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Got Bandwidth?

  • ONA Newsroom
  • September 25, 2014
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On day one of the Online News Association’s (ONA) 15th conference, not surprisingly, the wifi was under assault. That’s what happens when hundreds of digital journalists meet a shortage of broadband. Attendees who could tweet shared their frustrations, presumably from their cell phones.

@mediamurray tweets his frustration with the lack of wifi at the #ONA14 Opening Ceremony
@mediamurray tweets his frustration with the lack of wifi at the #ONA14 Opening Ceremony

With ONA celebrating its 15th anniversary it’s obvious that they’re not new to putting on a tech-focused conference; they know the demands of their constituency – attendees want working, robust wifi so that they can distribute their shareable content – things like quotes and images from panels and workshops.

At the conclusion of the opening keynote, Jane McDonald, executive director of ONA quipped: “We’ve already broken the Internet.” She acknowledged that they were working on the problem.

Check out this Storify below for more tweets from conference attendees about the #ONA14 wifi access.

[View the story “Wifi at #ONA14 Opening Ceremony; Where Is It?” on Storify]
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