What is the ONA conference?Thousands of journalists travel to ONA’s conference each year to learn about new tools, techniques and technologies, to discuss advancements and challenges in the industry, take advantage of the rare opportunity to network face-to-face, and share best practices with peers from all over the map.

http://ona12.journalists.org/about/

Who represented us?Bob PayneSuki DardarianMark HigginsDavid BoardmanAlbert McMurry Lauren Rabaino

(Good-lookin’ group, eh?)

25+ things we learned

Earthfix

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BBC’s Olympics coverageFour-screen

storytelling with one-click discovery

BBC’s Olympics coverage

11,000 athletes300 countries36 sports300 medal events

BBC’s Olympics coverage

11,000 athletes300 countries36 sports300 medal events

“If you’re going to do that amount of

content, you have to make

sure your content can find

it really, really easily.”

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BBC’s Olympics coverageINTERESTING TIDBIT: People who were using the app were navigating around the app more than they were on the desktop browser side,

even though exactly the same content.Key difference on the app was the key

sticky navigation.

Gaming the newsParticipated in a day-long conference at IGN headquarters about how to make a game of the news.

Gaming the news

GOAL: How do we create games that help people understand complex issues without

oversimplifying facts?

Gaming the news

Gaming the news

Gaming the news

Invest 80 percent of your time in 20 percent of

content that will really make a difference.

— Gabriel Sama on newsroom design

“People, when you craft an experience that is

amazing for them, will pay for it.”

— NPR’s Dave Wright on Good Design Experiences

Do something fast, iterate on it, and cost of

failure will be low.— NPR’s Dave Wright on newsroom experimentation

Everpurse

Charges your smartphone (including iPhone 4, iPhone 5, and Samsung Galaxy S3) all day without wires.

SuperPACappWith Super PAC App, viewers can hold up phone to identify a commercial and receive objective, third-party information such as who and how much money is behind the ad, what claims the ad is making, and whether those claims are based on facts.

Truth GogglesImagine if every factual claim were highlighted in news articles — true, false, or otherwise. Truth Goggles draws on PolitiFact’s database of about 5,500 fact-checked claims and flags any matches in the article you’re reading.

Truth GogglesImagine if every factual claim were highlighted in news articles — true, false, or otherwise. Truth Goggles draws on PolitiFact’s database of about 5,500 fact-checked claims and flags any matches in the article you’re reading.

socialcamThis one might make it far easier for reporters and others to share raw video. This app makes it easy to upload to social media. It’s not new but I didn’t know about it and I’m not sure others here do.

“Design is how it works.”Development process that’s small, multidisciplinary, the group and everyone in the group is empowered, accountability. Two week increments. Iterative. Continuous testing and validation of direction means less surprises (good and bad) at the end.

AGILE

“Design is how it works.”At the beginning of any project ask “what’s the least it can be?”

PROCESS

“Design is how it works.”Research, Context, Empathize, Synthesize

At the beginning of any project ask “what’s the least it can be?”

“Show don’t tell.”Make paper prototypes.

DESIGNTHINKING

Evening EditionTo help answer that, we built Evening Edition. It’s a summary of the day’s news, written by an actual journalist, with links to the best reporting in the world, published once a day. It’s optimized for your phone or iPad so you can read it on the train home or on the couch.

How is anyone supposed to sift through

everything to get to the important

stuff?

Evening EditionTo help answer that, we built Evening Edition. It’s a summary of the day’s news, written by an actual journalist, with links to the best reporting in the world, published once a day. It’s optimized for your phone or iPad so you can read it on the train home or on the couch.

How is anyone supposed to sift through

everything to get to the important

stuff?

Google Civic Info API

Google unveiled this a tool journalists can use to build election apps based on “voting information for an individual U.S. address, including polling place, early vote sites, contests, and local election official contact information.”

Tablet news design tipsIt's all about the swipe.WaPost’s app * still in dev* incorporates print version, with emphasis on share options* keeps the article page simple.

Emphasis on tablet apps that are video aggregators

Both of following sites suggested we contact them to share our news videos via their services:http://www.newsala.com/app/http://watchup.com/

Extra battery powerHyperMac is an external battery for any USB-driven device — your iPad, your iPhone, your laptop. “This is a life saver,” Robert Hernandez (@webjournalist) promises.

"Tweet Your Beat!"Twitter’s Mark Luckie sharedtips at Twitter’s HQ about best practices for journalists

"Tweet Your Beat!"Tweet your beat and tweet it liveFor people who post a concentrated number of tweets in a short time span (i.e. liveblogging coverage), follower growth is 50 percent more than average.

"Tweet Your Beat!"Use hashtags for contextYep, we all know this one, but you probably didn’t know that it can increase engagement almost 100 percent (2x) for individuals and 50 percent (1.5x) for brands.

"Tweet Your Beat!"@Cite your sourcesBrands that tweet 20 percent fewer URLs and 100 percent more @mentions grow followers 17 percent more than average. This means you should mix up your tweet style to post a mixture of links and mentions to grow your audience.

"Tweet Your Beat!"

Share what you’re readingNews accounts receive 100 percent more (2x) active engagement on a high-performing tweet when a URL is included. Also, use that retweet button!

Also from Twitter...CEO Dick Costolo promises uses will be able to download all their tweets by end of this year.

Knight Award winners announcedcensus.ire.org: Want to make it dead simple for journalists to use census data in their stories.The Open Elections Project - goal is to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election data for the United States, including federal and statewide offices.

HomicideWatch.org: They met their fund-raising goal. Was given the Knight Award for public service at ONA.

Searching for UGC

Go beyond Twitter, Flickr and Facebook - NYT offers 18 social-media sources

Google Now outdoes SiriIt tells you today’s weather before you start your day, how much traffic to expect before you leave for work, when the next train will arrive as you’re standing on the platform, or your favorite team's score while they’re playing. And the best part? All of this happens automatically. Cards appear throughout the day at the moment you need them.

“Zoom with your feet.”— Richard Koci Hernandez

“Art goes in your eye, touch and feeling go through your

hands…..When you design for a website, it is about what you

show. For the iPad, it is all about what you hide.”

— Adriano Farano, Stanford

“We start with the article in thinking through what we are

doing (on tablet). We wanted the article to be the star. Type is sexy.

(They’ve gotten “insane traffic” from mobile by linking at the end of a story to the “next article.”)

— Joey Marburger, mobile design director, WaPo

Evening on the tablet: Arizona Republic is creating and evening magazine tablet application. ABC

is going to be focusing on 8-11 p.m. with multiple screens.

Tiziano Project 360 Palestine: gave social media skills and tools to people in East Jerusalem and the West Bank so they could tell their story. Designed for the iPad.

“If you are truly passionate about creating it, you'll be just as

passionate about supporting it.”— Justin Ellis and Matt Thompson on collaborating with the biz side

“Resources x time= results. Be mindful of process (workflow, project planning). Be

aware of culture and value. Of the business model. Be demanding of technology. Don't

allow technology to dictate. Build in flexibility. Assume change will happen. Plan

for scale. Organizations don’t scale back well.

— Gabriel Sama, Founder, Rest of the World Media

“Eliminate the culture about protecting information. One big meeting, with everyone there. Required to share

information. Swaps and skills building. Everyone got to sit in the ‘hot seat,’ taking

responsibilities for the big calls.”

— Steve Hermann, BBC News

“Eliminate the culture about protecting information. One big meeting, with everyone there. Required to share

information. Swaps and skills building. Everyone got to sit in the ‘hot seat,’ taking

responsibilities for the big calls.”

— Steve Hermann, BBC News

Spundge

Podio

Overview

Video Notebook

A new tool designed to help reporters quickly annotate and analyze audio and video content.

Dispatch

A supersecret social-media/publishing tool for citizens war zones and scary situations.

GlassboardOur new favorite thing ever. Could see uses for reporters in breaking news situations.