Over the course of the past couple of years Radio@UPEI has been both seeking out and attracting archival media of significance to our region. Back in May we began sharing...starting with these samples drawn from a large cache of CBC audio archives at the Nova Scotia Public Archives many of which pertain more to Prince Edward Island. Enjoy!
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Radio@UPEI continues to issue select highlights of the volumes of content we captured over those four or five days. There is so much there to listen to it's hard to know where to start. It depends what you're into but here are some of my recommendations in no particular order.
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A couple of weeks have come and gone and yet I'm still marvelling at the remarkable experience that was the East Coast Music Awards, 2006, here in Charlottetown.
What a team!
Aside from all the great music it was a privilege to be a part of the team that put this event together and I must say that the attitude and teamwork that permeated this group was really something. I'm sure I missed half of it, but even from my vantage point, watching it all come together was rather amazing. As a supposed business prof I can say with some earnest that it could easily serve as a model case study in event management. The event committee consisted of some 20 to 30 sub teams. It would be impossible to be more exact. By its very nature the effort was fluid, organic, and, yes, my favourite word....decentralized. The ECMA has only a small staff (a great staff!) so much of the work for an event like this falls to volunteer chairpersons who in turn lead teams of more volunteers. I've called it a many headed monster on more than one occasion and that may be the best way to describe it. The lead-leaders, those who have been through the process before, like Event Chair Campbell Webster, Chairman of the ECMA board of directors Marc Chouinard, ECMA Executive Director Steve Horne, Event Manager Troy Greencorn, and Operations Manager Debbie Myers, led with a certain sense of quiet confidence. This isn't a top down event, it's all bottom up. Delegation is the key. These leaders put good people in all the key positions and then set out to work for them --giving everyone what they need to take care of their respective areas. And finally they just trust their choices, steer around a few corners here and there, and fill in gaps as they show up along the way. The attitude of this inner circle set the tone for the rest of us. On the eve of the event (pictured here) newbies like myself still had no feel for where we were in our preparations. Perhaps no one did. But as the event proceeded to explode all around us the anticipation and adrenalin that together seemed to course through the group like good wine just took over. An affirmative vibe settled over the event early. No one would say no to a legitimate call for help. If you had a problem you just had to ask someone nearby and they would gladly help . So how could you say no when someone asked something of you? It was fun to be a part of this kind of team.
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