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Thirty People Attend “Guerilla Unconference”

Finishing as a runner-up in the official voting didn’t deter Heather Billings and Michelle Minkoff: They held their session on Django regardless.

You have decided! We received more than 170 votes and now the winners have been crowned. Here are the three sessions who will be hosted tomorrow: 10:15 Embedded Content is the new Distribution Model with Art Gibson of Embed.ly 11:30 Smart ways to use dumb phones with Jim Colgan 3:30 We have a Tumblr! Now what? With Mark of Tumblr and Phoebe of Yahoo Runners-up: How to tango with Django The New Newsroom: The news in real time Thanks to all the voters and the awesome folks who submitted smart, inventive pitches. Give yourselves a hand! Sessions will be held Saturday in the Vineyard Room on the third floor. See you there!

You have decided!

We received more than 170 votes and now the winners have been crowned. Here are the three sessions who will be hosted tomorrow:

10:15 Embedded Content is the new Distribution Model with Art Gibson of Embed.ly

11:30 Smart ways to use dumb phones with Jim Colgan

3:30 We have a Tumblr! Now what? With Mark of Tumblr and Phoebe of Yahoo

Runners-up:

How to tango with Django

The New Newsroom: The news in real time

Thanks to all the voters and the awesome folks who submitted smart, inventive pitches. Give yourselves a hand!

Sessions will be held Saturday in the Vineyard Room on the third floor. See you there!

The New Newsroom: News in Real Time News events have always unfolded in real-time. But until recently, the cycle for delivering the news has been limited by the medium. A newspaper was printed once a day, maybe twice if you had an afternoon edition. With the advent of the web, multiple updates a day were suddenly possible. And now, with up-to-the-second information available about what’s happening in the world (Twitter) and what’s happening on your site (Chartbeat), the news cycle has become as real-time as the events being covered.  Let’s get together and discuss how the nature of real-time information has changed the way you gather news, present it, and adapt it for your audience. How are you keeping up with the flow of information? What data about your site are worth paying attention to? How is your newsroom adapting to the real-time news environment? Tony Haile and Dawn Williamson spent a combined 10 years in newsrooms and are now working at Chartbeat, where they’re dedicated to building real-time tools (like Newsbeat). They’re excited to share how the newsrooms they’ve encountered deal with real-time data.

The New Newsroom: News in Real Time

News events have always unfolded in real-time. But until recently, the cycle for delivering the news has been limited by the medium. A newspaper was printed once a day, maybe twice if you had an afternoon edition. With the advent of the web, multiple updates a day were suddenly possible. And now, with up-to-the-second information available about what’s happening in the world (Twitter) and what’s happening on your site (Chartbeat), the news cycle has become as real-time as the events being covered. 

Let’s get together and discuss how the nature of real-time information has changed the way you gather news, present it, and adapt it for your audience. How are you keeping up with the flow of information? What data about your site are worth paying attention to? How is your newsroom adapting to the real-time news environment?

Tony Haile and Dawn Williamson spent a combined 10 years in newsrooms and are now working at Chartbeat, where they’re dedicated to building real-time tools (like Newsbeat). They’re excited to share how the newsrooms they’ve encountered deal with real-time data.

University of Self-Learners: what to do after ONA11 Let’s be real, j-school doesn’t teach you everything. The other 362 days outside ONA Conferences, we’re all still learning and consciously teaching ourselves. It’s fun. It’s necessary. And it’s pretty darn hard sometimes. So what to do when you hit a brick wall? How do you learn on your own? What are you going to do after you get home from ONA11 and have to teach yourself everything you still don’t know? Shannon McFarland grew up self-taught. She was homeschooled, then started college at 17 to write for the student newspaper. She’s not an expert, founder or a CEO of anything. She’s a grad student in public affairs reporting at the University of Illinois at Springfield. And she wants to learn everything. Photo of eager student via the Knight Foundation.

University of Self-Learners: what to do after ONA11

Let’s be real, j-school doesn’t teach you everything. The other 362 days outside ONA Conferences, we’re all still learning and consciously teaching ourselves. It’s fun. It’s necessary. And it’s pretty darn hard sometimes. So what to do when you hit a brick wall? How do you learn on your own? What are you going to do after you get home from ONA11 and have to teach yourself everything you still don’t know?

Shannon McFarland grew up self-taught. She was homeschooled, then started college at 17 to write for the student newspaper. She’s not an expert, founder or a CEO of anything. She’s a grad student in public affairs reporting at the University of Illinois at Springfield. And she wants to learn everything.

Photo of eager student via the Knight Foundation.

The Chicken and Egg of Community Engagement

Trying to engage new audiences with interesting content and interactive features is like playing chicken and egg. Do you need to find that audience first? Or, will they come if you build it?

How do you engage communities when you’re a start up? Or if you’re a more established news entity, how do you engage new communities? What kinds of engagement efforts/projects (both online and offline) are worth the effort? How do you define success? This session could be about sharing stories and experiences around community engagement efforts. Success stories, interesting experiments, valuable learning - let’s share!

Toni Tabora-Roberts, also known as Toni the Engager, is the Senior Manager of Community Engagement for EarthFix, a public media partnership of Pacific Northwest stations, where she helps citizens examine environmental issues unfolding in their own backyards.

Principia Mathematica Journalistica I can’t count how many times I’ve heard “Oh, I’m not a numbers person” or “I don’t like math — that’s why I’m a journalist.” Unfortunately, I used to agree with that sentiment, but for the past few years it’s annoyed the heck out of me. Let’s gather some folks of various backgrounds and inclinations (or disinclinations) toward math and compile a list of the most important concepts and skills with the aim of increasing journalistic numeracy. Greg Linch didn’t like math in grade school (except sometimes). Now he kicks himself and wants to learn more practical and applied math concepts. His partner in crime for this session is Daniel Bachhuber, who owned his AP calc test, but doesn’t do math anymore. Photo via Images_of_Money on Flickr.

Principia Mathematica Journalistica

I can’t count how many times I’ve heard “Oh, I’m not a numbers person” or “I don’t like math — that’s why I’m a journalist.” Unfortunately, I used to agree with that sentiment, but for the past few years it’s annoyed the heck out of me.

Let’s gather some folks of various backgrounds and inclinations (or disinclinations) toward math and compile a list of the most important concepts and skills with the aim of increasing journalistic numeracy.

Greg Linch didn’t like math in grade school (except sometimes). Now he kicks himself and wants to learn more practical and applied math concepts.

His partner in crime for this session is Daniel Bachhuber, who owned his AP calc test, but doesn’t do math anymore.

Photo via Images_of_Money on Flickr.

We’ve got a Tumblr! Now what?

You’ve convinced your boss that having that blue dashboard open in a browser tab all day should actually be part of your job … and now what? Let’s come together as the proprietors of media Tumblrs to discuss what works, what doesn’t, how we’re using the platform, and what we dream of doing if we just had 2 more hours in the day.

Bonus: having a face to attached to that kind person who reblogged you last week.

Mark Coatney of Tumblr and Phoebe Connelly of Yahoo! News know you want to learn more about Tumblr, so they’re pitching this session for the ONA unconference.

Getting them to eat their vegetables: A public approach to news funding

In an age where mainstream media cares only about page views and pingbacks and foundations fund based on “”sustainability”” (read: comments and social media shares), who’s gonna pay for the truth? Serious reporting used to be sexy, dangerous and subsidized. Now it’s as boring as bridges and broccoli. Where did investigation become infrastructure? How did data become more fundable than dysfunction? And what, in the name of Pulitzer, can we do to get the world to want real news again?

I propose a conversation where we “greenwash” the delicious, nutritious wonder that is good journalism. We’re bringin sexy back cuz all these pundits don’t know how to act. Let’s make foodies out of this fast food nation. Take it to the bridge.

Khadijah M. Britton, founder of BetterBio is pitching this session for the ONA unconference. ONAuncon is a set of additional sessions created and hosted by you, the attendees.