On Friday afternoon I am on a panel at the League of Women Voters National Convention that reacts to the Knight Commission report Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age. In doing my homework I came across this in the report, which makes a great checklist for communities which want to be truly “informed…
After reviewing many great submissions, the Center for Sustainable Journalism gave Everywhere and CURE for Childhood Cancer an Excellence in Social Media Award in its respective category. Everywhere, a social media marketing and content company located in Atlanta, Georgia created a Guinness World Record in October of 2009. Their goal for the record was to…
Academics who are planning to attend the AEJMC annual August convention in Denver might want to sign up for the preconvention conference: Journalism Schools as News Providers — Challenges and Opportunities Details: Date: Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Time: 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Panel discussion from 3 – 6:30 p.m. Networking Reception 6:30…
Ever since I started talking about the network weaver concept, the idea of social networks has intrigued me. It is time now for me to dive deep into the pool. So far I have had my foot in the water with the likes of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell and his concept of Connectors,…
I have an essay in the fall 2009 Nieman Reports that is best summed up by my question which reads: Will those marginalized by race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, age discrimination, or economic circumstance decide it is in their interest to become part of a community-supported journalism cooperative devoted to covering social justice issues?…
On Sunday night at 5 p.m. I was a member of the last of three concurrent panels at the Decatur Book Festival in Decatur, Ga. The topic of the panel: The Future of Newspapers. I anticipated that maybe a couple of dozen people might show up. So I was a bit nonplussed when I came…
The Pew Internet & American Life Project just released a report entitled The Internet and Civic Engagement and it is filled with interesting information. Who would have guessed that 10 percent of the American public in the last year sent a letter via snail mail or email to a newspaper or magazine, while just 8…
