Coming up this Friday, January 25th, the JA is excited to join the <a href="http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/web-publishing-conference/Page" rel="nofollow">Association of Alternative News Weeklies in San Francisco</a>, in a welcome talk with <a href="http://www.mdlf.org/en/main/newsroom/314/Kevin-Anderson-joins-MDLF.htm" rel="nofollow">Kevin Anderson</a> from the <a href="http://www.mdlf.org/" rel="nofollow">Media Development Loan Fund</a> (MDLF). We'll be springing off of Kevin's focus around fascinating global examples of multi-platform journalism - as engagement opens up new commercial opportunities from <a href="http://www.kbridge.org/el-faro-using-the-best-of-new-and-traditional-media-to-give-salvadorans-a-voice/" rel="nofollow">El Faro</a> in El Salvador Twitter techniques, to paid content strategies that work, to membership program innovation that helps support independent journalism. From there, the JA will narrow the focus on US market examples; exploring <a href="http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/emerging-revenue-practices-and-basic-business-how-tos-the-collective-wisdom-of-local-and-niche-publishers/" rel="nofollow">new partnership experiments</a>, news ways peers are <a href="http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/blog/was-2012-the-year-of-the-prosperous-publisher-what-we-know-now/" rel="nofollow">learning through collaboration</a>, why metrics matter and a <a href="http://www.journalismaccelerator.com/resource-index/" rel="nofollow">collection of practical tools</a> others are using to play “what’s working” forward. Opening this up to the audience, we’ll also want to hear from the morning’s AAN Digital Conference participants! What does the AAN member community see working best in your market, what are you dying to try, what are some of the greatest obstacles you're eager to tackle this year?