Wednesday, June 13, 2012
The Appy Room at OPB, 7140 SW Macadam Ave, Portland
6:30 p.m. Social
7 p.m. Panel Discussion
8 p.m. Short Q and A followed by more networking until 9 p.m.
I know. I’ve been busy. No. Don’t say that. I’m completely dedicated to this relationship. You are amazing. And I’ve missed you. Let’s make it right. How about a get together at the Laughing Man Tavern on May 29th…say 6:30 PM. We’ll reunite (like Peaches and Herb.) We’ll talk about Good Times (and Kid Dynomite.) The beautiful curve of your bottle, the way you splash over ice, or mix with sweet vermouth…I can’t wait. See you soon.
Love, Tiff.
Oh….hi ONADC group. I didn’t hear you come in. This is awkward. I was just talking to my bourbon. Like you, we’ve been apart. I’ve been toiling with a bottle of Tito’s. No, it’s not ok. I know that now.
Come join me, my bourbon, Matt and Laura and the rest of your ONADC pals at our May 29th happy hour. That’s right — no program, just lovely chit-chat with your peers. We’ll get back on the learning next month. We don’t even care about your last name this time.
Join us at:
Laughing Man Tavern (downstairs)
1306 G St NW, Washington, DC
Please join us on May 21 at the Austin American-Statesman for another joint meetup of Hacks/Hackers ATX and ONA Austin for Student Innovations in Data Journalism. Jake Batsell, a professor at SMU, will be visiting with us to discuss his students’ award-winning Light of Day Project: Campus Crime. The project analyzes and publishes data associated with crime in the SMU area.
And, Cindy Royal and her Advanced Online Media students from Texas State will be launching their Texas State of Change project at the meeting. This project highlights Texas State’s recent designation as Hispanic Serving Institution with multimedia and data reporting.
Please support these student organizations and join us to learn more about what is being taught in Texas journalism schools to prepare future journalists.
Refreshments will be sponsored by Texas State University via the AEJMC/Knight Building a Bridge (www.aejmc.org/topics/archives/3412) grant that Royal’s class received to complete the project.
We hope to see you on the 21st.
Join us at:
Austin American Statesman
305 South Congress Ave., Austin, TX
Park in the parking lot in the back, easiest to enter via Riverside. Go to the entrance on the right when you walk between buildings. We’re in the conference room to the right as you walk in. Someone should be there to open the door.
We’re dual posting, so feel free to RSVP on either the Hacks/Hackers or ONA Austin meetup invitation.
Where: The World Bank HQ – Main Complex C2-131 (1818 H Street NW Washington, DC)
How can open financial/spending data be used/enhanced to positively impact international development?
RSVP Required – Sign Up Here (Space Limited)
Are you interested in international development? Have questions about open financial data? Have ideas on how to better use development data?
Please join the World Bank Finances team, the Open Aid Register, Development Gateway, Open Corporates, AidInfo, and the International Center for Journalism for an afternoon of ideation, inspiration, and learning to help unleash the untapped potential of open financial/spending data for development impact!
Open financial data embodies the intersection of many global trends- including greater demand for transparency, accountability, and citizen engagement. The availability of data and rapid evolution of new technologies to support these trends provides an opportunity to make significant progress towards greater innovation and large scale public participation in development processes. Through the Development Data Challenge (DDC) ideation event on June 1, we are seeking to begin sourcing solutions through a collaborative brainstorming process involving civil society, open data practitioners & enthusiasts, data owners, and technologists.
Ideation themes/categories to include*:
· Transparency
· Aid Effectiveness
· Assurance & Anti-Corruption
· Citizen Engagement/Community
· Connectivity/Big Data
· Procurement/Contracts
· Mobile & Web Applications
· Data Journalism
*Selected ideas to be presented to Random Hacks of Kindness for development on June 2-3, 2012. Ideas to be selected on the basis of creativity, innovation, potential impact, collaboration, and feasibility/implementation plan.
Join us to learn more about open financial data and its current uses, brainstorm with others on important development issues, and potentially be a part of a development solution! Refreshments, snacks, and light reception to be provided.
Tweet: #DDC12
Have a suggestion for a new topic? Know of financial data we should highlight? Want to get more directly involved? Leave a comment below or e-mail slee23@worldbank.org or Tweet@SamuelSLee1
Every few months, the famed Pen & Pencil Club, the country’s oldest journalism society, opens its doors to non-members and members alike for an open off-the-record session.
Tomorrow, Neil Budde, the founding CEO of an as-yet-unnamed network currently housed at the Center for Public Interest Journalism at Temple University, will be talking about his goals.
The effort is interesting enough to be our May meetup!
Read about what Budde will discuss here. P&P details here.
Join us at:
Pen & Pencil Club
1522 Latimer Street, Philadelphia, PA (map)
The country’s oldest journalism club
**Also, the P&P is a fantastic private club for journalists. Get a sponsor and for $40 a year, become a member. It’s part of our industry’s culture.
Mark Johnson, CEO of Zite Laney Whitcanack, Chief Community Officer, Federated Media Chris Taylor, San Francisco Bureau Chief, Mashable Peter Ha, Managing Editor, TechCrunch – Moderator
The average San Franciscan is more likely to get their media from a screen than from a paper, so it’s no surprise that newspapers and magazines are shutting down all around us; the editorial space and the way we consume news has changed. What will editorial look like years from now? Will curated content really be king? Can non-digital publications stay afloat? Leading digital experts will share their experiences, honest thoughts and predictions for the future of publishing.
After the panel, stick around for our awesome Venture Beat Disrupters networking reception, where you can meet and drink with our tech smart crowd.
Thu, May 10 2012 – 6:30pm Location: The Commonwealth club, SF Office Time: 6 p.m. check-in, 6:30 p.m. program Cost: $20 standard, $12 Commonwealth Club members, $7 students (with valid ID) Also know: Co-presented by Venture Beat
Ready to move beyond using run-of-the-mill widgets available online and expand your use of APIs?
This one-hour Webinar will help you take the next step and build your first Twitter application using the basics of JavaScript and HTML. You’ll get great tools and tips on building custom Twitter applications that match your website design. You’ll also get a good look at the Twitter API and all of the options for using it. You’ll see how you can customize the ways you display posts, and search for terms and parse the data onto your webpage.
This webinar is for journalists, developers and others who have at least a working knowledge of HTML and have used Twitter widgets available online. If you want to learn the basics of APIs, Poynter’s NewsU also offers an introductory Webinar, Programming for Non-Geeks: The Basics of Using APIs.
WHAT WILL I LEARN:
Understand how to use Twitter API and tweet data object
Run a Web page with your own Twitter search
Plot basic geodata in a Google map
Build a simple Twitter application to add to your Web page
WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE:
Online producers, designers, developers and anyone who wants to include social media to stories.
COURSE INSTRUCTOR:
Katharine Jarmul
Katharine Jarmul is lead developer at Loud3r, a content-curation start-up based in Los Angeles, California. She spent four years at the Washington Post and USA TODAY building applications as part of several open-source teams, primarily utilizing Python and Django. She spends her free time helping the PyLadies, an organization working to increase diversity within the Python community through outreach, education and community-building.
Register for the webinar at the link below. Registration is $29.95 or $9.95 for ONA members. Access the discount code on the ONA member site.
Record-breaking numbers of journalists travel to ONA’s conference each year to learn about new tools, techniques and technologies, to discuss advancements and challenges in the industry, take advantage of the rare opportunity to network face-to-face, and share best practices with peers from all over the map.
They also come to soak up the vibrant entrepreneurial spirit that distinguishes ONA conferences. ONA conference attendees are a tech-savvy bunch. They include producers, content editors, technologists, programmers, designers and newsroom decision-makers from major media markets, independent websites and leading academic institutions interested in emerging practices in news gathering, software, hardware, content and distribution platforms.
In 2011, for the fifth year in a row, our conference sold out, with an all-time high of 1,200 attendees traveling to Boston from around the world. Session topics over the three days included:
Law School for Digital Journalists at Harvard
Field Trips to innovative media and technology sites
Career Summit & Job Fair
J-Camp sessions with representatives from Twitter, Google and Facebook
Keynotes featuring Vivek Kundra, former CIO for the Obama Administration, and Andy Carvin of NPR
L.A. Times Data Desk journalist Anthony Pesce will tell us how about the construction of the Times’ Super Pac spending tracking app — a continually updated visualization of Super Pac spending in the 2012 election cycle. The tracker shows that so far, the majority of money has been spent to oppose particular candidates.
Join us at 6:30 p.m. at
The Los Angeles Times
202 West 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA
More about Anthony Pesce (@anthonyjpesce): He’s a digital editor, developer, and journalist at the Times. He was once the editor of the Daily Bruin at UCLA, and won a Knight News Challenge grant to build an open source content management system and newsroom workflow tool. More links to his projects, including additional 2012 election work, are on his personal site.
The Times is graciously sponsoring this meetup. Meet us in the 5th floor reception lounge, where we’ll have refreshments, and special thanks to Times social media and engagement editor Martin Beck (@latimesbeck), who did a lot of the legwork to organize this.
On Wednesday, Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner will be in Portland for a special event with the City Club. OPB is broadcasting the speech and conversation with TOL’s Dave Miller live from 1:30 to 2:20 p.m. If you plan to listen in, feel free to tweet with us! We’re using the hashtags #Geithner and #pdxcityclub and will be creating a storify after the event.
Journos can apply for credentials by contacting the city club, and join a few of us who will be tweeting from the press pen. Email pdxcityclub@gmail.com or 503-228-7231 x110 to RSVP.
The event uses the BarCamp open-grid format where the attendees will set the schedule. In the main lobby of Temple University’s Annenberg Hall at 13th and Diamond streets, there will be a large schedule board full of blank index cards. The day’s schedule will be filled by attendees who invent their own sessions the day of the event. Simultaneously, hackers, coders and designers will be working to use data to create tools for journalists and citizens to make government services more efficient and transparent.
Some of the greatest minds around will discuss new ideas on how to re-energize and innovate the news industry. This is NOT a journalists-only event! Invite any friends from various industries who are concerned about the future of news, information and dissemination. Even your friend who complains about the biased media. Especially that guy. There will be representatives from news organizations all over the country.
The event is $5 (free with a valid student ID) and will be hosted at Annenberg Hall on the campus of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pa. Doors will open at 9 a.m. and the presentations will start at 10 a.m. After an hour break for lunch at 12 p.m., the last presentations will start at 4 p.m.
Join ONA Pittsburgh for our first meetup. Network with online journalists in the Western Pennsylvania vicinity in person. You can help decide what ONA Pittsburgh will be. Bring your ideas and your colleagues.
Meet us at 7pm at:
Las Velas Mexican Restaurant
21 Market Square, Pittsburgh , PA
The CAJ conference is happening in Toronto April 26-29, and we’re holding a joint pub night to get to know one another better.
Everyone is welcome!
Come join us for after work/conference/pre-awards show drinks down at the Bier Market on the Esplanade. We’ll be there starting at 4:30.
Join us at Bier Markt
58 the Esplanade,
Down by Union Station
Toronto, ON
Reservation is under ONA. We’ll be at the picnic tables at the back near the stage
Please RSVP if you can come, and let us know when you plan on coming (they need 80% of our party before they’ll seat us).
We’ll have the tables until 7 p.m., but you’re welcome to stay and mingle later.
The Bier Market asks that we order from the waitress for our tables, but assures us that split bills are not a problem.
Meet up with Twin Cities journalists for drinks and appetizers over a short presentation from Kevin Schaul, a sophomore at the University of Minnesota who recently was named one of six AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholars.
We’l lmeet at 6:30 p.m. at REPUBLIC at 7-Corners (221 Cedar Ave S., Minneapolis, MN).
Join ONA and SPJ as they partner to bring you training and tools in all areas of digital journalism. Learn to access public records on the fly and understand entrepreneurial journalism in this one-day workshop for professional journalists.
Description forthcoming.
Trainer: Retha Hill, Arizona State University
From Their Grubbies to the Web: How to Acquire Government Data and Post it Online
This session will teach you how to get data out of government agencies, clean it up, then post it on your website as a table, chart or map using free, simple Google Fusion Tables. It’s so easy most house cats can do it! You’ll learn the right lingo to use in dealing with agencies, tips for finding databases, and how to provide the information to the public in a visual, interesting and ethical manner.
Trainer: David Cuillier, SPJ FOI Trainer, University of Arizona
Visual Storytelling
Visual storytelling is no longer reserved for those who just work in television. Working on the Web means journalists in all media need to find creative ways to provide information to their audiences. We’ll show you how you can use pictures to tell your story, even if none are (obviously) available.
Trainer: Victoria Lim, freelancer
Social Media as a Reporting and Engagement Tool
Description forthcoming.
Trainer: Daniel Petty, Denver Post
Mobile Newsgathering: Why the Smartphone is the Most Important Journalistic Innovation Since the Reporter’s Notebook
You’ll learn the basics of how to use hand-held devices as a journalistic tool. With the help of social media, apps and some gear, you’ll immerse yourself in the best practices for reporting, editing and sharing stories to any media platform with your smart phone.
Trainer: Deb Wenger, SPJ Newsroom Trainer, University of Mississippi
Copyright for the Copycat Age: What Every Journalist, Newsroom Manager and Publisher Needs to Know About Legality, Privacy and Copyright Laws
Fair use. Copyright. Trademark. Invasion of privacy. Do you know what these terms actually mean? Sure, every journalist, publisher and station owner does in theory, but in practice do you know how the laws governing use of images, content and other creative materials really affect your work? In the age of online journalism and digital/social media, how are the legal rules of the road changing?
Trainer: Gregg Leslie, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
Tinker & Talk Thursdays (3T) April 26, 7 – 9 PM Brought to you by @Annenberglab, @DIYGirls, @PyLadies & @ONA
Tinker & Talk Thursdays (3T) is a free monthly event that brings together geeks and students to share projects, solve technical problems and brainstorm creative uses for technology. 3T was created to foster a more inclusive environment for collaboration, and is hosted by the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC through partnerships with DIYGirls, PyLadies, and ONA. Everyone is welcome.
This week’s brief talks include Ariel Levi Simons, who will talk about citizen science, makerspaces, and research partnerships in the classroom, and Melissa Loudon, who will present her work on a local bike commuting website.
Bring your great ideas and current projects for small group activities during our tinkering break-out sessions. This is the place to meet cool, like-minded people. If you’re having problems with a project, this is the place to solve them. If you have skills, maybe you can help that person from the last sentence. Or perhaps you just have an idea for a cool project that you’re interested in developing and don’t want to be hassled about your “business model.”
Coffee and light refreshments will be available. No recruiters please.
Join us at:
USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism
3502 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA
Directions: Street parking around USC is available in the evenings. The fastest route is to park on Jefferson and walk south on Watt Way to the Annenberg building. The Innovation Lab is located off the west lobby of the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at Watt Ave. and Hellman Way. Signs will be posted around the Annenberg building directing you to the Innovation lab.
Go to http://web-app.usc.edu/maps/ and search for “ASC”.
‘Media and Civic Engagement’ will feature leading voices on the role of modern media and reporting in political engagement and social justice activism. Journalists will discuss how civic media and digital tools are strengthening democratic efforts in America and abroad.
Speakers include:
Anthony DeRosa, Social Media Editor, Reuters, @AntDeRosa Steve Waldman, Author, FCC Report “Information Needs of Communities” & Belief.Net Co-Founder, @stevenwaldman Sarah Barlett, Director, CUNY J-School Urban Reporting Program, @cunyjschool Mattathias Schwartz, Contributor, New Yorker & London Review of Books, @thecolor12
This panel will be moderated by Mark Anthony Thomas, Director, City Limits, @workandprogress
Join us at 6pm at Reuters, 3 Times Square (you will be directed to the appropriate floor upon arrival), New York, NY.
It is required that you bring a Photo ID with you that matches your registration name for security purposes. Please provide your full name and the full names of your guests. We will not be able to admit ONANYC meetup guests who do not submit this information using Meetup email.
It is required that you bring a Photo ID with you that matches your registration name for security purposes. Please provide your full name and the full names of your guests. We will not be able to admit ONANYC meetup guests who do not submit this information using Meetup email.
Follow @ONANYC and use this hashtag: #ONANYC when tweeting about our events.
Let’s celebrate the end of the semester with a meetup and some Rock Band and/or karaoke. For educational purposes, we’ll go through some things to do over the summer to improve your job prospects.
Meet ONA Gainesville Thursday, April 26 at Do Art.
3429 W. University Ave
Westgate Shopping Plaza
Gainesville, FL
Thanks to all who attended ONA MIA last month. It was great to have a space where South Florida online news folks can gather to share ideas – in person. We counted 30 heads in all.
This month we’re teaming up with NAHJ South Florida and NABJ South Florida at The News Lounge Bar & Cafe in Miami on Wednesday, April 25 at 6:30PM.
Come ready to introduce yourself in 10 seconds or less.
There will be free drink tickets for those of you who RSVP by Monday, April 23.
There will be free food.
Happy Hour extended until 10PM just for us:
Most beer: $3.00
Wine: $4.00
Well liquor: $4.00
Fancy drinks: $6.00
Bruschetta: $3.00
Ceviche: $4.00
Sliders/Sandwiches: $6.00
Also: we’ll have an entire outdoor section by the bar reserved just for us.
Next month we’d like to have all the bloggers introduce their work to the group, and tell us about cool projects they’re up to.
ONA @ Bowling Green State University will meet April 12, from 7:30 – 9:00 p.m. in Olscamp Hall, Room 107 (Distance Learning Lab).
Come learn about one of the growing areas of online journalism – hyperlocal news sites – and what opportunities it presents. Professor Mike Horning, who wrote his dissertation on the topic, will provide an overview, and we will be joined through video conference by Dave Askins, the editor of the Ann Arbor Chronicle.
An interesting long read that looks at the relationship between the digital media giant and its online media-sharing service in the context of the social web.
