It’s remarkably simple.  I think I waved my arms a lot to fill up my five minutes.

This presentation goes well with the list of mostly free online news tools I posted a couple weeks ago, as well.  That seems to be generating a lot of traffic, which tells me there are still a ton of people out there who need a toolbox like this to work and play with.

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It’s not intended to be all-encompassing; it’s just a short list of things I find useful.  You might find them useful, too.

But if you have any suggestions for additions, feel free to shout ‘em out.

I’ll be giving a *short* presentation about the magic of the “Embed This” button during the panel I’m on this afternoon at SND.  Planning to post the simple slides later.  No bullet points, I promise.  Zero.

[UPDATE: Check out this list of 60 sites presented by Ron Sylvester and Virtual Farmgirl at SPJ in Atlanta this week.]

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Here’s the plan I’m cooking up for a little video interview project:

• Carry my point & shoot camera.
• Ask lots of people I meet to answer one question on video.
• Post all the answers.
• Edit together the best into a short promo.

So what’s the question?

That’s where you come in. Help me refine this angle, or come up with your own:

“In the media blogosphere (and media in general for that matter), we tend to talk about the problems of ‘newspapers’ as if every single publication were exactly the same.  But we all know there’s no one-size-fits-all solution.  What’s the biggest obstacle you face, at your job, to innovation?”

What do you think? Am I on the right track? The goal here is to get real boots-on-ground answers from working journalists — in this case, I’m expecting most of them will be print and online designers or editors of some stripe at major metros.

I’m most interested in obstacles to innovation, but there might be a better way to word that — or even a more positive way to frame my question?

[UPDATE:] Commenters and tweeters want something more positive, something along the lines of this:

What are you doing in your organization, right now, to drive innovation?

Help me work on the question here.  Post a Seesmic video comment for super extra bonus points, and you might show up as a talking head in the video stream later this week.

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Check out the schedule of speakers at SND for starters and drool: DeVigal. Curley. Veen.

The “Young Voices” panel I’m on (yes, yes, they know I have a gray hair or four) has moved from Sunday afternoon to Monday at 4:30.  Stop by, check it out, and let’s talk about how you can drive innovation from the bottom-up at your newspaper.

And then I’ll latch onto every editor I can find in the APME crowd and pitch ReportingOn as a way to help their reporters network with the cloud of knowledge about their beat out there in the professional and citizen journalism worlds.

If you’ll be there next week, track me down early and often.  You should be able to find me here or on Twitter easily enough.

Many, many thanks to the SND crew for inviting me and to the Knight Foundation for sending me.  See you in Vegas on Sunday night.

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