Day after Newsvision (#nvision)
Spent yesterday downtown at the ol' Newseum for the NewsVision: Journalism Jobs in Transition conference and spoke on the closing panel about social media with some cool people: Etan Horowitz of the Orlando Sentinel, Scott Karp of Publish2 and Jennifer Golbeck of U. of Md. comp sci. Our moderator, Craig Stoltz, set things up well with this deck ("Everybody's Talking, Nobody Cares About You, and Nobody Can Hear You Scream"), and he and topic got the room pretty engaged, with the mic in the crowd mixed with Etan taking questions on Twitter.
Craig has published his major takeaways on his blog, and he's linked to a spot I was planning to link as well, the write-up from SmartBrief's Mary Ellen Slayter. Writes Craig in part: "SmartBrief on Social Media is a daily e-mail newsletter that does an excellent job of vetting and summarizing social media news. Between that one e-mail newsletter and Twitter, I don't need an RSS feed for social media any more." I couldn't agree more. If you want one social media roundup a day (and I do), the Social Media brief is it. The newsletter's sign-up page is here.
(Full disclosure: This blog went to the movies with a different branch of SmartBrief after the conference and briefly used one of that different branch's machines to deal with some social media chaos back at USAT.)
Other conference highlights: Years after likely sitting next to him at The Daily, I finally re-met Steve Kiehl of Crumbler fame, as he covered the conference to wrap up a good Sun piece on journalism education. The keynote from NPR's Vivian Schiller was terrific — exactly what a news org (and all others) should be hearing from its leader. I imagine more coverage and pics should surface eventually, but if you're interested in more info now, the conference's Twitter feed is a good start.
March 31st, 2009 at 9:21 PM
Sounds incredible. Wish it was not the first day of a new Medill quarter (I would have been there).
Also: NPR's Vivian Schiller is my hero.
March 31st, 2009 at 10:23 PM
Ah, the beginning of the quarter, the time I return to The Daily Northwestern site to find what the new online editor has done in pursuit of change…