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Learn how to market your project at SPNN

Tue, 06/05/2012 - 3:38pm

If you’re an Access producer, you know how much work creating your show can be. But once you’ve finally completed your program and turned it in to SPNN, you’re faced with another question- how can you make sure anyone tunes in? There are many inexpensive ways to market your projects, but how can you maximize their potential?

SPNN Youth receives Youthprise grant

Wed, 05/30/2012 - 10:34am
Youthprise logo

We are pleased to announce that SPNN Youth has received a $20,000 grant from Youthprise, to continue our award winning out-of-school time media programs for youth. Youthprise awarded 101 grants totaling $2.1 million to Twin Cities’ organizations serving youth for out-of-school time programming.

Public Service Announcement Workshop at Dayton's Bluff Library

Thu, 05/24/2012 - 4:21pm
Peer Mentor Ari with youth at Dayton's Bluff Library.
The SPNN Youth Open Lab held another workshop on Friday, May 11th, 2012. This month's workshop focused on Public Service Announcements and was held at Dayton's Bluff Library. A SPNN staff member and a peer mentor led this two-hour workshop on what a PSA is, what issues they explore, and how to make one.

SPNN Youth Featured in .EDU Film Fest 2012

Thu, 05/24/2012 - 3:30pm
On May 18th, SPNN Youth hit the road and crossed the cities to attend the 2012 .EDU Film Fest at St. Anthony Main Theater in Minneapolis. Two pieces produced at SPNN screened at the festival, which is the only school-sponsored, statewide, student film festival in the state of Minnesota. Three producers from SPNN Youth had work represented in the festival, two of which were from the first episode of this season of Set It Up...

Get the word out in our Grassroots Marketing Workshop

Tue, 05/15/2012 - 5:48pm

After spending countless hours planning, producing, and editing your project you want everyone in the world to see your production, right?  All you have to do is turn it in to SPNN and all 55,000 subscribers will naturally tune in and watch. Well, not quite- marketing your program also takes work.  It is a continual process of getting the word out to your family, friends, and supporters that your show is on, when it is on, and how they can watch it. 

SPNN celebrates our partners and members at Annual Meeting

Tue, 05/15/2012 - 3:59pm
A group of Bi-Cities! producers smile.Bi-Cities! recieved the Producer of the Year award.

SPNN saluted our community at our Annual Meeting on May 8 at our studios in downtown St. Paul. Each year, we wrap up our fiscal year by giving an update on our progress as a non-profit, and thanking the people who made the year special. This year, we had plenty to be thankful for: a successful financial year; expanded staffing; a new logo, website and newsletter; increased outreach; and new programs, like Doc U and the Market web series. 

Congratulations to the inaugural class of Doc U!

Thu, 05/10/2012 - 3:32pm

SPNN’s Doc U program is a new filmmaking mentorship program for low-income adults.  The program will focus on building skills in documentary filmmaking with workshops lead by media professionals and with one-on-one mentorships between participants and SPNN staff.  The program participants will produce a short documentary that will be highlighted at a screening in February.

SPNN recognizes two youth participants

Thu, 05/10/2012 - 3:13pm
Breon and Andrew at the 2012 SPNN Annual MeetingBreon and Andrew at the 2012 SPNN Annual Meeting
On Tuesday May 9th in front of a packed crowd at the SPNN Annual Meeting longtime SPNN Youth progam participants Andrew Lonnes and Breon Jones received awards for their contributions to SPNN over the past year. Their dedication, ideas, and sense of humor, make SPNN Youth...

CTEP Corps Day

Thu, 05/10/2012 - 9:57am
Two AmeriCorps members listen to a presentation.

Each year, the Community Technology Empowerment Project (CTEP) AmeriCorps program recruits thirty AmeriCorps members for a year of service in organizations with technology based programs in the Twin Cities. Through their service, these members learn a wealth of new skills in many topics- everything from youth instruction techniques to how to use innovative new software. Twice a year members come together for a Corps Day to share their new skills with one another.

SPNN Youth producer receives NATAS Award for Excellence

Wed, 05/09/2012 - 3:44pm
Breon Jones wins NATAS Student Television Award for ExcellenceYouth Producer Breon Jones stands with her two most recent awards
SPNN would like to extend its gratitude and congratulations to Breon Jones, who recently became the first SPNN Youth producer to be honored with a Regional High School Student Television Award for Excellence from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS), Upper Midwest Chapter. The NATAS-Upper Midwest, or you might know it as the institution that presents the Emmy Awards...

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