| 8:30am - 9:15am | Registration and breakfast |
| 9:15am - 9:30am | Welcome and Introduction |
9:30am-
10:15am | Advanced Search and Google Trends
Going beyond the little white box we’ve come to use every day, this session will teach you tips and tricks to help you become a better Google searcher. We’ll also show you the newly improved and recently launched Google Trends, a tool that lets you dive into search data to gain useful insights about what’s on the world’s mind. |
| 10:15am- 11:00am | Big Data: Innovation in Data Journalism
We take a look at the trends and innovation in data journalism around the world and how Google tools, such as Maps and Fusion Tables, are powering data journalism efforts from The Guardian to The New York Times. Plus, later in the day, participants will be given the opportunity to start building their own visualisations using Fusion Tables. |
| 11:00am- 11:30am | Morning tea |
| 11:30am- 12:15pm | Social Media Panel
With all the social platforms available, many organisations face the question of how and where to best connect with their audiences. We hear from three social media editors, via a Google+ Hangout, on their team’s approach. |
| 12:15pm - 1:00pm | YouTube for Media
It used to be that newsrooms were confined to a single format — print, radio or television — and restricted to the geographic area in which they’d always been distributed. With YouTube, newsrooms can attract their share of an 800M-strong monthly YouTube audience, and use more and more video to bring their storytelling to life. In this session we’ll cover best practice for news organizations working with YouTube, copyright tools to help manage content online, and how leading newsrooms around the world are using YouTube to attract new audiences to their reporting. |
| 1:00pm | Lunch
[All afternoon workshops run concurrently from 2:30pm - 4:00pm] |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Google Earth for Broadcasters
With its distinctive swooping motion and ability to zoom into any location, Google Earth is a top mapping choice for broadcast professionals worldwide. Google Earth includes satellite imagery of the entire world (with 75% of the world's population at high resolution), hundreds of 3D cities, and archives of historical imagery — all available for media use with our free broadcast license. In this interactive workshop, we’ll get you started on building standard animations and videos, some KML editing — plus, we’ll clarify your licensing and permissions questions. |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm | My First Fusion Tables Visualization
Looking to tell a visual story with your data? In this interactive workshop, we’ll teach you how to get started with Fusion Tables, a tool to help you host, visualize and publish your data as maps, charts and timelines. The hour will start with a brief overview of Fusion Tables and related tools, including Google Refine, then we’ll dive into some hands-on examples to get you familiar with how easily your data can be turned into a visualisation with impact. |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Getting Started with Google+ Hangouts
Hangouts, which allow people to chat face-to-face-to-face, have fast become one of the most popular features on Google+, counting Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama amongst its users. Locally, The Age recently brought Julia Gillard together with voters via Hangout. This session will introduce you to Hangouts and how media outlets around the world are using it to create content and connect with their audiences. There will be step-by-step instructions on how to set-up a Hangout and stream it on your own homepage or YouTube channel. |
| 2:30pm - 4:00pm | Google Maps API Office Hours
Already telling cool stories with our Geo APIs? We’d love to see them. Stop by and meet some of the engineers behind Google Maps to show off your work and ask questions about how you can take it to the next level. Note that this advanced session is for journalist-developers already familiar with our APIs. |
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