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[The Information Valet Project]

Blueprinting the Information Valet Economy

Building a collaborative, shared-user network
December 3-5, 2008 / Reynolds Journalism Institute / Columbia, Missouri

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Pre-convening resources

Here are links to a series of resources which might inform the discussion at "Blueprinting the Information Valet Economy," Dec. 3-5 at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.

Pre- and post-summit discussions

"Blueprint" participants who arrive early on Wednesday or can remain into the afternoon on Friday may wish to join either of two "RJI-Lunchstorm" events. On Wednesday at noon, in RJI Room 2003, Tom Stites will discuss his Banyan Project. And on Friday, at noon, Bonnie Obremski will discuss the RepJ project at Northfield, Minn., also in RJI Room 2003. Both briefings are informal, Q&A sessions; you're encouraged to bring a bag lunch.

Live video stream planned Dec. 4-5

For remote participants, live video streaming of the "Blueprint" discussions will be available via Ustream.tv on the InfoValet channel. Tentatively we'll begin stream at 8:30 p.m. CENTRAL on Thurs., Dec. 4. Viewers may off text comments or questions about the stream as it is in progress by typing in the clear bar on the bottom right of the page to the left of the SEND button. Clicking on send it will display the comments in the chat window above and make them visible to all other viewers. Please identify youself at first reference.

Bookmark the #infovalet Twitter stream

• "InfoValet" is the name of the Twitter stream where we'll be commenting live on activities at "Blueprint" -- http://www.twitter.com/infovalet . If you are posting about "Blueprint" to your own Twitter feed, please included the tag "#infovalet" in each post. In that way, your tweets, and those of other participants and remote viewers, will be picked up and viewable on THIS PAGE.

Backchannels for following and contributing to the discussion

• EMAIL/GOOGLEGROUP -- During "Blueprint" we'll be monitoring the email address infovalet@gmail.com. If you have comments or ideas to contribute you can use plain old email to reach us. We'll also forward your email to the RJI-Fellows Google Group (http://groups.google.com/group/rji-fellows/) if it seems relevant.
  
• COVERITLIVE -- We'll be experimenting with a live backchannel "chat" channel for participants during some parts of "Blueprint." With a service called CoverItLive.com, several designated narrators will be posting briefing comments about the discussions Dec. 4 and 5. You can follow these comments -- and offer comments and suggestions of your own to the narrator. To launch the window and participate Click Here.

Blogging from the "Blueprint" summit

• Several participants in "Blueprint" will be writing short blog posts at the Information Valet Project blog. You can also grab/bookmark the RSS stream.

Iowa-based news CEO's blog on innovation

• Chuck Peters is CEO of the company which owns the Cedar Rapids Gazette plus printing and other subsidiaries. He'll be joining us at "Blueprint" and he's been following and seeding innovation in the former newspaper industry. Here's his blog. Peters attended a 50-executive summit at the American Press Institute and covered it live with Twitter.

Former Massachusetts publisher's News after Newspapers

• Martin Langeveld was the No.2 person at the family-owned Berkshire Eagle for more than a decade, then publisher of two MediaNews Group Inc. dailies. He writes his blog from near Brattleboro, Vt.