The program is complete, the speakers are set, and we’re ready to start the 30-day countdown to the
2011 Online News Association Conference & Awards Banquet, Sept. 22-24 at the Marriott Copley Place Boston.

To see the full program and presenter list for the conference, and to create your own ONA11 schedule to share with your friends and colleagues, go to ona11.sched.org. And be sure to look for our first conference mobile app to make its debut in the next week.

Only a handful of registrations are left, so register today!

Keynotes will be announced shortly. Meanwhile, here’s just a quick sample of the presenting firepower over the three days:

• Journalists Behind Bars: Dorothy Parvaz, Al Jazeera English; John Yemma, The Christian Science Monitor and James Foley, GlobalPost
• Web Development: Chicago Tribune’s Brian Boyer and Ryan Mark; Dave Stanton, Smart Media Creative, Andy Boyle, The Boston Globe / Boston.com and Heather Billings, The Washington Post
• Gaming: Ian Bogost, Georgia Tech, Persuasive Games, and Rajat Paharia, Bunchball
• Covering Elections: Derek Willis, New York Times; Al Shaw, ProPublica; Aleeda Crawley, e-thePeople and Bryan Monroe, CNNPolitics.com
• Long-Form Journalism: Joshua Benton, Nieman Journalism Labs
• B.S. Detection: Craig Silverman, Regret the Error/Columbia Journalism Review, and Mandy Jenkins, Huffington Post
• Second Screen: Tyson Evans and Brian Hamman, New York Times
• How to Fail: David Cohn, Spot.Us / UC Berkeley, and Denise Cheng, The Rapidian – Grand Rapids Community Media Center
• Branding: Megan Garber, Nieman Journalism Lab and Matt Thompson, NPR; Benet Wilson, Aviation Week; Mark Coatney, Tumblr; Anthony DeRosa, Reuters; Elianne Ramos, Latinos in Social Media
• Responsive Web Design: Miranda Mulligan, The Boston Globe / Boston.com, and Ethan Marcotte, ethanmarcotte.com
• Diversity Strategies: Kat Aaron, Investigative Reporting Workshop; Latoya Peterson, Racialicious (and ONA), Joe Torres, FreePress
• Knight-Mozilla project: Mark Surman, Mozilla Foundation; Jose Zamora, Knight Foundation
• J-Camp’s social media extravaganza with Erica Anderson, Manager of Journalism Content for Twitter; Richard Gingras, head of News Products for Google; Steve Grove, head of News and Politics for YouTube; and Vadim Lavrusik, Journalism Program Manager for Facebook.
• 90.9 WBUR’s Tom Ashbrook broadcasting “On Point” live Friday morning.

Just added: Field Trips

New this year, we offer a safari into Boston’s tech community to give you an inside look at what the Boston Globe, the Cambridge Innovation Center and Google Boston are cooking up in their offices. ONA11 Field Trips will be held throughout the day Thursday, Sept. 22, the day before general sessions open. Shuttles will depart from and return to the Marriott Copley Place. Registration fees vary, as do times; details are below.

Thursday, Sept. 22

Trip 1: The Incubeta Lab @ Boston.com
Time: 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Location: 135 Morrissey Boulevard, Dorchester, Boston, MA 02125
Capacity: 40
Registration Fee: $50
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A visit to the Boston Globe’s brand new media lab, where you will see the strategy and product development of the newly launched BostonGlobe.com and learn abouts its approach to responsive design to accommodate all devices. Projects include Boston.com/BostonGlobe everywhere, Boston in real-time, advertising innovation.

Trip 2: Google Boston
Location: 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA
Time: 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Capacity: 25
Registration Fee: $50
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Take a tour of the Kendall Square hub and join a discussion about what goes on the engineering side of Google Boston. Director of Sales and Operations Brian Schmidt and local rockstars Fernanda Viegas, Martin Wattenberg and Jon Orwant will dive into various data-visualization efforts and Kathryn Hurley (from Mountain View) will host a Fusion Tables workshop showing how to make the most out of structured data.

Trip 3: Cambridge Innovation Center
Time: Noon-7 p.m.*
Location: 1 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02142
Capacity: 75
Registration Fee: $75
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Get a deep immersion in start-up culture and entrepreneurial journalism. The Cambridge Innovation Center is home to 220 startups in one building. The trip includes a tour, a discusion with CIC executives on the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Boston/Cambridge and “Speed Dating,” a lunch featuring rotating meetings with entrepreneurs. The afternoon will end with networking at the CIC’s Venture Cafe, a weekly event bringing together local entrepreneurs, CEOs and VCs.

Pre-Con, Career Summit & Job Fair, Law School and Hackathon

Also on Thursday: Join us for intensive on-site workshops and off-site, heavy-duty legal exploration and hacking.

• Law School for Digital Journalists with the Online Media Legal Network at Harvard University’s Berkman Center: A full day of practical legal training on digital issues presented in conjunction with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy. Just a partial list of the speakers on tap: Ken Richieri, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, The New York Times Company; Sherrese Smith, Legal Advisor for Media, Consumer and Enforcement Issues to Chairman Julius Genachowski, Federal Communications Commission; Lucy Dalglish, Executive Director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Bruce Keller, Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP; Barbara Wall, Vice President and Senior Associate General Counsel, Gannett Co., Inc., and Nicole Wong, former Deputy General Counsel, Google Inc. Lunch is included. Registration is $75. Register »

• Hacks/Hackers Hacking @ ONA11: Journalists, developers and designers: Come join Hacks/Hackers for a hack day at the Microsoft NERD Center, sponsored by Knight-Mozilla News Tech Partnership. Prototype projects, and what’s produced will help shape the future of news and civic information. Delicious food, snacks and beverages will keep you going as you demo, not memo, your ideas. Registration is $20. Register »

• Hands-On Developing Workshops: Two onsite sessions focusing on the ins and outs of programming, including Building with HTML, CSS and JavaScript, as well as Introduction to Cloud Servers and Simple Python Deployment; Introduction to Agile, and a Multimedia Safari. Registration for each session: ONA members, $50; nonmembers, $75. Register »

• J-Lab: Entrepreneuring 3.0: J-Lab returns for an all-day workshop with an all-star lineup discussing the new forms of funding and business partnerships emerging in the new media ecosystem, including guerrilla marketing; raising more revenue (building more ad spots, what to charge, how to find underwriters, when to barter); best themes and plug-ins for local news sites; building your board; and effective partnerships and collaborations. ONA members, $50; nonmembers, $60. Register »

• Career Summit & Job Fair: Our full day of career development and networking continues to grow. Recruiters from major and independent media and technology companies are signing up to meet you at the Job Fair from 10 a.m.-4p.m. Afternoon Career Summit presentations will focus on navigating the market, landing a job, advancing your digital journalism skills and building your brand. Cost: ONA Members, $25; nonmembers, $50; students are free. Register »

ONA11 general sessions

Friday and Saturday, Sept. 23-24
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End each day with a celebration

• Thursday: Opening Reception at the stunning Microsoft NERD building at 7:30 p.m.
• Friday: Networking Event, featuring a meme-able chat with Ben Huh, CEO of Cheezburger.
• Saturday: The Online Journalism Awards Banquet, celebrating the best in digital journalism — and the return of emcee Hari Sreenivasan, PBS NewsHour Correspondent and Director, Digitial Partnerships (aka @Hari, for those who attended last year’s banquet.)