Submitted by Steve Hanson on Thu, 01\/15\/2009 – 9:58am<\/p>\n
Steve Hanson<\/p>\n
Steven Silha<\/p>\n
Michelle Ferrier<\/p>\n
Brief discussion about the cold, the hacking of SoapBlox, etc. while waiting for people to show up.<\/p>\n
Michelle discusses things happening in Florida and the difficulty of producing blogs to fill the gap left by newspaper bankruptcy.\u00a0 Content production, legal issues, technical requirements as part of the difficulty, people who refuse to use digital media. This ties into the discussion on what is needed to support local journalism efforts.<\/p>\n
Bill thinks that a print component is essential –<\/p>\n
How can new media operate when the model for journalism in that world requires a huge commitment of time, and very little commitment of money.<\/p>\n
Michelle talks about Mytopia and changes that are going on there, partly due to the financial uncertainty of things. Aiming at getting it past the tipping point of self-sufficiency. As with all of us doing this, keeping all these balls in the air at once is exhausting.<\/p>\n
How can there be a mix of print and online media that will allow a mix that allows for the growth of the online media while still maintaining some of the revenue from print, since it’s difficult to make enough media sales on the online-only media.<\/p>\n
Brief discussion on the web site and what would be needed to make it more successful?\u00a0 How do we engage people to produce content, and how do we then\u00a0 market this?<\/p>\n
Can we sketch out or define the life cycles of online communities?\u00a0 Can there be a section of the web site for discussion of those issues?\u00a0 How can you expand to generate more revenue from your existing brand? Might this fit into the Knight Fellowship Program?\u00a0\u00a0 Possible use of some of the different lifestream technologies to track where people are in their own projects?\u00a0 What would be good ways to capture that? Aggregation, twitter-like, etc.????<\/p>\n
Poynter gathering?\u00a0 37 people are registered – many have requested scholarships.<\/p>\n
Re-convene 2 weeks from today, possibly discussing this life-cycle idea?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Submitted by Steve Hanson on Thu, 01\/15\/2009 – 9:58am Steve Hanson Steven Silha Michelle Ferrier Brief discussion about the cold, the hacking of SoapBlox, etc. while waiting for people to show up. Michelle discusses things happening in Florida and the … Continue reading