EJC to host bloggers at Picnic

Maastricht - August 14, 2007

The European Journalism Centre will host a European Bloggers (Un)Conference: “East meets West,” to be held 27-28 September in Amsterdam, in conjunction with Picnic/Cross Media Week.

The conference will allow bloggers from the European Union and its neighbour countries to meet, share ideas and discuss new media developments in their respective countries.

On Thursday morning Evgeny Morozov of Transitions Online will talk about how the ‘East-West divide’ is reflected in the blogosphere.
Later on, Community animator and Project Manager Vanessa Witkowski will present CaféBabel Blogs and the Cafébabel community.  Managing Editor Michael Nederlof will then talk about the experience of the community driven news site Skoeps.nl.

The rest of the conference will continue in parallel tracks:

• “Citizen Journalism: How and When It works”
• “Blogging in Dangerous Places: Security Issues”
• “How does blogging affects society and politics, and viceversa”
• “Building Successful Web2.0 applications”

The EJC has set up a wiki where you will find more information.

The official website of Picnic.

Posted on August 14, 2007 by EJC
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