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Visit, revist or replay #DEN09 presentations

You can visit, revisit or replay the presentations from the #DEN09 Paywalls and Partnerships session in Preston on 29th October 2009 by checking out the liveblog log or following these links to the speakers' slides: - François Nel , director of the Journalism Leaders Programme at UCLan, presented highlights from a study into the online revenue models of news publishers in Britain’s 66 cities, 'Where else is the money?' - Sarah Hartley , Launch Editor of Guardian Local, 'The Hyperlocal Space; or is it hype about local?' (Also see Sarah's great blog post on the whole session). - Tony Johnston , Head of Training, Press Association, 'A new model for public service reporting in Britain' . - Alastair Bruce , Senior Content Manager for Microsoft UK, 'What does MSN Local’s partnership proposal mean for regional publishers?' Diary note: #DEN10A, the first of three Digital Editors Network meetings planned for 2010, is schedule for 25th February 2010 in P

Follow the live blog of #DEN meeting on paywalls & partnerships 29/10/09

Digital Editors' Network: Paywalls & Partnerships Twitter #DEN09 This event is hosted by the Lancashire Evening Post, Preston, and sponsored by the School of Journalism, Media & Communication at the University of Central Lancashire with support from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) 13:00 DEN Registration & networking lunch at the Lancashire Evening Post . [Those planning to arrive by train and wanting to share a taxi from the station, please post a comment here with your ETA in Preston] 13:45 Welcome Simon Reynolds , Editorial Director, Lancashire Evening Post, 14:00 Where else is the money? François Nel , director of the Journalism Leaders Programme, presents some highlights from a two-year research project into the online revenue models of news publishers in Britain’s 66 cities. 14:15 Sarah Hartley , Digital Editor, The Guardian, on Guardian Local partnerships for innovation.Break1 14:45 Tony Johnston , Press Association, on teaming

Autumn 2009 meeting; paywalls and partnerships

Speakers from Microsoft, the Press Association, WAN-IFRA, The Guardian and The Journalism Leaders Programme at UCLan will consider paywalls and partnerships at the next meeting of the Digital Editors' Network on 29th October 2009 in Preston. Spaces for this free event, which is hosted by the Lancashire Evening Post, are extremely limited, so please reserve your DEN seat here soonest . [Update 25/09/2009: All spaces for the afternoon sessions have been reserved, but there are still tickets available for the networking reception at 5pm and the Forum that follows. Reserve your Forum seat here . The next DEN sessions are planned for 25 February and 29 April 2010] 13:00 DEN Registration & networking lunch at the Lancashire Evening Post . [Those planning to arrive by train and wanting to share a taxi from the station, please post a comment here with your ETA in Preston] 13:45 Welcome Nick Turner , the CN Group's head of digital content development. 13:50 Where else is the money?

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

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 Charma