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Train With Facebook, IDEO and NYTimes.com at ONA Digital Workshops
| Source: Online News Association
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - September 16, 2009) - Looking for leading-edge training in how
to tell stories with video or Django, making the most of Facebook APIs, or
funding your latest media project?
The ONA09 Pre-Conference Workshops, unofficially opening the Online News
Association's annual conference on Thursday, Oct. 1, at the San Francisco
Hilton, provide expert, hands-on multimedia training and delve into new
concepts in technology and digital thinking.
The six workshops feature instructors Chet Rhodes of washingtonpost.com;
Richard Koci Hernandez of the University of California-Berkeley's Knight
Digital Media Center; Aaron Pilhofer of The New York Times; the staff at
IDEO, and Jan Schaffer of J-Lab at American University: The Institute for
Interactive Journalism, who will offer a full day of success stories from
media entrepreneurs across the country.
Fees are $50 for a half-day, $100 for a full-day for ONA members, and $60
and $160 for non-members.
To see the full pre-conference schedule, go to:
http://conference.journalists.org/2009conference/schedule/pre-conference-workshops/
To register for the workshops, go to:
http://conference.journalists.org/2009conference/register
To see the full ONA09 conference schedule, go to ONA09.
The Online News Association is the world's largest association of online
journalists. ONA's mission is to inspire innovation and excellence among
journalists to better serve the public. The membership includes news
writers, producers, designers, editors, bloggers, technologists,
photographers and others who produce news for the Internet or other digital
delivery systems, as well as academic members and others interested in the
development of online journalism. ONA also hosts the annual Online News
Association annual
conference and administers the Online Journalism Awards.