Audio recording of JTM web meetup conference call from 11\/20\/2008. This was the first meeting of the web meetup group. Sorry there are a few minutes of blank air at the beginning – when I get a chance I’ll edit that out.<\/p>\n
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JTM Web site call\n20 Nov 2008\nNotes by Maurreen Skowran and Stephen Silha\nWeb site committee\n(To set policy more than for technical work.)\nVolunteers \u2013\nSteve Hanson\nPeggy Holman\nLynn\nMichelle Ferrier\nMaurreen Skowran\nGoals\nWant to have set-up we\u2019re happy with by Poynter conference in March.\nWe also plan to invite people from previous JTM gathering to the site\nwhen it is further along.\nGoal for site should mesh between mission already on old JTM site and\ninitial statement of stewards.\nWhat\u2019s the Google group purpose? Mutual support and connection,\nmentoring and being mentored, being idea lab for experiments and\nprojects\nPeggy read JTM mission: Journalism That Matters is a community of\nmedia innovators and stakeholders that blazes paths and builds bridges\nto a new news ecology. We convene, connect, and inspire diverse,\nengaged citizens that will mold and lead the media of tomorrow.\nDiscussed the relationship for the site and JTM overall between local\nnews efforts and everything else. Plan to keep JTM and the new site as\nbroad umbrella, and a focus within that on the local news projects.\nBill: Do we have a consensus that supporting local entrepreneurs and\nonline news communities, but also to support JTM and JTM\ncollaborators?\nLynn: use tagline.\nJosh Wolf: maybe purpose should be to get new people to learn about\nJTM. Should be Innovative journalism community, including online.\nRelationship with others\nPrefer to avoid duplicating other sites and projects (such as Neiman,\nJ-Lab, RJI, New News, Placeblogger). This is a recurring issue. So we\nplan to check them out and see what they\u2019re doing or plan to do and\nwhat\u2019s missing. Let\u2019s do content analysis and talk with people\norganizing these others. Discussed a few ways to do this. (I\u2019m not\nsure we made a decision about method. \u2013 M)\nPeggy: Ethic under JTM is to take responsibility for what we love.\nDon\u2019t want to fill a niche for the sake of filling a niche. In other\nwords, is what\u2019s not being done something we want to do?\nBill: Dream that JTM would become nexus for eventual association of\nlocal news efforts.\nOne thing apparently missing from related efforts and sites is the\nopenness and conversation, which we\u2019ve had and want to continue.\nConversation vs. information \u2013 JTM\u2019s role.\nWish list\nLynn: 1 place to find the answers, find the connections. Community\nbloggers. Hub where you find every thing you need. Legal info.\nPlus have community aspect to encourage and inspire. Continuing\neducation. Video streaming.\nButtons on front page would link to David Ardia at Harvard for legal\nstuff\u2026 monographs by Jan Schaffer \u2026\nBill: we\u2019ll never have a full-time editor. We\u2019re a meeting place.\nOccasionally can create fresh material.\nMaurreen: Can we or will we be able to get updates by e-mail?\nMichelle: Might be helpful to have people identify themselves.\nIcons. Educators, etc. Brings that spirit onto the website.\nPeggy: We can also have \u201cwild card\u201d = dice.\nStephen: Wants to be able to easily see people\u2019s locations.\nWe also talked about having a place for rejects from the Knight News\nChallenge on our website!\nMiscellaneous\nPeggy, Stephen or Bill should get access to edit.\n\u201cOrganic group\u201d on the site planned for the Web committee.\nNYT story on local online news communities.\nTwo papers may close down.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audio recording of JTM web meetup conference call from 11\/20\/2008. This was the first meeting of the web meetup group. Sorry there are a few minutes of blank air at the beginning – when I get a chance I’ll edit … Continue reading