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Re:Budget feedback
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Aug 27, 2005 7:09 PM
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Hi Ray,
"New Media Support" is the department at the Walker that developed the site and maintains it, including adding enhancements (like the RSS feeds and the site redesign etc.)Basically all the "back-end" IT that we need to keep the site going.
Here's info from the New Media director, Robin Dowden, on the RSS (we'll get a help article up asap)
"What this means is that people who use news aggregators to manage web information can now add mnartists feeds
to the list of sites that they track. I can get the latest articles from mnartists, track an artist and be notified when they upload new work, and so on in my own news center. And, if the feed includes audio as in the state fair music collection, you can subscribe to the feed in iTunes or another
Podcast receiver, download and listen to the tunes there.
Confused? There's good information on the Walker site. Also, check out
help in bloglines.com (it's the service I use and like)."
http://calendar.walkerart.org/newscenter.wac
http://blogs.walkerart.org/newmedia/?p=79
Ray, I'm glad you liked the CD project...I do too. The RFP winner is Marya Morstad, host of KFAI "Art Matters" and we're launching that project Friday, Sept. 16--Marya will have me on her show to talk about this and we'll post the first interviews that day too. It should be good.
Paid staff includes me (Project Director), Colin Rusch, community manager, Ann Klefsta, site editor, and Will Goldstien, technical support (he answers member email questions/tech questions and posts news/events).
Kathleen
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He did listen to what I had to say which I respect whole heartedly and it will be interesting to see what next years contest is like. I think the point of the conversation has less to do with DB and more with an example of the art climate here as a whole. 
