Community Networking

It’s getting cold here! The trees are all losing their beautifully colorful leaves and it’s pretty much no turning back at this point- I am about to experience my first New England winter. And I’m very, very scared. …read more

Well guys, I've been working really hard (too hard to excuse not filing a field report….probably not) and I realized I haven't submitted one yet. Either way, I have been busy and I'd love to fill you in on what I've been doing. …read more

Laura has inspired me, and it's a slow day in the office, so it's field report time! …read more

As part of my job as the Community Journalism Coordinator for MAIN, I will be reporting, writing and producing a local news show on our radio station, wpvm 103.5 fm. In order to prepare for this, I have been sitting in on other people’s radio programs to get a feel for the studio and to observe how to use the equipment. …read more

One topic that we've been discussing at length recently is the wisdom of efforts such as One Laptop Per Child, which aim to greatly expand home computer use among low-income children, especially in the third world. It has been taken as fact that computer access is beneficial to children, but is this really so? …read more

Hello Fellow Vista's, This year of service is winding up to a close. And its been fun, very productive, and at time just plain hard work. We are well engaged in transforming our Jail to a Jewel. We have a full network infasture now that has both Administartive and open access conectivity across High speed Fiber and virtual private networking between switch closets in multiple buildings. …read more

As part of my VISTA work I organized Boston Tech Day, an event where volunteers from business and academia and students from the Boston Public Schools TechBoston program provided free one-on-one computer repair services and computer training to low-income Boston residents. …read more

So this is my first field report, how lazy of me. …read more

Things in Cambridge are great. It's hard to face the reality that it's winding down soon. We are going to be shooting 3 more episodes of YVC, and then at the end of May we will wrap up production. NeighborMedia (the pilot round) will also finish up around that time, to leave time for the programmatic reflection/re-imagining/tweaking/re-development process. …read more

HCN's Hairston project is coming to a close. We are at the point were we are having the stragglers come to our office to get their computer, instead of having the two hour training program at the middle school. …read more