News Wants to Be Social: The Video

I’m doing some catch up here.

A couple of weeks ago I was honored to moderate a panel on journalists’ use of social media at a conference called NVision, a day-long meeting held at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. It was supported by the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, the Knight Foundation, the Online News Association and the Newspaper Guild.

Below is a video of our panel, which featured Patrick Cooper, new media guy at USA Today; Etan Horowitz, tech columnist and social media power user at the Orlando Sentinel; Scott Karp, CEO of journalists’ social platform Publish2; and Jennifer Golbeck, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland and director of the university’s MINDSWAP Semantic Web Lab.

These folks were great, full of diverse perspectives, vivid examples and good humor.

To get past my intro, which catches me in full evangelical bluster, skip directly to 1:30 in the video.

Sorry, the embed code is misbehaving, so you’ll need to click on the static image below to go to the video. That’s a picture of Etan.

And here’s my pre-conference blog entry, to which I’ve added a couple of other post-conference writeups.