Well it’s my day off, and I’m spending it… going to a conference. Or rather an “unconference”. I’m off to JEECamp, the Journalism, Enterprise and Entrepreneurship unconference organised by Paul Bradshaw, of Online Journalism Blog fame.
The wiki set up for the event describes it as:
“an opportunity for a range of people to get together to talk about how on earth journalists and publishers can make a living from journalism in the era of free information, what the challenges are, and what we’ve learned so far.
“It is also an opportunity for people with different skills and experiences to network, share those experiences, and perhaps suggest partnerships or new projects.”
Keynote speaker is Rick Waghorn, founder of the MyFootballWriter website.
Despite having the technical title of Enterprise Editor at the Birmingham Post, I’m not a particularly enterprising person, happy to be a cog in the machine. So I’m not going to have a lot to bring to the table, but it’s going to be fascinating hopefully meeting some people with the skills and drive o make it – enterprise is the future in erms of Journalism seems to be the line.
I’m not going to be doing any video blogging or anything clever like that (see earlier post), but will hopefully be twittering, and for anyone interested, there’s video coverage going to be put up here.
Anyway, now I’ve written this I’m running late! Later everyone.
Tom Scotney 