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Jtm-pnw-session-games-matter

2010-01-09T21:35:09Z

69.91.138.252: wish for information

Very much looking forward to this page when it arrives! I've heard great things about the session. - Michael A.

Jtm-pnw-sat-sessions

2010-01-09T21:33:14Z

69.91.138.252: /* 10:30 a.m. sessions */

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[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw WIKI HOME] /
[http://www.jtmpnw.org CONFERENCE HOME] /
[http://www.jtmpnw.org/program.cfm PROGRAM SCHEDULE] /
[http://www.ustream.tv/channel/journalismthatmatters VIDEO STREAM] /
[http://reynoldsjournalisminstitute.wordpress.com RJI BLOG] /
[http://opensciencefoundation.com/jtm/ BLOG AGGREGATION]
[http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23jtmpnw TWITTER STREAM]
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=SATURDAY SESSION NOTES (click on the headline to post your notes)=

<big>Listed below are the breakout sessions called by JTM-PNW participants on Saturday. In each case, by clicking on the title, you can see whether notes of the session have been posted. Any session participant can use the wiki to add notes, or email notes of a session to [mailto:jtm@journalismthatmatters.org jtm@journalismthatmatters.org] Sessions with titles in '''bold''' have completed and file session notes.</big>

==10:30 a.m. sessions==

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-media-olympic The Media and the Olympic Game- Fact or Fiction? Phil Legood/Vancouver BC (A Olympic)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-locally-grown Locally Grown News using the local eating philosophy as an opening for relationship, convesation, new econmy? Michell Ferrier (J)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-low-lit How to plan a site for low-literacy adults? Maureen Skowran (I/AV Room)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-post-jtmpnw How can we keep the conversation going post jtmpnw? (What venues, opps would allow for future connections. sharing, collaborating, trust-building)+ What electronic tools would you like us to maintain or create in order to keep this process going and grwoing? Susan Gleason & Charlie Hamilton (B)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-games-matter Games that matter for journalism. Harold Shinsato (C Olympic)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-collab-difference Strategies for collaboration across difference. Dialogue with republicans, conservatives and fox news fans about journalism that matters. David Messerschmidt (H)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-ethics-media Ethics- How will we apply a code of ethics to social media technology? R.Riskl (K)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-who-board Who should be on your non-profit board? Michael Andersen (L)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-asian-americans What does the news ecology look like for the Asian and Asian American and Pacific Islander communities in the Pacific Northwest & What new possibility can we create? Sanjay (D)]

===<u>DURING LUNCH</u> ===
*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-digital-justice Local, universal broadband and journalism: Digital Justice (brief caucus). Jonathon (JTM Table @ noon)]
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==1:30 p.m. sessions==

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-journalists-filmmakers When journalists become film makers. Stephen S. (A Olympic)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-finding-storytelling What tools exist to find good media story telling? What opportunity is there fornew tools? Charlie Hamilton. (L)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-entrepeneur-bradbudy Are you an entrepreneur by nature or circumstance? Michael Bradbury. (D)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-radio-networking Northwest community radio networking. Jonathan. (K)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-coders-government How to develop local labs for coders working on local government transparency. Maurreen and Bill. (Olympic)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-journalists-creed Enacting a journalist's creed via art and craft of story telling. Arue S. and Peg H. (C)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-tyee-story The Tyee of Vancouver, BC. Six year independent web success story. Sharing innovations and slips. David Beers. (B)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-salish-sea Salish Sea Network. Pilot website demo, content finance. Tom B. (I)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-grant-hamer Gates Foundation grant. Help me spend $200,000 to reimagine news and community in Pacific Northwest. John Hamer. (J)]

==3:00 p.m. sessions==

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-happiness-index How to create a happiness index for Seattle.] Mitsue Cook (K)
*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-sustainable-incubator Creating a sustainable journalism incubator: What is that?] Michelle Ferrier (J)
*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-tao-pledge Is transparency, accountability and openess a path to public trust?] John Hammer
*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pwn-covering-government A new business model for covering government.] Bart Preecs (H)
*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-world-passion What's possible in new media harnessing world-changing passion around global health and developing nations?] Sanjay Bhatt (C)
*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-entrepreneur-by-nature Are you an entrepreneur by nature or by circumstance?] Michael Bradbury (B-Olympic)
*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-l3c-corporate The L3C: Can the corporation learn to achieve profits ''and'' social purpose?] Bill Densmore (I)
*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-olympic-games-media The Media and the Olympic Games: Fact or Fiction? Fact and Fiction?] Phille Good (A-Olympic)

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[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw WIKI HOME PAGE] /
[http://www.jtmpnw.org/program.cfm PROGRAM SCHEDULE] /
[http://www.ustream.tv/channel/journalismthatmatters VIDEO STREAMING] /
[http://reynoldsjournalisminstitute.wordpress.com JTM-RJI BLOG] /
[http://opensciencefoundation.com/jtm/ BLOG AGGREGATION]
[http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23jtmpnw FOLLOW TWITTER COMMENTARY]
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Jtm-pnw

2010-01-09T21:32:36Z

69.91.138.252: /* This is the WIKI page for Journalism That Matters, Pacific Northwest */

Jtm-pnw

2010-01-09T21:31:11Z

69.91.138.252: /* This is the WIKI page for Journalism That Matters, Pacific Northwest */

Jtm-pnw

2010-01-09T21:30:44Z

69.91.138.252: /* This is the WIKI page for Journalism That Matters, Pacific Northwest */

Jtm-pnw-session-journ-wiki

2010-01-09T19:52:13Z

69.91.138.252: boldface added

= How is journalism different when the tool is a wiki? =

== When and where we talked ==
At 3 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 8, 2010 at the Journalism that Matters Unconference at the University of Washington in Seattle.

== Who showed up ==

* Stevie Mathieu, journalism student at Missou
* Paul Koberstein of Cascadia Times
* Pam Kilborn-Miller, Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education - built a wiki to solicit neat ideas for social improvement
* Robert McClure, InvestigateWest - considering a wiki about bird habitats in the PNW
* Leslie Lannan - has used wikis for small programming teams
* Kathy Gill, journalism prof at UW - longtime wiki user
* Zani (sp?) Castillo, student at UW
* Charlotte Crawford
* Nancy White, communications consultant in Seattle
* Michael Andersen, Portland Afoot - building a wiki for people who live in Portland without a car

== How we started the conversation ==

A wiki is a Web site that anyone can edit. Wikipedia is the biggest and most famous. But there's '''a secret about news wikis: the anyone-can-edit feature might be less important to journalism than approaching the news from a "resource page" perspective.''' Resource pages are:
* potentially cheaper to maintain than a constant churn of new information
* SEO-friendly
* good at doing what blogs are bad at: contextualizing.

We've seen this "resource page" idea pop up lately in the Google/NYT/WaPo "[http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/ Living Stories]" project. Cannily, [http://www.newsless.org Matt Thompson] has also [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=101886 identified this] as the idea behind "The Giant Pool of Money," the celebrated This American Life piece that grew into NPR's Planet Money.

== What we learned ==

=== Basic wiki characteristics ===

From a '''wiki reader's perspective''', wikis are especially useful to:
* people new to a topic
* people with low or passing interest in a topic

From a '''wiki editor's perspective''', wikis are especially useful to:
* people with a clear mission: "fix this buggy software!" "build a free global encyclopedia!"

'''Problems with wikis''':
* How to locate new content? RSS feeds don't work well with wiki edits.
* How to find stuff you don't know you're looking for?
* Unlike edited blog posts, wikis lack a finish line. Note that this is also a strength.
* How can wikis verify factual claims? A more credible media outlet is a more useful one.
:: Can a wiki communicate its lack of reliability to readers, so their expectations are safely low?

Two '''strengths of wikis''', which oppose each other:
* motivations to action
* collections of expertise

=== Recruiting and using volunteers ===

If your project is awesome, people will want to help. A community project like a wiki should '''always include explicit information on how to get involved''' (more than just editing).

Keep your barriers to participation low by doing usability testing: '''observe real people using your site'''. When it comes to design, fail early and often.

It's '''easier to get volunteers when the time commitment is limited'''. The lead-up to an event helps provide a finish line.

'''Lure volunteers with the promise of career expertise''' in lucrative new skills like "community management."

A tiny online community might expect 20 percent participation by its audience, tops. A big online community might expect 1 percent.

Some people aggregate around information; others around community. These two types of people are different.

=== Wiki strategies ===

Any '''media launch''' should start with two questions:
* What is the problem that needs solving?
* What is our desired outcome?

Should wiki content have a '''non-commercially license''', forbidding people from making a profit when they reproduce it?
* Pro: may motivate people to contribute more if they can make money off it later.
* Con: may piss off your volunteers if someone else is making money off their unpaid work.

=== Marketing your wiki ===

To get things rolling, '''seed a wiki with plenty of content in advance'''. Pam's wiki started with 20 to 40 pages pre-launch.

'''Wikis die if they don't have a "heartbeat"''': the "push" function of email, blogs, etc. Without them, nobody knows what's new.
:: Can a local wiki get its "heartbeat" from the local news ecosystem, dominated by blogs and daily outlets?

One good audience for wikis: schools and educators. The mission fits.

'''Wikis need community organizers''' who operate in meatspace, to build awareness in the target community and to strengthen it.

On wikis where editing is restricted, it can be useful to '''temporarily broaden editing rights''' in the lead-up to a high-profile event.

=== Tactics for managing a wiki community ===

==== There will be trolls ====

Psychos will show up. Every wiki needs rules for dealing with them. '''Some sort of deletion policy is necessary.'''

Good practice for taming trolls: '''incorporate some adversarial content''' into your wiki pages. This co-opts troublemakers.

Instead of just letting everyone edit, '''consider opening comment threads beneath each piece'''. Pre-selected editors can then cull the comment threads for good ideas and promote valuable commenters to editorship.

==== A wiki needs facilitation ====

Good online community managers, aka "community technology stewards," offer praise by '''calling out good workers by name''' -- giving them that "I Rock" feeling.

Online community facilitation requires a balance of three sorts of tasks: content, social, and technical. Per [http://www.ewenger.com/theory/ Wenger], these can be described as the "domain," the "community" and the "practice."

Nancy White = awesome online community facilitator. So says Pam Kilborn-Miller, who ought to know.

Rule of thumb: whenever a wiki edit war breaks out, you've identified something your community needs to discuss.

=== Tools for your wiki project ===

Good wiki software:
* pbwiki
* MediaWiki - drives Wikipedia. Upsides: third-party plugins. Downsides: non-intuitive interface without WYSIWYG. Conclusion: more useful if you're hosting the installation yourself. Sort of sucky if you're not.
* wetpaint
* editme.com

Lots of links to wiki tools and news: at [http://delicious.com/network/choconancy/wikis delicious.com/network/choconancy/wikis].

Jtm-pnw-session-journ-wiki

2010-01-09T19:46:00Z

69.91.138.252: /* Who showed up */

= How is journalism different when the tool is a wiki? =

== When and where we talked ==
At 3 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 8, 2010 at the Journalism that Matters Unconference at the University of Washington in Seattle.

== Who showed up ==

* Stevie Mathieu, journalism student at Missou
* Paul Koberstein of Cascadia Times
* Pam Kilborn-Miller, Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education - built a wiki to solicit neat ideas for social improvement
* Robert McClure, InvestigateWest - considering a wiki about bird habitats in the PNW
* Leslie Lannan - has used wikis for small programming teams
* Kathy Gill, journalism prof at UW - longtime wiki user
* Zani (sp?) Castillo, student at UW
* Charlotte Crawford
* Nancy White, communications consultant in Seattle
* Michael Andersen, Portland Afoot - building a wiki for people who live in Portland without a car

== How we started the conversation ==

A wiki is a Web site that anyone can edit. Wikipedia is the biggest and most famous. But there's '''a secret about news wikis: the anyone-can-edit feature might be less important to journalism than approaching the news from a "resource page" perspective.''' Resource pages are:
* potentially cheaper to maintain than a constant churn of new information
* SEO-friendly
* good at doing what blogs are bad at: contextualizing.

We've seen this "resource page" idea pop up lately in the Google/NYT/WaPo "[http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/ Living Stories]" project. Cannily, [http://www.newsless.org Matt Thompson] has also [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=101886 identified this] as the idea behind "The Giant Pool of Money," the celebrated This American Life piece that grew into NPR's Planet Money.

== What we learned ==

=== Basic wiki characteristics ===

From a reader's perspective, wikis are especially useful to:
* people new to a topic
* people with low or passing interest in a topic

From an editor's perspective, wikis are especially useful to:
* people with a clear mission: "fix this buggy software!" "build a free global encyclopedia!"

Problems with wikis:
* How to locate new content? RSS feeds don't work well with wiki edits.
* How to find stuff you don't know you're looking for?
* Unlike edited blog posts, wikis lack a finish line. Note that this is also a strength.
* How can wikis verify factual claims? A more credible media outlet is a more useful one.
:: Can a wiki communicate its lack of reliability to readers, so their expectations are safely low?

Two strengths of wikis, which oppose each other:
* motivations to action
* collections of expertise

=== Recruiting and using volunteers ===

If your project is awesome, people will want to help. A community project like a wiki should always include explicit information on how to get involved (rather than merely editing).

Keep your barriers to participation low by doing usability testing: observe real people using your site. When it comes to design, fail early and often.

It's easier to get volunteers when the time commitment is limited. The lead-up to an event helps provide a finish line.

Lure volunteers with the promise of career expertise in lucrative new skills like "community management."

A tiny online community might expect 20 percent participation by its audience, tops. A big online community might expect 1 percent.

Some people aggregate around information; others around community. These two types of people are different.

=== Wiki strategies ===

Any media launch should start with two questions:
* What is the problem that needs solving?
* What is our desired outcome?

Should wiki content be non-commercially licensed?
* Pro: may motivate people to contribute more if they can make money off it later.
* Con: may piss off your volunteers if someone else is making money off their unpaid work.

=== Marketing your wiki ===

To get things rolling, seed a wiki with plenty of content in advance. Pam's wiki started with 20 to 40 pages pre-launch.

Wikis die if they don't have a "heartbeat": the "push" function of email, blogs, etc. Without them, nobody knows what's new.
Can a local wiki get its "heartbeat" from the local news ecosystem, dominated by blogs and daily outlets?

One good audience for wikis: schools and educators. The mission fits.

Wikis need community organizers who operate in meatspace, to build awareness in the target community and to strengthen it.

On wikis where editing is restricted, it can be useful to temporarily broaden editing rights in the lead-up to a high-profile event.

=== Tactics for managing a wiki community ===

==== There will be trolls ====

Psychos will show up. Every wiki needs rules for dealing with them. Some sort of deletion policy is necessary.

Good practice for taming trolls: incorporate some adversarial content into the post. This co-opts troublemakers.

Instead of just letting everyone edit, consider opening comment threads beneath each piece. Pre-selected editors can then cull the comment threads for good ideas and promote valuable commenters to editorship.

==== A wiki needs facilitation ====

Good online community managers, aka "community technology stewards," offer praise by calling out good workers by name -- giving them that "I Rock" feeling.

Online community facilitation requires a balance of three sorts of tasks: content, social, and technical. Per [http://www.ewenger.com/theory/ Wenger], these can be described as the "domain," the "community" and the "practice."

Nancy White = awesome online community facilitator. So says Pam Kilborn-Miller, who ought to know.

Rule of thumb: whenever a wiki edit war breaks out, you've identified something your community needs to discuss.

=== Tools for your wiki project ===

Good wiki software:
* pbwiki
* MediaWiki - drives Wikipedia. Upsides: third-party plugins. Downsides: non-intuitive interface without WYSIWYG. Conclusion: more useful if you're hosting the installation yourself. Sort of sucky if you're not.
* wetpaint
* editme.com

Lots of links to wiki tools and news: at [http://delicious.com/network/choconancy/wikis delicious.com/network/choconancy/wikis].

Jtm-pnw-session-journ-wiki

2010-01-09T19:44:35Z

69.91.138.252: add notes

= How is journalism different when the tool is a wiki? =

== When and where we talked ==
At 3 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 8, 2010 at the Journalism that Matters Unconference at the University of Washington in Seattle.

== Who showed up ==

* Stevie Mathieu, journalism student at Missou
* Paul Koberstein of Cascadia Times
* Pam Kilborn-Miller, Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education - built a wiki to solicit neat ideas for social improvement
* Robert McClure, InvestigateWest - considering a wiki about bird habitats in the PNW
* Leslie Lannan - has used wikis for small programming teams
* Kathy Gill, journalism prof at UW - longtime wiki user
* Zani (sp?) Castillo, student at UW
* Charlotte Crawford
* Nancy
* Michael Andersen, Portland Afoot - building a wiki for people who live in Portland without a car

== How we started the conversation ==

A wiki is a Web site that anyone can edit. Wikipedia is the biggest and most famous. But there's '''a secret about news wikis: the anyone-can-edit feature might be less important to journalism than approaching the news from a "resource page" perspective.''' Resource pages are:
* potentially cheaper to maintain than a constant churn of new information
* SEO-friendly
* good at doing what blogs are bad at: contextualizing.

We've seen this "resource page" idea pop up lately in the Google/NYT/WaPo "[http://livingstories.googlelabs.com/ Living Stories]" project. Cannily, [http://www.newsless.org Matt Thompson] has also [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=101886 identified this] as the idea behind "The Giant Pool of Money," the celebrated This American Life piece that grew into NPR's Planet Money.

== What we learned ==

=== Basic wiki characteristics ===

From a reader's perspective, wikis are especially useful to:
* people new to a topic
* people with low or passing interest in a topic

From an editor's perspective, wikis are especially useful to:
* people with a clear mission: "fix this buggy software!" "build a free global encyclopedia!"

Problems with wikis:
* How to locate new content? RSS feeds don't work well with wiki edits.
* How to find stuff you don't know you're looking for?
* Unlike edited blog posts, wikis lack a finish line. Note that this is also a strength.
* How can wikis verify factual claims? A more credible media outlet is a more useful one.
:: Can a wiki communicate its lack of reliability to readers, so their expectations are safely low?

Two strengths of wikis, which oppose each other:
* motivations to action
* collections of expertise

=== Recruiting and using volunteers ===

If your project is awesome, people will want to help. A community project like a wiki should always include explicit information on how to get involved (rather than merely editing).

Keep your barriers to participation low by doing usability testing: observe real people using your site. When it comes to design, fail early and often.

It's easier to get volunteers when the time commitment is limited. The lead-up to an event helps provide a finish line.

Lure volunteers with the promise of career expertise in lucrative new skills like "community management."

A tiny online community might expect 20 percent participation by its audience, tops. A big online community might expect 1 percent.

Some people aggregate around information; others around community. These two types of people are different.

=== Wiki strategies ===

Any media launch should start with two questions:
* What is the problem that needs solving?
* What is our desired outcome?

Should wiki content be non-commercially licensed?
* Pro: may motivate people to contribute more if they can make money off it later.
* Con: may piss off your volunteers if someone else is making money off their unpaid work.

=== Marketing your wiki ===

To get things rolling, seed a wiki with plenty of content in advance. Pam's wiki started with 20 to 40 pages pre-launch.

Wikis die if they don't have a "heartbeat": the "push" function of email, blogs, etc. Without them, nobody knows what's new.
Can a local wiki get its "heartbeat" from the local news ecosystem, dominated by blogs and daily outlets?

One good audience for wikis: schools and educators. The mission fits.

Wikis need community organizers who operate in meatspace, to build awareness in the target community and to strengthen it.

On wikis where editing is restricted, it can be useful to temporarily broaden editing rights in the lead-up to a high-profile event.

=== Tactics for managing a wiki community ===

==== There will be trolls ====

Psychos will show up. Every wiki needs rules for dealing with them. Some sort of deletion policy is necessary.

Good practice for taming trolls: incorporate some adversarial content into the post. This co-opts troublemakers.

Instead of just letting everyone edit, consider opening comment threads beneath each piece. Pre-selected editors can then cull the comment threads for good ideas and promote valuable commenters to editorship.

==== A wiki needs facilitation ====

Good online community managers, aka "community technology stewards," offer praise by calling out good workers by name -- giving them that "I Rock" feeling.

Online community facilitation requires a balance of three sorts of tasks: content, social, and technical. Per [http://www.ewenger.com/theory/ Wenger], these can be described as the "domain," the "community" and the "practice."

Nancy White = awesome online community facilitator. So says Pam Kilborn-Miller, who ought to know.

Rule of thumb: whenever a wiki edit war breaks out, you've identified something your community needs to discuss.

=== Tools for your wiki project ===

Good wiki software:
* pbwiki
* MediaWiki - drives Wikipedia. Upsides: third-party plugins. Downsides: non-intuitive interface without WYSIWYG. Conclusion: more useful if you're hosting the installation yourself. Sort of sucky if you're not.
* wetpaint
* editme.com

Lots of links to wiki tools and news: at [http://delicious.com/network/choconancy/wikis delicious.com/network/choconancy/wikis].