Lauren Bradley, Finance & Management Services director for the city of Asheville, informed us today that the city/county evaluation panel has discussed and scored the finalists' presentations for the Community Media Development Initiatives grant. Ponderwell's proposal received the highest overall score and will be receiving the panel's recommendation, which goes to Asheville City Council. Council is expected to vote on funding the initiative Oct. 11.
As we reported last week, Mountain Xpress and Ponderwell presented their proposals to an evaluation panel for the Community Media Development Initiatives grant.
Click here to view Mountain Xpress's presentation and handout
Click here to view Ponderwell's presentation notes.
Click the link below to view the final scoring spreadsheet for both the proposal and presentation portions of the process.
Community Media Development Scoring Spreadsheet
As we reported last week, Mountain Xpress and Ponderwell presented their proposals to an evaluation panel for the Community Media Development Initiatives grant.
Click here to view Mountain Xpress's presentation and handout
Click here to view Ponderwell's presentation notes.
Click the link below to view the final scoring spreadsheet for both the proposal and presentation portions of the process.
Community Media Development Scoring Spreadsheet
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I'm just going to go ahead and say it: This proposal is not the best way to spend $120,000 of public money over the next three years.
It essentially cobbles together ideas from two or three other news aggregate sites and doesn't seem aimed at creating more than one job. There's no community outreach beyond a small minority of the community that is probably already deeply involved in said sites, there's no actual job training in anything other than some holdovers from "old media", and there's no real mention of creating any industry or broad public good from this use of public funds.
If anyone disagrees, I'd love to hear how this proposal will do anything other than set Asheville back a few years in new media development.
By mat catastrophe
10/05/2011
Woefully underwhelming comes to mind. Especially disappointing, since Lauren Bradley stressed that they were looking for something "highly innovative and creative" to come out of the Asheville Community.
By D. Dial
10/05/2011
It looks like a later and lamer version of CNN's iReport. Non-invigorating to say the least.
By Nonny Moose
10/05/2011
Its a lot easier to nay-say an idea than to actually be productive and help cultivate it to its fullest expression.
By Jesse Michel
10/07/2011
Well, that's a stupid idea! /humor
By bill smith
10/07/2011
This proposal has little to do with the original pitch made by Lauren Bradley at the May 24th Financial Committee meeting.
Her statements here: http://snd.sc/ol6sVl
In her pitch to City Council before issuing the RFP, Lauren Bradley stated that it would be interesting to see what the “the creative community of Asheville could come up with.” She went on to stress the RFP needed to include four major areas to address as conditions of being awarded the grant money. They were;
• Community Development;
• Economic Workforce Development;
• Industry Development;
• Training and Education
In this proposal, there is no reference to economic growth, job creation or technical training. Instead we have a proposal that does not fulfill any of the objectives originally stated by Ms. Bradley to the Finance Committee.
The present plan offers nothing new, creative or innovating, instead it is a proposal that seeks merely to emulate already existing models and is tantamount to re-inventing the wheel.
This proposal falls far too short of the objectives made by Ms. Bradley to the 5/24/2011 Finance Committee meeting , and aims instead at serving a small group of people who are already producing content in the community. This narrow and exclusive proposal offers little benefit to the community in a time for job creation is imperative. Certainly it fails when one considers a $120,000.00 burden on the taxpayers.
By D. Dial
10/11/2011