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July 29, 2019 Digital Alert Systems Releases Guide for National EAS TestBy Radio WorldThere is less than a month before the mandatory, nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System, and Digital Alert Systems is aiming to help its customers with a free online preparation document. |
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July 25, 2019 The HR Balancing Act: Tech Insights Versus Human IntuitionBy ForbesHow’s your relationship with Siri and Alexa? Have you ever had a misunderstanding followed by wanting to break up? I have. As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to integrate into everyday life and business, there needs to be a serious conversation around the human factor, fundamentals and a real-time understanding of how your workforce is doing. HR has become increasingly data-driven over the past decade and it’s important we ask where the tipping point is. Human resources as a function must still pay attention to, well, humans. |
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July 25, 2019 Does Diversity Training Work the Way It’s Supposed To?By SHRM Virtually all Fortune 500 companies offer diversity training to their employees, yet surprisingly few of them have measured its impact. That's unfortunate, considering that evidence has shown that diversity training can backfire, eliciting defensiveness from the very people who might benefit most. And even when the training is beneficial, the effects may not last after the program ends.This made us curious: What would happen if we created a training program and rigorously tested its effects? If we used the most relevant scientific findings on behavior change to design an intervention for increasing diversity and inclusion in the workplace, could we change employee attitudes? Could we prompt more inclusive behavior? If so, would those changes stick? */ |
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June 12, 2019 PMBA Annual Conference Wrap-UpThank you to everyone who attended this year’s Annual Conference in Orlando, FL. Each year, this event has continued to expand, bringing the best in finance and HR education to the public media system. The event began on Tuesday, with the pre-conference workshops sponsored by CPB, followed by the Newcomer’s Reception, where first-timers and veteran attendees were able to connect. This year we welcomed almost two dozen new attendees to the conference! |
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April 16, 2019 Photo-Trolls Still Target BroadcastersBy Garvey Schubert Barer, P.C. Broadcasters are still being targeted by "photo-trolls" for copyright infringement claims arising from use of photographs on stations' websites. For those unfamiliar with the playbook, photographers engage law firms and technology vendors with sophisticated algorithms to scrape the web for uses of images in their portfolios. The station is then met with the attorney's demand for money under a threat of litigation, typically inflated beyond what the plaintiff could reasonably expect to recover in court, followed by a "cookie cutter" lawsuit in federal court when the demand is refused. A handful of lawyers solicit such clients and are responsible for filing hundreds of nearly identical cases. Some courts have expressed displeasure at the borderline extortionate tactics of these firms. For now, the vast majority of these cases settle out of court with the broadcaster paying to make the claim go away.Read the full article. |
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April 16, 2019 Bipartisan Co-chairs to Lead House Public Broadcasting CaucusBy Current Four House lawmakers, two Democrats and two Republicans, will co-chair the Congressional Public Broadcasting Caucus this session. “The bipartisan nature of this leadership team reflects the bipartisan nature of public support for federal funding of public broadcasting,” said Pat Butler, president of America’s Public Television Stations. |
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April 16, 2019 PMBA Webinar April 23--FCC Repack: A Financial PerspectiveApril Webinar--Free to PMBA Members FCC Repack: A Financial PerspectiveApril 23, 2019, 4:00 pm-5:00 pm ET From the towers into the trenches, this webinar will feature actual station experiences from folks on the front lines. Get practical advice about implementation and reimbursement, hear hard-learned lessons, and take away key tips to make your transition a little easier. Join our next PMBA webinar and learn from those who have gone before. This webinar is free to employees at PMBA member stations. |
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April 16, 2019 Governance and Accountability: A Different Choice for NonprofitsBy Nonprofit Quarterly Governance is of central concern to nonprofits, yet theories of nonprofit governance are underdeveloped in comparison with corporate governance; and, specifically, it appears that knowledge of governance practices to achieve broadened accountability to multiple and diverse stakeholder groups has lagged. This article aims to expose and question the assumptions and asymmetrical power relations that are often taken for granted in the most normative of the governance theories used by nonprofits. |
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April 16, 2019 Matt Beiler, Walt Disney Imagineering, to Keynote PMBA's 2019 Annual ConferencePMBA's 2019 Annual Conference Keynote Speaker will be Matt Beiler--a show producer for Walt Disney Imagineering in Florida. He was responsible for achieving, implementing, and maintaining the creative vision throughout the project life cycle for the Satu’li Canteen, Windtraders, and the entire area development of Pandora--the World of Avatar at Disney’s Animal Kingdom.Matt began his career with the Walt Disney Company in 2008 as an associate show design and production manager working in Florida. His portfolio of projects includes Kim Possible World Showcase Adventure, the Disney Dream, Aulani a Disney Resort and Spa, Agent P’s World Showcase Adventure, and A Pirate’s Adventure: Treasures of the Seven Seas. |
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April 16, 2019 To Succeed in Fundraising, Public Radio Needs New Research About Its AudiencesBy Current As more news organizations build their business models around subscriptions and soliciting individual donations, the body of research that guides public radio fundraising is overdue for re-examination.Solid audience research played a vital role in guiding public radio’s growth over decades. In the ’80s, research-focused programmers adopted the slogan “Think Audience” to guide their scheduling decisions. Organizations like the Radio Research Consortium and Public Radio Program Directors Association were founded to define and spread best practices in acting on audience research. With that disciplined focus, listener support has become public radio’s single-largest source of funding. By fall 2016, stations had built their total weekly audience to the record-setting level of 37.4 million listeners. |
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