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Seattle’s Democracy Portal. To inform and engage citizens in the governmental, civic, and cultural affairs of Seattle through compelling use of television, Internet, and other media. July, 2005. Rona Zevin, Director, Office of Electronic Communications. Policies and Advice. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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To inform and engage citizens in the governmental, civic, and cultural affairs
of Seattle through compelling use of television, Internet, and other media.
Seattle’s Democracy Portal
Rona Zevin, Director, Office of Electronic Communications July, 2005
Policies and Advice
• Cover all meetings, not selective• Gavel to gavel• Don’t take reaction shots• Accuracy, objectivity, balance• Don’t show or use candidates for election, except in the
normal course of their official duties.
• Officials can benefit from media training (don’t eat during meetings)
Live Video Streaming• Stream live TV
channel signal• Stream “Council Live”• Pet Cam
Average Monthly live stream plays
2002 Average 4,043
2004 Average 20,146
Streaming live is easy and cheap; it is very useful for employees and for people who want to watch during a high visibility or issue very important to them.
Creates the possibility of live interactive meetings taking testimony via e-mail and phone
Indexed Videos
Indexing videos is essential to make them useful. Only a few people will watch a whole meeting, either live or on-demand.
Used to be very expensive; now we do it simply by marking time codes on the video as we tape the meeting.
Archived Videos
• Having videos available on demand is much more useful as it enables people to watch at their convenience.
• Most requested videos are NOT meetings, they are programs about neighborhoods, hot civic issues, or coverage of interesting speakers and forums.
• Seattle has1,423 active videos in the archive now.
• About 10,000 videos are viewed per month in 2005.
Enhanced Meeting Coverage
Enhanced coverage means adding text, video and reference material and web links to items discussed during the meeting.
This enables the serious viewer to get contextual and detailed information on the topic, and enables the casual viewer to quickly pick up on what is being discussed.
Future
• Expanded enhanced meetings
• Use interactive tools to enable two way conversations. (Student Voices project)
• Interactive meetings that can occur among several different locations.
• Getting more briefing and decision documents on the web.
References
General website: www.seattlechannel.org
Policies: www.seattlechannel.org/aboutus/policy.htm
Technical: [email protected]
Channel general manager: [email protected]: [email protected], Office of Electronic CommunicationsCity of Seattle