When people start out blogging they often ask what blogging platform they should use – WordPress or Blogger? Tumblr or Posterous? It’s impossible to give an answer, because the first questions should be: who is going to use it, how, and what and who for? To illustrate how the answers to those questions can help in choosing the best platform,
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has run a conference “Journalism, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship” for independent and mainstream journalists interested in “making a living from journalism in the era of free information”.
In this interview, Paul explains to Matt Wardman what the aims and achievements of JEEcamp have been, and reflects on how his own blogging activities over 6 years has opened up opportunities for him personally.
If you arrive the evening before JEEcamp next week you should take the chance to attend the Future of News fringe event ‘Entrepreneurship Special’, which features Marc Reeves, ex-Birmingham Post editor and current editor of The Business Desk West Midlands. The event is organised by The Lichfield Blog‘s Philip John, who is also well worth hearing from (and may be
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Given that Roy Greenslade has beaten me to blogging about my own event, I thought I’d better go ahead and blog about it here. I’m talking about JEEcamp of course – a conference-cum-unconference about journalism experimentation and enterprise. Put another way, if you read this blog, the sort of stuff I talk about. It’s on May 21st at The Bond
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Live coverage of JEEcamp is available here There is also a site aggregating all mentions of JEEcamp on Twitter, Flickr, Delicious and blogs at jeecamp.com JEEcamp09
JEEcamp09 is tomorrow – the hashtag to follow on Twitter is #jeecamp, while jeecamp.com will be aggregating any mentions of jeecamp from various social media platforms. A team of livebloggers will be covering the event here on the Online Journalism Blog – remind yourself below…
It’s 2 weeks until JEEcamp – the unconference for journalism experimenters and entrepreneurs – and I think it’s probably time to whittle down what we’ll be talking about. Whether you’re attending or not, what do you think are the biggest issues you’d want to discuss with others in the news, social media and technology industries?
On Friday May 8 2009 I’ll be hosting JEEcamp09 – an unconference (or barcamp) for journalism experimenters. Last year’s JEEcamp was great. This year we’re doing it all again, but with some cute ideas to stir things up. These include: Open mic for business models for news: Attendees are invited to explain how they think news can support itself online. 5
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The EJC filmed three videos during the day at JEEcamp – here they are:
What happens when you bring together local journalists, bloggers, web publishers, online journalism experts and new media startups – and get them talking? That was the question that JEEcamp sought to answer: an ‘unconference’ around journalism enterprise and entrepreneurship that looked to tackle some of the big questions facing news in 2008: how do you make money from news when
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