Gleanings from a community radio conference

Thanks to Mona Seghatoleslami, an announcer and producer at West Virginia Public Broadcasting, for contributing this post about what to listen to from this year’s National Federation of Community Broadcasters conference. — Mike

The National Federation of Community Broadcasters held its conference earlier this month in Portland. It’s now posted information from conference sessions online. For some presentations, recordings are available; for others, only handouts or slides are posted.

I’ve listened to a couple of sessions that might interest classical radio broadcasters. The keynote by Kim Klein, “War, Locusts, Famine and Your Community Radio Station: You Can Raise Money in Times of Crisis,” included good perspectives on fundraising.

In “What Makes a Great Break in a Music Show?”, Marilyn Pittman discusses coaching classical music announcers and gives some general advice for music hosts. MP3

Pittman did another session on interviewing that I haven’t had a chance to hear. MP3

Several people tweeted from the conference using the hashtag “#nfcb”. (Here are my tweets from AMPPR with the #amppr09 hashtag.)

Check out the full menu of offerings from the conference and tell us which you find the most interesting or useful. If you were at the conference, we’d also really like to hear more about it. Reading notes or listening to sessions is nice enough, but not as cool as being there.