2006 Dallas Convention News Team

Post-Dallas Convention Review (11/1/2006)

(Note: These are the post-conference comments from the news team)

Overall News Team Plan (9/1/2006)

(Note, this was our plan before the convention)

  • have a really live website, with regular updates by as many contributors as want to contribute. constructed by Trey and Nate. See: 2006 Dallas Convention site plans
  • daily one-page printed newsletter of what to look forward to that day, and perhaps highlights of the previous day. led by Dennis Charsky.
  • four to five "on the ground" podcasters, recording interviews, discussions, and sessions. The Podcasting Plan led by Anne Leftwich and John Curry.
  • two "conference bloggers", in addition to our automatically aggregated blog content, coordinated by Michael Barbour. (Note: this didn't happen).
  • three official photographers, shooting photos all day, and uploading all day. led by David Wiley.
    • photos highlighted on site
    • other folks contributing photos to flickr, using tag AECT2006
  • social bookmarking with delicious, using tag AECT2006. (People didn't use this.)
  • Birds of a Feather impromptu sessions, with a dedicated web announcements space and physical bulletin board at convention. (Didn't happen).

Team members

  • Trey Martindale--organizing everything and making sure it gets done
  • technical (software and hardware) expertise:
  • podcaster interviewers: Anne Leftwich, John Curry, many others
  • conference bloggers: Michael Barbour
  • photographers: David Wiley
  • newspaper reporters
  • newspaper distributors

Equipment needed

  • digital audio recorders
  • olympus provided 16 digital audio recorders and 2 still cameras
  • still cameras
  • laptops
  • wireless lapel mics
  • handheld mics
  • USB mics