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Online News Association Conference: 9/11-13 in DC

Tomorrow the Online News Association 2008 Annual Conference kicks of in Washington DC with a series of workshops and a reception at the Newseum. It promises to be a fabulous conference, featuring keynote speeches by Tina Brown, Robert Scoble and Devin Wenig, more panels than ever before, and the Annual Banquet featuring the Online Journalism Awards Banquet.

I'm looking forward to sessions about everything from audience measurement, video and multimedia, and social media in the newsroom. There will be a town hall style panel covering online ethics, which has created an online ethics wiki to get the conversation started ahead of time. Then on Saturday afternoon, the conference closes with a Super Panel as usual, but this time addressing how to save a struggling media company. Read the case study (pdf) and join the conversation on the conference discussion forum; super-panelists will incorporate some of the ideas posted in this forum.

I'm on the conference organizing committee, participating primarily social media subcommittee headed by Chrys Wu. It's been an amazing group, and we've come up with some really cool (if not absolutely bleeding edge) social media tools to assist those at the conference as well as those who cannot make it:

• A pre-conference podcast series featuring interviews with conference speakers, organizers, and student journalists. This series is available as an RSS feed and an through iTunes. There are now six interviews available;
• - A Twitter feed that's the "control tower" for all things ONA08 online; if you're twittering, please be sure to use the hash tag #ONA08;
• A Tweet widget that collects all Twitter messages tagged @ONA08 and #ONA08 provided by at Widgetbox (see below);
• A public bulletin board for discussing panels and workshops, making last-minute announcements, and arranging meetups;
• A Flickr pool where you can upload conference photos; join and tag your photos with ONA08;
• Last but not least, the ONA08 Facebook Group, where we've been discussing the conference for a while.
  

Several people have asked who's coming to the conference. Post a message in the "Hang Out in the Lounge" forum to find out and meet in person.

We still need bag stuffers. If you know of people in who will be in Washington on Wednesday, let them know we'd like their help. Have them email Tiffany.Shackelford@gmail.com to volunteer.

ONA08 as much about community as it is about industry. And this year promises to offer more information and ideas than ever before from all sorts of people interested in the future of online news. I hope you’ll join the conference online and in person.

Labels: conference, journalism, ONA, ona08

   Link: http://journalists.org/2008conference

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