[Please circulate far and wide] Next month, Toronto hosts the annual conference for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (http://www.aejmc.org/) . As part of the pre-conference hoopla, the Canadian Newspaper Association and the Public Journalism Network (http://www.pjnet.org) has organized an afternoon-long workshop which I'll be moderating. We'll be talking about blogging and how it can inform ideas about participatory and public journalism. Participants are to include Dan Gillmor, Jeff Jarvis, Rebecca MacKinnon and Jay Rosen. (Links to their blogs are at my blog: http://davidakin.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2004/7/13/105294.html) Here's the blurb from the PJNet site: --------------- Exploring the Fusion Power of Public and Participatory Journalism August 3, 2004, Toronto, Precedes AEJMC Convention Participatory journalism tools in the form of weblogs and other electronic communications are changing the face of mass media, but are complementary to public journalism. These are powerful tools as Howard Dean’s campaign proved by using weblogs and MeetUp to get 170,000 people nationwide to sign up for face-to-face meetings. The Daily Kos, a citizen run weblog, has 1.5 million unique visitors a month. These are just two of many impressive examples. Learn how we can borrow from or incorporate these tools to improve the state of journalism. Walk Away Knowing: •  What journalists can put to use now •  What questions researchers should be asking •  What journalism professors should be teaching •  How citizens around the world can practice participatory journalism •  How to begin building information communities. ------------------ [More at: http://www.pjnet.org/toronto_conference.shtml] Canadians interested in this event can download a form and register at: http://www.cna-acj.ca/client/cna/cna.nsf/web/EventsSeminars/ The registration includes dinner and cocktail social! -- David Akin ----------- Oakville, Ontario, CANADA http://www.akin.ca http://davidakin.blogware.com