Sarah Moomaw

Sarah Moomaw is a journalism student at Northeastern University in Boston. Lately, she has found the evolving journalism field fascinating as technologies and techniques have emerged. In Spring 2011, Sarah was an intern at the Boston Globe, working with Boston.com’s Your Town pages in addition to the print regional sections. She spread her social media and Twitter obsession to her closest friends. On campus, she writes for HerCampus.com’s campus branch, is a correspondent for the Huntington News and sits on the executive board for Northeastern University’s Public Relations Student Society of America. When not writing, in class, tweeting or eating, Sarah can be found catching up on the latest news, hanging out with friends, running or playing tennis. Originally from St. Louis, she is a diehard Cardinals fan.

ONA Takes a Break From Reality

ONA11 co-chair Teresa Hanafin brought the latest technologies to this year’s conference, including augmented reality, game show style. She reached out to six augmented reality app developers for Saturday’s “The REal World – Boston: Augmented Social Experiences.” In front of three judges and an audience asked to text in votes, presenters demoed their augmented realities, [...]

#ONA11 out of Session

ONA11 gathers journos from across the globe in one place, to mesh brains and meet face-to-face. The hashtag #ONA11 is being used for everything from tweeting content, to commentary, to posting lost-and-found items. Here’s a rundown of what you missed, not in session, but while sitting in one.

Storify: #ONA11 out of Session

Click through the screenshot below for the Storify project outlining the life of out of session at ONA, from fire frill to swag to the need for fuel: Or, click here.                  

Who’s Who: the Students in Attendance

Roughly 1,200 media-obsessed humans have gathered on the third and fourth floors of the Copley Marriott Boston Hotel. Among them are seasoned journalists, editors, photographers, videographers and technology specialists ready to see, hear and collaborate on the latest in online news. As we wandered through our day attending sessions, mingling, mooching all the free food and swag, we caught up with [...]

All of you out here can make Internet, you just have to want it.

- Jeremy Bowers

Jeremy Bowers adds entertainment:

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“Brace yourself. I’m going to make Internet. Now.”

 

 

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How can you take the best of the past and bring that into the future?

- Shazna Nessa

We need to convince folks that things are changing and there are new skills to be learning.

- Shazna Nessa, AP

We’re on our seventh… book. Let’s call them books.

- Evan Ratliff of The Atavist, continuing the size discussion

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