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Monthly Archive: August 2009

  • California Watch, data & transparency

    I’ve been spending some of my time working with Robert Rosenthal, Louis Freedberg, Mark Katches and the new reporting team at California Watch. My areas of focus are web strategy, social media marketing and outreach, community building, web site development and business/revenue planning. Right now I’m focused on a few things: PRD for bidding out… Continue Reading

    August 31, 2009
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  • Case study: Knight News Challenge 09-using social media

    Case Study: Knight News Challenge View more documents from susanmernit. This is the presentation I am giving at[ Seizing the Moment](http://seizethemoment.eventbrite.com) tomorrow. #seizing

    August 27, 2009
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  • California Watch announces team, great reporting on the state to follow

    The Center for Investigative Reporting has just announced the core team for California Watch, the new state-wide investigative reporting project that is going to take a deeper look at money, stimulus, spending, and policy impacts across the state.  The reporting team is superb–Mark Katches is a firecracker and the group he’s assembled is full of… Continue Reading

    August 24, 2009
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  • Multimedia Training Conference for SF Bay Area Ethnic and Community Media Only One Week Away: Register Now for August 28 Event

    The Renaissance Journalism Center and ZeroDivide are pleased to announce that NAACP President Benjamin Jealous will give the keynote speech at the closing reception of its training conference, Seizing the Moment, on August 28. Register today for Seizing the Moment: A Multimedia Journalism Training Conference for the Ethnic and Community Media on August 28, cosponsored… Continue Reading

    August 22, 2009
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  • PolicyLInk releases: HEALTHY FOOD FOR ALL: BUILDING EQUITABLE AND SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS IN DETROIT AND OAKLAND

    HEALTHY FOOD FOR ALL-8-19-09-FINAL.pdf, is a brand new new report by PolicyLink, the C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems at Michigan State University, and the Fair Food Network.about food systems and food distribution in Oakland, CA, where I live, and in Detroit, a city that is both falling apart and trying to reinvent the… Continue Reading

    August 19, 2009
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  • TechSoup Global Redesign: What I’ve been working on

    TechSoup Global: SOUP Overview View more presentations from Marnie Webb. Here’s [Marnie Webb’s](http://www.slideshare.net/ext337) update on the redesign of the [TSG](http://techsoup.org) portal–this was wide-ranging project that a great SWAT team dove in on. This was such a great project to work on; I’ve stepped back now to focus on [Oakland Local](http://oaklandlocal.com), but I love these folks… Continue Reading

    August 18, 2009
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  • Bill McKibben, 350.org on The Colbert Report

    Watching [Bill McKibben on Steven Colbert, ](http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/246941/august-17-2009/bill-mckibben)very cool. <table style='font:11px arial; color:#333; background-color:#f5f5f5' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='0'

    August 18, 2009
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  • Are you an Oakland blogger? Get in touch

    For Oakland Local, we’re publishing a full blogroll of local writers and other media. If you are an Oakland blogger, podcaster, multimedia citizen journalist etc  and think you might not yet be listed–or know people who might like to be listed–please get in touch with your name, email address (will not publish that), name of… Continue Reading

    August 15, 2009
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  • WAM opens call for proposals for 2010 conference in Chicago

    I heart WAM!  RandomDeanna got me to go for the first time last year, and it was so great. So there’s no way I want to miss the 2010 conference, held, for the first time, in Chicago.And, of course, I am now thinking about what workshops, sessions, discussions I might submit to the CFP.  As… Continue Reading

    August 12, 2009
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  • Do you have an effective personal brand online?

    J school teacher (and wise woman) Mindy McAdams has a great blog post, meant for young journalists, on how to tell whether you have an effective personal brand on the web. This is advice I’d recommend to everyone, so I both urge you to go to her post, and am excerpting highlights here: Someone who… Continue Reading

    August 11, 2009
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