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

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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