I’ll be livestreaming the Society for News Design New York City meetup from 1-5 p.m. today at the New York Times.
Follow the Twitter hashtag #sndnyc. For those reading in RSS, the video and chat embeds are below.
The schedule:
1:00 — Opening remarks
1:15 — Nigel Holmes on visual communication
2:15 — Joe Hutchinson on being a better art director
3:15 — Sarah Slobin on the shift from print to online
4:15 — Matthew Ericson and Shan Carter on interactive graphics
Yes, it’s true! BarCamp NewsInnovation Miami is happening this Sunday at Anokha in the Grove. I’ve been promoting on Twitter, via e-mail, in person, etc. but have yet to post on my blog. D’oh!
I blame being in Idaho for 10 days doing this and then coming back to craziness. But more on that later.
Here are the details from the wiki page I created. Please share this information with any of your news/media/journalism/blogger friends (pros and students):
BarCamp NewsInnnovation Miami is a local version of BarCamp NewsInnovation.
It’s being paired with BarCamp Miami 2009 + WordCamp for extra awesomeness and to allow for a crowd with a more diverse range of perspectives and experiences.
When: Sunday, Feb. 22 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Where: Anokha Indian restaurant, 3324 Virginia Street, Miami, Fla. (Coconut Grove)
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Live stream (if connectivity allows)
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I’ll be off the usual radar for 10 days as one of about 30 University of Miami students participating in the 150-student webcasting team at the Special Olympics 2009 World Winter Games in Idaho.
The games run from Feb. 7-13, but we’ll be there from Feb. 5-15. Students will be split across newsrooms in Boise, McCall and Sun Valley.
(Somehow I have a knack for taking trips that require really early flights, as evinced by the post time.)
Rich Beckman, Knight Chair of Visual Journalism at UM, is the executive producer for Special Olympics Live, a site we will update with photos and videos daily. I’m on Rich’s team in Boise and will be documenting the team’s efforts with other a couple other Miami folks and a couple students from Universidad de los Andes in Chile.
In addition, I’m in charge of social media for the site, which isn’t really “live.”
I’ll post some updates on my @greglinch Twitter account, but I’ve created @soilive to handle our general webcasting team coverage.
You can follow the hashtag #soi and/or subscribe to the RSS feed for a Twitter search of #soi. If you’re interested, you can also join the official Special Olympics community, where fans post blogs, photos and videos.
I’m bringing my Canon Rebel XT (15-55mm and 75-300mm lenses), in addition to one of the broadcast department’s Sony DSR-PD150 to use for the video work. Other UM students will use thePanasonic AG-DVX100, which are shared between the visual journalism and motion pictures programs.
I typically use the Panasonic, but have a good amount of experience with the Sony, so I’ll be ready to rock once we’re wheels down in Idaho.
The Sony kit is in a huge Pelican case and comes with:
As you may remember, I was also part of a volunteer team from the UM School of Communication that shot the Special Olympics torch run in Miami in January.
Full disclosure: Special Olympics is covering all of our travel and lodging expenses for the World Winter Games, but we are not being paid.
I’ve been going almost non-stop since Beyond Bootcamp ended Saturday night, so I haven’t had much time to reflect completely or summarize my thoughts yet.
So, what have I been up to and what’s coming up?
Also, an update on the videos from my Beyond Bootcamp livestreaming: the School of Communication post them soon and, hopefully, offer them as video podcasts on iTunes. I’ll be sure to blog and tweet the link when they’re online.
In the mean time, check out the videos Kristen Taylor (@kthread), online community manager at the Knight Foundation, posted:
Today is the final day of Beyond Bootcamp and, therefore, we have our last lunch speaker:
The livestream will run from 12:20-2 p.m. Watch at our new location this time:
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