Knight Foundation president and CEO Alberto Ibarügen spoke at the Pennsylvania Avenue opening of the Newseum, the interactive museum for all things journalism and news, deeming the occasion a ‘spirit of liberty’ moment. More: speech transcript; Newseum video blogs.

Day 2: Porter & Silverman Leader: Vikki Porter, Annenberg School for Communication, USC Scribe: Fred Silverman, Marin Community Foundation Takeaways from morning session: Multi-tasking – problem of seeing it as OK (vs. rude). Need to focus attention during one’s life. Need for training people around etiquette in digital age. Issue of younger people being more […]

Day 2: Resnick and Jones The Information Needs of YOUR Community Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008 Aragon Room Leader: Mitchel Resnick, M.I.T. Scribe: Nancy Jones, Community Foundation of Broward Online Sources/Examples Communityview.org – Central Minnesota – St. Cloud Calendar of events is well used Focus groups showed that people wanted in-depth information – not being used Becauseitmatters.net – […]

Day 2: Calo & Langer The Information Needs of YOUR Community Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008 Segovia Room Leader: Bob Calo, University of California at Berkeley  Scribe: Christelle Langer, The Minneapolis Foundation The discussion opened with an analogy. This is a wave…some of us are riding it, others are watching it come toward us, some of us will […]

Day 2: Friedland & Williamson The Information Needs of YOUR Community Thursday, February 21, 2008 Majorca Room Leader: Lewis A. Friedland, University of Wisconsin-Madison Scribe: Heidi Williamson, Berks County Community Foundation Potential Community Foundation Approaches Two approaches were posited for Community Foundation to consider: Portal/front page solution – a major convener serving as an entry point to […]

Day 2: Kebbel & Villoch The Information Needs of YOUR Community Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008 Anastasia Room Leader: Gary Kebbel, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Scribe: Danielle Villoch, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation In the second breakout session, we focused on tangible solutions to the information needs of specific communities. Gary Kebbel, our […]

Day 1 Porter & Silverman The Information Needs of A Community Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008 Prado Room Leader: Vikki Porter, Annenberg School for Communication, USC Scribe: Fred Silverman, Marin Community Foundation Participants reflected a wide variety of interests, experience, and readiness for getting involved with new ways of engaging their communities through new uses of information technology. […]

Day 1: Resnick & Jones The Information Needs of A Community Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008 Aragon Room Leader: Mitchel Resnick, M.I.T.  Scribe: Nancy Jones, Community Foundation of Broward In today’s world: Information is: provided immediately – and expected immediately – email returns phone calls everything is on demand – instant information gratification As a result: we get too […]

Day 1 Friedland & Williamson 2/20/2008 The Information Needs of A Community Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Majorca Room Leader: Lewis A. Friedland, University of Wisconsin-Madison Scribe: Heidi Williamson, Berks County Community Foundation The Role of the Daily Newspaper Communities across the country are seeing their daily newspapers continue to decline. The papers are no longer family owned, […]

Day 1 Gordon & Torgersen The Information Needs of A Community Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008 Marbella Room Leader: Rich Gordon, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University Scribe: Carolyn Torgersen, VP Marketing and Communications, Community Foundation of the Lowcountry Rich Gordon did a brief icebreaker and asked participants to describe an issue in their community that was affected […]