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Program and 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

Wed., June 4

• Noon -- Registration opens, McNamara Alumni Center, Univ. of Minnesota
  
• 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. -- 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

Thurs., June 5

• 8 a.m.-9 a.m. -- Continental breakfast and networking
• 9 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. -- Morning check-in/agenda setting
• 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

Fri., June 6 (optional)

• 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