Last week at the Knight Information Needs of Communities media learning seminar, Roberta King of the Grand Rapids Community Foundation (one of the winners of the Knight Community Information Challenge–here’s the full list of winners, and Grand Rapids will establish four neighborhood news bureaus as part of their winning grant–interviewed Knight President and CEO Alberto […]
Article · February 23, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Entrepreneur Susan Mernit attended last week’s media learning seminar on information needs of communities, leading a breakout session, and has graciously written a white paper called “The Social Media ToolBox” for all community foundations thinking about the best ways to include social media. You can find “The Social Media Toolbox” white paper (pdf) in the […]
Article · February 23, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Jorge Martinez is Director of Information Systems at Knight Foundation. Below, he writes about Elevate America and Knight’s role in funding this project starting in 2007. In 2007, Knight Foundation provided $250,000 to support a digital literacy program begun by the City of Miami. Elevate Miami was designed to help the elderly and young in […]
Article · February 23, 2009 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI (February 19, 2009) Tips from media experts and civic leaders on how to use technology to engage and inform communities are now available at www.informationneeds.org, a Web site of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The resources, which include videotaped presentations and downloadable breakout session reports, were part of the Media Learning […]
Article · February 19, 2009 by Knight Foundation
This entry was originally posted on the infoneeds.org site along with other posts about the event that concluded yesterday. At the closing session, Knight Foundation President and CEO Alberto Ibarügen asked three of the Community Information Challenge winners (see the full list) to speak about their grants. Minneapolis Community Foundation: San Antonio Area Foundation: Community […]
Article · February 18, 2009 by Knight Foundation
This entry was originally posted on the infoneeds.org blog for the Miami seminar on Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. Find more on the site; the seminar continues until this afternoon. Moderated by Paula Ellis, Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Knight Foundation, three community foundation leaders shared their experiences. Andrea Baz’n of the […]
Article · February 17, 2009 by Knight Foundation
This was first posted on the event site, infoneeds.org. Find more video and previous posts there. The event continues until this afternoon. Last night, Kati London and Kevin Slavin of the serious game development firm area/code talked about how games can change how we live in the real world. Kevin talked about the “fundamental cognitive […]
Article · February 17, 2009 by Knight Foundation
From the infoneeds.org blog for the Information Needs event today and tomorrow in Miami, video from this afternoon’s session with media experts Amy Webb, Bryan Alexander, and Richard Cardran below. Amy Webb of Webbmedia Group was part of an afternoon panel on current trends in media. Here she talks about why not to just go […]
Article · February 16, 2009 by Knight Foundation
200 representatives from community foundations have gathered in Miami today for the Media Learning Seminar on Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. More video and images will be available over the next few days. From the keynote session at noon, some video below from Knight President Alberto Ibargüen and Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing […]
Article · February 16, 2009 by Knight Foundation
On Friday, this year’s Knight News Challenge review team met in Miami to review the finalists. The esteemed group spent the entire day in heated discussions, debating the merits of the vetted proposals (this is a different group than the News Challenge screeners that met twice earlier in the contest cycle). Look for more news […]
Article · February 16, 2009 by Knight Foundation
How do you think news entrepreneurs should be supported? USC Annenberg thinks a new boot camp is one way (deadline to apply: February 16). There are a few days left to apply for the upcoming News Entrepreneur Boot Camp May 16-21, 2009 in Los Angeles, CA at USC Annenberg; independent entrepreneur Susan Mernit asks USC […]
Article · February 13, 2009 by Knight Foundation