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ONA Takeaways

What were your big takeaways from ONA? Most interesting talks? Links to services? Please share any lessons or ideas you had here. If you blogged about your experience, please add a link here.

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Permalink Reply by Quint Randle on October 5, 2009 at 10:54am: I should have been there! (One our student newspaper staff advisors went, so we're looking forward to hearing his report.)

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Permalink Reply by Yuri on October 5, 2009 at 11:26am: 12 things every news site should know (via Jesse James Garrett):
1) Know who you are. Define what you're best at.
2) Be in the Web, not on the Web. See your product as part of the Web, not a delivery channel.
3) The Web is not the world. Deliver well what users come to your site for.
4) Know what people do with news. People absorb news. People want to apply news. People want to share news. News provides pleasure.
5) Support different modes of engagement. Design solutions that support scanning needs and deep dive needs.
6) Every page is the home page.
7) Navigation is dead. Long-live navigation. People don't use global navigation, they use contextual navigation.
8) Put the multi in multimedia - Use a variety of means to tell stories
9) Headlines should tempt, not tease. Headlines should make people want to know what is on the other side of the link, not just wonder what the story is about.
10) Think outside the blob. Structure your data.
11) It's an application, not a publication. Create a tool that let's people work with the news, not just read the news.
12) Try things out, throw things out.

10 Tech trends (via Amy Webb): http://www.webbmediagroup.com/ONA2009.html

Human-centered design approach (via @dorsey) http://www.slideshare.net/SteveDorsey/ona09-audience-by-dorsey-2118355

Software development tools (via @brianboyer): http://hackerjournalist.net/2009/10/03/a-quick-primer-on-making-sof...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Ari Soglin on October 5, 2009 at 11:38am: BlogHer's Lisa Stone said to be successful: (1) Fall in love with a subject area; (2) Create great content; (3) Talk about it with others.

It's #3 that I'm going to be pushing harder in my newsroom, because I know we fall short there.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris O'Brien on October 5, 2009 at 11:51am: Leo Laporte responds to comments on his ONA Session: http://www.buzzmachine.com/2009/10/03/the-model-of-the-new-media-mo...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris O'Brien on October 5, 2009 at 11:52am: Reportr.Net: Understanding the semantic web at the ONA: http://reportr.net/2009/10/03/understanding-the-semantic-web-at-the...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris O'Brien on October 5, 2009 at 11:53am: Also, in general, a ton of great posts at Reportr.net on ONA sessions.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris O'Brien on October 5, 2009 at 11:54am: Nieman Journalism Lab is curating the best tweets here:

LabONA09: Recapping Friday’s sessions through the live lens of Twitter; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris O'Brien on October 5, 2009 at 11:56am: Ryan Sholin, Publish 2 from Online News Association on Vimeo.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Chris O'Brien on October 5, 2009 at 12:29pm: BayNewser: ONA 09: Theme of the Year: Embrace Failure, Mistakes Lead to Success.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Greg Linch on October 5, 2009 at 12:38pm: Link economy session was great (disclosure: my Publish2 peeps, yeah!). Also, Jay Rosen's live, participatory "Rebooting the News" session was excellent. I'll add the video here when it's finished.; ▶ Reply to This