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		<title>Camila celebrates AMARC&#8217;s 25th anniversary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Camila with AMARC&#8217;s 25th anniversary attire. 

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		<link>http://man.comunica.org/archives/110</link>
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		<title>Community Radio: A user’s guide to the technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Community Radio: A user’s guide to the technology” is a guide to technical parameters of community radio in India. Produced for potential community radio operators, this technical manual takes into account the intention of the Government of India to establish 4000 community radio stations by 2008.
The publication aims to accompany interested organizations in the demystification [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://man.comunica.org/archives/108</link>
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		<title>Volunteer Management Handbook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Federation of Community Broadcasters (USA) produced this &#8220;simple guide to volunteer management at a community radio station.&#8221;
The manual can be ordered for US$15 plus shipping from http://www.nfcb.org/publications/volunteerhandbook.jsp

We have amassed your collective wisdom in this concise yet comprehensive guide to volunteerism. Community radio relies heavily on the hours and creativity offered by volunteer workers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://man.comunica.org/archives/107</link>
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		<title>Community Radio - The People&#8217;s Voice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Produced by ABC Ulwazi in South Africa, this handbook offers guidelines on setting up, managing and sustaining a community radio station.

Explores the differences and similarities between commercial and community radio stations, explaining the unique position of community radio in South Africa, and highlighting its role as a tool for development.


Offers extensive guidelines on how to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Community radio, new technologies and policy: enough watching, it’s time for doing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Bruce Girard
In Mali broadcasters search the internet to find answers to listeners’ questions, translate them to local languages, and encourage discussion and learning around issues of public interest. Without the internet Mali’s rural radio stations used a handful of old books and last week’s newspaper as main sources of information, but with access and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://man.comunica.org/archives/105</link>
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		<title>Sustaining community radio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article in i4d magazine´s April 2007 issue argues that financial sustainability is possible, but the most important ingredient for this to happen is that the development of community radio stations has to be organic, arising from the community radio stations themselves. 
Sustaining community radio
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		<link>http://man.comunica.org/archives/104</link>
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		<title>Handbook on Radio and Television Audience Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This handbook sets out audience research methodology, including quantitative audience measurement; measurement of audience opinions and reactions; qualitative research; data analysis; and more.  Community radio is not specifically considered, but the methodologies are nevertheless useful.
Written by Graham Mytton, head of audience research for the BBC World Service and published by UNESCO and UNICEF 
Download [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://man.comunica.org/archives/103</link>
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		<title>14 definitions of community radio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is a selection of fourteen statements about community radio. Each of them puts a different emphasis on the characteristics described in the previous post What is community media?, and many introduce other characteristics.

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Community radio is a social process or event in which members of the community associate together to design programmes and produce and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://man.comunica.org/archives/102</link>
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		<title>What is community media?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Girard
There is no single definition of community media and there are almost as many models as there are stations. Each community radio station is a hybrid, a unique communication process shaped by a few over-arching characteristics and by the distinct culture, history, and reality of the community it serves. Nevertheless, there are some characteristics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://man.comunica.org/archives/101</link>
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		<title>Mirrors and windows</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Community broadcasting is distinct from public broadcasting in that the latter is a window through which people can look and learn about their surroundings while the former is a mirror that reflects a community&#8217;s own knowledge and experience back at it and invites the community to know itself, to dialogue, to find solutions to its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://man.comunica.org/archives/100</link>
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