The Information Valet: Where News and Information Are Valued—and Paid For [Print This Page]
- Time: 9:40-10:00 a.m.
- Date: Friday, Sept. 12
- Place: Fisher Auditorium, 87 Gannett Hall
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It could be a dream-come-true for publishers, producers and artists: a shared-user commercial network of news and information. Online members could realize three major benefits. One is the ability to share, sell and buy content through multiple Web sites with one ID, password, account and bill. A second benefit would update the role, effectiveness and compensation for online advertising. The third advantage would enhance privacy options by allowing user privacy/profile management to be controlled by the consumer. Bill Densmore will share his plans to define, document and rally public support for this shared-user network as a 2008-2009 Donald W. Reynolds Fellow.
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Presenter: Bill Densmore
2008-2009 Donald W. Reynolds Fellow
Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
Bill Densmore is a member of the 2008-2009 inaugural class of Fellows at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. He is a career journalist, publisher and entrepreneur currently working on the Media Giraffe Project, the New England News Forum and Journalism That Matters, all collaborative projects concerning the future of journalism and democracy. Specifically, the Media Giraffe at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst includes a book project, curriculum development, a resource-rich Web site and a planned conference in the summer 2009. With a degree in environmental policy and communications, Densmore is an expert on Internet information technologies and Internet-related business models. He has been an editor and writer for The Associated Press and for trade publications in business, law and insurance. Densmore has written for ComputerWorld Magazine and has freelanced for general circulation dailies including the Boston Globe. In 1993, after nine years owning and publishing weeklies in Massachusetts, Densmore formed what became Clickshare Service Corp., which provides user registration, authentication and transaction handling for Internet Web content sites.
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About the Technology Summit
The Technology Summit is an action-packed exhibition of the ideas, trends, tools, technologies and companies that are leading the way into 21st-century journalism. Leading technology experts and industry pioneers will preside over interactive presentations divided into three tracks: Digital Storytelling, Disruptive Technologies and Web 3.0 Economics. Guests will have the chance to see new technologies at work and visit with those who are shaping tomorrow's media.
Technology Summit Advisers
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Kim Garretson
General Partner
Realist Ventures & Advisory Services
Blog: Realist
Kim Garretson, BJ '73, is a general partner in Realist Ventures & Advisory Services. He advises venture capital firms, early-stage consumer digital media companies, retailers and media companies on disruptive innovation. Previously, Garretson was the liaison to the venture capital industry for Best Buy's Corporate Strategy & Innovation division. Prior to that, Garretson co-founded NOVO Media Group, which was the fourth-largest digital agency at its sale to Leo Burnett in 2001. Garretson also has been a partner in the upper Midwest's largest marketing and public relations agency. He began his career as a senior editor and technology columnist for Better Homes and Gardens.
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Mike McKean
Director of the Futures Lab
Reynolds Journalism Institute
Mike McKean is the Futures Lab director at the Reynolds Journalism Institute and a professor at the Missouri School of Journalism, where he has taught for 22 years. McKean created the School's convergence journalism program and chaired the convergence journalism faculty from 2005-2008. He is a leader in teaching with technology at the local, national and international levels. Winner of the MU's Innovator Award, McKean is chairing the campus Information Technology Committee; coordinating partnerships with Apple, Inc., AT&T and Adobe Systems; and helping establish convergence curricula at Moscow State University in Russia and Shantou University in China. McKean also has chaired the radio-TV news faculty at Missouri, served as Web director at KOMU-TV and news director of KBIA-FM. Before joining the School of Journalism, he was managing editor of KTRH NewsRadio in Houston and assistant news director at the Missourinet in Jefferson City.
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