Archive for September, 2008
National Writers Workshop: Highlights and notes
What? Another conference, you ask?
Yes.
This past weekend (Sept. 19-21) I attended the National Writers Workshop in Fort Lauderdale, an annual conference hosted by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Among the speakers (A-Z):
Dave Barry - Miami Herald humor columnist and author
Roy Peter Clark - director of the writing center, dean of the faculty, senior scholar and vice president [...]
Using Twitter to cover Barack Obama event on campus
What could be better than waking up to the sweet sound of a little bird chirping the news? (see photo below)
Beginning at around 8 a.m. Friday morning, I will use the The Miami Hurricane’s almighty Twitter account to liveblog a Barack Obama rally at the University of Miami.
The event, “Women’s Rally for the Change We [...]
ONA 2008: Starting from Scratch - Las Vegas Sun
Speakers
Josh Williams, new media projects editor, Las Vegas Sun
Tyson Evans, design editor, Las Vegas Sun
Highlights
(There has been a lot of discussion of the Las Vegas Sun site online, but here is a tour from two guys who helped create the site.)
They launched the new site using Ellington (Django-based) on Jan. 10, choosing that date to capitalize on [...]
ONA 2008: Like Minds session
I’m using Twitter to liveblog this session, which opened with Anthony Moor, managing editor for interactive at the Dallas Morning News. His presentation will be online at Slideshare.net and on ONA’s site.
Check out what I’ve been writing: #ONA08 tweets and Moor tweets.
We just started the newspaper breakout part of session, which will be led by Jennifer [...]
Conference craziness: Looking back at SPJ and forward to ONA
It’s conference season, folks! Get out your complimentary tote bags and notepads.
Last Thursday through Sunday, I attended the Society of Professional Journalists convention in Atlanta, Ga. This is the second SPJ national convention I’ve attended — the first being last year’s in D.C.
The sessions at this year’s conference offered much more in terms of online, [...]
