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Story Blogging
Personal, Family and Community History

PRESENTER: Anton Zuiker

This will be a discussion about using blogs, podcasts and wikis for memoir and autobiographical blogging, oral history, genealogy, family stories and community folklore. The StoryBlogging initiative seeks to encourage cross-generational conversations that are archived to the Web through blogs, podcasts and other tools.

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CurrentTV

PRESENTERS:
Saskia Wilson-Brown
Brandon Gross

How to make a Current pod, demo pods, answer questions and take pitches

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Why Most Web Videos Stink, but Yours Doesn't Have To

PRESENTER: Tom Lassiter

Owning a power saw doesn't make you a carpenter. It helps to know what to do with it.

The same goes for video gear. Take time to learn the basics of how to shoot with it, and you might just crank out some video worth watching.

Plus tips on how to get your stuff posted on-line, and lots of discussion.

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Podcasting & Beyond: Building Communities Through Social Media

PRESENTER: Amber Rhea

Innovative use of blogs, audio, and video to build communities and strengthen connections. Focus on "hyperlocal" sites and media.

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Corporate Wikis

PRESENTER: Natalie Koeplinger

All about wikis in the workplace: What are they being used for, technology environment, and challenges.

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Introduction to SEO 101

Presenter: Brandon Pierce

An introduction to the terms and basic concepts of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), with a brief introduction on how to increase the flow and quality of the traffic to your site. Also to be discussed are the differences between "organic" ranking and Pay Per Click ad campaigns.

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Better Blogging

PRESENTER: Ed Cone and James Protzman

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Blog to Book:

Virtual to Printed Page

PRESENTER: Stewart Pittman

So you 've been blogging for awhile now and your half dozen readers are clamoring for a coffetable book edition of your sacred site. In your mind, anyway!In reality there are more ways than ever to transform your glittering pixels into the dryest of ink - from uploading your faves to an on-line press or scoring a book deal with your new cyber-cred to running to Kinko's at midnight! Stewart "Lenslinger" Pittman and writer/editor Soni Pitts lead a bracing examination of how proper edititing can turn your most potent posts into instant literary obscurity. That, or a nice pocket calendar.

HOW-TO (part 2)

CurrentTV

PRESENTERS:
Saskia Wilson-Brown
Brandon Gross

How to make a Current pod, demo pods, answer questions and take pitches

Sustainable Journalism

PRESENTER: Kirk Ross