Sean Effel

Cambridge Community Television , Cambridge MA
I am responsible for planning and implementing new technology and systems throughout our organization, from databases to websites to production gear. I get to wear a lot of hats throughout the year, so it's pretty cool. I like long walks in the snow and my favorite ice cream is vanilla.
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September 15, 2009 - 5:49pm Leland Cheung is a candidate for Cambridge City Council. This campaign piece was recorded by Cambridge Community Television in an effort to educate its viewers on their choices in the upcoming election on November 3, 2009. read more
August 19, 2009 - 12:24pm The City of Cambridge will renew its cable license with the cable television provider, Comcast, for the next ten years. This video describes the process of cable license renewal and points out the places where Cambridge residents and stakeholders can participate. read more
July 8, 2009 - 12:49pm read more
July 2, 2009 - 2:38pm At 12:01 AM on May 17, 2004, City Hall in Cambridge opened its doors to allow the first same sex couples in the country to file for marriage licenses. Cambridge Community Television and our crew of members and volunteers were on hand through the early hours of the morning to provide television coverage from our unique Cambridge perspective, and touch topics that were likely overlooked by commercial network news teams. Because of high demand for copies of our footage, CCTV now offers DVDs for sale through our website. These 90 minute DVDs contain interviews with couples, well-wishers, city officials, and individuals in the crowd of 5000+ people waiting outside city hall. If you could not watch the newscasts, were unable to make your own home movies, or had friends and family who could not attend, this DVD captures the essence of the evening! read more
July 2, 2009 - 2:32pm Now you can sport your affiliation with CCTV on your very own body! Our Voice & Visionwear T-Shirts are the hottest thing since cable franchising, yours for the low low price of $12.00. Please indicate size when you place your order. read more
July 1, 2009 - 7:10pm We've talked a lot about making better use of our content classification and tagging system and now we've gone and done it. The principle of a good classification system is all about telling items apart from one another as well as grouping items together that have some relationship or commonality. The best classification system we (read: human kind) has ever developed is the Scientific Classification of Organisms that helps us determine what family, genus, and species a living creature belongs in based on common and ancestral traits of the organism themselves. It get's really technical, like whether the hairs of the fur of a species are hollow or solid, but it's all there and does a fantastic job of helping us sort life out. We've done the same thing with our website's blogs, videos, and everything else. All of our user generated content has been using a tagging system but we haven't been able to harness it well because users can tag things all willy nilly and in any order or sequence that they want - whether or not it makes sense. Instead, we're restricting the tagging decisions that our users can make, which sounds like a downside until you notice how it makes all of our... read more
May 27, 2009 - 4:06pm Here is the full twelve week curriculum of the Digital Media Fellowship program, operated by Cambridge Community Television. read more
May 21, 2009 - 3:59pm This is a short organizational profile of the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence, based in Boston, MA. This program was produced by Kozue Sawame during Cambridge Community Television's first Digital Media Fellowship Program. read more
May 21, 2009 - 3:59pm This is a short organizational profile of the Cambridge Human Rights Commission in Cambridge, MA. This program was produced by Joe Johnson during Cambridge Community Television's first Digital Media Fellowship Program. read more
May 21, 2009 - 3:59pm This is a short organizational profile of The Multi-Service Center, based in Cambridge, MA. This program was produced by Marianne Colangelo during Cambridge Community Television's first Digital Media Fellowship Program. read more

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