Workshop: Blogging 101

This category and blog entry was built to accompany some presentations I'm involved with for the 2004 annual conference of the Canadian Association of Journalists. This entry accompanies a workshop I'm leading dubbed Blogging 101. The workshop is scheduled for Friday, May 7 at 3:30 pm Pacific / 6:30 pm EDT. So far as I know, the workshop will not be Webcast although we might be lucky to have a live network connection in the room at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Here's the workshop's mission, the agenda and links to workshop topics. I hope to blog feedback and questions from the workshop. This blog is now open for comments and feedback from all.
Workshop Mission:

BLOGGING 101– They've played key roles in the combative U.S. presidential campaign. Academics say they'll revolutionize mainstream journalism. But what do blogs have to do with the daily lives of journalists in Canada? What do journalists need to know about this new source of views and information?  David Akin, who is National Business and Technology Correspondent for CTV News, a contributing writer for The Globe and Mail, and a blogger himself, leads a workshop for journalists who may one day want to start their own blog and for all those who wish to learn how blogs fit into daily news gathering. Blogs – short for Web logs – are a new kind of online publication that are quickly becoming as important to journalists as e-mail and the World Wide Web. Akin will run through some of the popular blog publishing tools; take participants on a brief tour of the blogosphere; and lead a discussion of the relationship of blogs to mainstream working journalists.  Designed for those with little or no knowledge of blogs or blogging, this workshop will focus primarily on giving working journalists real-world skills they can put to use right away in their newsroom.

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