Sydney Media140 and Ignite
September 21st, 2009 • all posts
Thanks to some cool marketing efforts from our team at CBS Interactive (which publishes the site I work on, ZDNet.com.au), I’m going to be publicly speaking at a couple of upcoming events.
The first is the Sydney leg of the Media140 conference, which investigates the future of journalism in the social media age. The conference blurb states:
Staged at ABC’s Eugene Goossens’ Hall, Sydney on 5th – 6th of November, bringing together Australia’s leading journalists, broadcasters, social media advocates and media academics. To educate and promote debate within the media industry about Twitter and the plethora of other social media platforms and practices.
I’m going to be on the Social Media Tips and Tools for Journos panel on day 2 of the conference (6 November), a session which runs from 11:45 to 12:45. I’ll be on the panel with fellow journalists and producers Wolf Cocklin (ABC Digital), Queensland-based journalist Dave Earley and Future Tense producer Andrew Davies.
The other event I’m presenting at is the third Ignite Sydney, which will be held on 8 October as part of Sydney Web Week. It’ll be held at the Watershed Hotel in Darling Harbour. I can’t remember my exact pitch, but it’s something like this:
“We’re far from dead and still around and kicking. Find out how zombie journalists can rise up and conquer the internet age. Grrr, argh.”
I’m quite excited about both events as, quite aside from the presenting side of things (which I always enjoy), I’ve got a feeling I’m going to meet a stack of really interesting people. As a news editor I don’t get out of the office as much as I used to when I was just a journalist, so when I do, I try to make sure it’s an interesting event!