WORKSHOP SESSION

BY Chanting Lee & Nora Li

Seven young broadcasters from regional areas around Australia, camera, laptop, portable recorder and phone, accredited training, one youth forum and two days of broadcasting…

First Day - Training

Our trainer…Erin McCuskey• Multimedia trainer from Yum Productions

Other eChamps…

•From Cairns•From Frankston, VIC•From Tenterfield, NSW•From Brisbane•From Malvern, VIC

Using Social Media

• Twitter- using the hashtag (#)- #nembcyouth12

• Facebook- status updates- facebook page/groups

• Youtube- videos

• Blog/Website

What We Learnt on the first day…

• after meeting and talking with other youth presenters from different regional areas, we found that the aspects we need to improve at our respective radio stations have a lot in common• how to use social media to engage with audiences and attract new ones, especially young people

Tour of the 4EB Radio Station

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWMcEbDMM_k

Second Day – Radio Active Youth Forum

• all 7 of us were assigned to cover one major part of the forum respectively, and also assist others in either taking photos, videos, or notes• post them on the eChamps blog• record the day’s activities on Facebook, Twitter, etc. to practice what we learnt the day before

We are working ^^

• 4EB President Nick Dmyterko

•‘Get heard and Get on Air’ Current youth presenters from a couple of different Radio Stations in Brisbane discussed what they do and let us know about the opportunities that exist in QLD and Brisbane to have a voice in the media and how to access free broadcast training at local radio stations.

• Speaking Out with Rhianna Patrick Rhianna from ABC local Radio discussed her media journey, the importance of speaking out on underrepresented issues and stories relating to communities. She also looked at the intersection of technology and broadcasting.

• Media Career Pathways - Sinead Lee and Thomas Wright Sinead Lee discussed her media journey from 4EB to ABC, 4BC and Channel 10. Thomas Wright, a 4EB youth German broadcaster, discussed his experience of Community Radio as well and how he has been able to move into paid radio employment. Dr Kitty van Vuuren discussed opportunities at the Journalism and Communications at University of Queensland

The Presenters for the Day…

• Multimedia Feast Erin McCuskey, social media user, trainer and commentator from yum creative multimedia studio, discussed the opportunities to share and shape media online. She also talked about some projects that led the way and showed us what is "Tune In", the new NEMBC multimedia website, which offers youth broadcasters to share their content beyond borders, beyond technology and connect with people around Australia. • Radio and Online Tane Karamaina (4EB Maori program) and Aneel Mazhar (4EB Pakistani program) discussed multimedia opportunities at 4EB Radio and the use of new media and social networking in your programming.

• Youth Broadcaster sharing session- At this session we heard from 2 young presenters from different radio stations from around Cairn FM and 4ZZZ FM. They told us what they do, how they connected with their community/audience, innovative ideas and approach which they used in their shows or at their station and any challenges they encounter.

At the very end, all the participants were divided into 3 groups to discuss how to connect with audiences and we really came up with a lot of innovative ideas.

And then we did the presentation as a group

eChamps 2012 was a success! =D

Thanks for listening！

Any questions? =)