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Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post WEBINAR: Strategic partnerships for librarians and journalists in the group
BiblioNews: 9 months, 2 weeks ago · View
What’s needed to create new partnerships among librarians and journalists that support community engagement? Journalism That Matters is conducting research and expects during 2012 to develop a resource center — virtual and real — and gatherings to help answer that question. “To get started, we need a ‘place,’ both a physical place and a virtual place [...] -
Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post NEW: Slide deck for ALA-New Orleans in the group
BiblioNews: 10 months, 3 weeks ago · ViewDownload and view our  PDF-file slide deck for the American Library Association convention in New Orleans.  (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD)
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Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post: Roundup of links from session notes 11 months ago · View
Session: How do we foster information literacy and media literacy in our libraries and in our communities? Use games to engage groups. Example of Jane McGonigal’s game for the New York Public Library: http://www.game.nypl.org http://www.Rheingold.com. Rheingold, a journalist, founder of Wired, prof. at Berkeley, Stanford, created a Wiki-based, asynchronous online classroom on “infotension.” How to control info overflow. Questions [...]
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Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post CONSENSUS? The opportunity for journalist/librarian collaboration in the group
BiblioNews: 11 months, 2 weeks ago · View
A draft consensus statement for journalist/librarian collaboration is circulating after garnering support at “Beyond Books: News, Literacy, Democracy and America’s Libraries,” a two-day Journalism That Matters symposium in Cambridge April 6-7. On Thursday, participants in “Beyond Books” moved to the Cambridge Public Library for a public wrapup session. Here are some of the phrases the used [...] -
Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post JTM-NC-"Create or Die 2" — Sessions Posted in the group
Create or Die 2: 11 months, 2 weeks ago · ViewHere is a list of the session calls at JTM-North Carolina, “Create or Die 2:”FRIDAY SESSIONSWhat are the roles of games in journalism? – Mani Sand Victor – 10:30 a.m. How do we create a multimedia-congrolerate featuring people of color – Jasiri X and Paradise Gray / What is radical womyn of color media? – Tani Ikeda  – 10:30 a.m. How do [...] -
Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post Livestream of JTM-North Carolina Session in the group
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Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post REGISTER NOW: A summer convening of Journalism That Matters 2: "Create or Die 2: Innovate, Incubate, Execute" in the group
Create or Die 2: 12 months ago · View
REGISTER NOW:  A summer convening of Journalism That Matters 2:“Create or Die 2: Innovate, Incubate, Execute.”June 2-5, Univ. of North Carolina-Greensboro===============================================================It’s a three-day mashup of journalists, entrepreneurs, programmers, bloggers, technologists, educators, developers, designers, social entrepreneurs, community activists and others to [...] -
Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post: Session Hosts: Lauren Britton Smedley an… 1 year, 1 month ago · View
Session Hosts: Lauren Britton Smedley and Rory Solomon Participants: Amy Ryan, Debbie Walter, Amy Radermacher, Jorge Schement, Jeanine Finn, Jessica Smith, Jen Gilomen, Khara Whitney-Marsh, Dana Walker, Katie Ingersoll, Eileen McAdam, Michelle Fellows, Kevin O’Kelly, Karen Perry, Tom Lowenhaupt, Alan Inouye, Denise L McIver, Jack Brighton Questions: 1.) How do you define public: Internet not [...]
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Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post: How can we engage underserved communitie… 1 year, 1 month ago · View
How can we engage underserved communities to understand their information needs, create knowledge, increase social capital and strengthen the institutions committed to both? Melody Ng, Allison Payne, Colin Wilkins, Andrew White, Linda Fantin, Tom Stites, Louis Battelen, Christine , Leigh Montgomery, Jen Gilomen, Tina Cheng, Amy Radermacher, Celeste Bruno, Thomas Lowenhaupt, Barbara Zang, Colin Rhinesmith, [...]
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Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post Three notions of community: Engagement, dialog, commons in the group
BiblioNews: 1 year, 1 month ago · ViewWATCH VIDEO At the Beyond Books convening organized by Journalism That Matters at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, April 6, 2011, three short talks by experts on community catalyze roundtable discussions by some 100 participants. Bill Densmore introduces the talks by Joy Mayer, an RJI fellow at the Missouri School of Journalism, on what [...]
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Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post David Weinberger at “Beyond Books” — what’s the opposite of long-form thought? in the group
BiblioNews: 1 year, 1 month ago · View
WATCH VIDEO OF WEINBERGER’S TALK What’s the opposite of long-form thought? Is it web-thought. David Weinberger helps catalyze the conversations at “Beyond Books” as he talks about how knowledge is becoming transitional, not fixed in form. “A web of knowledge based on human interests is a more logical expression of the world than long-form argument,” he says. The result [...] -
Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post The conversation starts: Best possible outcomes . . . and table talk in the group
BiblioNews: 1 year, 1 month ago · ViewAs the conversation starts at “Beyond Books” read what 90 folks are saying the best possible outcomes could be of our day-and-a-half-together.
And read what some tables reported they discussed on Wednesday evening.
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Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post QUICKLINKS: Beyond Books — JTM at MIT / April 6, 2011 in the group
BiblioNews: 1 year, 1 month ago · ViewVideo clips at Ustream Fast access to critical resources: MAIN POST ABOUT EVENT EVENT NEWS AND UPDATES — Our Google Groups listserv — check for news FOLLOW TWITTER: biblionews (or search hashtag #biblionews) Video — Live streaming and video archives from “Beyond Books” (pending) Wiki Home Page — Active session updates during our meeting All “Beyond Books” wiki pages — Site map of [...]
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Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post A dialogue about fostering dialogue Laurie Norton Moffatt, Norman Rockwell and the “Four Freedoms Forums” in the group
BiblioNews: 1 year, 1 month ago · View
For several years, Laurie Norton Moffatt has been thinking and writing about the role of public institutions in creating and fostering community. Moffatt is director of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., the living repository of works by the iconic American illustrator. His World War II-era drawing of a series of covers for the Saturday [...] -
Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post: Mary Chute, IMLS deputy director and Denise McIver, IMLS scholar and St. John’s Univ. student 1 year, 1 month ago · View
(POSTED BY BILL DENSMORE on behalf of Mary Chute) A Conversation between: Mary Chute, Deputy Director for Libraries, Institute of Museum and Library Services and Denise L. Mc Iver, IMLS Scholar and MLIS Student, St. John’s University “When a community loses its memory, its members no longer know one another. How can they know one [...]
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Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post Idaho libraries ready to test effect of rural broadband upgrade; student video encyclopedia access in the group
BiblioNews: 1 year, 1 month ago · ViewOpening up public and educational multimedia resources to direct public use is an emerging challenge and opportunity for both librarians and journalists. A unique collaboration between Idaho Public Television and Boston’s WGBH Educational Foundation, will launch in May to do just that with a rich, existing resource. This background was written by Gens Johnson, a [...]
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Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post VIDEO: Streaming and archived video from "Beyond Books" in the group
BiblioNews: 1 year, 1 month ago · ViewBookmark this page to watch the video stream from “Beyond Books,” and to find archived video post-event.
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Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post COMPLICATED posting instructions (use a different page) in the group
BiblioNews: 1 year, 1 month ago · View
If you’ve been curious about working with WordPress, now’s your chance to get a look behind the scenes! 1.  Go to http://www.biblionews.org and register. Use “Sign Up” on the gray toolbar at the top of the page: You’ll get an activation notice via email. 2.  Once activated, log in. 3. Scroll to sessions (on your left) [...] -
Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post Fellowships available to attend "Beyond Books" — apply by March 15 in the group
BiblioNews: 1 year, 2 months ago · ViewGRADUATE-STUDENT IMLS FELLOWSHIPS TO ATTEND “BEYOND BOOKS” APRIL 6-8 AT MIT CENTER FOR FUTURE CIVIC MEDIA; Cambridge event links journalists, librarians; APPLICATIONS CLOSED CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Some 30 partial fellowships, consisting of registration, travel and lodging stipends for graduate students, were awarded to attend “Beyond Books: News, Literacy, Democracy & America’s Libraries,” an unprecedented collaboration of journalists and librarians set for [...]
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Bill Densmore wrote a new blog post Beyond Books — Next JTM gathering in Boston brings journalists together with librarians in the group
BiblioNews: 1 year, 3 months ago · View
Libraries and legacy media always shared a common purpose — helping us acquire the information we need to be engaged, informed (and entertained) citizens. But they used different tools — newspapers, broadcast stations and books. Now they all share the web, information technology and increasingly a mission — fostering civic engagement and literacy. As the [...]
Excellent description! I’m spreading the word in library circles…
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