Meetings and Notes

• 10.26.08
  Quick updates, what’s coming up and mad link love Meetings and Notes | (1)

  If you subscribe to this blog via RSS, be sure to check out our new theme/design (thanks to Drew Geraets!). This week's Skype call featured a few new faces (sorry for the flood of links here): Patrick Thornton (@jiconoclast) of BeatBlogging.org and the Journalism Iconoclast blog David Cohn (@digidave) of Spot.Us, one of last year's Knight News Challenge winners Dharmishta Rood (@dharmishta) of the Populous project, another one of last year's Knight winners Each provided valuable feedback regarding our Knight application, which we will finalize before the Nov. 1 deadline. (A quick shout out again to Anthony Pesce, who provided great feedback on last week's ...
• 10.21.08
  Great KNC Advice from Anthony Pesce of Populous Meetings and Notes | (2)

  As has been suggested a few times in the recent past, this week's conference call took a positive turn and fostered a fantastic discussion instead of focusing solely on action items. This was due in part to the small turnout, but also because we were joined by Anthony Pesce, a 2007 Knight News Challenge winner with Populous. Since the KNC deadline is fast approaching and CoPress will be submitting an application come November 1, we talked about what we already have in the Garage and how our answers can be refined. Ryan Sholin already provided some great feedback there, so we used ...
• 10.14.08
  New Members, Survey Take-Aways, and Branch Updates Meetings and Notes | (0)

  Another Sunday, another conference call, and plenty more progress here at CoPress. We're making good headway and nearing some milestones that will push the organization into the limelight while firming up some questions that you may have. First, though, some news: we have new members! CoPress is lucky to have attracted the talents of Matt Blalock and Megan Taylor, two individuals that are sure to help once things start getting technical. Matt is  the proprietor of Vewd, a documentary photography Web site, and Megan is a recent graduate of the University of Florida. They're both comfortable with scripting and their favorite ...
• 10.06.08
  Survey nearly done, preparing to decamp Meetings and Notes | (0)

  With our survey of college newsrooms wrapping up this week, Sunday's conference call focused mainly on logistics. We're getting ready to go from solely information-gathering to actually doing stuff. If you still haven't taken our survey, please go do it now. It will close on Friday Oct. 10, so don't delay. We've received a lot of responses, but could use a lot more. The better we know your needs, the better we can help each other. So spread the word. We'll compile the results and plan to share them next week. The survey will be used as a guide in choosing projects ...
• 09.29.08
  Our first survey, the Organization Development Roadmap, and where in the world is Populous? Meetings and Notes | (1)

  Boy. Things are finally moving forward. The unfortunate side effect of the matter is the work that goes along with it, but it's exciting nonetheless. This post is the first of what I hope to be a weekly series: every time we have a general conference call, someone takes a half an hour to synthesize what they think the important notes of the meeting are. This will also be the post that powers one of our podcasts, as that's just the way WordPress works. First off, I'd like to thank Joey, Kevin, Adam, Greg, Jared and Drew for joining me tonight. ...