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I’ll be participating in the Optimize and Monetize panel on Friday, Sept. 12 from 2:30 to 3:45. Here’s a PDF schedule for the entire conference, and here are details on the Optimize and Monetize panel …

“Master the art of online advertising and understand what works for your site. Are you using excess inventory to your advantage? What do advertisers need? What do marketers think when they decide what to spend and where to spend it? Where are you going wrong?
“Panelists: Ken Doctor, news industry analyst for Outsell; Mark Rose, director for sales strategy, Tribune Company; Bob Benz, partner, Maroon Ventures.”

The University of Tennessee is holding “A Public Conversation on Web Journalism” this Thursday and Friday (April 3-4) in Knoxville. I’ll be participating in a panel on Thursday at 2 p.m. and I’ll be introducing the inimitable Rob Curley that evening.

Rob is the keynote speaker for the conference, which also features Jack Lail and Lauren Spuhler of Knoxnews.com (one of the best newspaper sites in the country), Katie Allison Granju, who has done a tremendous job with the WBIR site and her KnoxvilleTalks blog, and perhaps most intriguingly, Randy Neal of KnoxViews.com. Randy is a true citizen journalist whom I’ve been following since his South KnoxBubba days.

There are a lot of other great speakers and panels planned. Well worth a look …