#Newsfoo at a Distance
NEW YORK -- Curating Newsfoo Camp, Dec. 3-5, 2010, at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University. I'm grokking the future of journalism and technology here -- though live-tweeting was apparently discouraged by some organizers to encourage conversation and focus.
#newsfoo - What the Hashtag?!Description, links, stats, and real-time stream for the #newsfoo hashtag on Twitter- Shame the link above doesn't embed the data, but if you will click you will see updated tweet stats from the #newsfoo event at Cronkite Journalism Arizona State University this weekend.Editing nearly 2,000 tweets down to around 85, I went through each of the attendee's Twitter handles as well as searched Flickr, YouTube and Facebook to curate, capture and share some of the great information shared at this event. It's labor intensive but I'm really enjoying learning how to use Storify as a tool.Is it journalism?
NewsFoo10
December 3-5, 2010 at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University Downtown Phoenix Campus, 555 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ News Foo is a gathering of 150 key practitioners and thinkers from the worlds of journalism, technology, and public policy who are re-imagining the future of the news. It's an "unconference" where we'll share projects and ideas, and tackle challenging problems together. News Foo will be as good as participants make it. Be prepared to lead or participate in a session, ask interesting questions, show off what you're working on, and generally leave your mark...- Above, the official description of NewsFoo10 (note caps), hosted on a wiki.
Manage to Greatness | dangerouslyawesomeI met a guy named Sam Jones this weekend at FooCamp. He buys dead magazines. He’s awesome. He said this in passing but I had to scribble it down to share: There are managers who manage by putting out the fires. There are managers who manage by attaining predictability. And then there are managers who . The firefighting technique – where you operate in constant crisis – not only is hard on you but it’s hard on your teams. The predictability technique isn’t sustainable for an entirely different reason. Managing with a goal of predictability means that nothing . Not...
