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Jtm-detroit

2010-06-03T17:19:18Z

Hajush: Add session notes links

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Jtm-pnw-session-happiness-index

2010-01-25T16:07:55Z

Hajush:

Happiness Index

Conveners: Michael Bradbury/Mitsue Cook/Cate Montana
Recorders: Michael Bradbury, Harold Shinsato (video), Cate Montana, ???

Participants: Deborah Brandt, Leslie Mann, Eric Schurman, Mitsue Cook, Brian Glanz, Cate Montana, Michael Bradbury, Cate Gable, Grace Stahre, Harold Shinsato, Anne Stadler

Sketchy notes by: Michael Bradbury

Full Audio of discussion here: http://shinsato.com/audio/JTMPNW_HappinessIndexAction.mp3

Random Thoughts around the circle:
• Index reported almost like the weather—meteorological component
• We should use objective measures
• Xerox Park company that does text analysis
• Random number generator based on atomic decay rate
• Proton, Electron, why not a Happitron?
• Quantum fields shift around large scale human events—9/11, etc.
• Random number generator as happiness tracker
• Bringing the idea of happiness into the pubic sphere more comfortably

How do we get the conversation going?

Harold
It’s critical to have the subjective and objective elements combined

If we can track objective measures as predictors, the more data the more accurate the prediction will be

Matthew Stadler is doing the subjective already – blog scan, asking people at grassroots level

UN measures happiness with an index and has been for a long time

Mitsue
Bhutan example

Eric
Web bot project—spits out prophecies

Several people
Having a happiness index helps reframe the conversation of what our economy is and where we put emphasis.

Indications of happiness
Water quality

Helps to decide where to put our energy.

Challenge the economy.

Harold
Get more awareness of what matters to people and then report on it. This is the most critical thing. Write and report happiness.

So many people know where the DOW Jones is why not the level of happiness.

Mitsue
Daily vote – ask people to rate their own happiness and submit that somehow to be figured into the overall happiness of a city, region, nation or the world. (subjective)

Can happiness be quantified?

Harold
Thinking of projects related to finite state machines, pattern recognition (Kleeny)—based on Open Source

Grace
Aggregating all the indices out there already
Bhutan threw out the GDP and use happiness as its primary measurement.

International Conference on Happiness in Brazil—John DeGraf is doing a film
Culture
Education
Environment
18 areas—gather data and determine how it affects people. Then it is rated on the happiness scale. If it doesn’t reach a certain level, then it doesn’t pass—policy is driven by happiness

Are we happy with how we are governing, how we are governed?

Complexity

Mitsue
We have a new mayor. We can design something for Seattle and set a trend for other places. Co-create with the city.

Anne
There is a diff between assessing how happy you are with your life and with policy. Matthew said he wouldn’t use it for policy.

It’s like measuring demographic data.

Cate
People aren’t asked how policy would make or not make them happy. That gets the whole ball rolling.

Mitsue
Riane Eisler’s work, The Real Wealth of Nations (book)

Appreciative Inquiry – becomes generative

Grace
Happy Planet Index
Expected happiness X life expectancy divided by ecological footprint

Harold
There are a lot of economic indices already so let’s use those

Mitsue
Let’s start with self-reporting

Deb
Is there tech that can pick up on key words automatically?

Harold
We need a technical subgroup

Cate
Ask people why they feel happy. Get them to start thinking about that.

Deb
Tell us on a scale of 1 to 100, ask why in a few words and have electronic means to capture it.

Mitsue
It would be fun to see why people are happy and to see that appear in newspapers (like the weather report)

Brian
A tag cloud

We need a survey—include do you have a pet?

Eric
Self-reporting screws up your data.

Grace
Study measuring heart attack increase rates based on complaints of traffic on Twitter

Gross National Happiness in Bhutan (measured in the following areas)
• Economic wellness
• Enivronmental wellness
• Physical wellness
• Mental Health wellness
• Workplace wellness
• Social wellness
• Political wellness

No exact quantitative number.

UW researchers working on this. Grace will ask John DeGraf
Trying to collect tips for living a good life—creating web site to collect it
Let’s form an ad hoc group to look at indices out there and determine overall purpose and see what fits and what doesn’t.

Mitsue
Let’s look at the models. It could be purely descriptive and see who wants to play

Grace
Sightline Institute is doing work on this.

Harold
It can’t be partisan

Deb
I want to go back to what Eric said. If you just ask people to self-report or not include the right words, you won’t capture what we’re trying to achieve

Harold
We’re going to have uncertainty

If by shining a light on it if it would that affect people’s happiness?

Brian
Even if it’s scientifically invalid, reading about it will increase people’s happiness.

Norm Rice’s opening question. Reframing the question

Grace
Pew Research Center is also doing research
PBS This Emotional Life series

Harold
Timing is perfect. People need this.
A lot of companies are spending money on sentiment measurement.

Mitsue
St. Mark’s Cathedral offices—offer meeting space
Iona concert—slack-key guitarist—bringing group from Hawaii

Events background—have Happy Fest

I’ll be the happiness host—link to UN and GNH

Deb
The Dali Llama was talking about this.
Seeds of Compassion
Compassionate Action Network

Meeting set for Friday, January 15, 2010, 10:00 a.m. St. Mark’s Cathedral (Seattle)

--End Part I--

Happiness Index (January 15, 2010 meeting at St. Mark’s)

Those present: Michael Bradbury, Mitsue Cook, Deborah Brandt, Brian Glanz, Rob Moitoza
Recorders: Michael Bradbury, Mitsue Cook (mind map)

Countries and cities are creating indices for themselves, why not one for Seattle or the region?

There is a Gross National Happiness American Project. www.gnhusa.org.
Conf. June 1-4 in VT “Changing What we Measure: From Wealth to Well-being”

An index in 1970s—Misery Index—is now switching to a Happiness Index
Ranks diff states using the same set of determinants—economic index

Facebook has its own Gross National Happiness Index, based on its users—more of a mood ring
• Counts positive and negative words in each status update—to create value
• See article in Atlantic Monthly – January 2010. “The Happiness Index” http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001u/national-happiness-chart

Brian will set up “eye-candy” feature for happiness (based on emoticon scans)

What’s our range? Seattle? Washington? Pacific Northwest? Or the nation?
Brian: we can call it the Seattle index but it could be used outside Seattle

Breaking it down (Rob)
World
National
Regional
City-wide

Mitsue wants mechanism where people vote (daily perhaps) on their own happiness and send it in

Michael
From my perspective, I’d like to see if we can build a happiness index and if we can I want to make sure it has scientific validity behind it. I would like to create a clearinghouse for information, including existing scientific indices that might lend themselves to the happiness work, full range of “happiness projects” around the world, any research being done on happiness, a few case studies – like Bhutan and the UN Happiness Index.

Brian
There are some sciences already looking at this
• Demography—sociology
• Cognitive psychology

Deb
We have to have one site where people can go, whether it already exists or we build it
• Create our own place
• Piggyback with Facebook – to capture regional data (and harvest info from FB)

Rob
Let’s hook up with polling agencies

Brian
Pew Center has looked at that to some degree

Deb
Will people skew our numbers by having people outside our area or by not participating often enough?

I’m into the objective. How do we look at this objectively and get the most amount of participation for the least amount of work?

Brian
We’re better off looking at what’s already out there rather than asking for more self-reporting. We’ll miss the people in the middle who aren’t extremely positive or negative.

Michael
I had an intern last year who also worked at Facebook. I’ll contact her to see who we can talk to at Facebook about their happiness project
Contact Nandini re: connecting to Facebook project

Deb
Let’s contact Adam at U or O (Social Psycology) and on FB data team—to see if we can access the “fire hose” of data to harvest for happiness (from Atlantic article)

Michael
There are several books I thought of that aren’t directly about happiness but lend themselves to this work, including:
• Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Brian
Geographic element to data—not be too geographic

Rob
I’m interested in the why. Why people are happy or unhappy. Why are people in poorer nations often happier? That’s what I’m interested in.

Deb
What is the purpose?
Fun?
Reflect and contribute to overall happiness?
Happiness begets happiness
Exploration
Economic value?
Used in business

Brian
I want to know how it works at the social level

Me
How does that travel? Is happiness infectious and can it travel like a virus?

Deb
I’m reading Upton Sinclair’s “Mental Radio” right now.

Mitsue
I’m interested in shifting the U.S. toward a more balanced way of life. Our values and our media will also shift. I look at media as a means for gathering information. We are affected by the media so I’d like to sprinkle something in the water to make people happier.

Me
Sharing Appendix I from Knight Commission report (P. 73)
Scientific measurement of “healthy information communities”—how do we measure that?

Mitsue
Posters for Happiness Index—SCCC graphics design students—she already did it for the UN

Brian
Explanation of OSF as communication tool

Communication
Brian will send out e-mail about profiles for OSF
Michael will contact Harold re: video he shot during Sunday JTM session
Notes: We need to figure out who took them and get them posted
Mitsue will contact Steven Wright to get visual notes
Brian will e-mail Grace Stahre re: her notes from Sunday and to get the name of the UW researcher working on “tips for better living”

Next Meeting: January 29. 10 a.m. St. Mark’s Cathedral

Others to invite
Sabrina Roach
Joaquin Uy (KCBS)
Susan Gleason

Jtm-pnw-session-happiness-index

2010-01-25T16:07:26Z

Hajush:

Happiness Index

Conveners: Michael Bradbury/Mitsue Cook/Cate Montana
Recorders: Michael Bradbury, Harold Shinsato (video), Cate Montana, ???

Participants: Deborah Brandt, Leslie Mann, Eric Schurman, Mitsue Cook, Brian Glanz, Cate Montana, Michael Bradbury, Cate Gable, Grace Stahre, Harold Shinsato, Anne Stadler

Sketchy notes by: Michael Bradbury
Full Audio of discussion here: http://shinsato.com/audio/JTMPNW_HappinessIndexAction.mp3

Random Thoughts around the circle:
• Index reported almost like the weather—meteorological component
• We should use objective measures
• Xerox Park company that does text analysis
• Random number generator based on atomic decay rate
• Proton, Electron, why not a Happitron?
• Quantum fields shift around large scale human events—9/11, etc.
• Random number generator as happiness tracker
• Bringing the idea of happiness into the pubic sphere more comfortably

How do we get the conversation going?

Harold
It’s critical to have the subjective and objective elements combined

If we can track objective measures as predictors, the more data the more accurate the prediction will be

Matthew Stadler is doing the subjective already – blog scan, asking people at grassroots level

UN measures happiness with an index and has been for a long time

Mitsue
Bhutan example

Eric
Web bot project—spits out prophecies

Several people
Having a happiness index helps reframe the conversation of what our economy is and where we put emphasis.

Indications of happiness
Water quality

Helps to decide where to put our energy.

Challenge the economy.

Harold
Get more awareness of what matters to people and then report on it. This is the most critical thing. Write and report happiness.

So many people know where the DOW Jones is why not the level of happiness.

Mitsue
Daily vote – ask people to rate their own happiness and submit that somehow to be figured into the overall happiness of a city, region, nation or the world. (subjective)

Can happiness be quantified?

Harold
Thinking of projects related to finite state machines, pattern recognition (Kleeny)—based on Open Source

Grace
Aggregating all the indices out there already
Bhutan threw out the GDP and use happiness as its primary measurement.

International Conference on Happiness in Brazil—John DeGraf is doing a film
Culture
Education
Environment
18 areas—gather data and determine how it affects people. Then it is rated on the happiness scale. If it doesn’t reach a certain level, then it doesn’t pass—policy is driven by happiness

Are we happy with how we are governing, how we are governed?

Complexity

Mitsue
We have a new mayor. We can design something for Seattle and set a trend for other places. Co-create with the city.

Anne
There is a diff between assessing how happy you are with your life and with policy. Matthew said he wouldn’t use it for policy.

It’s like measuring demographic data.

Cate
People aren’t asked how policy would make or not make them happy. That gets the whole ball rolling.

Mitsue
Riane Eisler’s work, The Real Wealth of Nations (book)

Appreciative Inquiry – becomes generative

Grace
Happy Planet Index
Expected happiness X life expectancy divided by ecological footprint

Harold
There are a lot of economic indices already so let’s use those

Mitsue
Let’s start with self-reporting

Deb
Is there tech that can pick up on key words automatically?

Harold
We need a technical subgroup

Cate
Ask people why they feel happy. Get them to start thinking about that.

Deb
Tell us on a scale of 1 to 100, ask why in a few words and have electronic means to capture it.

Mitsue
It would be fun to see why people are happy and to see that appear in newspapers (like the weather report)

Brian
A tag cloud

We need a survey—include do you have a pet?

Eric
Self-reporting screws up your data.

Grace
Study measuring heart attack increase rates based on complaints of traffic on Twitter

Gross National Happiness in Bhutan (measured in the following areas)
• Economic wellness
• Enivronmental wellness
• Physical wellness
• Mental Health wellness
• Workplace wellness
• Social wellness
• Political wellness

No exact quantitative number.

UW researchers working on this. Grace will ask John DeGraf
Trying to collect tips for living a good life—creating web site to collect it
Let’s form an ad hoc group to look at indices out there and determine overall purpose and see what fits and what doesn’t.

Mitsue
Let’s look at the models. It could be purely descriptive and see who wants to play

Grace
Sightline Institute is doing work on this.

Harold
It can’t be partisan

Deb
I want to go back to what Eric said. If you just ask people to self-report or not include the right words, you won’t capture what we’re trying to achieve

Harold
We’re going to have uncertainty

If by shining a light on it if it would that affect people’s happiness?

Brian
Even if it’s scientifically invalid, reading about it will increase people’s happiness.

Norm Rice’s opening question. Reframing the question

Grace
Pew Research Center is also doing research
PBS This Emotional Life series

Harold
Timing is perfect. People need this.
A lot of companies are spending money on sentiment measurement.

Mitsue
St. Mark’s Cathedral offices—offer meeting space
Iona concert—slack-key guitarist—bringing group from Hawaii

Events background—have Happy Fest

I’ll be the happiness host—link to UN and GNH

Deb
The Dali Llama was talking about this.
Seeds of Compassion
Compassionate Action Network

Meeting set for Friday, January 15, 2010, 10:00 a.m. St. Mark’s Cathedral (Seattle)

--End Part I--

Happiness Index (January 15, 2010 meeting at St. Mark’s)

Those present: Michael Bradbury, Mitsue Cook, Deborah Brandt, Brian Glanz, Rob Moitoza
Recorders: Michael Bradbury, Mitsue Cook (mind map)

Countries and cities are creating indices for themselves, why not one for Seattle or the region?

There is a Gross National Happiness American Project. www.gnhusa.org.
Conf. June 1-4 in VT “Changing What we Measure: From Wealth to Well-being”

An index in 1970s—Misery Index—is now switching to a Happiness Index
Ranks diff states using the same set of determinants—economic index

Facebook has its own Gross National Happiness Index, based on its users—more of a mood ring
• Counts positive and negative words in each status update—to create value
• See article in Atlantic Monthly – January 2010. “The Happiness Index” http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/201001u/national-happiness-chart

Brian will set up “eye-candy” feature for happiness (based on emoticon scans)

What’s our range? Seattle? Washington? Pacific Northwest? Or the nation?
Brian: we can call it the Seattle index but it could be used outside Seattle

Breaking it down (Rob)
World
National
Regional
City-wide

Mitsue wants mechanism where people vote (daily perhaps) on their own happiness and send it in

Michael
From my perspective, I’d like to see if we can build a happiness index and if we can I want to make sure it has scientific validity behind it. I would like to create a clearinghouse for information, including existing scientific indices that might lend themselves to the happiness work, full range of “happiness projects” around the world, any research being done on happiness, a few case studies – like Bhutan and the UN Happiness Index.

Brian
There are some sciences already looking at this
• Demography—sociology
• Cognitive psychology

Deb
We have to have one site where people can go, whether it already exists or we build it
• Create our own place
• Piggyback with Facebook – to capture regional data (and harvest info from FB)

Rob
Let’s hook up with polling agencies

Brian
Pew Center has looked at that to some degree

Deb
Will people skew our numbers by having people outside our area or by not participating often enough?

I’m into the objective. How do we look at this objectively and get the most amount of participation for the least amount of work?

Brian
We’re better off looking at what’s already out there rather than asking for more self-reporting. We’ll miss the people in the middle who aren’t extremely positive or negative.

Michael
I had an intern last year who also worked at Facebook. I’ll contact her to see who we can talk to at Facebook about their happiness project
Contact Nandini re: connecting to Facebook project

Deb
Let’s contact Adam at U or O (Social Psycology) and on FB data team—to see if we can access the “fire hose” of data to harvest for happiness (from Atlantic article)

Michael
There are several books I thought of that aren’t directly about happiness but lend themselves to this work, including:
• Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Brian
Geographic element to data—not be too geographic

Rob
I’m interested in the why. Why people are happy or unhappy. Why are people in poorer nations often happier? That’s what I’m interested in.

Deb
What is the purpose?
Fun?
Reflect and contribute to overall happiness?
Happiness begets happiness
Exploration
Economic value?
Used in business

Brian
I want to know how it works at the social level

Me
How does that travel? Is happiness infectious and can it travel like a virus?

Deb
I’m reading Upton Sinclair’s “Mental Radio” right now.

Mitsue
I’m interested in shifting the U.S. toward a more balanced way of life. Our values and our media will also shift. I look at media as a means for gathering information. We are affected by the media so I’d like to sprinkle something in the water to make people happier.

Me
Sharing Appendix I from Knight Commission report (P. 73)
Scientific measurement of “healthy information communities”—how do we measure that?

Mitsue
Posters for Happiness Index—SCCC graphics design students—she already did it for the UN

Brian
Explanation of OSF as communication tool

Communication
Brian will send out e-mail about profiles for OSF
Michael will contact Harold re: video he shot during Sunday JTM session
Notes: We need to figure out who took them and get them posted
Mitsue will contact Steven Wright to get visual notes
Brian will e-mail Grace Stahre re: her notes from Sunday and to get the name of the UW researcher working on “tips for better living”

Next Meeting: January 29. 10 a.m. St. Mark’s Cathedral

Others to invite
Sabrina Roach
Joaquin Uy (KCBS)
Susan Gleason

Jtm-pnw-sun-sessions

2010-01-23T16:29:43Z

Hajush: /* 10:00 a.m. sessions */

Jtm-pnw-session-backto-feelings

2010-01-23T16:25:04Z

Hajush:

K. Matsue Cook convened this session. Also in attendance were Ilona Meagher, Harold Shinsato, Rob Moitoza, Cate Gable, and one other.

There may not have been an official note taker, and this is just from memory, but there were a few interesting topics brought up that helped lead into another session Matsue convened: [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-happiness-index How to create a happiness index for Seattle]. The question was how can we get back to our feelings. Ilona Meagher has given support to people suffering from and written a book about PTSD: http://ptsdcombat.blogspot.com/ Getting back to feelings is critical to healing. As a veteran himself, Rob Moitoza related how critical an issue this was and how many veterans just don't make ever make it back. The victims of war include PTSD sufferers who later commit suicide because of the inability to successfully heal from the trauma of war. It was also brought up that even generals and commanders suffer very greatly for the burdens they bear in what happens to those who fight and die under them. Harold Shinsato related how there has been work to integrate emotions into the workplace in a healthy way by Jim & Michele McCarthy, in their "Core Protocols", http://coreprotocols.org. Harold demonstrated the use of the Check-In protocol, which was to relate 4 basic primary colors of emotions, mad, glad, sad, or afraid with a little background around each. This really helps team member be present with each other.

Someone also pointed out what Chris Jordan said about talking about action is not action. The same is true of feelings.

Jtm-pnw-fri-sessions

2010-01-23T16:21:26Z

Hajush: /* 3:00 sessions */

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[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]
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=FRIDAY SESSION NOTES (click on the headline to post your notes)=

<big>Listed below are the breakout sessions called by JTM-PNW participants on Friday. 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>

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-sat-sessions (More sessions: Saturday)]

==10:30 sessions==

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-non-profit-business-models Non-profit business models: Surveying the landscape]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-generation-gap How do we bridge the generation gap in journalism and information acquisition?''' - Paul Lowenberg (G)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-audience-respect Do we respect the audience? And if so, how do we show that respect? - Kristin (A Olympic)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-possibilty-journalism What is "possibility" (solution) journalism and how do I do it? - Sarah van Gelder (B Olympic) ]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-common-challenges How can we make it easier to publish and find proven solutions to common challenges (such as environment, education, energy) that integrates global, national and local levels with biz, government, education and other sectors?]''' - Pam (O)

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-hyperlocal-journalism What place does mass media have in hyperlocal journalism? - Dale Steinke (L)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-local-blog How can I continue to grow my local blog and sustain it as a business? - Scott Schaefer (K)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-sustain-freelance How can we create sustainable freelance communities in an increasingly decentralized newsroom? - Daysha Eaton, Superstringer''' (D) ] / [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-audio#WRAPUPS AUDIO AVAILABLE]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-truth-accountability Truth and accountability in the news - Rob Moitoza (M)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-issue-advertising Can "issue advertising" be leveraged to support new forms of "issue" journalism? - Bart Preecs (H)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-traditional-media What aspects of traditional media journalism need to be preserved and what should we jettison? - Sanjay (E)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-new-news-eco How can we re-imagine the WNC to bring more citizens into the new news ecosystem? - John Hamer''' (J)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-science-curious Are you curious about science? and How can scientists restore trust? - Lion Kimbo/Sally James (F)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-emerge-particip Emergent participatory curation systems - Brad deGraf''' (I)]

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-water-qual How can we take back our water quality? - Matsui Cook (C Olympic)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-gov-online Can open government online help sustain the new news ecology? - Daniel Lathrop (N)]'''

==1:30 sessions==

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-support-comm How can journalists support community and remain fact-based truth tellers? Bill Densmore/RJI (O)]''' / [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-audio#WRAPUPS AUDIO AVAILABLE]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-city-hall How can we pay for "city hall beat reporters" & Olympic gavel-to-gavel coverage? Sarajane Seigfriedt/Community Policy Network (E)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-academia-news What can academia do for "the new news"? Jessica Durkin''' (N)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-trust-medical How to strengthen transparency and trust in medical research - Susan Adler/News Association for Biomedical Research (F)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-investigative-journ How do you make investigative journalism collaborative & sustainable? Rita Hibbard/Invetigate West''' (H)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-most-import How can media do a better job of pointing out what news (in all of the din) is the most important? (help people weed through the info overload) Ilona Meagher (J)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-tech-journ How can technology better serve journalism? Chuck Taylor (C Olympic)]''' / [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-audio#WRAPUPS AUDIO AVAILABLE]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-gov-bus How could relationships change between govt/business to support the ermerging news ecology? Ken LeBlond''' (L)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-new-economy Can you survive the new "free economy"? Tom Bangasser/Vashon College (A Olympic)''' (P)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-holy-grail Is News the wrong holy grail for "journalism"? Douglas Schuler''' (G)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-artist-envision Disturbance, disruption, and the artist: enivisioning out brilliant future. Cameron Hall''' (K) / [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-audio#WRAPUPS AUDIO AVAILABLE]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-comm-outside What communication is possible outside the internet? Zines?Murals?street art? Shala McDonnel (M)]'''

==3:00 sessions==

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-not-hyperlocal After the crash, how can we re-connect local audiences with quality journalism that's not hyperlocal? Alex Stonehill/CLP (D)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-journ-wiki How is journalism different when the tool is a wiki? Michael Andersen (H))]''' / [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-audio#WRAPUPS AUDIO AVAILABLE]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-info-sec Information Security 101. How do we protect data privacy in the age of information omnipotence? Jacob Caggiano/Independent Media Practitioner (N)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-free-open How software made free and open sustainable: an open culture-based business model for journalism. Brian Glanz (I A/V Room)]'''

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-waht-want What do you want? For those that don't know what role does reflection, intention, discussion play in this process? Bee and Hive Metaphor (J)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-news-perf What is the potential for news as performance? Maurreen (A Olympic)]'''

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-app-journ If you could have an application build to support your journalism what would it do? Casey (F)]

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-journ-20th What should journalism be in the 21st century? (And what should community be?) Mike Kitross (K)]
'''
*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-service-corp Report for America - creating a service corp for volunteer reporting hosted by communities. Bill Densmore (C Olympic)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-backto-feelings How do we get back to our feelings? - Mitsue Cook (G)]'''

*'''[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-diversity-news How do we ensure the new news ecology is infused with diverse voices that are heard? Michelle Ferrier (B)]'''

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Jtm-pnw-session-backto-feelings

2010-01-23T16:19:13Z

Hajush: New page: K. Matsue Cook convened this session. Also in attendance were Ilona Meagher, Harold Shinsato, Rob Moitoza, Cate Gable, and one other. There may not have been an official note taker, and t...

K. Matsue Cook convened this session. Also in attendance were Ilona Meagher, Harold Shinsato, Rob Moitoza, Cate Gable, and one other.

There may not have been an official note taker, and this is just from memory, but there were a few interesting topics brought up that helped lead into the Happiness Index session. The question was how can we get back to our feelings. Ilona Meagher has given support to people suffering from and written a book about PTSD: http://ptsdcombat.blogspot.com/ Getting back to feelings is critical to healing. As a veteran himself, Rob Moitoza related how critical an issue this was and how many veterans just don't make ever make it back. The victims of war include PTSD sufferers who later commit suicide because of the inability to successfully heal from the trauma of war. It was also brought up that even generals and commanders suffer very greatly for the burdens they bear in what happens to those who fight and die under them. Harold Shinsato related how there has been work to integrate emotions into the workplace in a healthy way by Jim & Michele McCarthy, in their "Core Protocols", http://coreprotocols.org. Harold demonstrated the use of the Check-In protocol, which was to relate 4 basic primary colors of emotions, mad, glad, sad, or afraid with a little background around each. This really helps team member be present with each other.

Someone also pointed out what Chris Jordan said about talking about action is not action. The same is true of feelings.

Jtm-pnw-session-games-matter

2010-01-23T16:01:50Z

Hajush:

We're looking for the notes taker - so this is from memory.

There were 11 in attendance, including Harold Shinsato (convenor), Sandy Frost, Sarajane Siegfriedt, Tracy Record, +++

There were several directions possible for the session that Harold raised.

# Games Theory - as a field of mathematics and also of social behavior Games Theory can shed light on human activities and can help us set up healthier media ecologies.
# Games for Teamwork - many games can be used to teach a journalist team, or help journalists collaborate with other communities.
# Games for Mass Communication - this includes a computer online game that might be installed on a website to help communicate a point.

The session mostly seemed to focus on the third, with points from the games theory and games for teamwork being interwoven.

One of the attendees had created a facebook application to teach about invasive weed species. A very elaborate game had been planned, and the programmers quoted something that would have costed 200K+. Instead they just made a facebook app, which was a survey people could put on their facebook pages and share with friends, asking what invasive weed species were their last significant others. It's not clear yet how successful it is, but it was cheap to construct.

Games can be a great motivator. Harold quoted a story about motivation where a company was doing poorly with bad morale. The could be observed to be lethargic. But when the whistle blew for lunch, a group came to life, ran to a basketball court undressing as they ran, to play a very enthusiastic game, only to return back to lethargy after the game was over.

Back to game theory - whether you realize it or not, people are "gaming" the media system. In Harold's youth, it was a dream of many just to be able to find a news crew and get in the background to be on television. Any airtime at all was a "win". Just adding comments to your blogs changes the game, but people still play. You don't need to add an online game for their to be a "game" going on, that people are playing.

Jtm-pnw-session-games-matter

2010-01-18T05:37:01Z

Hajush:

We're looking for the notes taker - so this is from memory.

There were 11 in attendance, including Harold Shinsato (convenor), Sandy Frost, Sarajane Siegfriedt, +++

There were several directions possible for the session that Harold raised.

# Games Theory - as a field of mathematics and also of social behavior Games Theory can shed light on human activities and can help us set up healthier media ecologies.
# Games for Teamwork - many games can be used to teach a journalist team, or help journalists collaborate with other communities.
# Games for Mass Communication - this includes a computer online game that might be installed on a website to help communicate a point.

The session mostly seemed to focus on the third, with points from the games theory and games for teamwork being interwoven.

One of the attendees had created a facebook application to teach about invasive weed species. A very elaborate game had been planned, and the programmers quoted something that would have costed 200K+. Instead they just made a facebook app, which was a survey people could put on their facebook pages and share with friends, asking what invasive weed species were their last significant others. It's not clear yet how successful it is, but it was cheap to construct.

Games can be a great motivator. Harold quoted a story about motivation where a company was doing poorly with bad morale. The could be observed to be lethargic. But when the whistle blew for lunch, a group came to life, ran to a basketball court undressing as they ran, to play a very enthusiastic game, only to return back to lethargy after the game was over.

Back to game theory - whether you realize it or not, people are "gaming" the media system. In Harold's youth, it was a dream of many just to be able to find a news crew and get in the background to be on television. Any airtime at all was a "win". Just adding comments to your blogs changes the game, but people still play. You don't need to add an online game for their to be a "game" going on, that people are playing.