The Guardian's Activate New York Summit + #GuardianChat
On Thursday, May 3, 2012, The Guardian hosted its "Activate" Summit in New York. It describes it as "A Guardian platform aimed at world-changers who have proven that through the use of technology and the Internet, we can make the world a better place." A panel #GuardianChat followed in the evening.
- When you walk into The Paley Center for Media, you're greeted with a wall that says, "Great content lasts forever," peppered with Oprah and many others. Inspiring way to start the day.
- "Great content lasts forever." #activatenyc @ The Paley Center For Media instagr.am/p/KKmJIFv_Ih/
- It all began with some opening remarks from Jeff Jarvis and Alan Rusbridger, the editor in chief of Guardian Newspapers.
Wow - @arusbridger described as the best newspaper editor in the world by @jeffjarvis - great start to #activatenyc
@arusbridger: "we're a startup in NY but we have a firehose of history and values from the UK" #activatenyc
"We want to reevaluate the relationship between professional journalists and our readers," Guardian EIC @arusbridger says #ActivateNYC
The Guardian's @arusbridger says they're "small in print, huge in digital." Probably the way of the future, eh?- LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman provided words of wisdom next.
- LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman (@quixotic) tells @jeffjarvis open platforms are best for innovation + growth #ActivateNYC twitpic.com/9grefe
- reid hoffman and jeff jarvis kick off the #guardian's #activatenyc conference. coming soon to delhi with #mediaguru moby.to/1wmtnq
- Should news orgs have their own platforms @jeffjarvis asks LinkedIn's @quixotic? "We certainly need platforms for journalism" #ActivateNYC
- Platforms defined as Twitter, Facebook, Google. @quixotic says may need to create new platform(s) for news specifically. #ActivateNYC
- .@quixotic says journalism needs ecosystem where content is both created + discovered + enough revenue to reinvest in itself #ActivateNYC
"You have to leave room for new entrance" Reid Hoffman at #activatenyc on biz, openness + the web
"The only content I invested in is "Funny or Die" Based on Humor + distribution - Reid Hoffman #activatenyc
Reid Hoffman @quixotic: at the beginning of social. will become deeper in our social fabric..at our emotional level. #activatenyc- News needs "sea of content" but also way to know it's content you can trust, closed in 1 sense but allows openness -@quixotic #ActivateNYC
- 'Every biz should do what's good & what's for profit, hopefully in tandem.' - Reid Hoffman #activatenyc
I agree w/@quixotic that creating an app that ppl opt into is important, tiz impossible to analyze news events as they happen #activatenyc12- Around this time, just minutes into the Summit, a problem was clear. Twitter spam.
- Twitter has major spam problem. Try searching #ActivateNYC hashtag right now. Tech/media innovation summit overwhelmed @ericaamerica @chloes
