SustainableFocus.org Documents

A Quick Guide to Digital Nature Photography: This guide began as part of the take-home materials for the 2010 Ecological Society of America (ESA) workshop "Visual Communication of Ecological Knowledge," co-organized by Neil Losin and Molly Mehling. The guide will be released here in several parts, to keep the sections a manageable size. Click on links below to download PDF files:

Section 1: Getting the Right Exposure

External documents

Public Media 2.0: Dynamic, Enaged Publics (February 2009) [download pdf]

A report by Jessica Clark (Director, Future of Public Media Project) of the Center for Social Media in American Universitys's School of Communication. Dense with examples this report provides summary and vision of the changing model of media. A good resource especially for non-communication professionals branching into uncharted waters. From the Executive Summary: 

"Public broadcasting, newspapers, magazines, and network newscasts have all played a central role in our democracy, informing citizens and guiding public conversation. But the top-down dissemination technologies that supported them are being supplanted by an open, many-to-many networked media environment. What platforms, standards, and practices will replace or transform legacy public media?"

"The first and crucial step is to embrace the participatory—the feature that has also been most disruptive of current media models. We also need standards and metrics to define truly meaningful participation in media for public life. And we need policies, initiatives, and sustainable financial models that can turn today’s assets and experiments into tomorrow’s tried-and-true public media."