All Sessions
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Agile Product Design and Project Management (Pre-Conference Workshop)
Learn an agile-inspired, iterative-driven project management style.
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Salon H-KCareer Summit Session #1: Personal Branding (Career Summit)
How do you take branding to the next level? Learn resources, tips and examples on using branding techniques and social media to find and land your next job.
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Salon H-KCareer Summit Session #2: We’ll Keep Your Resume on File (Career Summit)
Who’s actually hiring and where are the jobs? Experienced recruiters representing two markets report on the openings that are really out there and what those in the hiring seat are looking for in their next employee.
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Salon H-KCareer Summit Session #3: Existential Career Crisis (Career Summit)
Rod Colon, former Senior Vice President for Human Resources at J.P. Morgan and a mentor for the “New U” UNITY: Journalists of Color Entrepreneurship Program, tackles how early- and mid-career professionals can find happiness when their job path zigs instead of zags.
Presenters:
Rod Colon
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Salon H-KCareer Summit Session #4: Workin’ It (Career Summit)
There’s no better (or envy-inducing) feeling than seeing younger professionals with sweet jobs at some of the best organizations. A handful of today’s shining stars will discuss how they landed their current jobs, what mistakes they made along the way, and how they made themselves stand out among hundreds of other candidates.
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Salon E-GFriday Morning Keynote: Vivek Kundra (Keynote)
Vivek Kundra discusses the impact and implications of cloud computing on journalism and the media industry.
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Salon EMini-Law School for Digital Journalists (Track 2)
Leading digital media lawyers discuss law and journalism — bring questions.
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Salon A-DWe Know How You Feel: Affective Computing (Track 1)
Learn about affective computing and detecting your users’ emotions when interacting with your content.
Presenters:
Scott Kirsner
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You Can’t Duck the Math: Entrepreneurial Journalism (Track 3)
Dive into entrepreneurial journalism and start understanding the product, marketing and advertising sides of the industry.
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SimmonsTwitter for Newsrooms, Toolkit 101 (Track 4)
Get an overview of Twitter as a platform and tips and tricks for its use.
Presenters:
Erica Anderson
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Salon A-DGaming Your Audience (Track 1)
Find out how implementing thoughtful game mechanics can lead to more engaged users.
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Salon EInnovative Ways to Cover the 2012 Election (Track 2)
Hear from developers on how to build and maintain an election site.
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Salon H-KNew Platforms for Long-Form Journalism (Track 3)
Explore the new platforms available for producing and publishing in-depth, long-form journalism.
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VineyardFacebook and Social Journalism: What’s Possible? (Track 4)
Find out how Facebook helps journalists find sources, crowd-source stories and publish content.
Presenters:
Vadim Lavrusik
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Salon E-GFriday Lunch Keynote: A Conversation on the Front Lines of the Arab Revolution (Keynote)
Hear from the front lines of the revolutions and protests taking a look at the role social media played on both sides in Yemen, Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.
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Salon H-K‘Once Upon a Datum’: Telling Visual Stories (Track 3)
Learn how to make simple data visualizations using free tools.
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Salon EB.S. Detection for Digital Journalists (Track 2)
Get tips from experts on how to quickly and accurately evaluate the credibility of real-time information.
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Salon A-DThe Brand Is Dead; Long Live the Brand! (Track 1)
Brand identity and authority used to filter news experiences, but now stories can exist on their own terms. What does that mean for journalism?
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SimmonsMaster Class: The Craft of Twitter (General Session)
Hear from journalists on the core Twitter skills you should build.
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Salon A-D10 Techier, Trendier Tech Trends (Track 1)
Learn the 10 tech trends that will make an impact in the coming year.
Presenters:
Amy Webb
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Salon ECooking Up Tasty Apps (Track 2)
Put together a news apps team with practical information from this session.
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Salon H-KMaking It Work with a Small Staff (Track 3)
Get tips on how to make the most of a small staff for a news site.
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VineyardA Journalist’s Guide to Profiles and Pages (Track 4)
Find out how you can use Facebook profiles or pages in your work.
Presenters:
Vadim Lavrusik
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Salon EFriday Night Networking Keynote: Ben Huh (Keynote)
Hear Ben Huh, founder and CEO of Cheezburger talk about how humor, failure, memes and internet culture can bring happiness and build a business.
Presenters:
Ben Huh
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Salon F-GSaturday Morning Keynote: Race, Gender and Technology: The Third Rail? (Keynote)
What’s the history of women and people of color in digital journalism? This roundtable discussion will take a statistical look at who’s being hired and who’s in charge.
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Salon ELive Events: Building the Second Screen (Track 2)
Find out how to create a compelling online second-screen experience for live events.
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Salon ENew Voices: Projects from the 2011 MJ Bear Fellows (Track 1)
Hear from ONA’s inaugural MJ Bear Fellows and their innovative digital journalism projects.
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Salon H-KWho Are You? Social Media and Branding (Track 3)
Learn the best strategies for building a social media presence and establishing your brand.
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ProvincetownGoogle News and Newsrooms (Track 4)
Learn ways to use Google News beyond driving traffic.
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Salon A-DSMO Is the New SEO (Track 1)
Learn the new rules behind social media metrics and what that means for distributing your content.
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Salon EThis Time We Mean It: Strategies for Sustainable Newsroom Diversity (Track 2)
Discover strategies for building a diverse newsroom staff.
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Salon H-KJournalists Behind Bars (Track 3)
Hear from reporters imprisoned during the revolutions throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
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ProvincetownYouTube for Journalists (Track 4)
Find out how to use YouTube as both a source and a publishing platform.
Presenters:
Steve Grove
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Salon F-GKnight-Mozilla Presents: Open Source in the Newsroom (General Session)
Join Knight-Mozilla’s Dan Sinker for an hour long discussion about the impact of open source code in newsrooms and what’s compelling a growing number of news apps developers to share their code back out with the community in the form of open-source projects.
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Salon E2,000 Heads Are Better Than One: Effective Crowdsourcing (Track 2)
Get practical tips on crowdsourcing, including what stories are told best and what tools work.
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Salon H-KI Screwed Up (And You Will, Too) (Track 3)
There’s a lot to learn from failure — hear from two journalism innovators and what they did wrong.
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Salon A-DOne Size Fits All: Responsive Web Design (Track 1)
Learn about a strategy for deploying a news site across multiple contexts and how to make use of a responsive layout.
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ProvincetownGoogle Maps for Journalists (Track 4)
Find out when you may want to use Google Maps, Earth, Street View and Fusion Tables to add to your stories.
Presenters:
Jesse Friedman
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Salon E‘If I Were in Charge, I’d _____’ (Track 2)
Hear from six digital journalists and what they would change if they were in charge.
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Salon H-KPlaying with Video: Trends in Interactivity (Track 3)
Explore what type of video works best in the new age of online streaming video services.
Presenters:
Elizabeth Davidz
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Salon A-DThe Real World – Boston: Augmented Social Experiences (Track 1)
Explore the frontier of augmented mobile social experiences with judging and real-time audience voting on real-life apps.
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ProvincetownFusion Tables (Track 4)
Get a tutorial in using Fusion Tables for data-driven stories.
Presenters:
Kathryn Hurley
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SimmonsONA Local: An Open Source Approach to Community Building (General Session)
Join a discussion led by ONA Local leaders about open source community building and learn how to create your own ONA community.
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Salon E-FOnline Journalism Awards Banquet (Online Journalism Awards)
Celebrate the outstanding work of Online Journalism Awards finalists with a festive dinner and awards presentation.


