* -- ''We prefer the term "conversation host" to "speaker." Bookmark the [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-discussions discussions page]
* -- ''We prefer the term "conversation host" to "speaker." Bookmark the [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-discussions discussions page]
for evolving information.''
for evolving information.''
===Agenda===
The agenda will be a mix of practical workshops on specific best practices and open, circle-round discussions. There will be ample opportunity for networking, and for planning collaboration. A detailed schedule, with tentative breakouts, will be posted by May 9.
===Tentative schedule===
====<u>Wed., June 4</u><br>====
*Noon -- Registration opens, McNamara Alumni Center, Univ. of Minnesota <br>
*1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. -- [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/wiki/index.php/Jtm-mn-duffy Citizens at the Gates: A Research Briefing]
*3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. -- Opening plenary session
*4:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. -- Talk: "A Passion for Place," Concepts for the American Society of News and Community Forums (ASNCF).
*5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. -- Reception
*6:30 p.m.-9 p.m. -- Dinner and program TBA
====<u>Thurs., June 5</u>====
*8 a.m.-9 a.m. -- Continental breakfast and networking
*10 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. -- First breakouts and roundtable discussions
*11:15 a.m.-12:30 p.m. -- Second breakouts and roundtable discussions
*12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. -- Luncheon / speaker TBA
*1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m. -- Third breakouts and roundtable discussions.
*3:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m. -- Break
*3:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m. -- Closing circle
*4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m. -- Facilicated planning/launch session for ASNCF
*5:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. -- Break
*5:45 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. -- Hor d'oeuvres reception
*6:30 p.m. - ???? -- Meetup with NCMR principals; entertainment
====<u>Fri., June 6 (optional)</u>====
*8:30 a.m. -- Bus departs to St. Paul studio
*9:30 a.m. -- 11:30 a.m. -- "The Passion of Place," a two-hour discussion about the motivation, passions, fears and successes of local online news/community entrepreneurs, facilitated and videotaped for public distribution. (Up to 30 attending local placebloggers/entrepreneurs invited to participate).
*11:00 a.m. -- Conference ends
===LOGISTICS===
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====Lodging====
* HOTEL OPTION -- We have established a block of rooms at a special rate of $72/room per night plus tax at the [http://www.daysinn.com/DaysInn/control/Booking/property_info?propertyId=08225&brandInfo=DI Days Inn Minneapolis/University of Minnesota,] 2407 University Ave. SE, Minneapolis MN 55414. [http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=t&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2005-19,GGLD:en&q=Days+Inn+Minneapolis+university# (VIEW MAP)]<b> In order to receive the special rate, you must make you reservation by phone.</b> Call the hotel at: 612-623-9303 (if busy, leave a message with your return phone number), and request the "Journalism That Matters" block. The rooms include complimentary wireless Internet, free continental breakfast, free parking and a free shuttle to the McNamara Alumni Center, where we're meeting. For after-hour registration, call the hotel front desk at 612-623-3999 and ask for the "Journalism That Matters" block. Or email Amy Webb at [mailto:DaysInnUSales@qwest.net DaysInnUSales@qwest.net].
* DORMITORY/SHARED BATH OPTION -- The Minnesota Journalism Center will reserve dormitory lodging for budget-conscious participants at the rate of $46 per room single occupancy; $68 per room double occupancy. Details are available upon registration.
====Food====
* Registration covers Wed. dinner; Thurs. continental breakfast, lunch and dinner / plus Friday continental breakfast.
====Wireless access====
*The McNamara Alumni Center provides wireless internet access throughout the building and meeting rooms. You will be provided a logon password upon arrival at no extra charge.
</ul>
===SUMMARY===
===SUMMARY===
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One of the first national gatherings for local, online citizen journalists and entrepreneurs, sometimes called "placebloggers." Designed for existing and prospective journalists and entrepreneurs. Including workshops on the legal, business, journalistic, marketing, advertising and social aspects of starting and running a local online news and commerce community.
Share best practices for community, business and social success of rural and neighborhood web civic/news initiatives
Learn about available tools, networks, software and partnerships
Understand and build relationships with legacy media
Consider forming national business/professional/advertising collaborative
WHY NOW?
Part pamphleteers, part reporters and part entrepreneurs, America's new online citizen journalists are inventing a new business and a new passion -- the business of building local, literate, digital domains on the web where community and commerce flourish. But there been only infrequent efforts -- and little structure -- to share best practices.
We invite you to join the Journalism That Matters collaborative, the Minnesota Journalism Center at the University of Minnesota, the Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts, the Minnesota News Council, MinnPost.com, Twin Cities Daily Planet, Minnesota Public/American Public Radio, Placeblogger.com, the Citizen Media Law Project at the Berkman Center of Harvard Law School and the Center for Citizen Media at Arizona State University at this national "placebloggers" convention.
We're inviting some of the best examples of local online news operations run/owned by citizen/journalists for a sharing of best practices. This is less an event to show these folks to the outside world and more an internal, sleeves-rolled-up working session for them to learn practical things from each other -- almost continuing education. These citizen journalism and new media entrepreneurs from Minnesota and around the country will share successes and failures, and collaborate to take the next steps to ensure quality storytelling in service to democracy.
We'll serve as an incubator / think-and-do tank for those who are considering starting their own civic engagement / citizen journalism projects in urban/rural Minnesota and nationally.
We'll use MinnPost, Public Insight Journalism, TC Daily Planet, [LocallyGrownNorthfield.org, Minnesota E-Democracy.org local issues forums, and other innovative Minnesota online journalism and community experiments and services as case studies, and ask their operators to share their solutions for sustaining growth.
Intimate, roundtable discussions about best business, reporting, community, people and legal practices and ethics.
Latest ideas on how to promote local, participatory democracy online
Advice on the future of placeblogging and local online services
Briefings on the latest technology tools
A workshop on cyberlaw -- including libel and defamation
Discussion about forming a co-operative national service organization for independently owned local placeblogs
Strategies for advertising and listing sales and network
Combined registration saves $70
The early-bird registration fee of $139.00 for the event, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, June 4, all day Thurs., June 5 and the morning of Friday, June 6, includes dinners both evenings, continental breakfasts and lunch. Our event ends just before opening of the Fourth National Conference for Media Reform,(Fri.-Sun., June 6-8) at the Minnesota Convention Center. Through a special arrangement with Free Press, convenor of the NCMR, Journalism That Matters can offer combined registration in both events for $270 -- a savings of $70 off registering separately. To register once and attend both events, go to:
Discussion hosts
Among Discussion hosts* and co-convenors will be (alphabetical order):
VillageSoup.comPlaceblogger.com
Richard Anderson, founder, VillageSoup.com
David Ardia, director, Berkman Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard
Stephen Clift, of e-Democracy.org local issues forums
Bill Densmore, Media Giraffe Project at UMass Amherst
Margaret Duffy, assoc. dean, Missouri Journalism School
Dan Gillmor, Center for Citizen Media at Arizona State Univ. (tentative)
Jeremy Iggers, director, Twin Cities Media Alliance / TC Daily Planet
Kathleen Hansen, director, Minnesota Journalism Center
Peggy Holman, author, The Change Handbook
Stephen Lacy, Michigan State Univ. local blog researcher
Michael Orren, founder, PegasusNews.com, Dallas-Ft. Worth
Joel Kramer, CEO and editor, MinnPost.com
Chris Peck, editor, Memphis Commercial Appeal
Jan Schaffer, J-Lab, Univ. of Maryland-College Park
Stephen Silha, Washington News Council / Media That Matters
Eesha Williams, author of Grassroots Journalism [1]
Lisa Williams, owner, H2oTown and Placeblogger.com
Leonard Witt/Griff Wigley, Kennesaw State University / Representative Journalism
-- We prefer the term "conversation host" to "speaker." Bookmark the discussions page
for evolving information.
SUMMARY
Event Name: New Pamphleteers/New Reporters: Convening entrepreneurs who combine journalism, democracy, place and blogs
Short Name: JTM-Minnesota: New Pamphleteers/New Reporters
