#DEN Spring Meeting Live Blog

Hitwise to present new research on UGC at Spring meeting

If integrating social media and user generated content into your news operation is on your agenda, don't miss the Winter DEN meeting on 12 May in Preston.

• Robin Goad, research director for the online market intelligence company Hitwise, will present How can online publishers utilize User Generated Content (UGC).
  
  User Generated Content (UGC) is a key growth area online, and social networks now attract 1 in 5 Internet page views in the UK. In this presentation, Robin will describe the digital content landscape in the UK, discuss the popularity of UGC (User Generated Content) brands (e.g Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia) - and compare some of their content strategies to those of top online publishing brands.

• Patrick Altoft, managing partner at Branded3, a Leeds-based full service digital agency. Patrick will take a practical look at the role search engine optimisation plays in social media marketing.

• Nick Turner, head of digital content for the CN Group, on Opening the doors to the community. How newspapers in Cumbria have been providing training to community groups and giving them access to create content on their websites. Groups ranging from the police to the Brownies have taken up the opportunity and now add news, information and pictures. Nick will report on the pros and cons of the experiment.

The meeting, which starts with a networking lunch at 1pm, leads into a networking reception at 5pm and the the 12th Journalism Leaders Forum at 6pm. These events form part of the programme of the Spring seminar of the Journalism Leaders Programme at the University of Central Lancashire, who sponsor the event.

To sign up to attend or for more information, contact the convenors Nick Turner or François Nel.

Play it again: Recording of 11th Forum

An unedited recording of the 11th Forum on the 3rd of February 2009 is available at http://breeze01.uclan.ac.uk/p94126209/ .

Diary note: 12th Forum and Digital Editors Network meeting is scheduled for 12th May as part of the Spring seminar of the Journalism Leaders Programme at UClan.

Telegraph executive editor amongst the high-profile line-up for Winter meeting

An exciting range of high profile speakers have been lined-up for the Winter meeting of the Digital Editors’ Network on February 3^rd .

The free event at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston will include:

• An insight into the digital transformation of the Daily Telegraph when Mark Skipworth, executive editor of the Daily and Sunday Telegraph gives the University’s Harris Lecture.
• A discussion about how newspapers can best make use of their archives in the digital age with a presentation by Patrick Fleming, head of reader and reference services at the British Library. He has been the driving force behind its newspaper strategy which has already seen digitization of more than three million pages of searchable content from national and regional newspapers.
  Patrick has edited three regional daily newspapers at Bournemouth, Southampton and Oxford and worked extensively in digital media.

The Q&A session will be led by blogger and social media specialist Suw Charman- Anderson of Corante.com

• The Guardian blogs editor Kevin Anderson on lessons learned from the social media coverage of the UK presidential election. With a UK election lurking somewhere on the political horizon it should be an informative and useful session.
• Eric Ulkin, former Los Angeles Times online editor, will talk about building the LA Times datadesk and alternative forms of story building.
  

The day includes lunch and a networking reception before the Journalism Leaders Forum in the evening with BBC Business Editor Robert Peston joining the panel for a discussion entitled: ‘The Bottom Line: Is the business of journalism affecting the journalism of business?"

Other panellists are FT.com interactive editor Kate Mackenzie, Crain’s Manchester Business publisher Arthur Porter, TheBusinessDesk.com editor, (North West) Chris Barry. The Guardian’s Kevin Anderson will chair the discussion.

The Digital Editors’ Network is a free event run in conjunction with the Journalism Leaders’ Programme of the School of Journalism, Media and Communication at UCLAN.

To book your place and to get full details of the event please email Nick Turner nturner@cngroup.co.uk.

How criminals can do wonders for your website

Here's one of the ideas that was aired at our Digital Editor's Forum: A gallery of criminals adding 60,000 page impressions a month
See the gallery at the News & Star
See the write of the idea by Laura Oliver at http://www.journalism.co.uk/2/articles/532497.php

Get more ideas like this at the next Digital Editors' Network on February 3rd.

Nick

Replay the Leaders Forum

You'll find useful links and a the chance to watch video of the Journalism Leaders Forum here

The event took place on the same day as our Digital Editors Network meeting and featured Steve Yelvington, Stephen Gray, Kevin Anderson, Simon Reynolds, Jane Singer and François Nel discussing what hard times are teaching media decision-makers about the way forward.

Legal Briefing update

Thanks to everyone who turned out to our successful meeting on Tuesday.

We had around 30 people for the legal briefing which kicked off the Digital Editors' Network meeting.

Notes and video to follow.

Sarah Hartley has highlighted dangers of linking in her notes on the meeting over on her blog

Next meeitng is Feb 3rd