COMMUNITY COMMUNICATION MAPS

DO-IT-OURSELVES COMMUNICATION

(Note: This is a community needs, skills and resources mapping assessment for Sharing Our Future facilitators ('WE'). Naming of equipment doesn't mean you must have it in order to communicate.) The idea is for this to be a useful document for communication - who also means a phone number and other relevant contact information.

1. To produce community television, we have access to:

___ modulator hooked to the cable system
who/where?
___ video camcorders
who/where?
___ microphones
who/where?
___ video lights
who/where?
___ television monitors
who/where?
___ audio mixer
who/where?
___ video mixer
who/where?
___ speaker phone
who/where?
___ tripods
who/where?
___ player VCR
who/where?
___ recorder VCR
who/where?
___ videotapes
who/where?


2. To video conference, we have access to:


___ AV computer with software, modem and camera
who/where?
___ access to a local internet service provider
who/where?
3. To produce a video for community television, we have access to:
___ video camcorder
who/where?
___ tripod
who/where?
___ microphone
who/where?
___ television monitor
who/where?
___ videotapes
who/where?


4. To E-Mail, interact on the Sharing Our Future discussion board and visit the SOF web site, we have access to:

___ computer with software and modem
who/where?
___ access to a local internet service provider
who/where?
___ local dial-up numbers
what are they?
___ addresses for board and site
what are they?


5. To produce a web site, we have access to:

___ computer with software and modem
who/where?
___ access to local internet service provider
who/where?
___ file transfer protocol software
who/where?
___ free web site space
who/where?


7. Does your community have a public access internet site?
Who/where?


8. Does your community have high-speed internet access?
Who/where?






COMMUNICATION NEEDS MAPPING
SECTION TWO
MAINSTREAM MEDIA

The basis of external communication from the group to the community is getting to know your local media conduits. In other words, get to know on a first name basis the people who can help, whether that person be the program manager at the local radio station or the grocery manager who controls the community bulletin board.

1. Does your community have community cable television? Are volunteers (groups) allowed to produce programming? (See a recipe for community television.)
who/where?

2. Does your community have a local newspaper? Will they use press releases and photos from your group?
who/where?

3. Who is your local representative for the regional (national) newspaper? Do you know reporters who normally report on events and issues relevant to your group?
who/where?

4. Does your community have a local radio station? What is their policy on public service announcements? Do they have any time slots available for programming from your group?
who/where?

5. Do you have a community or college radio station? Is it possible for your group to produce a program or special?
who/where?


6. Which of these tools of community communications would work for you and be useful in your community?

___ press release
who/where?
___ posters
who/where?
___ public forums (meetings)
who/where?
___ public service announcements
who/where?
___ radio programs
who/where?
___ radio phone-ins
who/where?
___ interviews with reporters
who/where?
___ letters to the editor
who/where?
___ newspaper column
who/where?
___ newsletter
who/where?
___ other groups' newsletters
who/where?
___ community television
who/where?
___ video productions
who/where?
___ newspaper wall
who/where?
___ bulletin boards
who/where?
___ church bulletins
who/where?
___ popular theatre
who/where?
___ popular songwriting
who/where?

SECTION THREE
FACILITATING COMMUNITY COMMUNICATIONS

1. Does your community have a community communications facilitator?
____ who/where?

2. Does your community have a community communications committee?
____ who/where?

3. Does your community have community communications volunteers?
____ who/where?

4. Does your community have regular community communications programming?
____ when/where?

5. Does your community have any cultural celebrations?
____ who/when/where?

6. Does your community have any websites (privately or publicly produced)?
____ who/where?

7. Does your community have any church, school, public, service or youth groups that meet regularly? ____ who/where/when?

8. Does anybody in your community have stories to tell?
____ who/where?