Dear all,

thank you for the positive and supportive feedback. This may be a good  
occasion to thank all those from the OURMedia network who helped  
organise this event but then couldn't come for different reasons --  
particularly Dorothy who was very involved with the planning at the  
beginning and arranged the first meeting with the Dublin-based groups  
back in December.

There will be more news from the second day of the conference, I'm  
sure, and feedback on the overall event, but now many of us are very  
busy with the IAMCR conference that started this morning. The feedback  
from participants here is that the second day was as interesting and  
valuable as the first day, included great presentations and led to  
some new collaborations. There are always lots of things that could be  
done better and lots to learn for future events, of course, but that's  
for another time... maybe for the planning process towards the next  
event for which there are already a few ideas...

Best,
Arne


Quoting Dorothy Kidd <[log in to unmask]>:

> Dear Arne and everyone who produced this day:
> Thanks for this report. Sorry I missed it. Sounds great and hope that we
> are able to find out any relevant proposals and other discussion. hope the
> second day goes as well.
>
>
> best,
>
> Dorothy Kidd.
>
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 2:12 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> as the second day of our conference in Dublin is getting started, here is
>> just a brief update on day 1. It was a successful day, according to all the
>> participants that I talked with. There were consistently around 60
>> participants throughout the day, with up to 100 at peak times. Participants
>> included local Irish media activists but also many international guests who
>> are here for the IAMCR conference. We've had several OURMedia 'veterans'
>> like John Downing, Amparo Cadavid, Stefania Milan, Bob Hackett, and others,
>> but also many new faces and many older and younger scholars for whom this
>> has been the first OURMedia experience.
>>
>> Sessions ranged from discussions on the media situation in Ireland to
>> interactive Skype debates on community media in Cyprus and in the Middle
>> East, and addressed community radio as well as new social media. Our
>> friends from Dublin Community Television did a tremendous job in organising
>> the logistics and some parts of the programme, and the Irish community
>> media network CRAOL generously supported the event.
>>
>> Day 1 took place at a nice venue in central Dublin. Day 2 is starting now
>> at Dublin City University.
>>
>> Best,
>> Arne
>>
>
>
>
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