"Setting up a community radio station can seem complicated and intimidating. However, there is a lot of information and resources available to guide you and your community through this process. This section will help you find some of that information. This manual is divided into six steps: Getting S
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tarted; Legal Considerations; Funding Options; Selecting Equipment; Managing a Community Radio Station; and Broadcasting. This guide briefly explains the significance of each of these steps and then points to where you can look to find additional information." (Page 4)
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"Beginning with wonderful tips and advice about the art and presentation of storytelling, this is a complete resource about how to build a storytelling career. Storytellers come to their careers centered on the stories they love and soon realize that in order to make a living at what they love, they
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must build a business. This in-depth book tells them just how and what to do in every detail, from choosing a sound system to building a website to using podcasts and setting up an office. Resource lists and tried and true ideas abound as the author shares her marketing and business success story throughout. Each chapter is a story in itself, beginning and ending with different traditional folktale openings and closings. There is even a chapter on how to plan for retirement." (Publisher description)
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"Mit der Gründung ist die kritische Phase für junge Unternehmen noch nicht überstanden. Fast die Hälfte aller Neugründungen muss schon nach wenigen Jahren wieder aufgegeben werden. Die Autorin stellt ein praxisorientiertes und branchenspezifisches Instrumentarium vor, mit dessen Hilfe die Teilb
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ereiche eines Unternehmens, seine Unternehmenspolitik und das unternehmerische Umfeld analysiert werden können. Interne Stärken und Schwächen sowie Chancen und Risiken des Geschäftsfeldes werden veranschaulicht, wobei den Besonderheiten und Bedürfnissen kleiner Buchverlage Rechnung getragen wird." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This manual is divided into nine easy-to-read chapters. The chapters build so that those readers who feel less able to use a computer can increase their base of knowledge as they read each chapter. This first chapter talks about the benefits of a cyber café and its potential for a positive impact
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on the lives of young people and adults. The second, third, and fourth chapters describe, in detail, the steps in setting up and operating a cyber café. The fifth chapter provides an overview of the basics of computers and computer networks. The sixth chapter covers Internet basics. The seventh chapter introduces the basics of designing a Web site. The eighth chapter discusses online peer education as a key to providing youth-friendly information and support via the Internet. The ninth chapter discusses the importance of including in the program opportunities for youth to learn and practice job related computer skills. Each chapter begins with a learning objective. Throughout the manual, examples and brief case studies, in sidebars and boxes, illustrate points made in the main text." (Page 9)
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"There are growing numbers of grass-root communication and information service providers in the developing countries today. They are operating community radio stations, multipurpose telecentres, information centres, community learning centres and – in a few cases – community multimedia centres (
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CMCs) that already combine both radio and telecentre facilities. This book is intended to be of use to all those wanting to become involved or already involved in such initiatives – staff and managers, community groups, NGOs working for community empowerment, communication planners supporting development activities, trainers and project partners. It will obviously be of particular interest to those operating or considering starting a CMC as it covers the full range of topics linked to community broadcasting and to telecentre operations." (UNESCO website, 31.10.2007)
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"How to Set Up a Film Festival has been written in response to the increasing number of film festivals being set up in the UK. It is not exhaustive but is intended to provide a broad framework for planning and to guide you through some of the questions you need to consider when starting out." (Intro
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duction)
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"This handbook is intended for entrepreneurs, promoters, directors and heads of newspapers for whom the press constitutes the main activity and principal source of income. The subject matter is directed to those who have the power to decide the conditions in which they choose or have already chosen
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to set up their newspaper." (Back cover)
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