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In the coming weeks and months, I’ll get back to sharing my experiences being on the board of FCC-TV.  There have been some exciting discussions about what it could grow to become.  One concept we had discussed was brought up again today by fellow board member Matt Smith.

Why not make a live broadcast of what’s on our community TV station available on the web?  And, if we’re going to do that, why not invite viewers to engage in a real-time discussion about the programming right there next to it?  There’s a great example of how this could work going on right now at CNN.com.

Viewers can watch a number of different streams of the presidential inauguration and exchange comments with the general public or just their Facebook friends.

While there are challenges to both implementing this kind of technology and getting our community actively using it, executing something like this is certainly possible — you don’t have to be CNN.  I’ll be working with Matt and the rest of the board to experiment with ways to encourage our community to engage in this kind of online discussions and others. 

In my view, the more connected and communicative our community can be, the better.