The Online News Association announced the voting results for the “Un-Conference” sessions at the 2009 annual conference in San Francisco. The sessions will focus on online networking and social media.

The first of the two sessions will be “Social Network Analysis and Relationship Mapping Tools and Software,” hosted by Laurie Bennett of the site Muckety.com, which maps relationships between individuals, business and government entities.

Un-Conference sessions are pitched by conference participants and subject to a process in which other participants vote on the sessions they would most like to see.

During the lunch hour on Saturday (Oct. 3), there will be access to as many as four rooms (maybe fewer) for your own presentations and discussions. On Oct. 2, we’ll post a board near the ONA09 registration table where you can either a) post a session you’d like to orchestrate or b) “vote” for a session you’d like to attend. If there are more sessions than space, the sessions with the most votes will get the nod. We’ll notify all attendees as to the session schedule Friday evening via e-mail and on the yet-to-be-developed ONA09 mobile schedule.

In the meantime, to test the waters or generate interest in your topic, you can use the comment field on this post, link to this post on your blog (a trackback will appear in the comment field) or use the #ONA09 hashtag on Twitter.

As for Brian’s call-out, if you’re interested in software development methodologies, including version control, task and defect tracking, designing with your audience in mind and working iteratively and being agile, check out his blog post at hackerjournalist.net.