Tuesday, April 27, 2010

RemakeCamp journalism unconference :: USF Campus - San Francisco, CA. Sun May 2.

This Online Media Unconference organized by MediaRemake.com looks great!

Intended audience is editors, journalists, engineers, designers and managers of online media as well as service providers for them.

RemakeCamp
Sunday, May 2
1-6pm
USF Campus - San Francisco, CA


Topics of Discussion:
* Content creation. Crowdsourcing, citizen journalism, freelance journalism, content farming, user contributed content, expert contributed content, collaborative publishing, the future of investigative journalism.

* The role of editor. Curation, link journalism, news filtering, tastemaking and trendsetting, social news filtering, freelance and crowdsouring management, reputation systems for contributors, community management.

* Tools. Apps and plugins for publishers, tools for reporters and writers, analytics for online media.

* User experience. Optimizing content consumption for mobile devices, personalized news, attention profiles, reader interfaces, interactive articles, data visualization, social media integration.

* Business. Monetization models, attracting traffic, partner programs, content exchange, creating job boards and marketplaces, paid content and paywalls.


Preliminary list of speakers:
* David Weekly (PBWorks)
* Michael Stoll (SF Public Press)
* Alexey Maykov (Facebook)
* Jason Shen (Stanford Daily)
* Siobhan Quinn (Blogger / Google)
* Michele Gates (SFGate.com / Examiner.com)
* Drake Martinet (AllThingsD / Stanford)
* Edward Ortiz (Sacramento Bee)
* Tim Schigel (ShareThis)
* Todd Beaupre (Yahoo!)
* Maxim Grinev / Maria Grineva (TwitterTim.es) // skype-in talk
* Mark Albertson (Tech Closeup TV / Examiner.com)
* Nicholas Aster (TriplePundit.com)
* Alex Gronke (OakBook.com)
* Aimee Allison (OaklandSeen.com)
* Erik Sundelof (Spot.Us)
* Kara Andrade (Fulbright fellow, independent reporter)
* Anu (Anirag) Nigam (Buzzbox.com)
* Mia Lobel (B-Side Radio, Freelance Cafe) // skyp-in talk
* Andrew Stelzer (National Radio Project)
* Mark Burdett (Indybay.org)
* Jeff Pester (SocialMedia411 / Uniquevisitor)
* Xavier Damman (Publitweet)
* Anna Hennings (Bitchbuzz.com)
* Devin Banerjee (Stanford Daily)
* Josh Sprague (Mediactive.com)
* Brian Pobuda (Brian Pobuda Photography)
* Paul Biggar (NewsLabs/NewsTilt) // skype-in talk
* Matt Baume (SF Appeal, Stop8.org)
* Chia Hwu (TheSubtleInfluence.com)
* Crystal C. Yan (Torque Media Group)
* Victor Grishchenko (TU Delft)
* Yury Lifshits (Yahoo!)


Program Overview:
* 1pm-2pm - Talks
* 2pm-3pm - "Brain Dump" panel discussion
* 3pm-4pm - Networking
* 4pm-6pm - Talks

Full program schedule here.

There are about 25 free unconference passes left - reserve one here.

Attendees encouraged to bring their laptops.

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