Photo credit: Knight Foundation on Flickr.

This year’s Media Learning Seminar featured an interactive human-centered design workshop and a slate of fantastic speakers on issues ranging from solution-centered journalism to the biggest tech trends. A lot of conversation and inspiration packed the two-and-a-half-days, so we have rounded up our cheat sheets and takeaways so you can catch up on what you missed or share the information with colleagues:

Resources for Community Information Projects:

This new site has all of Knight’s case studies and toolkits for launching and sustaining a community news and information project.

How to apply human-centered design at home

The lessons from the Knight Information Culture Lab can be a useful guide for understanding the needs of your communities, wherever they are.

2014 tech trends that will impact foundations

Futurist Amy Webb offered  four trends in particular that community foundations need to know about now.

Embracing change: Five key lessons from innovative community foundations

Successful place-based foundation leaders shared their most important takeaways from their last seven years of experimentation.

How to open up the data in your community to help solve problems

Whether its partnering with a local government, or bringing them cookies to sweeten them up, three  advocates discussed ways community foundations can get in the data game.

Journalism as knowledge: covering solutions to strengthen communities

David Bornstein and Michael Maness examine how community foundations can play an essential role in highlighting information that solves problems in their cities.

Strengthening communities: The case for talent, opportunity and place

Knight Foundation’s Vice President of Community and National Initiatives Carol Coletta opened up the seminar with a framework for how Knight thinks about its community giving.

4 community information projects focus on high-impact projects

On Monday, Knight President and CEO Alberto Ibargüen announced Knight will this year  focus its giving on these four initiatives from place-based foundations.  

Videos of each session are embedded at the bottom of each of these posts, and you can view and download photos from the seminar on flickr. Follow @knightfdn on Twitter for updates.

Elise Hu is a journalist at NPR and a consultant for Knight Foundation.