YESEO app

So great to be a part of this Mobile Me&You conference again, thank you to everyone for having me and to the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University for being such great hosts! In my panel I got asked what might be the future of media in 5 to 10 years. It's great to think about the future, and there are so many possible futures, but this question always makes me think inward. I always think about what would I have thought five years ago at this time. It was almost exactly five years ago when I was able to attend this conference through an OpenNews scholarship and get access to people, ideas and opportunities that I hadn't yet thought of. In those five years I've done a lot of things: I've been a Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow, an Online News Association Start Up Alley company, an Online Journalism Awards finalist, a trainer of my tool to multiple newsrooms, a presenter at conferences across the country and a speaker at the same first conference I ever attended. A lot can happen in five years, but it starts by taking a first step.

👀 Oh hey, thanks Lenfest Institute for Journalism for the shoutout in this story from what you took away from your time at #ONA2024 #ONA24

When I was in Atlanta Saturday waiting to board my flight, I stumbled into the ONA app once more... There was a message from someone I didn’t get a chance to meet yet... and it made my day. This is why I do this, for messages like these. A lot of people when they answer surveys when ideas in the YESEO app help them say "thank you" and I read every one. So make sure you give this feedback to products you like. You never know who you might be lifting up that day. (I didn't ask her yet if it was okay to post with name in it, so I cut out her name for now) Online News Association #ONA24

Just wanted to share a few thoughts on my time at ONA24, the OJA awards, which congrats to the BBC on their win for Excellence in AI Innovation. Just considering the YESEO app against intense wartime reporting from the BBC is a huge honor, so thank you Online News Association. I've worked hard these last 18 months, there's been about 2,044 deploys of the YESEO application (I checked) and the hundreds of changes to the website, but this week makes it all worth it. I've met people who have been impacted by my work as an RJI fellow, whose teams have used something I've built and value it. I'm never gonna shake everyone's hand who uses this, but it's great to meet some who do. This has been an incredible experience and a great #ONA24. Bye for now Atlanta 👋 #ONA2024

Big day ahead here at ONA. Today the YESEO app is a finalist in the Online Journalism Awards category of Excellence in AI Innovation. It's up against great projects from the BBC and The City. I've never been nominated for an OJA award, so this should be a really fun experience. It really goes to show how much these last 18 months have gone, learning about how people have used something I've built and learning their stories. It's been great to see and meet people who use YESEO here at ONA from all over North America. I can't wait to see what's next today at #ONA24 Online News Association

The cycle of being an OJA nominee has so far been... 1. Is this real? 2. I could win?! what do I say? 3. This is really cool 4. Let's celebrate this accomplishment, no matter what happens Looking forward to getting to ONA24 in Atlanta and being a small part of the Online Journalism Awards Friday. #OJA24 #ONA24

👀 New Look in the Slack App Directory

2022-23 RJI fellow Ryan Restivo on YESEO as a Finalist for Excellence in AI Innovation... "I already feel like I've won already in terms of just being amongst these three [finalists]." We'll see what happens at #ONA24 in Atlanta at #OJA24

Ryan Restivo on YESEO being an Online Journalism Awards Finalist for Excellence in AI Innovation with Yumi Wilson "it's just a huge honor... it's not something I ever imagined would have happened" We'll see what happens at #ONA24 in Atlanta on Sept. 20! #OJA24

Really cool to be mentioned and quoted in a Nieman Journalism Lab piece about AI Overviews. One thing I think about when I use LLMs is always as a tool of "last resort". If I can try to solve a problem without an LLM, I'll try that first before hitting the button. That's also reflected in what the YESEO app does: when you click to get "Suggested Headlines" is the time when you are permitting LLMs onto your work to give you options.