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We’re working on finalizing our project. With this comes focus groups. Last Monday we conducted one focus group of five people and another with three people this Monday. This was really helpful to be able to get a lot of feedback for our show. In our first focus group, we learned that they liked the chat, but viewed the chat window as too small. We also received valuable feedback about the time of the show. We also received ideas about topics that they would be interested in including population growth in the city, queer issues and eminent domain. The focus group was extremely valuable to be able to see how people interact with and use the show.
We’ve also been preparing for our presentation and paper. And since I made this blog post a bit late for the deadline, I can say that the presentation went very well. We were able to offer suggestions for future semesters including developing an interactive website. It is a big undertaking to be able to develop and keep an audience. These are some great takeaways for next semester.

This semester has flown by. Intersection has flown by. The last show I produced was on local foods. We had some great guests talk about how to make local choices, even when it’s cold outside. Crops still grow! It helped that they were passionate and dynamic. I really enjoyed listening to and producing this show. Janet even said that she hoped the show would be on the main station. Eventually, it would be great to get the live program on the main channel. Many people have heard the rebroadcast, but few of those people will then join the conversation when it is live. We know that they aren’t doing it because people aren’t in the chatroom and this is problematic. This will be a great challenge for next semester’s group.

We have been working on getting two focus groups planned to sample the show and offer us their feedback. This will be helpful to be able to get show ideas from them as well as see what they think of the show and if this format is something that they’d use. We have our first one booked and we plan to get our next one booked for the following Monday.

Also, this week we met with Michael Skoler to talk aobut the show and listen to his feedback. He offered us some suggestions on where we should take the show from here which we will present during our final presentation. It’s good to be getting things done, but I will miss working on the show.