I’ve been talking a lot lately about the need to stop talking and start doing. We’ll here is some more of that as a list of projects to kickoff the Reynolds Journalism Institutes’ news collaboratory was put out by Amy Gahran.
In assessing the list of projects it’s important to keep in mind two things that [...]
How can you measure how much a community loves you? Can you turn love into money?
BarCamp NewsInnovation at the Univ. of Missouri ended this past Saturday with a discussion on how media companies in a digital world measure success.
The group came up with three areas we’d like to measure but haven’t yet figured out how [...]
After spending two days last week at the Reynolds Journalism Institute – once for the news collaboratory and once for BarCamp NewsInnovation – the resounding theme, besides information overload, was that we have a lot of work to do.
But the tasks ahead are not insurmountable if we work together. And I am going to point [...]
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This might have come at just the right time as many media organization, including the one where I work, continue to transform.
Today, my friend Tom and I are attending the Reynolds Journalism Institute’s news collaboratory at the University of Missouri. You can be a part in the live blog beginning at 9 [...]
In about a week, I will be taking part in an ad-hoc, open discussion with interested folks about solutions and tasks that can help media companies transform.
On Saturday, Jan. 24, the first BarCamp NewsInnovation (#newsinnovation) will be held at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute on the campus of the University of Missouri.
One big reason [...]
The chatter about BarCamp NewsInnovation is picking up and with it I get asked more and more the question of how I feel it can benefit the media industry.
There are ongoing meetings designed to help media companies become better at the new information ecosystem. People are talking about new business models. And CEOs are meeting [...]
A friend recently used the example of how Napster blew up the music industry by changing the paradigm, saying the media industry needs to find its own Napster. Sean Blanda described a similar example as the “kite moment.”
However you look at the state of the industry and what steps will lead to the transformation of [...]
I keep hearing from many people that the more they learn about BarCamp NewsInnovation the more excited they get. That’s a good thing, and I’m psyched too. But there is still much to do and much to get figured out, so here I am, again, asking for your feedback and help.
First, here is the latest: [...]
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Just before Christmas, I was contacted by University of Missouri convergence journalism student Kelsey Proud about holding a regional BarCamp NewsInnovation at the Donald W. Reynold Journalism Institute in Columbia, Missouri.
In the process of trying to work out a date (which should be known soon), I was contact by Jane [...]