{"id":8627,"date":"2014-01-31T12:05:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T17:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=8627"},"modified":"2014-01-31T12:05:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T17:05:36","slug":"is-ncpr-at-an-inflection-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2014\/01\/31\/is-ncpr-at-an-inflection-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Is NCPR at an “inflection point”?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Scarecrow<\/a>

Scarecrow having a big think.<\/p><\/div>\n

Here I am, a day late with The Listening Post<\/em> again. The last half of\u00a0 my Thursday was taken up with one of those big-think conversations that can (eventually) result in big changes. There have been a lot of meetings lately–small and large, formal and off-the-cuff, over the kitchen table and over the internet here at NCPR. There is a feeling that NCPR’s digital services have hit a plateau, that there’s things we are missing out on, and things we are putting energy into that could be done better and easier, or be done away with altogether. That’s a feeling I share.<\/p>\n

People who were here at the station just before I was hired are saying the feeling was similar then–lots of people having lots of meetings, doing a lot of big thinking about taking the next step. That step was the creation of a web service, and all the things that have flowed from that since 2001. Taking a fresh look at everything we do is an exercise we try to do often, but it’s a little scary, and it’s not at all easy, and it takes a whole lot<\/em> of meetings.<\/p>\n

In the past, this process has resulted in what has come to be known as an “inflection point,” a term borrowed from differential calculus for “the point on a curve at which the curvature or concavity changes sign from plus to minus or from minus to plus.” [Wikipedia<\/a>] (We’re hoping for a change from minus to plus.) We have more people doing more and better work in our digital spaces, and we think it’s time to–figuratively–pump up the volume.<\/p>\n

At earlier times of “big think,” we have always turned to our audience to get a view of what we do as seen from your perspective. Given that NCPR is going to continue making a large investment of the money you give to us in providing digital services, what are the targets of opportunity? What should a media operation with a public-service mission to the communities of the North Country be doing, that we are not doing now?<\/p>\n

We had one great suggestion last month from Mark Scarlett, saying that NCPR should take a role in matching up volunteers with the many groups that need volunteers for work and projects large and small. The alumni group of his alma mater was doing something similar.<\/p>\n

That’s one. How about a dozen more in comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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