2009 FOI Summit Media and Coverage

Follow the links below for some great content from and coverage of the 2009 FOI Summit from Minneapolis.

• Streaming Media

  The good folks at The UpTake were kind and diligent enough to stream a lot of the conference while it was ongoing; now, they've gone the next step and created an archive of much of the conference for all to see and hear. You can find links to the streamed content here.

  We can't thank The UpTake and their crew enough.

• PowerPoint

  Granted, it's not as good as having been there, but you still can get great ideas and valuable insight by downloading the PowerPoint presentation from Richard J.H. Varn's Opening Remarks (960 KB).

• PDF

  View a PDF of the 2009 FOI Summit Program (4.6 MB PDF File).

  View a PDF from the Ten Technologies panel (10 MB PDF File) as presented by Lisa Skube, Jeff Lennan, and Karl Pearson-Cater.

• YouTube

  As an added bonus, enjoy the opening piece Did You Know? from the Ten Technologies panel, with video created by Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Brenman. You can see the video at this link.

• Bloggy Coverage

  The FOI Advocate was on the job, and has great recaps and photos of the various activities.

  Credit and much appreciation goes to Stephanie Detillier, Mike Martinez, and Heath Hooper (all from the Missouri School of Journalism) for their efforts in covering the panels and presentations and helping out NFOIC with conference duties on site.

  Below, click on a link to be taken to the Advocate's coverage.

  • Public Access Values and Public Access Threats (Opening Remarks)
  • Coalition Sustainability, including:
    • Arizona FOI roundup
    • Delaware FOI roundup
    • Kentucky FOI roundup
    • Missouri FOI roundup
    • Oklahoma FOI roundup
    • Wisconsin FOI roundup
    • Florida FOI roundup
    • Minnesota FOI roundup
  • Ten Technologies You Should Be Using
  • FOI and Infrastructure and Tips for covering infrastructure
  • Mitchell Pearlman honored at NFOIC Summit
  • Text, Lies, and Videotape (The Keynote Speech)
  • Fiscal Transparency
  • FOI as Civics Education

We'll post more content as we receive it, so please be sure to check back often.