If you can’t google it, does it exist? Search functions unlock the Internet’s potential, but how can we make it easier for everyone to find relevant information and act on it? Innovative thinking about metadata, permissions and trust could provide the necessary breakthroughs. Session Chair: Jim Kennedy, VP Strategy, The Associated Press Fabrice Florin, Executive […]
In a networked culture, innovation and creativity emerge everywhere. This workshop will illustrate how small networked teams of part-time employees and volunteers collaborate to produce Global Voices Online, a human-powered aggregator of ideas emerging from every corner of the planet. Session leaders: Solana Larsen and Georgia Popplewell, Co-Managing Editors, Global Voices
Join a fascinating group discussion on how to find good journalism online, hosted by NewsTrust.net, our social news network. We will have a diverse group of journalists, educators, technologists and community leaders for this conversation. After a short presentation about NewsTrust, we will break into small work groups. First, groups will review an article together […]
Everything is networked: friendship, professional life, customers, knowledge, causes and commerce. These networks represent new opportunities to invent, innovate and disrupt. What do philanthropists, advocates, social entrepreneurs, tech startups, journalists, venture capitals and everyday users now have in common? Have networks changed the nature of business? Session Chair: Merrill Brown, Chairman, NowPublic Lawrence Wilkinson, Founder, […]
As the economics of industrial journalism give way to the disruption and innovation of a digital, connected culture, new models of financing and practicing journalism are emerging. What lessons from social entrepreneurship are applicable here? If journalism makes the world better, should we think of it as a social cause rather than a commercial venture? […]
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation invests $25 million in innovative approaches to journalism to strengthens local communities. Session Chair: Eric Newton, VP, Journalism Programs, Knight Foundation Nora Paul, Director, Institute for New Media Studies, University of Minnesota Amy Gahran, Content Strategist and Independent Journalist Gary Kebbel, Journalism Program Officer, Knight Foundation Blogged […]