As part of an alliance between ONA and The Media Center, ONA will award fellowships for five members to attend Emerging Policy, Business and Technology for Senior Executives, a Media Center seminar Feb. 8-10 in Palo Alto, CA.

This seminar is for experienced senior executives and thought leaders from organizations of any size and any country. This is a highly interactive small-scale event that will include one-on-one interviews, workshops, issue-driven discussions and focused, high-impact case studies—all with intense attendee participation built in.

Moderated by top industry experts, innovators and leaders from a variety of industry sectors, the program is a chance for a deep-dive look at market changes and issues with the guidance of Media Center faculty and guests on the media/technology vanguard - such as Feedster CEO Scott Rafer.

A series of hands-on workshops on Day 2 will give participants practical understanding of RSS syndication, tracking and ad splicing, corporate and PR blogging, search engine marketing and listings, and uses for social networks and wikis.

Additional details are online at: http://www.mediacenter.org/content/5098.cfm

Fellowships cover tuition, hotel and up to $300 in travel. The fellowships are underwritten by a grant to The Media Center from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.

Please note that the five ONA fellowships for this seminar are only open to current members of the Online News Association.

To apply for the ONA fellowships, send a brief statement of interest by Dec. 31, including confirmation of your availability to be in Palo Alto for the seminar, and the reasons why you feel this seminar would be useful for you and your organization to: Tom Regan, executive director, ONA, tregan@journalists.org