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| =What are the questions you hope to answer at New Pamphleteers?= | | =What can you teach fellow participants in New Pamphleteers? = |
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| <h4> In a pre-event registration survey, we asked participants: | | <h4> In a pre-event registration survey, we asked participants: |
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| *I'm looking to develop partnerships, learn more about best practices at
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| other sites and explore low-cost and open source tools.
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| *In my case, individual effort on the reporting end was everything. It was
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| extremely difficult to get help, and even paying for help did not succeed.
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| So (1) would be: How do you build and sustain an organization that doesn't
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| depend on one person's effort? That would be (2) and (3) as well!
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| <ul><ul>#Best practices in securing, vetting and rewarding contributors of
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| content in a day when media business models are imploding
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| #How to firewall editorial from advertising and avoiding conflicts of
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| interest in a day of easily generated content and publishing
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| #How to raise and generate money: sponsorships, advertising (especially
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| all the new, federated ad networks) and, perhaps, donations (ala public
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| *1) Balance of community service vs. sustaining community site as a small
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| business 2) Issues of nonprofit status and advocacy"
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| "Strategies to involve local business.
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| *Ways to make the front page more appealing without investing huge $$$
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| *I've never met a community blogger. I've had the feeling I am one of a
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| very few to do this. I'm looking forward to hear from their experiences."
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| "I would like to see how fellow participants can use the Patchwork Nation
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| site and data we've created.
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| *I'd like to see how we can more fully grow and expand the communities
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| we've identified online.
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| *I'd like to find and develop partnerships for the site."
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| *I would like to showcase multi-cultural topics regarding news and the arts
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| in ways that are inclusive for those seeking to serve the public.
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| My interest is to understand how fellow participants think about risk, how
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| they address various legal considerations as publishers such as threats
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| (actual or potential) of litigation over defamation, privacy, copyright,
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| etc.
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| *I am new to the web, so everything I learn will be helpful.
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| "- Needs and challenges faced by current and prospective hyperlocal paper
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| publishers/entrepreneurs
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| - Availability of publishing platforms and related information
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| - Best practices of successful hyperlocal publishing groups"
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| *"Recruiting quality contributors (more ideas welcome)
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| Developing networks without spending too much valuable time schmoozing
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| -- Selling advertising
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| -- Selling subscriptions"
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| #Ways to generate revenue.
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| #Ways to build traffic by spreading the word online.
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| #Whether it makes sense to form a content-sharing network of online
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| sites."
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| *Right now KAXE is in the process of building web sites in small
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| communities in northern MN. The process includes recruiting and training
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| citizen journalists and producers of a variety of local contenet for the
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| web sites. Can't say it's a success yet. We are encouraged by the number
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| of participants in jounalism workshops so far.
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| *I'm interested in hearing how others are building sites and getting people
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| to participate."
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| *1. How to better attract advertisers and subscribers, in order to make
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| the sites more financially sustainable.
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| *2. I'm very interested in collaboration between different placeblogging
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| and reporting sites."
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| *(1) I'd like to learn how big ""community"" is for other placebloggers:
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| how many focus strictly on their town or county, and how many take a
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| statewide focus?
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| *(2) What's the general sentiment among placebloggers as to our role in our
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| communities? Are we competitors with the local paper and radio station?
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| investigative journalists? whistleblowers? community events calendars?
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| local boosters? How well do other placebloggers balance their love of
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| place and the desire to put a good face forward with the need sometimes to
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| criticize aspects of their communities and advocate for change?
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| *(3) I find a lot of my commenters are afraid to speak up, at least by
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| name. What's the atmosphere like for civil discourse in other communities?
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| How do other placebloggers get readers to embrace the opportunity for
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| public dialogue?
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| *(4) What sort of content (all serious? family-friendly? humor? research?)
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| and design features (busy? plain? lots of widgets?) do other palcebloggers
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| use to attract readers and participants?"
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| *1. How to reach out to local reporters, bloggers, and interested
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| citizens to develop an audience and contributors to the issue we are
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| interested in (executive branch performance)
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| *2. The status of local online reporting about government and politics
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| (both MSM and non-MSM)
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| *3. If and how readers become commenters, commenters become bloggers, and
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| bloggers become reporters.
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| *4. Interest in reporting on federal government activities on the local
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| level."
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| *As a self-funded entrepreneur, (I grew this beast on a shoestring) I'd
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| like to know why the folks who have real funding and assets fail so
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| miserably.
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| *I would love to learn community building tips, discussing the moving of
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| content outside of the walls of your website, and how to monetize your
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| content.
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| *"Financial sustainability
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| *Nonprofit or profit business models/plans
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| *Use of FOIA acquired documents"
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| *"How do we build a major audience of engaged readers and writers?
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| How do we stimulate dialog that is civil and productive (captures
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| attention of power brokers)?
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| *How do we use these community efforts to get more people involved in
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| grass-roots politics?"
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| *"1) Ways to maximize quantity of user-created content in a relatively
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| ""open source"" environment
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| *2) Ways to maximize quality of user-created content in a relatively ""open
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| source"" environment
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| *3) Ways to build revenue and the future prospects for online advertising.
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| *Will Google (and/or other big corporations) corner all markets?
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| *yes on professional and business collaboration."
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| *I am interested in learning more about reaching the average person who is
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| not familiar with the nuances of the health care industry but is suffering
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| from rising costs, and problems of access and quality
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| "What motivates citizen journalists to participate in reporting the news?
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| What citizen journalism initiatives have been most successful and why?
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| What is the role of citizen media in the broader news media ecosystem
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| moving forward?"
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| *"How to get the most impact for the least amount of resources.
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| *How to best engage visitors.
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| *How to best promote one's online activities."
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| *"1. Building a base of contributors.
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| *2. Opportunities for funding.
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| *3. Best practices in technology (blogs, php, etc.)"
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| *I would like to learn how to make a web site an effective tool of
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| communication with your target audience. How to create a sense of local
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| and global community through a web page. And also how to utilize a web
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| site as a resource where by those visiting can reach out and communicate
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| with one another - and what are the most effective ways to do that - i.e.:
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| message boards, user names, profiles, e-mail etc.
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| *Using video media in citizen journalism, easing the use of video in
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| citizen journalism, involving the disabled and alternate language users,
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| engaging scattered and small population communities, etc.I feel that while
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| these subjects would be useful for me to learn, they could help 'expand
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| the playing field' of journalism if fully explored.
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| *I'm always interested in gaining more insight on the back-end/technology
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| end of things; I also appreciate the personal stories people share that
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| helps me to tap into the innovation and spunk out there...very inspiring.
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| *"1) Practices to help sustain the interest of those who come to training
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| sessions to learn citizen journalism and blogging.
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| *2) Are there some successful volunteer governance and/or editing models
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| for online news portions of community websites? for sites as a whole?
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| *3) Tips for how-to encourage a community-wide culture of participation on
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| the Internet."
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| *"Liability issues for uploaded video
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| *Video ad models
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| *Encouraging community to contribute"
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| *"What size organization works best and why?
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| *What business model (nonprofit) is most sustainable?
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| *Which organizations and what people are best serving this ""industry?""
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| *How can we best collaborate to share vision and purpose?
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| *Who is now funding operations-level and initiative-level activities?"
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| *"The importance of building coalitions between ethnic and other minority
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| local media.
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| *How to filter out the marketing and adspeak to find authentic stories.
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| Who is a journalist, who is not and is it important to make that
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| distinction anymore?"
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| *Comment-policy strategies when things get out of control
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| *Creative ways you've told stories that aren't so time-consuming they're infeasible for a small operation that posts frequently
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| *Ad-selling and other revenue strategies"
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| 1. I'm interested in growing community around causes utilizing online tools.
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| 2. I'm interested in methods to expand readership
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| 3. I'm interested in communicating better with the traditional media."
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| 1) How can independent media makers ""successfully"" negotiate with
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| traditional broadcasters to sell/share their media?
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| 2) Do independent media makers need traditional broadcasters?
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| 3) How are media makers thinking about Net Neutrality? Do they care? Are
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| they working to protect Net Neutrality?"
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| *How to engage reader to become commenters and authors.
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| How/whether to best use video (how often, live/pre-recorded, etc.)
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| How to increase readership of target audience,"
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| *The New Pamphleteers/New Reporters conference appears to be an excellent
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| opportunity to learn more about communicating electronically and
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| economically with the public. I would especially like to learn:
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| 1. How to best draw people to my information,
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| 2. How to best present my information, and
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| 3. More technical information on electronic communication."
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| *Building relationships with the traditional press
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| *Gaining readership from beyond online communities
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| *Non-profit funding sources"
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| *Gaining financial support either through fundraising, grants or ad sales
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| *Technical skills (video and podcasting)"
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| *Best examples of making community based journalism work; trying to instill
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| a sense of ethics and objectivity into blogs and community news web sites.
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| *How they research, find information about, the topics they cover.
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| *How they evaluate, assess, verify that information
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| *The extent to which they direct their readers to additional resources"
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| *I would like to learn how they did it -- from the inception to the implementation.
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| *I would like to know how they go about identifying potential profit pools.
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| *And I would like to suggest a speaker: Christopher Zook: Author of
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| Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets To Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable
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| Growth."
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| 1. How to edit video
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| 2. Decorum for engaging fellow blogger
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| 3. History of pamphleteers"
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| *How to successfully establish and maintain journalistic standards without a professional editor.
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| *How to motivate volunteers to continue to produce content.
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| *How best to aggregate audiences.
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| *How to mix news, commentary and information while maintaining the distinction between them.
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| *Systems for allowing users to highlight content.
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| *Integration with social networking sites."
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| *What tools do journalists use and are most beneficial in disseminating information?
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| *What tools do journalists use and are most beneficial for gathering information?
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| *What are the challenges in establishing and maintaining credibility in the eyes of users and how can they be overcome?"
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| 1. New Business Models for Journalism.
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| 2. How might professional journalists work with placebloggers? What news and information needs do placebloggers have?
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| 3. How might placebloggers work with the Representative Journalism project."
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