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31 May

Board Blog: Are You Accessible?

Your media outlet’s web presence is your window to the world. It’s how potential students and audience members connect with you. But are you accidentally excluding an entire population of individuals from using your website due to issues with web accessibility?   Web accessawhatnow? The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative explains “Web accessibility means that websites, […]

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16 May

Board Blog: Time to Reset

Ever have one of those years in life that you wish you could redo? 2017 was one of those years for me personally, but the 2017-18 academic year was one of those years for my staff and my first as a student media adviser. From multiple student deaths on a campus where everyone knows each […]

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2 May

Board Blog: The New CBI Year Starts Now

It’s a great time for college students, finals are wrapping up, summer plans have been made, and now its time for a break. However, now is the time to be thinking about what you will be doing with CBI through the end of the calendar year, and some of those things need to be done […]

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18 Apr

Board Blog: Is your org chart out of touch with time?

I’ve been telling my students for years that WPTS is not just a radio station, but a multi-platform content provider. As much as my students use that phrase to make jokes at my expense, they know that I’m right — more today than ever. It’s not exactly breaking news that the barriers between different media […]

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21 Mar

Board Blog: Time to Start Thinking about the 2108 CBI National Student Electronic Media Convention

The 2018 convention will be in glorious Seattle, October 25-27, 2018 at the Renaissance Seattle, located at 515 Madison Street. If you have not already financially planned for this convention, now is the time to do so. Registration fees remain at $100 per person. This fee has not gone up since CBI started doing its […]

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8 Mar

Board Blog: Kids These Days

I live and work in the New York market, where we just had two major “nor’easters” in less than a week.  The first one was a rain and wind event, which downed trees, knocked out power, and caused flooding. A few days later, the second storm dropped a foot of heavy wet snow on our […]

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21 Feb

Board Blog: Outlet Identities are More than a Name

Twenty years ago this October, Sen. John H. Glenn returned to space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. This past week the nation celebrated Glenn’s first space flight in which he was the first American to orbit the Earth 56 years ago, Feb. 20, 1962. Glenn is no doubt an American hero but he also serves as […]

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7 Feb

Board Blog: Easy tips to keep your social media pages active

College broadcasters have to find many different ways to reach and engage their audience. But today, it is crucial to find interaction between your audience and your organization. Social media is one of the most important assets to use at your radio/television station. It gives you a chance to attract familiar, as well as unfamiliar, […]

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24 Jan

Board Blog: Getting ready for the new year

It’s nearing the end of January, which for many of you means gearing up for the new year. Not the new calendar year, but the new staff year. At WKNC, applications for our 2018-2019 general manager are due Feb. 1, with hiring in early March and a whole new staff scheduled to take over by […]

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10 Jan

Board Blog: Hello 2018! And Hello CBI!

My name is Hames, Steven Hames and I am proud to be serving as CBI’s Secretary for this year … and hopefully for more (wink, wink, cough, cough). Many of you know that I have been serving CBI as the Awards Coordinator for the past five years, but there are a few things that you […]

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