ONA: Others’ voices

Steve Safran October 18th, 2007

Get a sample of what others are saying here at ONA… Dan Gillmor at the Center for Citizen Media Blog notes the description of his panel, “Becoming a Community Evangelist”: Learn how to harness the passion and creativity of your community to become a local sensation and a meaningful online gathering place. Dan takes issue with that:

With respect to the writer of that description, what hokum. The word “harness” is singularly inappropriate in this context. It reflects traditional media’s belief that the audience — the community — wants or needs to be treated like a herd of horses.

JD Lasica attended last night’s forum at the CBC news center, which was carried live on the CBC. Check out his recap of the event and this morning’s keynote by Yahoo! Executive VP, Global Partner Solutions Division, Hilary Schneider.

BlogTalkRadio is broadcasting live interviews from the conference.

And students are doing their own writeups at the ONA’s official site, journalists.org/2007conference.