Beat Blogging at CBC Radio

An update from Bethany Or:

I had submitted a proposal for a new radio show on CBC Radio
(Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). It got accepted, and after many
brainstorming sessions, transformed into a show called Mashup, about
what happens when cultures crash together. This often involves
immigrants and their children, which posed a dilemma for me: how to
find these stories? I knew that they would NOT come from traditional
sources like press releases or websites. I decided I needed a way to
find stories that come from things we OBSERVE and NOTICE, and the best
way to do this was to use my networks and contacts.

 

Following a conversation with David Cohn, I decided to use a
two-prong approach – an email group which I would bounce ideas off
of,(mostly people corresponding directly with me and not with each
other), and a Facebook group that would offer more intimate discussion
between members.

 

So far so good – the Facebook group has 63 members (I’m aiming for a hundred), and I’ve got a good hundred or so email contacts that I can send a newsletter to.

 

We’ve just started production, so I’ll check back in once these beatblogging methods yield results!

Note: The conversation I had with Bethany was about 2.5 weeks ago. It just goes to show how fast a network can grow.