Announcements

Palmetto Project Establishes Endowment to Encourage Innovative Solutions.

The Palmetto Project has established an endowment to support innovative approaches to solving community problems in South Carolina. Over the past fifteen years the Palmetto Project has been part of nearly 100 community-based partnerships to solve problems that seem to defy traditional or conventional solutions. The South Carolina Fund for New Ideas will support our efforts to develop new projects, as well as provide matching funds for grants to expand community projects which have shown promise.

Already the Fund has received several very generous donations of stock and cash from friends of the Palmetto Project. The Fund is managed by Winthrop, Melhado, & Flynn of Hilton Head, and overseen by our Board of Directors. If you are interested in making a gift of stock, please contact our comptroller at 843-579-0021.

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IMAGINE 2000 Summit

We would like to thank our partners who helped us make the IMAGINE 2000 Summit the first interactive event of its type in the State's history. On February 24th, 2000 SCERN and Palmetto Project conducted a simultaneous live radio broadcast and Interactive Web forum. This allowed listeners at home to communicate with other listeners in a "live" environment.

It also allowed the 3 panelists to receive immediate feedback and questions, which were passed on to the participants by the "round table" moderator. We clearly saw that projects of this nature provide a brand new communication dynamic and we hope to explore more projects of this type in the future with SCERN.

On February 29th, 2000 noted historian and author Jack Bass also participated in a nationally syndicated chat on "Race Relation and Politics" with Public Interactive. The transcripts from this chat will be posted in the next 2 weeks.

The Palmetto Project knows that this is just the beginning of South Carolina's efforts to promote more positive dialog and we are excited to be a part of that process.

Link to: PublicInteractive.com

Link to: Public Conversation

Public Conversation offers a new stream of fully interactive programming to the public broadcast audience, featuring a wide range of online guests that includes authors, newsmakers, musicians and experts. Though many Public Conversation guests will be familiar names in public broadcasting, many more will come from outside our community, a choice reflecting the broad range of subjects and viewpoints important to the public broadcasting audience.

SCERN PUBLIC RADIO

TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATES

Public Interactive (formerly NewMarket Network) is an award-winning on-line provider of Web content and marketing for the public radio community. Public Interactive's mission, in partnership with locally branded public radio Web sites, is to provide on-line audiences with premier programming, services, and technologies. It is the goal of Public Interactive to strengthen and leverage the station relationship with the public radio audience "at the local level."

Public Interactive develops, produces, licenses and distributes a growing series of on-line content and services focused specifically at the needs of public broadcasting stations and their audiences. Each affiliated station has the ability to adopt locally branded Public Interactive content and services on an individualized basis. As with any media programming/content provider, Public Interactive, in conjunction with a station advisory board and direct user feedback, continually adapts, improves, adjusts and creates new offerings for the public broadcast community. Public Interactive content is available free to affiliate stations and offers revenue sharing opportunities through sponsorship and e-commerce.