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Jtm-pnw-session-northwest-commons

2010-01-26T05:05:16Z

SusanGleason:

JTMPNW ONGOING (COLLABORATORY) & CIVIC COMMUNICATIONS COMMONS

'''Convenors: Susan Gleason, John Hamer, Mike Fancher
'''

Participants:
* Anne Stadler
* Bart Preecs
* Charles Hamilton
* David Beers
* Fani D. Castillo
* Jeff Vander Klute
* John Spady
* Jonathan Lawson
* Nancy Amidei
* Paul Lowenvers
* Richard VanderKnyff
* Sally James
* Sam Kimball
* Sheri Herndon
* Yuko Kodama

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DEFINING THE COLLABORATORY AND THE CIVIC COMMONS

Anne Stadler, re '''JTMPNW Collaboratory''':

* A learning lab for entrepreneurial projects and nourishing connections that meets quarterly face to face and online all the time!

John Spady, re '''Civic Commons''':

* An extension of the Town Forum / Town Hall paradigm
* Safe space that allows us to meet physically and virtually, and enables a great diversity of voices to be heard on a variety of civic issues
* With civic space, or civic spectrum, we can tune in to what we want to hear or follow — we wouldn't be able to hear or follow it all.

Example of the Civic Commons in practice:
* King County-wide Community Forums — a first step in this model that's already in the works
* The familiar town hall model of one big meeting is distributed throughout the county to small meetings held in homes
* Meeting hosts distribute a post-event survey; survey results are tabulated (and later aggregated?)
* This model scales very easily

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HOW THE JTMPNW COLLABORATORY AND CIVIC COMMONS IDEAS RELATE TO EACH OTHER

Commons Idea – experiment for civic engagement space

Players: government, nonprofits, people who care about the civic space

Anne: The collaboratory – a juicy place where people are exploring the possibilities; the civic space that welcomes the collaboratory’s experiments is the commons

News & Info ecosystem – gaps, needs, resources

Rick: Information Commons could be pilot project of JTMPNW Collaboratory.

Anne: Community forums are one aspect of the commons. Many more assests can be explored including the Healthy Communities Report from the Seattle Foundation. There’s a larger plate of possibilities.

John: Concentric circles. Collaboratory is nurturing many different species, projects

JTMPNW Collaboratory and Civic Commons/civic engagement – not sure there’s clear distinction; very blurry, getting blurrier.

Anne:
[[''Collaboratory'']]—experiment/learning lab. [[''Commons'']]—big space for community to learn from itself

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NEXT STEPS FOR THE JTMPNW COLLABORATORY / NEXT STEPS FOR THE CIVIC COMMONS

Sheri: This conversation relates to local conversations about the Hub (inspired by Jonathan Robinson's work in England). Should we find out more about what’s already happening, what the common ground is, and go deeper?

Susan: Would be great to get these stakeholders together for deeper conversation on meeting ground of media and civic engagement / civic commons.

Jonathan Lawson: Iron that’s hot—gov’t is offering major bucks to deploy broadband infrastructure focusing on local anchored institutions (Washington Hall? Community Centers? Neighborhood libraries?). Possibilties!

David Beers would like to be involved in pinpoint way. [http://thetyee.ca/ The Tyee] innovations are posted on the wiki; willing to come down, be on the voice.

Bart: Still interested in the revenue model – exploring that, capturing it. Is there room in the Commons project to explore ideas of issue-based advertising?

TOOLS OFFERED

* John Spady offers access to Maestro phone meeting platform where folks can separate out in smaller groups

* Leif Utne offers to help folks investigate use of [http://zanby.com/ Zanby] collaboration platform, will give presentation

MEETINGS

* JTMPNW Collaboratory will meet to determine purpose for ongoing organizing; Homework: research what else is going on in area related to media & civic engagement.

* John Spady & Rick will meet to bring Commons conversation forward, and later expanded phone meeting to be held re Commons project.

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MAPPING EXISTING RESOURCES THAT RELATE TO THESE PROJECTS

* [http://the-hub.net/ The Hub] - Conversations in Seattle inspired by Jonathan Robinson's work out of England.
Contact: Sheri Herndon

* [http://www.newshare.com/ Newsshare]
Contact: Bill Densmore

* [http://www.creativetechnology.org/layout/page/show?id=2128459%3APage%3A3530 W2 Space (Vancouver, BC)] - 8,000 sq ft. community space that community radio stations and other media and culture producers are moving into for the 2010 Olympics and 30 yrs beyond.
Contact: Irwin

* [http://www.townhallseattle.org/ Town Hall Seattle] - popular nonprofit event space for 800 attendees; host to major lecture and culture events year-round.
Contact: Weir Harman

* [http://ccce.com.washington.edu/ Center for Communication & Civic Engagement] at University of Washington.
Contact: Lance Bennett

* CCME – Citizens Committee for Media Excellence, and

* Seattle Foundation – [http://www.seattlefoundation.org/page10004386.cfm A Healthy Community Report]

* [http://www.rotary.org Rotary] — John Hamer is a member. It’s more diverse than you would think, bigger than you’d think.

* [http://www.mcei.org MCEI] – executives. Charlie Hamilton's a member of.

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Readings:
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom Elinor Ostrom], 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics winner, ''Governing the Commons''

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COMMENTS FROM SESSION PARTICIPANTS

Anne Stadler: Thanks all of you! I look forward to the notes and to the rich soil we are cultivating!

Jtm-pnw-session-northwest-commons

2010-01-14T07:14:47Z

SusanGleason:

JTMPNW ONGOING (COLLABORATORY) & CIVIC COMMUNICATIONS COMMONS

'''Convenors: Susan Gleason, John Hamer, Mike Fancher
'''

Participants: Anne Stadler, John Spady, Richard VanderKnyff, Sheri Herndon, Jonathan Lawson, David Beers, Bart Preecs, Sally James, Yuko Kodama, Jeff Vander Klute, Sam Kimball, and others.

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DEFINING THE COLLABORATORY AND THE CIVIC COMMONS

Anne Stadler, re '''JTMPNW Collaboratory''':

* A learning lab for entrepreneurial projects and nourishing connections that meets quarterly face to face and online all the time!

John Spady, re '''Civic Commons''':

* An extension of the Town Forum / Town Hall paradigm
* Safe space that allows us to meet physically and virtually, and enables a great diversity of voices to be heard on a variety of civic issues
* With civic space, or civic spectrum, we can tune in to what we want to hear or follow — we wouldn't be able to hear or follow it all.

Example of the Civic Commons in practice:
* King County-wide Community Forums — a first step in this model that's already in the works
* The familiar town hall model of one big meeting is distributed throughout the county to small meetings held in homes
* Meeting hosts distribute a post-event survey; survey results are tabulated (and later aggregated?)
* This model scales very easily

----

----

HOW THE JTMPNW COLLABORATORY AND CIVIC COMMONS IDEAS RELATE TO EACH OTHER

Commons Idea – experiment for civic engagement space

Players: government, nonprofits, people who care about the civic space

Anne: The collaboratory – a juicy place where people are exploring the possibilities; the civic space that welcomes the collaboratory’s experiments is the commons

News & Info ecosystem – gaps, needs, resources

Rick: Information Commons could be pilot project of JTMPNW Collaboratory.

Anne: Community forums are one aspect of the commons. Many more assests can be explored including the Healthy Communities Report from the Seattle Foundation. There’s a larger plate of possibilities.

John: Concentric circles. Collaboratory is nurturing many different species, projects

JTMPNW Collaboratory and Civic Commons/civic engagement – not sure there’s clear distinction; very blurry, getting blurrier.

Anne:
[[''Collaboratory'']]—experiment/learning lab. [[''Commons'']]—big space for community to learn from itself

----

NEXT STEPS FOR THE JTMPNW COLLABORATORY / NEXT STEPS FOR THE CIVIC COMMONS

Sheri: This conversation relates to local conversations about the Hub (inspired by Jonathan Robinson's work in England). Should we find out more about what’s already happening, what the common ground is, and go deeper?

Susan: Would be great to get these stakeholders together for deeper conversation on meeting ground of media and civic engagement / civic commons.

Jonathan Lawson: Iron that’s hot—gov’t is offering major bucks to deploy broadband infrastructure focusing on local anchored institutions (Washington Hall? Community Centers? Neighborhood libraries?). Possibilties!

David Beers would like to be involved in pinpoint way. [http://thetyee.ca/ The Tyee] innovations are posted on the wiki; willing to come down, be on the voice.

Bart: Still interested in the revenue model – exploring that, capturing it. Is there room in the Commons project to explore ideas of issue-based advertising?

TOOLS OFFERED

* John Spady offers access to Maestro phone meeting platform where folks can separate out in smaller groups

* Leif Utne offers to help folks investigate use of [http://zanby.com/ Zanby] collaboration platform, will give presentation

MEETINGS

* JTMPNW Collaboratory will meet to determine purpose for ongoing organizing; Homework: research what else is going on in area related to media & civic engagement.

* John Spady & Rick will meet to bring Commons conversation forward, and later expanded phone meeting to be held re Commons project.

----

MAPPING EXISTING RESOURCES THAT RELATE TO THESE PROJECTS

* [http://the-hub.net/ The Hub] - Conversations in Seattle inspired by Jonathan Robinson's work out of England.
Contact: Sheri Herndon

* [http://www.newshare.com/ Newsshare]
Contact: Bill Densmore

* [http://www.creativetechnology.org/layout/page/show?id=2128459%3APage%3A3530 W2 Space (Vancouver, BC)] - 8,000 sq ft. community space that community radio stations and other media and culture producers are moving into for the 2010 Olympics and 30 yrs beyond.
Contact: Irwin

* [http://www.townhallseattle.org/ Town Hall Seattle] - popular nonprofit event space for 800 attendees; host to major lecture and culture events year-round.
Contact: Weir Harman

* [http://ccce.com.washington.edu/ Center for Communication & Civic Engagement] at University of Washington.
Contact: Lance Bennett

* CCME – Citizens Committee for Media Excellence, and

* Seattle Foundation – [http://www.seattlefoundation.org/page10004386.cfm A Healthy Community Report]

* [http://www.rotary.org Rotary] — John Hamer is a member. It’s more diverse than you would think, bigger than you’d think.

* [http://www.mcei.org MCEI] – executives. Charlie Hamilton's a member of.

----

Readings:
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom Elinor Ostrom], 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics winner, ''Governing the Commons''

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COMMENTS FROM SESSION PARTICIPANTS

Anne Stadler: Thanks all of you! I look forward to the notes and to the rich soil we are cultivating!

Jtm-pnw-session-northwest-commons

2010-01-14T06:58:18Z

SusanGleason:

JTMPNW ONGOING (COLLABORATORY) & CIVIC COMMUNICATIONS COMMONS

'''Convenors: Susan Gleason, John Hamer, Mike Fancher
'''

Participants: Anne Stadler, John Spady, Richard VanderKnyff, Sheri Herndon, Jonathan Lawson, David Beers, Bart Preecs, Sally James, Yuko Kodama, Jeff Vander Klute, Sam Kimball, and others.

----

DEFINING THE COLLABORATORY AND THE CIVIC COMMONS

Anne Stadler, re '''JTMPNW Collaboratory''':

* A learning lab for entrepreneurial projects and nourishing connections that meets quarterly face to face and online all the time!

John Spady, re '''Civic Commons''':

* An extension of the Town Forum / Town Hall paradigm
* Safe space that allows us to meet physically and virtually, and enables a great diversity of voices to be heard on a variety of civic issues
* With civic space, or civic spectrum, we can tune in to what we want to hear or follow — we wouldn't be able to hear or follow it all.

Example of the Civic Commons in practice:
* King County-wide Community Forums — a first step in this model that's already in the works
* The familiar town hall model of one big meeting is distributed throughout the county to small meetings held in homes
* Meeting hosts distribute a post-event survey; survey results are tabulated (and later aggregated?)
* This model scales very easily

----

----

HOW THE JTMPNW COLLABORATORY AND CIVIC COMMONS IDEAS RELATE TO EACH OTHER

Commons Idea – experiment for civic engagement space

Players: government, nonprofits, people who care about the civic space

Anne: The collaboratory – a juicy place where people are exploring the possibilities; the civic space that welcomes the collaboratory’s experiments is the commons

News & Info ecosystem – gaps, needs, resources

Rick: Information Commons could be pilot project of JTMPNW Collaboratory.

Anne: Community forums are one aspect of the commons. Many more assests can be explored including the Healthy Communities Report from the Seattle Foundation. There’s a larger plate of possibilities.

John: Concentric circles. Collaboratory is nurturing many different species, projects

JTMPNW Collaboratory and Civic Commons/civic engagement – not sure there’s clear distinction; very blurry, getting blurrier.

Anne:
[[''Collaboratory'']]—experiment/learning lab. [[''Commons'']]—big space for community to learn from itself

----

NEXT STEPS FOR THE JTMPNW COLLABORATORY / NEXT STEPS FOR THE CIVIC COMMONS

Sheri: This conversation relates to local conversations about the Hub (inspired by Jonathan Robinson's work in England). Should we find out more about what’s already happening, what the common ground is, and go deeper?

Susan: Would be great to get these stakeholders together for deeper conversation on meeting ground of media and civic engagement / civic commons.

Jonathan Lawson: Iron that’s hot—gov’t is offering major bucks to deploy broadband infrastructure focusing on local anchored institutions (Washington Hall? Community Centers? Neighborhood libraries?). Possibilties!

David Beers would like to be involved in pinpoint way. The Tyee innovations are posted on the wiki; willing to come down, be on the voice.

Bart: Still interested in the revenue model – exploring that, capturing it. Is there room in the Commons project to explore ideas of issue-based advertising?

TOOLS OFFERED

* John Spady offers access to Maestro phone meeting platform where folks can separate out in smaller groups

* Leif Utne offers to help folks investigate use of Zanby collaboration platform, will give presentation

MEETINGS

* JTMPNW Collaboratory will meet to determine purpose for ongoing organizing; Homework: research what else is going on in area related to media & civic engagement.

* John Spady & Rick will meet to bring Commons conversation forward, and later expanded phone meeting to be held re Commons project.

----

MAPPING EXISTING RESOURCES THAT RELATE TO THESE PROJECTS

* The Hub - Conversations in Seattle inspired by Jonathan Robinson's work out of England.
Contact: Sheri Herndon

* Newsshare
Contact: Bill Densmore

* W2 Space (Vancouver, BC) - 8,000 sq ft. community space that community radio stations and other media and culture producers are moving into for the 2010 Olympics and 30 yrs beyond.
Contact: Irwin

* Town Hall Seattle - popular nonprofit event space for 800 attendees; host to major lecture and culture events year-round.
Contact: Weir Harman

* Center for Communication & Civic Engagement at University of Washington.
Contact: Lance Bennett

* CCME – Citizens Committee for Media Excellence, and

* Seattle Foundation – Healthy Communities Report

* Rotary — John Hamer is a member. It’s more diverse than you would think, bigger than you’d think.

* MCEI – executives. Charlie Hamilton's a member of.

----

Readings:
* Elinor Ostrom, 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics winner, ''Economies of the Commons''

----

COMMENTS FROM SESSION PARTICIPANTS

Anne Stadler: Thanks all of you! I look forward to the notes and to the rich soil we are cultivating!

Jtm-pnw-session-northwest-commons

2010-01-14T06:38:04Z

SusanGleason:

JTMPNW ONGOING (COLLABORATORY) & CIVIC COMMUNICATIONS COMMONS

'''Convenors: Susan Gleason, John Hamer, Mike Fancher
'''

Participants: Anne Stadler, John Spady, Richard VanderKnyff, Sheri Herndon, Jonathan Lawson, David Beers, Bart Preecs, Sally James, Yuko Kodama, Jeff Vander Klute, Sam Kimball, and others.

----

DEFINING THE COLLABORATORY AND THE CIVIC COMMONS

Anne Stadler, re '''JTMPNW Collaboratory''':

* A learning lab for entrepreneurial projects and nourishing connections that meets quarterly face to face and online all the time!

John Spady, re '''Civic Commons''':

* An extension of the Town Forum / Town Hall paradigm
* Safe space that allows us to meet physically and virtually, and enables a great diversity of voices to be heard on a variety of civic issues
* With civic space, or civic spectrum, we can tune in to what we want to hear or follow — we wouldn't be able to hear or follow it all.

Example of the Civic Commons in practice:
* King County-wide Community Forums — a first step in this model that's already in the works
* The familiar town hall model of one big meeting is distributed throughout the county to small meetings held in homes
* Meeting hosts distribute a post-event survey; survey results are tabulated (and later aggregated?)
* This model scales very easily

----

----

HOW THE JTMPNW COLLABORATORY AND CIVIC COMMONS IDEAS RELATE TO EACH OTHER

Commons Idea – experiment for civic engagement space

Players: government, nonprofits, people who care about the civic space

Anne: The collaboratory – a juicy place where people are exploring the possibilities; the civic space that welcomes the collaboratory’s experiments is the commons

News & Info ecosystem – gaps, needs, resources

Rick: Information Commons could be pilot project of JTMPNW Collaboratory.

Anne: Community forums are one aspect of the commons. Many more assests can be explored including the Healthy Communities Report from the Seattle Foundation. There’s a larger plate of possibilities.

John: Concentric circles. Collaboratory is nurturing many different species, projects

JTMPNW Collaboratory and Civic Commons/civic engagement – not sure there’s clear distinction; very blurry, getting blurrier.

Anne:
[[''Collaboratory'']]—experiment/learning lab. [[''Commons'']]—big space for community to learn from itself

----

NEXT STEPS FOR THE JTMPNW COLLABORATORY / NEXT STEPS FOR THE CIVIC COMMONS

Sheri: This conversation relates to local conversations about the Hub (inspired by Jonathan Robinson's work in England). Should we find out more about what’s already happening, what the common ground is, and go deeper?

Bart: Still interested in the revenue model – exploring that, capturing it. Is there room in the Commons project to explore ideas of issue-based advertising?

Lew Friedland earlier referenced Elinor Ostrom's work — the Economies of the Commons — relates to this conversation.

John Hamer: Town Hall – another local commons

Jonathan Lawson: Iron that’s hot—gov’t is offering major bucks to deploy broadband infrastructure focusing on local anchored institutions (Washington Hall? Community Centers? Neighborhood libraries?). Possibilties!

Bill Densmore’s NewsShare project.

John Hamer: CCME – citizens committee for media excellence, and Seattle Foundation – Healthy Communities

Susan Gleason: Lance Bennett, Center for Communication & Civic Engagement

Town Hall: Weir Harman

Susan: Get these stakeholders together for deeper conversation on meeting ground of media and civic engagement / civic commons.

Tool: John Spady offers access to Maestro phone meeting platform where folks can separate out in smaller groups

Another player: Rotary. John Hamer is a member. It’s more diverse than you would think, bigger than you’d think.

MCEI – executives. Charlie’s a member of.

Phone meeting re Commons.

JTM Collaboratory meet to determine purpose.

John & Rick meeting to bring Commons conversation forward.

Leif interest/curiosity in use of zanby, will give pre

David Beers would like to be involved in pinpoint way

Tyee innovations are posted on the wiki; willing to come down, be on the voice.

Irwin – W2 Vancouver – contact for W2 space.

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MAPPING EXISTING RESOURCES THAT RELATE TO THESE PROJECTS

* The Hub - Conversations in Seattle inspired by Jonathan Robinson's work out of England.
Contact: Sheri Herndon

* W2 Space (Vancouver, BC) - 8,000 sq ft. community space that community radio stations and other media and culture producers are moving into for the 2010 Olympics and 30 yrs beyond.
Contact: Irwin

* Town Hall Seattle - popular nonprofit event space for 800 attendees; host to major lecture and culture events year-round.
Contact: Weir Harman

* Center for Communication & Civic Engagement at University of Washington.
Contact: Lance Bennett

----

Readings:
* Elinor Ostrom, 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics winner, ''Economies of the Commons''

----

COMMENTS FROM SESSION PARTICIPANTS

Anne Stadler: Thanks all of you! I look forward to the notes and to the rich soil we are cultivating!

Jtm-pnw-session-northwest-commons

2010-01-12T16:58:24Z

SusanGleason: Incomplete notes — still in progress.

Jtm-pnw-session-northwest-commons

2010-01-12T16:53:58Z

SusanGleason:

Jtm-pnw-session-northwest-commons

2010-01-12T16:16:16Z

SusanGleason:

Jtm-pnw-sun-sessions

2010-01-12T16:01:46Z

SusanGleason: /* 10:00 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]
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediagiraffe/sets/72157623164340954/ PHOTO STREAM] /
[http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=jtmpnw&m=tags&z=t PHOTO TAG]
<Hr>
=SUNDAY SESSION NOTES (click on the headline to post your notes)=

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

==10:00 a.m. sessions==

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-northwest-commons Next Steps for the JTM-PNW collaboratory and civic-communications commons] (Susan Gleason notes)

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-slow-news The Slows News/LocallyGrownNews.org project] (Michelle Ferrier)

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-detroit Planning Journalism That Matters-Detroit] (Michelle Ferrier)

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-hyperlocal-mainstream Building a roadmap for mass media-hyperlocal collaboration] (Dale Steinke)

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-happiness-index Creating a Regional Happiness Index] (Cafe Montana/Michael Bradbury)

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-the NewHive.com The New Hive Project ] (Zach Vesdin and Andrew Sorkin)
<br>
<hr>
[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]
<hr>

Jtm-pnw-sun-sessions

2010-01-12T15:59:28Z

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

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http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2745/4257620807_2eeea479d7_m.jpg <br>
[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]
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediagiraffe/sets/72157623164340954/ PHOTO STREAM] /
[http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=jtmpnw&m=tags&z=t PHOTO TAG]
<Hr>
=SUNDAY SESSION NOTES (click on the headline to post your notes)=

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

==10:00 a.m. sessions==

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-northwest-commons Sustain JTM-PNW collaboratory by creating civic-communications commons] (Susan Gleason notes)

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-slow-news The Slows News/LocallyGrownNews.org project] (Michelle Ferrier)

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-detroit Planning Journalism That Matters-Detroit] (Michelle Ferrier)

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-hyperlocal-mainstream Building a roadmap for mass media-hyperlocal collaboration] (Dale Steinke)

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-happiness-index Creating a Regional Happiness Index] (Cafe Montana/Michael Bradbury)

*[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Jtm-pnw-session-the NewHive.com The New Hive Project ] (Zach Vesdin and Andrew Sorkin)
<br>
<hr>
[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-session-post-jtmpnw

2010-01-12T15:56:21Z

SusanGleason: /* Keeping the Conversation Going */

== Keeping the Conversation Going ==

Convenors: Susan Gleason & John Hamer & Charles Hamilton

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''Opening thoughts from the co-convenors:''

'''Susan Gleason''', Media & Outreach Manager at YES! Magazine; co-founder, Reclaim the Media (Seattle):
Our regional position poses its own challenges — as a more remote and rural region, the Pacific NW is far from the major media and media-funding centers. Interested in how our working together, being aware of each other’s projects and goals, collaborating as appropriate, can strengthen each of our efforts, and raise our voice/visibility overall as a region of media & civic engagement innovation. The face-to-face connections we’ve had at JTMPNW are so valuable, and important to continue, but the virtual convening spaces are important as well, particularly with the geographical challenges — keeping in touch with colleagues in British Columbia, Alaska, Oregon, east of the Cascades, etc.

'''John Hamer''', Director of Washington News Council (Seattle):
The Washington News Council is an existing entity — 501c3, with board of directors, staff, and office space. Open to reimagining what purpose the News Council serves — perhaps it’s this function, holding the ongoing “collaboratory” of JTMPNW networking, connections, conversations, and collaborations. To start, I’m offering the Wash News Council office, conveniently above the Pyramid Ale House at 1201 1st Ave S, as a Seattle convening space for the next JTMPNW meeting, and ongoing on a quarterly basis if there’s interest. I’ll convene, and provide refreshments.

'''Charles Hamilton''', CHCS Internet Development (Seattle):
I’m interested in the online tools for continuing the conversation. Interested in knowing which tools people are already using and are most inclined to use; but also open to exploring new/other tools that are available to use, or which could be made uniquely for our purposes.

----

''As we went around the circle, people identified their interest in having the ongoing JTMPNW conversation. Many identified the social-connecting tools they’re most comfortable using; others began offering commitments to action/next-steps:
''

'''Pamela Kilborn-Miller''', social media team lead, Connecting for Change, Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education (Seattle & Vancouver, BC) — through work with UN Conferences and Dalai Lama Center has tools and experience for creating collaborations at local and global levels. It’s essential to determine the goals/purpose of the group before choosing the right tools.

'''Andrew Hart''', student, University of Washington Department of Communication (Seattle) – uses Twitter most of the social networking tools

'''Michael Bradbury''', CEO, REALscience (Seattle) — Open Science Foundation, created an online lab / group blog, the JTM Experiment. Link http://opensciencefoundation.org/jtm

'''Anne Stadler''' (Lake Forest Park, WA) — expert at Open Space technology, on which this conference is based, and deep experience with keeping collaborations alive. Has worked in the past with enormously robust collaboration models for bringing forth practical results. Offers to help. Very interested in online collaborative opportunity. Thinks Facebook and LinkedIn are incredibly arid, insufficient to the task. We can invent better tools for collaboration.

'''Mike Fancher''', Seattle Times (ret.) & RJI Fellow 2009 (Seattle) — interested in seeing that the whole be greater than the sum of the parts. Votes for in-person component, not too frequent, perhaps quarterly.

'''Sabrina Roach''', Development & Outreach Director, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio (Bellevue/Seattle)

'''Amy Rainey''', student, University of Washington, Master of Communication in Digital Media (Seattle) — supports in-person mixers. Seattle, maybe Portland and Vancouver could host. LinkedIn is useful to create a professional group, search for skills. Uses LinkedIn forums and groups functions.

'''Aaron Hartwell''' (Seattle) — in developing collaboration model, think of small d democracy.

'''Kim Lowe''', senior producer, MSN Local, Microsoft Corp. (Redmond) — producer with MSNBC.com Noticed a website for matching people who have a garden space with people who want space to garden. Need website to connect people who have skills to offer consulting, tutorials, specialized skills and knowledge-sharing.

'''Bart Preecs''', founder, Media Policy Network (Seattle): LinkedIn has a lot of the tools. Consider Facebook.

'''Cameron Hall''', sustainability activist, owner-architect, STAVE Studio, (Seattle) — I’m a node to other communities. Should we expand this conversation to those who aren’t here?

'''Leif Utne''', VP, community development, Zanby (Bainbridge Island) — I’m a board member of a MN-based NPO called “The Uptake” that live-streamed the Al Franken recount debates. Zanby is another platform we might consider, designed for online collaboration, similar to Google Groups and LinkedIn. You can create groups and subgroups, and cluster groups into group families.

'''Madeline Ostrander''', Senior Editor at YES! Magazine (Seattle) — Listservs, simple solution, but they also work.

'''Enrique Cerna''', executive director of production, KCTS 9 Public TV (Seattle) — Interested to see what happens and participate.

'''Thomas Bangasser''', trustee, Vashon College (Vashon Island, WA) — interested in democracy. I hear the technology part, but what’s missing? The journalists are the weavers. What’s missing are the librarians, who tell us where we’ve been. They are the most honest brokers of information. They make us more efficient. (They were invited.)

'''Sarajane Siegfriedt''', community activist (Seattle) — combined journalism and MBA and non-profit background, committed to watching government, making sure we have in-depth beat coverage.

'''Bill Richards''', free-lance writer (Indianola, WA) — Interested in how you use electronic tools, including collaborative efforts like this, and where a group like this takes you in terms of how to tell stories better. (Bill is the primary author of the report on the Spokesman Review’s coverage of its own owners over 10 years of a controversial development issue.)

'''Dale Steinke''', interactive news and operations manager, KING 5 TV, also hyperlocal blog Phinneywood (Seattle) — Wants to see where we have opportunities to nail the ongoing organizing down — can we agree here on which tools to use? Yes to face-to-face.

'''Sally James''', owner, James Writing (Seattle) — regional journalist about medicine and science

----

''Brief open discussion:''

Mike: we can find a purpose, say what’s missing, find someone(s) to fill that gap. It make take a series of meetings to find that.

Anne: It’s really dangerous to put the tools first. Have profiles, exchange tools, expand membership (Linked-In has 53 million members). But what is the idea, the criteria for the tools?

Unless we decide that we’re going to have a convening circle that helps to emerge this, and a purpose, it won’t happen. It’s incredibly important. We can add members to the convening group. We need more diversity. What will you take responsibility for?

----
''We went around the circle again to identify a purpose(s) for ongoing JTMPNW connecting and collaboration. Participants identified key interests and what they themselves were willing to commit to doing.
''

• Susan Gleason — Further networking, collaboration; willing to help convene face-to-face gatherings in Seattle
• Charlie Hamilton — Identifying technologies for virtual connecting; F2F poses transportation challenges for some
• Andrew Hart — Willing to serve as intermediary being traditional media and new emerging tech
• Michael Brady — Willing to work on business model
• Mike Fancher — Interested in more and better journalism; willing to find the money
• Anne Stadler — Interested in exploring collaboration online a/w/a F2F over time
* Sabrina Roach — Willing to help with F2F convening
• Amy Rainey — Willing to help with tech tools
• Kim Lowe — Willing to convene Eastside meeting
• Bart Preecs — Interested in pursuing media policy questions
• Cameron Hall — Interested in networking and inquiry, going deeper; willing to help with F2F convening
• Leif Utne — Willing to help with tech tools
• Enrique Cerna — Interested in ongoing particiption
• Sharon T — Interested in conversations around sustainable media
• Thomas Bangasser — Helping develop a model of content for democracy; not just what we want, but what we need to read
• Sarajane Siegfriedt — Commiting to work on the business model
• Bill Richards — Interested in working on the business model
• John Hamer — Willing to provide a venue and refreshments; plus reaching out to other groups for idealogical diversity
• Dale Steinke — Interested in face-to-face meetings and business model

----

DISCUSSION OF TOOLS

''We took a quick straw poll of the online tools people in the group use. Total in group who participated in poll = 23:
''
• Email—23
• GoogleGroups, YahooGroups, or other listservs—23
• JTMPNW conference site—23
• Facebook—23
• LinkedIn—22
• Twitter—16
• Skype—16
• GoToMeeting or Webex or other online meeting software—15
• Ning—13

Anne: Need to have a better tool for collaboration than these (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc), one that allows people to create from a place of creativity, rather than ego. Being able to connect laterally to people and topics of interest, cross-pollinate.

Charlie Hamilton: There are at least three tools that I’m aware of that could help:

* [http://OpenScienceFoundation.com OpenScienceFoundation.com ] is a social network, group log using Wordpress platform

* Newhive is in beta, not ready yet

* [http://Zanby.com Zanby.com] lets you create groups similar to Google groups, but you can have multiple listservs within it for different subtopics and different delivery preferences for each (daily, weekly, all). Can use tagging to surface text and photos. Leif Utne has the expertise.

* [http://Basecamp.com Basecamp.com] is a great tool for tracking a collaborative project as well.

Charlie asks, what can we do today so that we are connected before we leave here? We can use this for deciding what the long-term technologies will be. Answer: LinkedIn Group.

Sarajane: We will need to be able to look at shared docs, including Excel, in a shared space such as Google Docs. Charlie says [http://jtmpnw.org jtmpnw.org] can do this.

----

OUTCOMES / NEXT STEPS:

''There was general agreement that the JTMPNW conversation and connecting should continue, post the January 2010 conference. Anne Stadler suggested this work continue forth as the JTMPNW Collaboratory. All agreed that virtual and face-to-face meeting spaces are key. Those in the circle who've been sitting on the conference planning committee saw this further convening work as a possible extension of their core participation in getting the conversation started — but continuing forward with an expanded group.''

'''LinkedIn Group''' for carrying the JTMPNW conversation forward: Charlie Hamilton will set up. LinkedIn Groups allow for unlimited subgroups. Enough solid functionality to help us continue as a networking & collaborative community until another/better platform is chosen.

'''Seattle Face-to-Face convening on quarterly basis:''' John Hamer to organize and host, with refreshments, at his Washington News Council office, just above the Pyramid Ale House at 1201 1st Ave S. Susan Gleason, Sabrina Roach, and Cameron Hall agreed to help with this convening.

'''Eastide Face-to-Face convening:''' Kim Lowry offered to organize.

'''Tech Tools Sub-Group:''' agreed to keep exploring the tech tools to support ongoing collaborative work.

'''Biz Model Sub-Group:''' agreed to keep collaborative conversation going on biz models for the future of PNW journalism.

Jtm-pnw-session-post-jtmpnw

2010-01-12T08:46:12Z

SusanGleason: /* Keeping the Conversation Going */

== Keeping the Conversation Going ==

Convenors: Susan Gleason & John Hamer & Charles Hamilton

----

''Opening thoughts from the co-convenors:''

'''Susan Gleason''', Media & Outreach Manager at YES! Magazine; co-founder, Reclaim the Media (Seattle):
Our regional position poses its own challenges — as a more remote and rural region, the Pacific NW is far from the major media and media-funding centers. Interested in how our working together, being aware of each other’s projects and goals, collaborating as appropriate, can strengthen each of our efforts, and raise our voice/visibility overall as a region of media & civic engagement innovation. The face-to-face connections we’ve had at JTMPNW are so valuable, and important to continue, but the virtual convening spaces are important as well, particularly with the geographical challenges — keeping in touch with colleagues in British Columbia, Alaska, Oregon, east of the Cascades, etc.

'''John Hamer''', Director of Washington News Council (Seattle):
The Washington News Council is an existing entity — 501c3, with board of directors, staff, and office space. Open to reimagining what purpose the News Council serves — perhaps it’s this function, holding the ongoing “collaboratory” of JTMPNW networking, connections, conversations, and collaborations. To start, I’m offering the Wash News Council office, conveniently above the Pyramid Ale House at 1201 1st Ave S, as a Seattle convening space for the next JTMPNW meeting, and ongoing on a quarterly basis if there’s interest. I’ll convene, and provide refreshments.

'''Charles Hamilton''', CHCS Internet Development (Seattle):
I’m interested in the online tools for continuing the conversation. Interested in knowing which tools people are already using and are most inclined to use; but also open to exploring new/other tools that are available to use, or which could be made uniquely for our purposes.

----

''As we went around the circle, people identified their interest in having the ongoing JTMPNW conversation. Many identified the social-connecting tools they’re most comfortable using; others began offering commitments to action/next-steps:
''

'''Pamela Kilborn-Miller''', social media team lead, Connecting for Change, Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education (Seattle & Vancouver, BC) — through work with UN Conferences and Dalai Lama Center has tools and experience for creating collaborations at local and global levels. It’s essential to determine the goals/purpose of the group before choosing the right tools.

'''Andrew Hart''', student, University of Washington Department of Communication (Seattle) – uses Twitter most of the social networking tools

'''Michael Bradbury''', CEO, REALscience (Seattle) — Open Science Foundation, created an online lab / group blog, the JTM Experiment. Link http://opensciencefoundation.org/jtm

'''Anne Stadler''' (Lake Forest Park, WA) — expert at Open Space technology, on which this conference is based, and deep experience with keeping collaborations alive. Has worked in the past with enormously robust collaboration models for bringing forth practical results. Offers to help. Very interested in online collaborative opportunity. Thinks Facebook and LinkedIn are incredibly arid, insufficient to the task. We can invent better tools for collaboration.

'''Mike Fancher''', Seattle Times (ret.) & RJI Fellow 2009 (Seattle) — interested in seeing that the whole be greater than the sum of the parts. Votes for in-person component, not too frequent, perhaps quarterly.

'''Sabrina Roach''', Development & Outreach Director, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio (Bellevue/Seattle)

'''Amy Rainey''', student, University of Washington, Master of Communication in Digital Media (Seattle) — supports in-person mixers. Seattle, maybe Portland and Vancouver could host. LinkedIn is useful to create a professional group, search for skills. Uses LinkedIn forums and groups functions.

'''Aaron Hartwell''' (Seattle) — in developing collaboration model, think of small d democracy.

'''Kim Lowe''', senior producer, MSN Local, Microsoft Corp. (Redmond) — producer with MSNBC.com Noticed a website for matching people who have a garden space with people who want space to garden. Need website to connect people who have skills to offer consulting, tutorials, specialized skills and knowledge-sharing.

'''Bart Preecs''', founder, Media Policy Network (Seattle): LinkedIn has a lot of the tools. Consider Facebook.

'''Cameron Hall''', sustainability activist, owner-architect, STAVE Studio, (Seattle) — I’m a node to other communities. Should we expand this conversation to those who aren’t here?

'''Leif Utne''', VP, community development, Zanby (Bainbridge Island) — I’m a board member of a MN-based NPO called “The Uptake” that live-streamed the Al Franken recount debates. Zanby is another platform we might consider, designed for online collaboration, similar to Google Groups and LinkedIn. You can create groups and subgroups, and cluster groups into group families.

'''Madeline Ostrander''', Senior Editor at YES! Magazine (Seattle) — Listservs, simple solution, but they also work.

'''Enrique Cerna''', executive director of production, KCTS 9 Public TV (Seattle) — Interested to see what happens and participate.

'''Thomas Bangasser''', trustee, Vashon College (Vashon Island, WA) — interested in democracy. I hear the technology part, but what’s missing? The journalists are the weavers. What’s missing are the librarians, who tell us where we’ve been. They are the most honest brokers of information. They make us more efficient. (They were invited.)

'''Sarajane Siegfriedt''', community activist (Seattle) — combined journalism and MBA and non-profit background, committed to watching government, making sure we have in-depth beat coverage.

'''Bill Richards''', free-lance writer (Indianola, WA) — Interested in how you use electronic tools, including collaborative efforts like this, and where a group like this takes you in terms of how to tell stories better. (Bill is the primary author of the report on the Spokesman Review’s coverage of its own owners over 10 years of a controversial development issue.)

'''Dale Steinke''', interactive news and operations manager, KING 5 TV, also hyperlocal blog Phinneywood (Seattle) — Wants to see where we have opportunities to nail the ongoing organizing down — can we agree here on which tools to use? Yes to face-to-face.

'''Sally James''', owner, James Writing (Seattle) — regional journalist about medicine and science

----

''Brief open discussion:''

Mike: we can find a purpose, say what’s missing, find someone(s) to fill that gap. It make take a series of meetings to find that.

Anne: It’s really dangerous to put the tools first. Have profiles, exchange tools, expand membership (Linked-In has 53 million members). But what is the idea, the criteria for the tools?

Unless we decide that we’re going to have a convening circle that helps to emerge this, and a purpose, it won’t happen. It’s incredibly important. We can add members to the convening group. We need more diversity. What will you take responsibility for?

----
''We went around the circle again to identify a purpose(s) for ongoing JTMPNW connecting and collaboration. Participants identified key interests and what they themselves were willing to commit to doing.
''

• Susan Gleason — Further networking, collaboration; willing to help convene face-to-face gatherings in Seattle
• Charlie Hamilton — Identifying technologies for virtual connecting; F2F poses transportation challenges for some
• Andrew Hart — Willing to serve as intermediary being traditional media and new emerging tech
• Michael Brady — Willing to work on business model
• Mike Fancher — Interested in more and better journalism; willing to find the money
• Anne Stadler — Interested in exploring collaboration online a/w/a F2F over time
* Sabrina Roach — Willing to help with F2F convening
• Amy Rainey — Willing to help with tech tools
• Kim Lowe — Willing to convene Eastside meeting
• Bart Preecs — Interested in pursuing media policy questions
• Cameron Hall — Interested in networking and inquiry, going deeper; willing to help with F2F convening
• Leif Utne — Willing to help with tech tools
• Enrique Cerna — Interested in ongoing particiption
• Sharon T — Interested in conversations around sustainable media
• Thomas Bangasser — Helping develop a model of content for democracy; not just what we want, but what we need to read
• Sarajane Siegfriedt — Commiting to work on the business model
• Bill Richards — Interested in working on the business model
• John Hamer — Willing to provide a venue and refreshments; plus reaching out to other groups for idealogical diversity
• Dale Steinke — Interested in face-to-face meetings and business model

----

DISCUSSION OF TOOLS

''We took a quick straw poll of the online tools people in the group use. Total in group who participated in poll = 23:
''
• Email—23
• GoogleGroups, YahooGroups, or other listservs—23
• JTMPNW conference site—23
• Facebook—23
• LinkedIn—22
• Twitter—16
• Skype—16
• GoToMeeting or Webex or other online meeting software—15
• Ning—13

Anne: Need to have a better tool for collaboration than these (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc), one that allows people to create from a place of creativity, rather than ego. Being able to connect laterally to people and topics of interest, cross-pollinate.

Charlie Hamilton: There are at least three tools that I’m aware of that could help:

* [http://OpenScienceFoundation.com OpenScienceFoundation.com ] is a social network, group log using Wordpress platform

* Newhive is in beta, not ready yet

* [http://Zanby.com Zanby.com] lets you create groups similar to Google groups, but you can have multiple listservs within it for different subtopics and different delivery preferences for each (daily, weekly, all). Can use tagging to surface text and photos. Leif Utne has the expertise.

* [http://Basecamp.com Basecamp.com] is a great tool for tracking a collaborative project as well.

Charlie asks, what can we do today so that we are connected before we leave here? We can use this for deciding what the long-term technologies will be. Answer: LinkedIn Group.

Sarajane: We will need to be able to look at shared docs, including Excel, in a shared space such as Google Docs. Charlie says [http://jtmpnw.org jtmpnw.org] can do this.

----

OUTCOMES / NEXT STEPS:

'''LinkedIn Group''' for carrying the JTMPNW conversation forward: Charlie Hamilton will set up. LinkedIn Groups allow for unlimited subgroups. Enough solid functionality to help us continue as a networking & collaborative community until another/better platform is chosen.

'''Seattle Face-to-Face convening on quarterly basis:''' John Hamer to organize and host, with refreshments, at his Washington News Council office, just above the Pyramid Ale House at 1201 1st Ave S. Susan Gleason, Sabrina Roach, and Cameron Hall agreed to help with this convening.

'''Eastide Face-to-Face convening:''' Kim Lowry offered to organize.

'''Tech Tools Sub-Group:''' agreed to keep exploring the tech tools to support ongoing collaborative work.

'''Biz Model Sub-Group:''' agreed to keep collaborative conversation going on biz models for the future of PNW journalism.

Jtm-pnw-session-post-jtmpnw

2010-01-12T08:43:44Z

SusanGleason: /* Keeping the Conversation Going */

== Keeping the Conversation Going ==

Convenors: Susan Gleason & John Hamer & Charles Hamilton

----

''Opening thoughts from the co-convenors:''

'''Susan Gleason''', Media & Outreach Manager at YES! Magazine; co-founder, Reclaim the Media (Seattle):
Our regional position poses its own challenges — as a more remote and rural region, the Pacific NW is far from the major media and media-funding centers. Interested in how our working together, being aware of each other’s projects and goals, collaborating as appropriate, can strengthen each of our efforts, and raise our voice/visibility overall as a region of media & civic engagement innovation. The face-to-face connections we’ve had at JTMPNW are so valuable, and important to continue, but the virtual convening spaces are important as well, particularly with the geographical challenges — keeping in touch with colleagues in British Columbia, Alaska, Oregon, east of the Cascades, etc.

'''John Hamer''', Director of Washington News Council (Seattle):
The Washington News Council is an existing entity — 501c3, with board of directors, staff, and office space. Open to reimagining what purpose the News Council serves — perhaps it’s this function, holding the ongoing “collaboratory” of JTMPNW networking, connections, conversations, and collaborations. To start, I’m offering the Wash News Council office, conveniently above the Pyramid Ale House at 1201 1st Ave S, as a Seattle convening space for the next JTMPNW meeting, and ongoing on a quarterly basis if there’s interest. I’ll convene, and provide refreshments.

'''Charles Hamilton''', CHCS Internet Development (Seattle):
I’m interested in the online tools for continuing the conversation. Interested in knowing which tools people are already using and are most inclined to use; but also open to exploring new/other tools that are available to use, or which could be made uniquely for our purposes.

----

''As we went around the circle, people identified their interest in having the ongoing JTMPNW conversation. Many identified the social-connecting tools they’re most comfortable using; others began offering commitments to action/next-steps:
''

'''Pamela Kilborn-Miller''', social media team lead, Connecting for Change, Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education (Seattle & Vancouver, BC) — through work with UN Conferences and Dalai Lama Center has tools and experience for creating collaborations at local and global levels. It’s essential to determine the goals/purpose of the group before choosing the right tools.

'''Andrew Hart''', student, University of Washington Department of Communication (Seattle) – uses Twitter most of the social networking tools

'''Michael Bradbury''', CEO, REALscience (Seattle) — Open Science Foundation, created an online lab / group blog, the JTM Experiment. Link http://opensciencefoundation.org/jtm

'''Anne Stadler''' (Lake Forest Park, WA) — expert at Open Space technology, on which this conference is based, and deep experience with keeping collaborations alive. Has worked in the past with enormously robust collaboration models for bringing forth practical results. Offers to help. Very interested in online collaborative opportunity. Thinks Facebook and LinkedIn are incredibly arid, insufficient to the task. We can invent better tools for collaboration.

'''Mike Fancher''', Seattle Times (ret.) & RJI Fellow 2009 (Seattle) — interested in seeing that the whole be greater than the sum of the parts. Votes for in-person component, not too frequent, perhaps quarterly.

'''Sabrina Roach''', Development & Outreach Director, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio (Bellevue/Seattle)

'''Amy Rainey''', student, University of Washington, Master of Communication in Digital Media (Seattle) — supports in-person mixers. Seattle, maybe Portland and Vancouver could host. LinkedIn is useful to create a professional group, search for skills. Uses LinkedIn forums and groups functions.

'''Aaron Hartwell''' (Seattle) — in developing collaboration model, think of small d democracy.

'''Kim Lowe''', senior producer, MSN Local, Microsoft Corp. (Redmond) — producer with MSNBC.com Noticed a website for matching people who have a garden space with people who want space to garden. Need website to connect people who have skills to offer consulting, tutorials, specialized skills and knowledge-sharing.

'''Bart Preecs''', founder, Media Policy Network (Seattle): LinkedIn has a lot of the tools. Consider Facebook.

'''Cameron Hall''', sustainability activist, owner-architect, STAVE Studio, (Seattle) — I’m a node to other communities. Should we expand this conversation to those who aren’t here?

'''Leif Utne''', VP, community development, Zanby (Bainbridge Island) — I’m a board member of a MN-based NPO called “The Uptake” that live-streamed the Al Franken recount debates. Zanby is another platform we might consider, designed for online collaboration, similar to Google Groups and LinkedIn. You can create groups and subgroups, and cluster groups into group families.

'''Madeline Ostrander''', Senior Editor at YES! Magazine (Seattle) — Listservs, simple solution, but they also work.

'''Enrique Cerna''', executive director of production, KCTS 9 Public TV (Seattle) — Interested to see what happens and participate.

'''Thomas Bangasser''', trustee, Vashon College (Vashon Island, WA) — interested in democracy. I hear the technology part, but what’s missing? The journalists are the weavers. What’s missing are the librarians, who tell us where we’ve been. They are the most honest brokers of information. They make us more efficient. (They were invited.)

'''Sarajane Siegfriedt''', community activist (Seattle) — combined journalism and MBA and non-profit background, committed to watching government, making sure we have in-depth beat coverage.

'''Bill Richards''', free-lance writer (Indianola, WA) — Interested in how you use electronic tools, including collaborative efforts like this, and where a group like this takes you in terms of how to tell stories better. (Bill is the primary author of the report on the Spokesman Review’s coverage of its own owners over 10 years of a controversial development issue.)

'''Dale Steinke''', interactive news and operations manager, KING 5 TV, also hyperlocal blog Phinneywood (Seattle) — Wants to see where we have opportunities to nail the ongoing organizing down — can we agree here on which tools to use? Yes to face-to-face.

'''Sally James''', owner, James Writing (Seattle) — regional journalist about medicine and science

----

''Brief open discussion:''

Mike: we can find a purpose, say what’s missing, find someone(s) to fill that gap. It make take a series of meetings to find that.

Anne: It’s really dangerous to put the tools first. Have profiles, exchange tools, expand membership (Linked-In has 53 million members). But what is the idea, the criteria for the tools?

Unless we decide that we’re going to have a convening circle that helps to emerge this, and a purpose, it won’t happen. It’s incredibly important. We can add members to the convening group. We need more diversity. What will you take responsibility for?

----
''We went around the circle again to identify a purpose(s) for ongoing JTMPNW connecting and collaboration. Participants identified key interests and what they themselves were willing to commit to doing.
''

• Susan Gleason — Further networking, collaboration; willing to help convene face-to-face gatherings in Seattle
• Charlie Hamilton — Identifying technologies for virtual connecting; F2F poses transportation challenges for some
• Andrew Hart — Willing to serve as intermediary being traditional media and new emerging tech
• Michael Brady — Willing to work on business model
• Mike Fancher — Interested in more and better journalism; willing to find the money
• Anne Stadler — Interested in exploring collaboration online a/w/a F2F over time
* Sabrina Roach — Willing to help with F2F convening
• Amy Rainey — Willing to help with tech tools
• Kim Lowe — Willing to convene Eastside meeting
• Bart Preecs — Interested in pursuing media policy questions
• Cameron Hall — Interested in networking and inquiry, going deeper; willing to help with F2F convening
• Leif Utne — Willing to help with tech tools
• Enrique Cerna — Interested in ongoing particiption
• Sharon T — Interested in conversations around sustainable media
• Thomas Bangasser — Helping develop a model of content for democracy; not just what we want, but what we need to read
• Sarajane Siegfriedt — Commiting to work on the business model
• Bill Richards — Interested in working on the business model
• John Hamer — Willing to provide a venue and refreshments; plus reaching out to other groups for idealogical diversity
• Dale Steinke — Interested in face-to-face meetings and business model

----

DISCUSSION OF TOOLS

''We took a quick straw poll of the online tools people in the group use. Total in group who participated in poll = 23:
''
• Email—23
• GoogleGroups, YahooGroups, or other listservs—23
• JTMPNW conference site—23
• Facebook—23
• LinkedIn—22
• Twitter—16
• Skype—16
• GoToMeeting or Webex or other online meeting software—15
• Ning—13

Anne: Need to have a better tool for collaboration than these (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc), one that allows people to create from a place of creativity, rather than ego. Being able to connect laterally to people and topics of interest, cross-pollinate.

Charlie Hamilton: There are at least three tools that I’m aware of that could help:

* [http://OpenScienceFoundation.com OpenScienceFoundation.com ] is a social network, group log using Wordpress platform

* Newhive is in beta, not ready yet

* [http://Zanby.com Zanby.com] lets you create groups similar to Google groups, but you can have multiple listservs within it for different subtopics and different delivery preferences for each (daily, weekly, all). Can use tagging to surface text and photos. Leif Utne has the expertise.

* [http://Basecamp.com Basecamp.com] is a great tool for tracking a collaborative project as well.

Charlie asks, what can we do today so that we are connected before we leave here? We can use this for deciding what the long-term technologies will be. Answer: LinkedIn Group.

Sarajane: We will need to be able to look at shared docs, including Excel, in a shared space such as Google Docs. Charlie says [http://jtmpnw.org] can do this.

----

OUTCOMES / NEXT STEPS:

'''LinkedIn Group''' for carrying the JTMPNW conversation forward: Charlie Hamilton will set up. LinkedIn Groups allow for unlimited subgroups. Enough solid functionality to help us continue as a networking & collaborative community until another/better platform is chosen.

'''Seattle Face-to-Face convening on quarterly basis:''' John Hamer to organize and host, with refreshments, at his Washington News Council office, just above the Pyramid Ale House at 1201 1st Ave S. Susan Gleason, Sabrina Roach, and Cameron Hall agreed to help with this convening.

'''Eastide Face-to-Face convening:''' Kim Lowry offered to organize.

'''Tech Tools Sub-Group:''' agreed to keep exploring the tech tools to support ongoing collaborative work.

'''Biz Model Sub-Group:''' agreed to keep collaborative conversation going on biz models for the future of PNW journalism.

Jtm-pnw-session-post-jtmpnw

2010-01-12T08:40:44Z

SusanGleason: /* Keeping the Conversation Going */

== Keeping the Conversation Going ==

Convenors: Susan Gleason & John Hamer & Charles Hamilton

----

''Opening thoughts from the co-convenors:''

'''Susan Gleason''', Media & Outreach Manager at YES! Magazine; co-founder, Reclaim the Media (Seattle):
Our regional position poses its own challenges — as a more remote and rural region, the Pacific NW is far from the major media and media-funding centers. Interested in how our working together, being aware of each other’s projects and goals, collaborating as appropriate, can strengthen each of our efforts, and raise our voice/visibility overall as a region of media & civic engagement innovation. The face-to-face connections we’ve had at JTMPNW are so valuable, and important to continue, but the virtual convening spaces are important as well, particularly with the geographical challenges — keeping in touch with colleagues in British Columbia, Alaska, Oregon, east of the Cascades, etc.

'''John Hamer''', Director of Washington News Council (Seattle):
The Washington News Council is an existing entity — 501c3, with board of directors, staff, and office space. Open to reimagining what purpose the News Council serves — perhaps it’s this function, holding the ongoing “collaboratory” of JTMPNW networking, connections, conversations, and collaborations. To start, I’m offering the Wash News Council office, conveniently above the Pyramid Ale House at 1201 1st Ave S, as a Seattle convening space for the next JTMPNW meeting, and ongoing on a quarterly basis if there’s interest. I’ll convene, and provide refreshments.

'''Charles Hamilton''', CHCS Internet Development (Seattle):
I’m interested in the online tools for continuing the conversation. Interested in knowing which tools people are already using and are most inclined to use; but also open to exploring new/other tools that are available to use, or which could be made uniquely for our purposes.

----

''As we went around the circle, people identified their interest in having the ongoing JTMPNW conversation. Many identified the social-connecting tools they’re most comfortable using; others began offering commitments to action/next-steps:
''

'''Pamela Kilborn-Miller''', social media team lead, Connecting for Change, Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education (Seattle & Vancouver, BC) — through work with UN Conferences and Dalai Lama Center has tools and experience for creating collaborations at local and global levels. It’s essential to determine the goals/purpose of the group before choosing the right tools.

'''Andrew Hart''', student, University of Washington Department of Communication (Seattle) – uses Twitter most of the social networking tools

'''Michael Bradbury''', CEO, REALscience (Seattle) — Open Science Foundation, created an online lab / group blog, the JTM Experiment. Link http://opensciencefoundation.org/jtm

'''Anne Stadler'''(Lake Forest Park, WA) — expert at Open Space technology, on which this conference is based, and deep experience with keeping collaborations alive. Has worked in the past with enormously robust collaboration models for bringing forth practical results. Offers to help. Very interested in online collaborative opportunity. Thinks Facebook and LinkedIn are incredibly arid, insufficient to the task. We can invent better tools for collaboration.

'''Mike Fancher''', Seattle Times (ret.) & RJI Fellow 2009 (Seattle) — interested in seeing that the whole be greater than the sum of the parts. Votes for in-person component, not too frequent, perhaps quarterly.

'''Sabrina Roach''', Development & Outreach Director, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio (Bellevue/Seattle)

'''Amy Rainey''', student, University of Washington, Master of Communication in Digital Media (Seattle) — supports in-person mixers. Seattle, maybe Portland and Vancouver could host. LinkedIn is useful to create a professional group, search for skills. Uses LinkedIn forums and groups functions.

'''Aaron Hartwell'''(Seattle) — in developing collaboration model, think of small d democracy.

'''Kim Lowe''', senior producer, MSN Local, Microsoft Corp. (Redmond) — producer with MSNBC.com Noticed a website for matching people who have a garden space with people who want space to garden. Need website to connect people who have skills to offer consulting, tutorials, specialized skills and knowledge-sharing.

'''Bart Preecs''', founder, Media Policy Network (Seattle): LinkedIn has a lot of the tools. Consider Facebook.

'''Cameron Hall''', sustainability activist, owner-architect, STAVE Studio, (Seattle) — I’m a node to other communities. Should we expand this conversation to those who aren’t here?

'''Leif Utne''', VP, community development, Zanby (Bainbridge Island) — I’m a board member of a MN-based NPO called “The Uptake” that live-streamed the Al Franken recount debates. Zanby is another platform we might consider, designed for online collaboration, similar to Google Groups and LinkedIn. You can create groups and subgroups, and cluster groups into group families.

'''Madeline Ostrander''', Senior Editor at YES! Magazine — Listservs, simple solution, but they also work.

'''Enrique Cerna''', executive director of production, KCTS 9 Public TV (Seattle) — Interested to see what happens and participate.

'''Thomas Bangasser''', trustee, Vashon College, Vashon Island — interested in democracy. I hear the technology part, but what’s missing? The journalists are the weavers. What’s missing are the librarians, who tell us where we’ve been. They are the most honest brokers of information. They make us more efficient. (They were invited.)

'''Sarajane Siegfriedt''', community activist (Seattle) — combined journalism and MBA and non-profit background, committed to watching government, making sure we have in-depth beat coverage.

'''Bill Richards''', free-lance writer (Indianola, WA) — Interested in how you use electronic tools, including collaborative efforts like this, and where a group like this takes you in terms of how to tell stories better. (Bill is the primary author of the report on the Spokesman Review’s coverage of its own owners over 10 years of a controversial development issue.)

'''Dale Steinke''', interactive news and operations manager, KING 5 TV, also hyperlocal blog Phinneywood (Seattle) — Wants to see where we have opportunities to nail the ongoing organizing down — can we agree here on which tools to use? Yes to face-to-face.

'''Sally James''', owner, James Writing (Seattle) — regional journalist about medicine and science

----

''Brief open discussion:''

Mike: we can find a purpose, say what’s missing, find someone(s) to fill that gap. It make take a series of meetings to find that.

Anne: It’s really dangerous to put the tools first. Have profiles, exchange tools, expand membership (Linked-In has 53 million members). But what is the idea, the criteria for the tools?

Unless we decide that we’re going to have a convening circle that helps to emerge this, and a purpose, it won’t happen. It’s incredibly important. We can add members to the convening group. We need more diversity. What will you take responsibility for?

----
''We went around the circle again to identify a purpose(s) for ongoing JTMPNW connecting and collaboration. Participants identified key interests and what they themselves were willing to commit to doing.
''

• Susan Gleason — Further networking, collaboration; willing to help convene face-to-face gatherings in Seattle
• Charlie Hamilton — Identifying technologies for virtual connecting; F2F poses transportation challenges for some
• Andrew Hart — Willing to serve as intermediary being traditional media and new emerging tech
• Michael Brady — Willing to work on business model
• Mike Fancher — Interested in more and better journalism; willing to find the money
• Anne Stadler — Interested in exploring collaboration online a/w/a F2F over time
* Sabrina Roach — Willing to help with F2F convening
• Amy Rainey — Willing to help with tech tools
• Kim Lowe — Willing to convene Eastside meeting
• Bart Preecs — Interested in pursuing media policy questions
• Cameron Hall — Interested in networking and inquiry, going deeper; willing to help with F2F convening
• Leif Utne — Willing to help with tech tools
• Enrique Cerna — Interested in ongoing particiption
• Sharon T — Interested in conversations around sustainable media
• Thomas Bangasser — Helping develop a model of content for democracy; not just what we want, but what we need to read
• Sarajane Siegfriedt — Commiting to work on the business model
• Bill Richards — Interested in working on the business model
• John Hamer — Willing to provide a venue and refreshments; plus reaching out to other groups for idealogical diversity
• Dale Steinke — Interested in face-to-face meetings and business model

----

DISCUSSION OF TOOLS

''We took a quick straw poll of the online tools people in the group use. Total in group who participated in poll = 23:
''
• Email—23
• GoogleGroups, YahooGroups, or other listservs—23
• JTMPNW conference site—23
• Facebook—23
• LinkedIn—22
• Twitter—16
• Skype—16
• GoToMeeting or Webex or other online meeting software—15
• Ning—13

Anne: Need to have a better tool for collaboration than these (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc), one that allows people to create from a place of creativity, rather than ego. Being able to connect laterally to people and topics of interest, cross-pollinate.

Charlie Hamilton: There are at least three tools that I’m aware of that could help:

* [http://OpenScienceFoundation.com OpenScienceFoundation.com ] is a social network, group log using Wordpress platform

* Newhive is in beta, not ready yet

* [http://Zanby.com Zanby.com] lets you create groups similar to Google groups, but you can have multiple listservs within it for different subtopics and different delivery preferences for each (daily, weekly, all). Can use tagging to surface text and photos. Leif Utne has the expertise.

* [http://Basecamp.com Basecamp.com] is a great tool for tracking a collaborative project as well.

Charlie asks, what can we do today so that we are connected before we leave here? We can use this for deciding what the long-term technologies will be. Answer: LinkedIn Group.

Sarajane: We will need to be able to look at shared docs, including Excel, in a shared space such as Google Docs. Charlie says [http://jtmpnw.org] can do this.

----

OUTCOMES / NEXT STEPS:

'''LinkedIn Group''' for carrying the JTMPNW conversation forward: Charlie Hamilton will set up. LinkedIn Groups allow for unlimited subgroups. Enough solid functionality to help us continue as a networking & collaborative community until another/better platform is chosen.

'''Seattle Face-to-Face convening on quarterly basis:''' John Hamer to organize and host, with refreshments, at his Washington News Council office, just above the Pyramid Ale House at 1201 1st Ave S. Susan Gleason, Sabrina Roach, and Cameron Hall agreed to help with this convening.

'''Eastide Face-to-Face convening:''' Kim Lowry offered to organize.

'''Tech Tools Sub-Group:''' agreed to keep exploring the tech tools to support ongoing collaborative work.

'''Biz Model Sub-Group:''' agreed to keep collaborative conversation going on biz models for the future of PNW journalism.

Jtm-pnw-session-post-jtmpnw

2010-01-12T08:37:16Z

SusanGleason: /* Keeping the Conversation Going */

== Keeping the Conversation Going ==

Convenors: Susan Gleason & John Hamer & Charles Hamilton

----

''Opening thoughts from the co-convenors:''

'''Susan Gleason''', Media & Outreach Manager at YES! Magazine; co-founder, Reclaim the Media (Seattle):
Our regional position poses its own challenges — as a more remote and rural region, the Pacific NW is far from the major media and media-funding centers. Interested in how our working together, being aware of each other’s projects and goals, collaborating as appropriate, can strengthen each of our efforts, and raise our voice/visibility overall as a region of media & civic engagement innovation. The face-to-face connections we’ve had at JTMPNW are so valuable, and important to continue, but the virtual convening spaces are important as well, particularly with the geographical challenges — keeping in touch with colleagues in British Columbia, Alaska, Oregon, east of the Cascades, etc.

'''John Hamer''', Director of Washington News Council (Seattle):
The Washington News Council is an existing entity — 501c3, with board of directors, staff, and office space. Open to reimagining what purpose the News Council serves — perhaps it’s this function, holding the ongoing “collaboratory” of JTMPNW networking, connections, conversations, and collaborations. To start, I’m offering the Wash News Council office, conveniently above the Pyramid Ale House at 1201 1st Ave S, as a Seattle convening space for the next JTMPNW meeting, and ongoing on a quarterly basis if there’s interest. I’ll convene, and provide refreshments.

'''Charles Hamilton''', CHCS Internet Development (Seattle):
I’m interested in the online tools for continuing the conversation. Interested in knowing which tools people are already using and are most inclined to use; but also open to exploring new/other tools that are available to use, or which could be made uniquely for our purposes.

----

''As we went around the circle, people identified their interest in having the ongoing JTMPNW conversation. Many identified the social-connecting tools they’re most comfortable using; others began offering commitments to action/next-steps:
''

'''Pamela Kilborn-Miller''', social media team lead, Connecting for Change, Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education (Seattle & Vancouver, BC) — through work with UN Conferences and Dalai Lama Center has tools and experience for creating collaborations at local and global levels. It’s essential to determine the goals/purpose of the group before choosing the right tools.

'''Andrew Hart''', student, University of Washington Department of Communication (Seattle) – uses Twitter most of the social networking tools

'''Michael Bradbury''', CEO, REALscience (Seattle) — Open Science Foundation, created an online lab / group blog, the JTM Experiment. Link http://opensciencefoundation.org/jtm

'''Anne Stadler'''(Lake Forest Park, WA) — expert at Open Space technology, on which this conference is based, and deep experience with keeping collaborations alive. Has worked in the past with enormously robust collaboration models for bringing forth practical results. Offers to help. Very interested in online collaborative opportunity. Thinks Facebook and LinkedIn are incredibly arid, insufficient to the task. We can invent better tools for collaboration.

'''Mike Fancher''', Seattle Times (ret.) & RJI Fellow 2009 (Seattle) — interested in seeing that the whole be greater than the sum of the parts. Votes for in-person component, not too frequent, perhaps quarterly.

'''Sabrina Roach''', Development & Outreach Director, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio (Bellevue/Seattle)

'''Amy Rainey''', student, University of Washington, Master of Communication in Digital Media (Seattle) — supports in-person mixers. Seattle, maybe Portland and Vancouver could host. LinkedIn is useful to create a professional group, search for skills. Uses LinkedIn forums and groups functions.

'''Aaron Hartwell'''(Seattle) — in developing collaboration model, think of small d democracy.

'''Kim Lowe''', senior producer, MSN Local, Microsoft Corp. (Redmond) — producer with MSNBC.com Noticed a website for matching people who have a garden space with people who want space to garden. Need website to connect people who have skills to offer consulting, tutorials, specialized skills and knowledge-sharing.

'''Bart Preecs''', founder, Media Policy Network (Seattle): LinkedIn has a lot of the tools. Consider Facebook.

'''Cameron Hall''', sustainability activist, owner-architect, STAVE Studio, (Seattle) — I’m a node to other communities. Should we expand this conversation to those who aren’t here?

'''Leif Utne''', VP, community development, Zanby (Bainbridge Island) — I’m a board member of a MN-based NPO called “The Uptake” that live-streamed the Al Franken recount debates. Zanby is another platform we might consider, designed for online collaboration, similar to Google Groups and LinkedIn. You can create groups and subgroups, and cluster groups into group families.

'''Madeline Ostrander''', Senior Editor at YES! Magazine — Listservs, simple solution, but they also work.

'''Enrique Cerna''', executive director of production, KCTS 9 Public TV (Seattle) — Interested to see what happens and participate.

'''Thomas Bangasser''', trustee, Vashon College, Vashon Island — interested in democracy. I hear the technology part, but what’s missing? The journalists are the weavers. What’s missing are the librarians, who tell us where we’ve been. They are the most honest brokers of information. They make us more efficient. (They were invited.)

'''Sarajane Siegfriedt''', community activist (Seattle) — combined journalism and MBA and non-profit background, committed to watching government, making sure we have in-depth beat coverage.

'''Bill Richards''', free-lance writer (Indianola, WA) — Interested in how you use electronic tools, including collaborative efforts like this, and where a group like this takes you in terms of how to tell stories better. (Bill is the primary author of the report on the Spokesman Review’s coverage of its own owners over 10 years of a controversial development issue.)

'''Dale Steinke''', interactive news and operations manager, KING 5 TV, also hyperlocal blog Phinneywood (Seattle) — Wants to see where we have opportunities to nail the ongoing organizing down — can we agree here on which tools to use? Yes to face-to-face.

'''Sally James''', owner, James Writing (Seattle) — regional journalist about medicine and science

----

''Brief open discussion:''

Mike: we can find a purpose, say what’s missing, find someone(s) to fill that gap. It make take a series of meetings to find that.

Anne: It’s really dangerous to put the tools first. Have profiles, exchange tools, expand membership (Linked-In has 53 million members). But what is the idea, the criteria for the tools?

Unless we decide that we’re going to have a convening circle that helps to emerge this, and a purpose, it won’t happen. It’s incredibly important. We can add members to the convening group. We need more diversity. What will you take responsibility for?

----
''We went around the circle again to identify a purpose(s) for ongoing JTMPNW connecting and collaboration. Participants identified key interests and what they themselves were willing to commit to doing.
''

• Susan Gleason — Further networking, collaboration; willing to help convene face-to-face gatherings in Seattle
• Charlie Hamilton — Identifying technologies for virtual connecting; F2F poses transportation challenges for some
• Andrew Hart — Willing to serve as intermediary being traditional media and new emerging tech
• Michael Brady — Willing to work on business model
• Mike Fancher — Interested in more and better journalism; willing to find the money
• Anne Stadler — Interested in exploring collaboration online a/w/a F2F over time
* Sabrina Roach — Willing to help with F2F convening
• Amy Rainey — Willing to help with tech tools
• Kim Lowe — Willing to convene Eastside meeting
• Bart Preecs — Interested in pursuing media policy questions
• Cameron Hall — Interested in networking and inquiry, going deeper; willing to help with F2F convening
• Leif Utne — Willing to help with tech tools
• Enrique Cerna — Interested in ongoing particiption
• Sharon T — Interested in conversations around sustainable media
• Thomas Bangasser — Helping develop a model of content for democracy; not just what we want, but what we need to read
• Sarajane Siegfriedt — Commiting to work on the business model
• Bill Richards — Interested in working on the business model
• John Hamer — Willing to provide a venue and refreshments; plus reaching out to other groups for idealogical diversity
• Dale Steinke — Interested in face-to-face meetings and business model

----

DISCUSSION OF TOOLS

''We took a quick straw poll of the online tools people in the group use. Total in group who participated in poll = 23:
''
• Email—23
• GoogleGroups, YahooGroups, or other listservs—23
• JTMPNW conference site—23
• Facebook—23
• LinkedIn—22
• Twitter—16
• Skype—16
• GoToMeeting or Webex or other online meeting software—15
• Ning—13

Anne: Need to have a better tool for collaboration than these (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc), one that allows people to create from a place of creativity, rather than ego. Being able to connect laterally to people and topics of interest, cross-pollinate.

Charlie Hamilton: There are at least three tools that I’m aware of that could help:

* [http://OpenScienceFoundation.com] is a social network, group log using Wordpress platform

* Newhive is in beta, not ready yet

* [http://Zanby.com] lets you create groups similar to Google groups, but you can have multiple listservs within it for different subtopics and different delivery preferences for each (daily, weekly, all). Can use tagging to surface text and photos. Leif Utne has the expertise.

* [http://Basecamp.com] is a great tool for tracking a collaborative project as well.

Charlie asks, what can we do today so that we are connected before we leave here? We can use this for deciding what the long-term technologies will be. Answer: LinkedIn Group.

Sarajane: We will need to be able to look at shared docs, including Excel, in a shared space such as Google Docs. Charlie says [http://jtmpnw.org] can do this.

----

OUTCOMES / NEXT STEPS:

'''LinkedIn Group''' for carrying the JTMPNW conversation forward: Charlie Hamilton will set up. LinkedIn Groups allow for unlimited subgroups. Enough solid functionality to help us continue as a networking & collaborative community until another/better platform is chosen.

'''Seattle Face-to-Face convening on quarterly basis:''' John Hamer to organize and host, with refreshments, at his Washington News Council office, just above the Pyramid Ale House at 1201 1st Ave S. Susan Gleason, Sabrina Roach, and Cameron Hall agreed to help with this convening.

'''Eastide Face-to-Face convening:''' Kim Lowry offered to organize.

'''Tech Tools Sub-Group:''' agreed to keep exploring the tech tools to support ongoing collaborative work.

'''Biz Model Sub-Group:''' agreed to keep collaborative conversation going on biz models for the future of PNW journalism.

Jtm-pnw-session-post-jtmpnw

2010-01-12T08:32:06Z

SusanGleason: /* Keeping the Conversation Going */

== Keeping the Conversation Going ==

Convenors: Susan Gleason & John Hamer & Charles Hamilton

----

''Opening thoughts from the co-convenors:''

'''Susan Gleason''', Media & Outreach Manager at YES! Magazine; co-founder, Reclaim the Media (Seattle):
Our regional position poses its own challenges — as a more remote and rural region, the Pacific NW is far from the major media and media-funding centers. Interested in how our working together, being aware of each other’s projects and goals, collaborating as appropriate, can strengthen each of our efforts, and raise our voice/visibility overall as a region of media & civic engagement innovation. The face-to-face connections we’ve had at JTMPNW are so valuable, and important to continue, but the virtual convening spaces are important as well, particularly with the geographical challenges — keeping in touch with colleagues in British Columbia, Alaska, Oregon, east of the Cascades, etc.

'''John Hamer''', Director of Washington News Council (Seattle):
The Washington News Council is an existing entity — 501c3, with board of directors, staff, and office space. Open to reimagining what purpose the News Council serves — perhaps it’s this function, holding the ongoing “collaboratory” of JTMPNW networking, connections, conversations, and collaborations. To start, I’m offering the Wash News Council office, conveniently above the Pyramid Ale House at 1201 1st Ave S, as a Seattle convening space for the next JTMPNW meeting, and ongoing on a quarterly basis if there’s interest. I’ll convene, and provide refreshments.

'''Charles Hamilton''', CHCS Internet Development (Seattle):
I’m interested in the online tools for continuing the conversation. Interested in knowing which tools people are already using and are most inclined to use; but also open to exploring new/other tools that are available to use, or which could be made uniquely for our purposes.

----

''As we went around the circle, people identified their interest in having the ongoing JTMPNW conversation. Many identified the social-connecting tools they’re most comfortable using; others began offering commitments to action/next-steps:
''

'''Pamela Kilborn-Miller''', social media team lead, Connecting for Change, Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education (Seattle & Vancouver, BC) — through work with UN Conferences and Dalai Lama Center has tools and experience for creating collaborations at local and global levels. It’s essential to determine the goals/purpose of the group before choosing the right tools.

'''Andrew Hart''', student, University of Washington Department of Communication (Seattle) – uses Twitter most of the social networking tools

'''Michael Bradbury''', CEO, REALscience (Seattle) — Open Science Foundation, created an online lab / group blog, the JTM Experiment. Link http://opensciencefoundation.org/jtm

'''Anne Stadler'''(Lake Forest Park, WA) — expert at Open Space technology, on which this conference is based, and deep experience with keeping collaborations alive. Has worked in the past with enormously robust collaboration models for bringing forth practical results. Offers to help. Very interested in online collaborative opportunity. Thinks Facebook and LinkedIn are incredibly arid, insufficient to the task. We can invent better tools for collaboration.

'''Mike Fancher''', Seattle Times (ret.) & RJI Fellow 2009 (Seattle) — interested in seeing that the whole be greater than the sum of the parts. Votes for in-person component, not too frequent, perhaps quarterly.

'''Sabrina Roach''', Development & Outreach Director, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio (Bellevue/Seattle)

'''Amy Rainey''', student, University of Washington, Master of Communication in Digital Media (Seattle) — supports in-person mixers. Seattle, maybe Portland and Vancouver could host. LinkedIn is useful to create a professional group, search for skills. Uses LinkedIn forums and groups functions.

'''Aaron Hartwell'''(Seattle) — in developing collaboration model, think of small d democracy.

'''Kim Lowe''', senior producer, MSN Local, Microsoft Corp. (Redmond) — producer with MSNBC.com Noticed a website for matching people who have a garden space with people who want space to garden. Need website to connect people who have skills to offer consulting, tutorials, specialized skills and knowledge-sharing.

'''Bart Preecs''', founder, Media Policy Network (Seattle): LinkedIn has a lot of the tools. Consider Facebook.

'''Cameron Hall''', sustainability activist, owner-architect, STAVE Studio, (Seattle) — I’m a node to other communities. Should we expand this conversation to those who aren’t here?

'''Leif Utne''', VP, community development, Zanby (Bainbridge Island) — I’m a board member of a MN-based NPO called “The Uptake” that live-streamed the Al Franken recount debates. Zanby is another platform we might consider, designed for online collaboration, similar to Google Groups and LinkedIn. You can create groups and subgroups, and cluster groups into group families.

'''Madeline Ostrander''', Senior Editor at YES! Magazine — Listservs, simple solution, but they also work.

'''Enrique Cerna''', executive director of production, KCTS 9 Public TV (Seattle) — Interested to see what happens and participate.

'''Thomas Bangasser''', trustee, Vashon College, Vashon Island — interested in democracy. I hear the technology part, but what’s missing? The journalists are the weavers. What’s missing are the librarians, who tell us where we’ve been. They are the most honest brokers of information. They make us more efficient. (They were invited.)

'''Sarajane Siegfriedt''', community activist (Seattle) — combined journalism and MBA and non-profit background, committed to watching government, making sure we have in-depth beat coverage.

'''Bill Richards''', free-lance writer (Indianola, WA) — Interested in how you use electronic tools, including collaborative efforts like this, and where a group like this takes you in terms of how to tell stories better. (Bill is the primary author of the report on the Spokesman Review’s coverage of its own owners over 10 years of a controversial development issue.)

'''Dale Steinke''', interactive news and operations manager, KING 5 TV, also hyperlocal blog Phinneywood (Seattle) — Wants to see where we have opportunities to nail the ongoing organizing down — can we agree here on which tools to use? Yes to face-to-face.

'''Sally James''', owner, James Writing (Seattle) — regional journalist about medicine and science

----

''Brief open discussion:''

Mike: we can find a purpose, say what’s missing, find someone(s) to fill that gap. It make take a series of meetings to find that.

Anne: It’s really dangerous to put the tools first. Have profiles, exchange tools, expand membership (Linked-In has 53 million members). But what is the idea, the criteria for the tools?

Unless we decide that we’re going to have a convening circle that helps to emerge this, and a purpose, it won’t happen. It’s incredibly important. We can add members to the convening group. We need more diversity. What will you take responsibility for?

----
''We went around the circle again to identify a purpose(s) for ongoing JTMPNW connecting and collaboration. Participants identified key interests and what they themselves were willing to commit to doing.
''

• Susan Gleason — Further networking, collaboration; willing to help convene face-to-face gatherings in Seattle
• Charlie Hamilton — Identifying technologies for virtual connecting; F2F poses transportation challenges for some
• Andrew Hart — Willing to serve as intermediary being traditional media and new emerging tech
• Michael Brady — Willing to work on business model
• Mike Fancher — Interested in more and better journalism; willing to find the money
• Anne Stadler — Interested in exploring collaboration online a/w/a F2F over time
* Sabrina Roach — Willing to help with F2F convening
• Amy Rainey — Willing to help with tech tools
• Kim Lowe — Willing to convene Eastside meeting
• Bart Preecs — Interested in pursuing media policy questions
• Cameron Hall — Interested in networking and inquiry, going deeper; willing to help with F2F convening
• Leif Utne — Willing to help with tech tools
• Enrique Cerna — Interested in ongoing particiption
• Sharon T — Interested in conversations around sustainable media
• Thomas Bangasser — Helping develop a model of content for democracy; not just what we want, but what we need to read
• Sarajane Siegfriedt — Commiting to work on the business model
• Bill Richards — Interested in working on the business model
• John Hamer — Willing to provide a venue and refreshments; plus reaching out to other groups for idealogical diversity
• Dale Steinke — Interested in face-to-face meetings and business model

----

DISCUSSION OF TOOLS

''We took a quick straw poll of the online tools people in the group use. Total in group who participated in poll = 23:
''
• Email—23
• GoogleGroups, YahooGroups, or other listservs—23
• JTMPNW conference site—23
• Facebook—23
• LinkedIn—22
• Twitter—16
• Skype—16
• GoToMeeting or Webex or other online meeting software—15
• Ning—13

Anne: Need to have a better tool for collaboration than these (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc), one that allows people to create from a place of creativity, rather than ego. Being able to connect laterally to people and topics of interest, cross-pollinate.

Charlie Hamilton: There are at least three tools that I’m aware of that could help:

* OpenScienceFoundation.com is a social network, group log using Wordpress platform

* Newhive is in beta, not ready yet

* Zanby lets you create groups similar to Google groups, but you can have multiple listservs within it for different subtopics and different delivery preferences for each (daily, weekly, all). Can use tagging to surface text and photos. Leif Utne has the expertise.

* Basecamp is a great tool for tracking a collaborative project as well.

Charlie asks, what can we do today so that we are connected before we leave here? We can use this for deciding what the long-term technologies will be. Answer: LinkedIn Group.

Sarajane: We will need to be able to look at shared docs, including Excel, in a shared space such as Google Docs. Charlie says www.jtmpnw.org can do this.

----

OUTCOMES / NEXT STEPS:

'''LinkedIn Group''' for carrying the JTMPNW conversation forward: Charlie Hamilton will set up. LinkedIn Groups allow for unlimited subgroups. Enough solid functionality to help us continue as a networking & collaborative community until another/better platform is chosen.

'''Seattle Face-to-Face convening on quarterly basis:''' John Hamer to organize and host, with refreshments, at his Washington News Council office, just above the Pyramid Ale House at 1201 1st Ave S. Susan Gleason, Sabrina Roach, and Cameron Hall agreed to help with this convening.

'''Eastide Face-to-Face convening:''' Kim Lowry offered to organize.

'''Tech Tools Sub-Group:''' agreed to keep exploring the tech tools to support ongoing collaborative work.

'''Biz Model Sub-Group:''' agreed to keep collaborative conversation going on biz models for the future of PNW journalism.

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== Keeping the Conversation Going ==

Convenors: Susan Gleason & John Hamer & Charles Hamilton

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'''Opening thoughts from the co-convenors:'''

'''Susan Gleason''', Media & Outreach Manager at YES! Magazine; co-founder, Reclaim the Media (Seattle):
Our regional position poses its own challenges — as a more remote and rural region, the Pacific NW is far from the major media and media-funding centers. Interested in how our working together, being aware of each other’s projects and goals, collaborating as appropriate, can strengthen each of our efforts, and raise our voice/visibility overall as a region of media & civic engagement innovation. The face-to-face connections we’ve had at JTMPNW are so valuable, and important to continue, but the virtual convening spaces are important as well, particularly with the geographical challenges — keeping in touch with colleagues in British Columbia, Alaska, Oregon, east of the Cascades, etc.

'''John Hamer''', Director of Washington News Council (Seattle):
The Washington News Council is an existing entity — 501c3, with board of directors, staff, and office space. Open to reimagining what purpose the News Council serves — perhaps it’s this function, holding the ongoing “collaboratory” of JTMPNW networking, connections, conversations, and collaborations. To start, I’m offering the Wash News Council office, conveniently above the Pyramid Ale House at 1201 1st Ave S, as a Seattle convening space for the next JTMPNW meeting, and ongoing on a quarterly basis if there’s interest. I’ll convene, and provide refreshments.

'''Charles Hamilton''', CHCS Internet Development (Seattle):
I’m interested in the online tools for continuing the conversation. Interested in knowing which tools people are already using and are most inclined to use; but also open to exploring new/other tools that are available to use, or which could be made uniquely for our purposes.

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'''As we went around the circle, people identified their interest in having the ongoing JTMPNW conversation. Many identified the social-connecting tools they’re most comfortable using; others began offering commitments to action/next-steps:
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'''Pamela Kilborn-Miller''', social media team lead, Connecting for Change, Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education (Seattle & Vancouver, BC) — through work with UN Conferences and Dalai Lama Center has tools and experience for creating collaborations at local and global levels. It’s essential to determine the goals/purpose of the group before choosing the right tools.

'''Andrew Hart''', student, University of Washington Department of Communication (Seattle) – uses Twitter most of the social networking tools

'''Michael Bradbury''', CEO, REALscience (Seattle) — Open Science Foundation, created an online lab / group blog, the JTM Experiment. Link http://opensciencefoundation.org/jtm

'''Anne Stadler'''(Lake Forest Park, WA) — expert at Open Space technology, on which this conference is based, and deep experience with keeping collaborations alive. Has worked in the past with enormously robust collaboration models for bringing forth practical results. Offers to help. Very interested in online collaborative opportunity. Thinks Facebook and LinkedIn are incredibly arid, insufficient to the task. We can invent better tools for collaboration.

'''Mike Fancher''', Seattle Times (ret.) & RJI Fellow 2009 (Seattle) — interested in seeing that the whole be greater than the sum of the parts. Votes for in-person component, not too frequent, perhaps quarterly.

'''Sabrina Roach''', Development & Outreach Director, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio (Bellevue/Seattle)

'''Amy Rainey''', student, University of Washington, Master of Communication in Digital Media (Seattle) — supports in-person mixers. Seattle, maybe Portland and Vancouver could host. LinkedIn is useful to create a professional group, search for skills. Uses LinkedIn forums and groups functions.

'''Aaron Hartwell'''(Seattle) — in developing collaboration model, think of small d democracy.

'''Kim Lowe''', senior producer, MSN Local, Microsoft Corp. (Redmond) — producer with MSNBC.com Noticed a website for matching people who have a garden space with people who want space to garden. Need website to connect people who have skills to offer consulting, tutorials, specialized skills and knowledge-sharing.

'''Bart Preecs''', founder, Media Policy Network (Seattle): LinkedIn has a lot of the tools. Consider Facebook.

'''Cameron Hall''', sustainability activist, owner-architect, STAVE Studio, (Seattle) — I’m a node to other communities. Should we expand this conversation to those who aren’t here?

'''Leif Utne''', VP, community development, Zanby (Bainbridge Island) — I’m a board member of a MN-based NPO called “The Uptake” that live-streamed the Al Franken recount debates. Zanby is another platform we might consider, designed for online collaboration, similar to Google Groups and LinkedIn. You can create groups and subgroups, and cluster groups into group families.

'''Madeline Ostrander''', Senior Editor at YES! Magazine — Listservs, simple solution, but they also work.

'''Enrique Cerna''', executive director of production, KCTS 9 Public TV (Seattle) — Interested to see what happens and participate.

'''Thomas Bangasser''', trustee, Vashon College, Vashon Island — interested in democracy. I hear the technology part, but what’s missing? The journalists are the weavers. What’s missing are the librarians, who tell us where we’ve been. They are the most honest brokers of information. They make us more efficient. (They were invited.)

'''Sarajane Siegfriedt''', community activist (Seattle) — combined journalism and MBA and non-profit background, committed to watching government, making sure we have in-depth beat coverage.

'''Bill Richards''', free-lance writer (Indianola, WA) — Interested in how you use electronic tools, including collaborative efforts like this, and where a group like this takes you in terms of how to tell stories better. (Bill is the primary author of the report on the Spokesman Review’s coverage of its own owners over 10 years of a controversial development issue.)

'''Dale Steinke''', interactive news and operations manager, KING 5 TV, also hyperlocal blog Phinneywood (Seattle) — Wants to see where we have opportunities to nail the ongoing organizing down — can we agree here on which tools to use? Yes to face-to-face.

'''Sally James''', owner, James Writing (Seattle) — regional journalist about medicine and science

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'''Brief open discussion:'''

Mike: we can find a purpose, say what’s missing, find someone(s) to fill that gap. It make take a series of meetings to find that.

Anne: It’s really dangerous to put the tools first. Have profiles, exchange tools, expand membership (Linked-In has 53 million members). But what is the idea, the criteria for the tools?

Unless we decide that we’re going to have a convening circle that helps to emerge this, and a purpose, it won’t happen. It’s incredibly important. We can add members to the convening group. We need more diversity. What will you take responsibility for?

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'''We went around the circle again to identify a purpose(s) for ongoing JTMPNW connecting and collaboration. Participants identified key interests and what they themselves were willing to commit to doing.
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• Susan Gleason — Further networking, collaboration; willing to help convene face-to-face gatherings in Seattle
• Charlie Hamilton — Identifying technologies for virtual connecting; F2F poses transportation challenges for some
• Andrew Hart — Willing to serve as intermediary being traditional media and new emerging tech
• Michael Brady — Willing to work on business model
• Mike Fancher — Interested in more and better journalism; willing to find the money
• Anne Stadler — Interested in exploring collaboration online a/w/a F2F over time
* Sabrina Roach — Willing to help with F2F convening
• Amy Rainey — Willing to help with tech tools
• Kim Lowe — Willing to convene Eastside meeting
• Bart Preecs — Interested in pursuing media policy questions
• Cameron Hall — Interested in networking and inquiry, going deeper; willing to help with F2F convening
• Leif Utne — Willing to help with tech tools
• Enrique Cerna — Interested in ongoing particiption
• Sharon T — Interested in conversations around sustainable media
• Thomas Bangasser — Helping develop a model for balance of content for democracy; not just what we want, but what we need to read
• Sarajane Siegfriedt — Commiting to work on the business model
• Bill Richards — Interested in working on the business model
• John Hamer — Willing to provide a venue and refreshments; plus reaching out to other groups for idealogical diversity
• Dale Steinke — Interested in face-to-face meetings and business model

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DISCUSSION OF TOOLS

'''We took a quick straw poll of the online tools people in the group use. Total in group who participated in poll = 23:
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• Email—23
• GoogleGroups, YahooGroups, or other listservs—23
• JTMPNW conference site—23
• Facebook—23
• LinkedIn—22
• Twitter—16
• Skype—16
• GoToMeeting or Webex or other online meeting software—15
• Ning—13

Anne: Need to have a better tool for collaboration than these (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc), one that allows people to create from a place of creativity, rather than ego. Being able to connect laterally to people and topics of interest, cross-pollinate.

Charlie Hamilton: There are at least three tools that I’m aware of that could help:

* OpenScienceFoundation.com is a social network, group log using Wordpress platform

* Newhive is in beta, not ready yet

* Zanby lets you create groups similar to Google groups, but you can have multiple listservs within it for different subtopics and different delivery preferences for each (daily, weekly, all). Can use tagging to surface text and photos. Leif Utne has the expertise.

* Basecamp is a great tool for tracking a collaborative project as well.

Charlie asks, what can we do today so that we are connected before we leave here? We can use this for deciding what the long-term technologies will be. Answer: LinkedIn Group.

Sarajane: We will need to be able to look at shared docs, including Excel, in a shared space such as Google Docs. Charlie says www.jtmpnw.org can do this.

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OUTCOMES / NEXT STEPS:

'''LinkedIn Group''' for carrying the JTMPNW conversation forward: Charlie Hamilton will set up. LinkedIn Groups allow for unlimited subgroups. Enough solid functionality to help us continue as a networking & collaborative community until another/better platform is chosen.

'''Seattle Face-to-Face convening on quarterly basis:''' John Hamer to organize and host, with refreshments, at his Washington News Council office, just above the Pyramid Ale House at 1201 1st Ave S. Susan Gleason, Sabrina Roach, and Cameron Hall agreed to help with this convening.

'''Eastide Face-to-Face convening:''' Kim Lowry offered to organize.

'''Tech Tools Sub-Group:''' agreed to keep exploring the tech tools to support ongoing collaborative work.

'''Biz Model Sub-Group:''' agreed to keep collaborative conversation going on biz models for the future of PNW journalism.