Cellphone features vary from service to service, area to area, and the cost can be excessive in lower usage area.

 

'Did you know.... hint of the day.....announcement of an upcoming event..... lake message of the day - Texting as opposed to emailing

 

How to collect cellphone information (colleges using for announcements/warning/etc.) - ECHO collects data from members that occasionally contains cellphone data

 

Subscription system for people who want the message

 

Cellphone as sender of information - photo, video, GPS, - capture watershed issues and share with others (upload photos to Wiki?)

 

GPS Quest - Coordinates to find, information when you get there, identify-view-receive info-share with others - Use GPS technology to allow user to receive information when they are onsite

 

Cellphone as social interaction organizer - Allows more immediate scheduling - Sharing humor, exciting parts of the day to friends

 

Geocaching - Build a treasure hunt in the watershed - website to log activity - hunts of various sizes & shapes

 

Need to connect with people instantly when something you find/see is exciting - Cellphones are instant sharing

 

Add a non-tech part to the Geocach/teasure hunt aspect - Count the zebra mussels / Estimate the amount of milfoil / Guess and record the temperature of the water / Log the number of boats at the launch / Go at a specific time to see an event (spawning - sunset - waterfowl)

 

Pinewood Boat derby - Place a wooden boat in a waterway, have people record when and where they see it as it travels through the watershed - Upload from cellphone to website to record travel & pics

 

Rubber duckies in Lake?

 

Website recording is the key to sharing cellphone technology

 

Comfort level with the technology is changing rapidly and will this discussion be different in six months?

 

Use of texting as a survey method for television

 

Self-promotion is enough of a draw to provide incentive to participate

 

Museum of the Adirondacks has program to challenge students to create a video about the environment

 

What actions do we want the citizens to take?

 

Watershed address - use FPF to let people know what body of water they live with and where that waterway leads

 

Paddle to the Sea (Children's book)

 

GPS device in thing traveling the waterways - Way to document its travels through the waterway

 

Dave Katzenbaum (UVM) - Connection between special tourist events (fresh strawberries) and visitor's cellphone (GPS directed)

 

Wilderness Society / Geocaching / Finds special sites that are relatively unknown / Share through technology

 

Cost of some services is an issue with some plans - Vermont is expensive due to limited buyers

 

Concern about tagging and having someone know where you are?

 

Wayside exhibits to list phone numbers to receive more information

 

Could ECHO cover the cost of receiving photos for endusers?

 

Use contest to start people using the system / process / have people vote on the video

 

How to engage those that already use the technology?

 

Concern about accepting images without tagging that are inaccurate, designed to affect public policy, malicious, etc.

 

Map before and after photos to see changes - Establish mapping site of before photos and ask for others to submit current photos taken from the same perpective

 

Photo around the lake project to get an image - One day on the Lake - Lake not a static formula  (Hands around the Lake)

 

Is cellphone technology the way to bring in the marina owners, boat owners, camp owners, fisherpeople, those that sell lake-related products?

 

Have LCI use technology to record fish capture (photo & GPS) and then release where they were caught - Build complete map of fishing spots, potentials, species, etc.

 

 

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