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Engagement | April 24, 2010

Participatory Journalism: How the old passive audience of mass media is becoming the new active communities of online media

By Robert Rich

Dan Gillmor turned the audience at ISOJ on to what has be one of the greatest Twitter accounts in existence, @TheMime.- Wikipedia is the best place to start. It’s the worst place to stop. Jan Schaffer, J-Lab, American University – There are new players in the news ecosystem: fact entrepreneurs, creative technologists, citizen media makers, …  Read More

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Innovation | April 24, 2010

International innovative experiences in online journalism

By Robert Rich

Welcome back to the 11th International Symposium on Online Journalism, ladies and gents. Let’s do it again! Harry Dugmore, MTN Chair of Media and Mobile Communications, Rhodes University (South Africa) – We are currently operating in a techno-social flux. – In South Africa, there is low but rapidly improving access to broadband, as well as a …  Read More

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Keynote | April 24, 2010

Reflecting on the keynote speech

By Austin Ries

ISOJ 2010:y Steven Kydd Keynote, from Knight Center on Vimeo. The International Online Journalism Symposium kicked off Friday with a dynamic and unperturbed presentation from Demand Media’s Steven Kydd about journalism’s role with art and science. Kydd began by highlighting how members of the media and professional journalists don’t typically harmonize with the ideals of Demand …  Read More

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Blogs | April 23, 2010

Day 1 Notes

By Robert Rich

The first day of the 11th International Symposium on Online Journalism was a doozy, with many great panels, discussions and enlightening facts. With that in mind, here are my own personal notes and observations from the activities of the conference’s first day. It didn’t rain. Lately, the Friday session of the symposium has always been associated …  Read More

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Social Media | March 29, 2010

The buzz: Preparing for ISOJ on Twitter

By Robert Rich

Last week, I posted a link to the 2010 ISOJ Twitter list as a way to keep up with the major players attending the event this year. It currently only has eight subscribers, so get on the ball and start following it!Along those same lines, here’s a recap of some of the buzz circulating around …  Read More

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Social Media | March 24, 2010

The symposium Twitter list

By Robert Rich

The concept of Twitter lists is one that gained a great deal of attention upon first release, but quickly fell to the wayside as no one found a great way to use the idea. There are still countless numbers of lists in existence today, though, and now there’s a new one. The International Symposium on …  Read More

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Business Models | March 22, 2010

Business model ballyhoo: the micropayment idea

By Robert Rich

The notion of a business model for online journalism, one that is both reasonable and money-making, is a topic that gets tossed around in some form or another every year at the International Symposium on Online Journalism. But now, perhaps more than ever, the issue is at its most relevant, with The New York TImes …  Read More

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Q&A | March 1, 2010

Symposium brings marketing side of journalism, too

By Robert Rich

One of the best parts of the International Symposium on Online Journalism is the fact that aside from professional journalists and academics, the event also brings individuals from the marketing side of the industry. Earl Wilkinson is one of those individuals. The executive director and CEO of the International Newsmedia Marketing Association, Wilkinson took the …  Read More