NETA Webinars
NETA webinars allow our members to participate in engaging discussions on a variety of topics to increase skills and strengthen the long-term commitment to public media's education mission. We work closely with thought leaders throughout the system, including our PLC Executive Committees, to produce timely and content-rich online events.
Archived NETA webinars and all associating materials can be found on publicmedialearns.org.
Fill out this form if you're interested in hosting a webinar, or contact us with any questions you may have.
Join the NETA Community Engagement PLC every other month for an online open forum focused on advancing community engagement in public media. These sessions provide a collaborative space to discuss upcoming programs, share strategies for engagement, explore challenges and successes and exchange best practices. Designed to strengthen professional support networks and foster impactful initiatives, these open forums are a valuable opportunity to connect with peers across the country. Let's learn, innovate and build community together!
You can choose to attend one or more of the following sessions. All dates are at 3 PM ET / noon PT.
- June 12
- August 14
- October 9
- December 11
Since its inception, public media has been a destination for life-long learners, but beyond informative and inspiring content, how do stations serve the educational needs of adults? Join us for our next Education PLC Meetup when we'll have an open discussion about the ways education teams are reaching adults with games, viewer clubs, partnerships with retirement homes, and more.
Bring a question to ask and an idea to share to get the most out of this informal discussion session.
Join the NETA Content PLC for a discussion about how your station can build meaningful partnerships with independent producers in your community. Emily Compton, NETA Content PLC member and manager of content & engagement at WTCI PBS, will lead a panel discussion with station colleagues from across the country who have navigated the ins and outs of working with local creators to build robust programs that are elevating community voices.
We’ll hear about challenges, triumphs, and lessons learned from Laura Kieler, deputy general manager at PBS North Carolina, Mason Mills, executive producer at VPM, and Melissa Harmon, principal director of content at South Florida PBS. We invite you to ask questions about how your station can prioritize developing these important community relationships!
Learning Goals / Key Takeaways:
- Hear how building relationships with independent content creators can benefit your station
- Learn tips from station colleagues about starting and sustaining work with outside producers
- Learn from experience with navigating rights, funding, and editorial guidelines
Who is The Silver Generation? For many, it's the heart of the public television audience. How do we truly connect with this influential group? Simple: by doing what public media excels at—creating a sense of belonging, purpose, and community. By engaging with this demographic in a meaningful way, we not only retain our loyal viewers, but also attract fresh faces and turn them into long-term members. Join Artemis Independent and Menchero Creative Consulting as we explore why it's time to rethink and reframe the narrative around our most valuable asset.
This webinar is presented by the Content PLC and they need your input—at least in the chat! Please come prepared to share what you’re currently doing to actively foster relationships with your 55+ audience. And if you’re not doing anything, what are your impediments to doing so, and what would you need to help engage this community?
Learning Goals / Key Takeaways:
Selena Lauterer, president of Artemis Independent, and Sumner Menchero, principal and founder of Menchero Creative Consulting, will share how (and why) they created The Silver Generation initiative, as well as share plans currently in motion to create a robust Silver Generation toolkit, built in partnership with APT, for stations to use locally.
Archived Webinars
What projects are you working on right now that demonstrate your station's ability to focus on the unique needs of your unique community? Join the Content PLC for an open conversation about local productions that serve our local viewers. Share what you're working on and the challenges or successes. Is it an interstitial or digital series, a magazine program, a documentary or a podcast, live productions with studio audiences, or something completely different? Have you changed the way you gather the content or listen to the community about future topics?
Join Fred Rogers Productions (FRP) for a three-part webinar series as team members discuss the work of the organization to carry on the legacy of Fred Rogers. Since 1968, FRP has worked to create content to inspire a lifelong enthusiasm for learning and to support families everywhere, first with Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, and now with series including Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Odd Squad, Donkey Hodie, Alma’s Way, and more.
Public media plays a vital role in education, but how can we stay ahead of emerging trends to better serve our communities? This year, our annual tech and culture trends recap takes an educational turn, focusing on insights from SXSW EDU – the international education conference shaping the future of learning.
As public media communicators, we are good at telling stories. But, in the cycle of broadcast and streaming production and releases, that storytelling is often focused on the projects our stations do throughout the year and we don't take, or have the time, to tell the larger story of what our stations do as a whole and the impact that our work is making.
Your time and resources are precious, and nobody wants to try and reinvent the wheel. Join us for our first Education PLC Meetup of 2025 where everyone is invited to bring something their station has created that another station can easily take and run with. Think co-brandable flashcards, a local education project with online resources that are relevant anywhere, or even an upcoming online event. Come ready to share with any relevant links.
This webinar will introduce you to Molly Community Science, a National Science Foundation-funded initiative that aims to support the development of environmental identity among 6- to 8-year-old children from rural Alaska Native communities.
Join the Content PLC for an open discussion about what stations are planning for local content projects and priorities for 2025, including the America @ 250 / American Revolution project. Discover what other stations are doing, learn how you might collaborate, and share some of your own station projects for 2025.
Learning Goals / Key Takeaways:
- Hear what colleagues are doing around the system
- Share your station's upcoming projects
- Ask questions of peers
Presented by the Content Peer Learning Community.
As we all work to become more data-informed organizations, it's important to translate the stories we have always excelled at telling into numbers that reflect the impact our work has on our communities. We'll share examples of data dashboards created by two stations aimed at helping us tell our stories through the work we do every day.
Presenters:
- Leandra Parks, Digital Marketing Manager, VPM
- Becky Marburger, Project and Impact Coordinator, PBS Wisconsin
Learning Goals / Key Takeaways:
What is the end state of public media? Who participates? How do they participate?
In a world where tools allow everyday people access to create high quality media content, the role of public media expands to:
This webinar will introduce you to Work It Out @ Your Library! a new program for families in your community, built around Work it Out Wombats!, the PBS KIDS television series. Through hands-on activities, library storytime sessions, animated videos, and a family app, this flexible program helps library staff guide families through the exploration of computational thinking.