love to work with a mentor on any and all of these programs.It would be great to have some guidance, someone to help me work through these ideas. But either way, I'm excited about having found this new medium.
I hope we all stay in touch. My email address is: marylynn@marylynninc.com
MaryLynn Schiavi
All Fired Up: exploring the modern worker and workplace
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/190
Other projects: Good Grief: transmuting the loss in our lives. http://www.evoca.com/myrecordings/my_recording.jsp?rid=76784
What a great gift to yourself! I really feel like the cure to burn-out in this busy, busy life is delegating your time to working on things close to your heart. Follow your passions and create what you can be proud of, something you won't feel guilty pouring your energy into. No matter how tired you are, how empty your bank account, how much Ramen you eat, you will be happier. I am. I quit my job last year, hoping to create more meaning in my work. And here I am, poor and happy, waking before the crack of dawn each day, chasing my dream.
Good luck to you!
While I'm still new at this, I'd love to stay in touch with a bunch of you in order to bounce ideas off each other, critique our work and possibly collaborate on future projects.
Anyone interested, just drop me a line: elizabethaziegler@mac.com.
ez
There was some previous discussion about whether to put PRTQ in your resume if you don't "win". Of course you should! Whatever your field, it shows you value teamwork and are willing to commit yourself to involvement in interesting things for the greater good. (That's a long sentence!)
Here's what mine says:
Public Radio Talent Quest: May 2007-
Worked with hundreds of creative people and radio professionals across the country to help develop fresh voices and innovative programming for National Public Radio.
Feel free to use or adapt that for your own resume. (Of course, ten people may want to add a bit more...)
Jim Barfuss
http://www.publicradioquest.com/user/2824
“The Hubble telescope now lets us view the distant past. If we turned it around, could we see into the future?" Seymour B. Moore
That is a great quote. May have to use a bit of that. Thanks for putting into words what I've felt.
Also, don't forget to summarize the comments for a one sheet.
Here's what people are saying about Jim's pithy entry!
AS From Calfornia. This man is funny
JR from Texas. I laughed my hat off
etc.
Sally
"Both faith and fear are the belief in things not seen." S. Franz
I think no matter of what is decided in this one contest in the world that EVERYONE has a story. Tell yours proudly and loudly. With the introduction of new media there are tons of ways to get your love, your passion, your voice out there- AND....there are ways to do it and be heard. Just whatever happens tomorrow keep doing what you love to do. That is where it is at! As the Brandy Bunch - a.k.a. the Silver Platters- sang "You gotta keep on, keep on, keep on singin' and dancin' all through the night. You gotta keep on, keep on, keep on doing it riiiiiiggggggtttt!" Okay, the Zen of Brady. I am super tired. (cue cheesy emo music) Look, all I am saying is life is short, find your passion and Rock the Casbar even if the Sheik don't like it!
P.S. I used to think it was Rock the Cash Bar and the song made absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.
Other misheard lyrics of mine include but are not limited to
John "Cougar" Mellencamp- Jack and Diane- "Diane sits in the compact seats of Jackie's car"- instead of "Diane spends her time in the back seat of Jackie's car."
My Sharona- "She's my little lippy lump, my lippy lump." I still have no idea what in the haybomber those words are.
Peace and Joy,
The Wizard of Woz
I like 'Rock the Cash Bar'...as long as someone else is forking the over the cash!
Ok who knows what the real lyrics are for--Good bye Ruby Tuesday who could HANG the name of you?
Gotta love someone who quotes the Brady Bunch! Sweet dreams and may they come true for you tomorrow and everyday, Shelly.
Sally
If you want to start linking up to writing opportunities and or on air or on TV opportunties these are newletters and websites:
Humor: www.Judycarter.com
www.Robertbenchley.org
TV/radio: www.publicityhound.com
General: www.Writerdigest.com
Also post your writing on a myspace.com site and or blogspot.com site. The site will walk you through how to start and it's free! If I can do it, anyone can-REALLY!
Now who can tell me/us what we need in hardware and software and know-how to start Podcasting and or downloading our show ideas onto a web or blog site???
Sally
Well....my day-job is producing a Mon-Fri 35-minute audio podcast under contract for NORML, The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws. www.norml.org/podcast and www.normlaudiostash.com
We're celebrating One Year online this Tuesday and man-o-man has this job been an intense learning experience. 258 shows posted online, 314 individual guests and 2.2+ million downloads in our first year. Marijuana policy is complex, controversial and fascinating. The podcast has put me in touch with a group of celebrities, politicians, scientists, doctors and activists who I may not have ever had the chance to interview...like PBS travel host Rick Steves or Psychologist Dr. Mitch Earleywine or Congressman Ron Paul (who has interviewed with us twice) or Chicago Tribune Columnist Clarence Page. What has really surprised me is the amount of scientific and medical research being performed on marijuana and its component cannabinoids in recent years and just how often there is marijuana reform related legislation or ballot initiatives in progress. Professionally it has been an important step for me to produce the NORML podcast as well. Being on a daily broadcast deadline is something that can only truly be understood through the experience of actually DOING it. Sorry to go on about the NORML podcast....but the one-year mark has made me reflect on it....
On my weekly, public radio program carried on KSFR I focus on Social Justice Authors ...so there's new book to read and a new author to interview each week. www.activevoiceradio.com I had been posting up pieces to PRX....even getting some licensed....but after I moved from Santa Fe this year, PRX has become a lifeline to keep my programs on KSFR. THANK YOU TO PRX!
I have been thinking of producing podcast and public radio pieces based on interviews with folks I've connected with or listened to here at the Quest. This site, contest and process have brought together a unique group of people. Public Radio and podcasting are small towns. They're great places to live...but you don't see your neighbors much. So the Quest has been the big summer BBQ, the one thing that got us all together in one place at one time, online...pretty amazing!
While there are few things I would like more than producing a nationally syndicated public radio program - not to mention *GASP* getting PAID to do it!:) - there is nothing that can hold me back from creating more audio for radio and podcasts! So ...I'll be booking more guests, reading more books, writing more scripts, interviewing more interesting people and spending hundreds more hours editing it all together.
my station runs your shows and we thank you for the work you and mr. st. pierre do.
good luck getting paid. love don't pay the bills, as i all too well know.
Natalie Davis
http://gdreadradio.net
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/1068
The joy of working in public radio is the public, our listeners. Twice a year during fund drive, people call to pledge their support for programming. But it is more than a pledge of money. It is a pledge of commitment to the type of quality programming public radio brings every single day of every year.
Being part of something like this confirms the talent, variety and depth of voices here in America. Good luck to you all, wherever this quest leads.
If you're ever in the Atlanta area, tune in to Georgia Public Broadcasting. You're sure to hear me, but more importantly, you're bound to hear good radio!
Peace!
Valarie Edwards
THE Voice of Reason
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/1647#comment
Sally:
My main goal was to participate, to say at least I did submit and was part of this process.
What this has done for me is motivate myself to call John (in the next few weeks) at the NPR station in my state to see how I can become more involved with contributions there and at the Exchange (if this will be possible). Where I work the stories are done in 30-40 second wraps. Although I like the challenge of writing a short piece, I feel segments just get started at 45 seconds in.
I have connected with a few on this board; that was an unexpected bonus.
This process also shows that there’s such a talent pool across the country, many outlets can look right here and pay the Exchange an agency fee.
No matter what the outcome, I see a win-win for many of us. Yes, we would all like to move to the next round, but I know there’s no room for all of us on those ten chairs. What the 1451 of us can say…..is that we all gave it a shot. How cool is that?
Steve
Should the judges decide my total lack of radio experience is too much to bear, onward ho! shall I proceed with my original desire to script book, documentary film and create a promotional website. It's taking way to long to put this all together on my own -- experiencing the equivalent of daily bouts of Montezuma's Revenge. But I do what I can and invite any and all to participate in this venture based on their level of commitment to civic duty. I have no funds.
-Doctorblue
http://publicradioquest.com/audio/user/6076
http://publicradioquest.com/node/2114
I will be continuing to host my weekly indie music show on college station KUCR Riverside. In the summer i will be diversifying the format more and making it more ethnically and stylistically inclusive and more historical in focus (but that takes a LOT of research and time especially with the annoying and oppressive FCC language rules).
In the fall, I will be a DJ at college station KSCR in LA, and will probably still be doing my show for KUCR too. If people are interested I might bring it upon myself to regain FCC status for KSCR, which currently only broadcasts on the internet and on a very low power signal around the University (which is a step down from my love, KUCR, which can be heard from San Bernardino and Moreno Valley to Pasadena and Pomona).
I am going to try to get another internship at a major station like KPCC, KCRW, KPFK, etc., which shouldn't be too difficult, especially since it could be an administrative internship too as I will be going to school for an MPA. I am also thinking that I might apply to intern at Marketplace, because it is produced about 3 miles away from my new University and because I like its content to a certain extent-- certainly more than most economics shows (If I ever meet the Motley Fool Radio Show people there better be someone there to constrain me, those people make me so angry). However, that may be more difficult to get into. because it is only one show and it is more prestigious. Although a willingness to be someone's free b*tch can take you a lot of places...
I would be interested in working on shows that fill my basic criteria (e.g. have politically PROGRESSIVE and interesting content). I am not really interested in collaborating on other 'random" things (unless your name is Devon Bryant, in which case bring it on-- but only if you are willing to do hilarious theme songs for EVERYTHING hahahahaha).
However, I can't do anything until this summer.
I might make a demo for PRX but I might not depending on what my internships look like next fall. I am not hooked into the "npr" type stations although I like them and have worked for one before. I really like college radio and lefty radio like Pacifica and would like to be able to help it get across its messages better. That is really more my place, I think.
Elizabeth
My entry at Public Radio Quest:
http://www.publicradioquest.com/audio/user/7572
My College Radio Myspace (feel free to friend me!):
http://www.myspace.com/girlsongprimerradio
I hope anyone who is discouraged will read your piece and see how it's done. One foot in front of the other. One project after the other. Just keep trying new things.
AND yes, there are always spots for interns on the graveyard shift and in administration. But even if you're doing data entry, you can learn alot about the workings of a radio station.
Elizabeth is the type of person who will be successful and they will call her an overnight sensation. But it's working INTO the night that gets it done!
Good example of intention, vision and dedication.
Sally
"Both faith and fear are the belief in things not seen." S. Franz
When I interned at KJZZ, the first thing I did, and the main thing i was officially responsible for, was posting the blues playlists so that we could calculate royalties. That job paid off so well... they hired me to do that, plus audio engineering, plus some other stuff like closing down the station and starting automation at the end of that host's show, and then call screening. The host was great and I saw, e.g. Wanda Jackson, at his club for free, and it was like the easiest straight shot into my college radio position, where i can do essentially whatever i want except air profanity.
There are so many opportunities out there besides this contest. Most of them won't pay, sure, or at least won't pay right away, or might pay the minimum wage, but hey, that's not what I am in it for!
Thanks so much for the compliment!
Elizabeth
and nope I am totally not discouraged... hahah especially since i already knew I wasn't going to win. Good to have reasonable expectations for these things.
My entry at Public Radio Quest:
http://www.publicradioquest.com/audio/user/7572
My College Radio Myspace (feel free to friend me!):
http://www.myspace.com/girlsongprimerradio
Here's how I got into media. I got a job as a director of a county Senior Citizen's center and after I had that set up with program run by volunteers I went to my local radio and cable community access station and produced a weekly radio show and 1/2 TV show for and about people 55 plus.
I was already being paid by the county with a good salary with benefits, so the station got a free show and everything I produced was aired.
I even started meeting other producers in location...that led to a 3 state distribution. I would travel somewhere and barter with the local station: If you give me a crew to shoot the cool people 80+ in your town, I'll provide you with 12 other shows, so you'll have a season one of which will highlight your folks. It really worked.
And of course with radio...you can do all the interviews on the phone if travel is to much$$.
If you're getting an MPA you could probably write a grant and teach smaller counties how to podcast, and produce radio shows for issues on health, which of course includes mental health which means your topic area is wide open!
Watch and see how many doors open to you with your education AND media experience. All that sweat equity will pay off and add up to a great job!
Sally
"Both faith and fear are the belief in things not seen." S. Franz
In an earlier entry I promised that if there are entries that I clearly like the content of (probably can be determined by the comment that I left), and these people needed some basic audio help or advice or production, i would be willing to do it for them, especially if the made it to the 2nd round and felt insecure about their skills...
E
My entry at Public Radio Quest:
http://www.publicradioquest.com/audio/user/7572
My College Radio Myspace (feel free to friend me!):
http://www.myspace.com/girlsongprimerradio
I joined the PRX website. I plan on continuing to listen and vote. Eventually I figure if I listen to enough clips maybe I can learn what it takes to make a successful clip.
Truthfully it seems rather easy to get on public radio if you can produce good enough content and create a little buzz. Then again these are my obverservations after spending 5 minutes registering. We will see if I am so optimistic in a few months from now ;)
Click a few stars and leave a comment. Time is running out.
Are you interested in collaboration with any of the talent you found here?
I would LOVE to be a writer for anyone based here in Chicago. My style and humor certainly aren't for everyone but, I know someone would appreciate it. ;)
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Please listen, then vote and comment if you are willing, to my 2 minutes of funk (sans funk)
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/805
There are many many websites asking for writing submissions. This would be online requests for paying gigs! I have been making money, even got an 8 book deal from a publisher in England for the last 10 years. (Think Writer's Digest online.)
Writing for money may mean you tailor your work to their topics, but it beats a punch in the eye.
Just because you live in Chicago doesn't mean you can't write for someone in Austin.
Sally
"Both faith and fear are the belief in things not seen." S. Franz
What should I search for?
Is there one place that's best for a beginner to start with? Thanks again, Sally. I appreciate the info. :)
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VOTING ENDS JUNE 2, 11:59PM EST
http://www.publicradioquest.com/node/805
I think I would enjoy podcasting much more than blogging...I'd love to find out more on how to do it. Any suggestions out there in PRQ land? Thanks in advance.
Speechguy
I can't believe I've entered!
Speechguy says, "Please listen, vote and comment. Thanks."
Public radio domination will be MINE! Myu-ha-ha-ha-haaaaa...
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Life is a matinee. BroadwayMatinee.com
Judge my hostiness in the PRTQ
Don't forget to get gross points and own the rights to the dolls made in your image. ;0)
s
"Both faith and fear are the belief in things not seen." S. Franz
Gross points? Like an absurd number of user and affiliate points? Got that down.... ;-)
Dolls! Yes, ACTION FIGURES! Hey, if "Book Lust"'s Nancy Pearl can have an action figure, why not more public radio figures? Put a microphone in one hand, and the arm flicks so that it's up to their mouth, then out in 'interview' pose!
(By the way, Susan Stamberg has a puppet of herself in her office. Very cool)
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Life is a matinee. BroadwayMatinee.com
Judge my hostiness in the PRTQ
Oh! I gave that action figure to my Mom! It's great. You know, the same company makes a Jesus action figure, which is funny or offensive, depending on who you are. It's a great catalogue to sift through. The librarian has a "shushing" action. It's great. I don't know what Jesus does ...
elizabeth
news director
morning host/producer
kisu 91.1 fm pocatello, idaho
A lot of WWJD people seem to think thay know.
Steve
It falls to the enlightened, and the intelligent and the sane to take responsibility for the deluded or doltish or insane.
My nieces and nephews joke that this means "What Would Janie Do?" And then their parents go, "No, no! Not THAT!!!!"
Janie
"Why is Alabama like it is?" http://www.publicradioquest.com/user/3002
"The most important attitude to be formed is that of desire to go on learning." John Dewey
Elizabeth and Steve, you guys should be sitcom writers. That last exchange was priceless!
ADQ
Please and Thank You for your Vote:
http://www.publicradioquest.com/audio/user/6914
Keep on rockin' in the free world.
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