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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 5:03 AM

Dimdim Web Conferencing

I'm sure at one point or another you have participated or hosted a web conference call at work. Web conferences are a great way to deliver your PowerPoint presentation to several colleagues spread throughout the nation and show them websites that express
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 5:33 PM

Kicking it Old School

Digital multi-media features are increasingly commonplace in today's news outlets as print and electronic media have begun irreversibly cross-dipping into technologies previously exclusive to each other. What we once only read on paper we see and hear
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009 12:16 PM

The price of information online

L. Gordon Crovitz recently observed people often ignore the second part of author Stewart Brand’s famous quote “Information wants to be free.” In a February column, Crovitz, a media analyst and an executive with The Wall Street Journal, reminded readers
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Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:34 AM

Pushed into digital media and surviving

When I was asked to sit on this Digital Media Committee, I thought what can a person with an extensive broadcast background and more than two years of digital media under her belt bring to SPJ? I mean it's known as the best organization for print journalists.
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Tuesday, September 01, 2009 9:24 PM

Sony, Canon, Nikon offer new tools to make multimedia news gathering easier

Three new products caught my eye recently that I believe will help lighten the load in multimedia journalists' backpacks: the Sony Webbie HD camera, the Nikon D300s, and the Canon EOS 7D.Let's start small. The Sony Webbie HD caught my eye because of its
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 10:51 PM

Print headlines often fail Web readers

"County to raise taxes on property." "Smith calls for cleanup of polluted site." "City to approve land-use plan tomorrow." Headlines like those work just fine for a newspaper -- the print kind, the kind you pick up off your lawn in the morning
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 11:35 AM

The new Digital Media Committee!

This weekend is the SPJ conference in Indianapolis. There is an entire track devoted to New Media. w00t! If you are looking for tips, tricks and techniques to get yourself and your newsroom flowing in the digital age of journalism - you've found
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Thursday, October 30, 2008 4:12 PM

Who are we trying to reach by video: journalism, the audience or ourselves

As journalists, we sometimes let a good story get in the way of the news.  That tendency has plagued us, as we’ve moved to multimedia platforms. Fortunately, the people we are trying to serve with information have a way of
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Friday, October 10, 2008 4:43 PM

Angry journalist: "I check my brain at the door."

I came across a very depressing blurb today at AngryJournalist.com. And before I share it, I do hope that this person is completely in the minority. I mean, we all know that times are dire in many respects and that things are changing, but this comment
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Friday, September 19, 2008 11:32 AM

Hot links this week on online journalism

Normal 0 Jack Lail says "We'd get more readers if we gave them less frickin' news to read": “The news junkies, however, are the users that move the metrics and we focus even more on what they want because they are generating
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008 11:19 PM

Best of online journalism: from D.C. to Middletown

Normal 0 "Fixing D.C. Schools" is the kind of project I still remember seeing for the first time on Washington Post.com.  It covered every aspect of the public schools in D.C., from the maintenance of the school halls
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:03 AM

Think C-Span is dry? Their on-line coverage of the political conventions is anything but

If you haven’t checked out what C-Span is doing with the Democratic Convention, you’re missing some exciting journalism. The convention hub includes not only the videos you’d expect, but also blogs from nearly every state and Twitter feeds
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Friday, July 18, 2008 1:58 AM

Good tips to read, remember and share with everyone in your newsroom

Good tips are worth remembering and repeating. Here are some from Bill Dunphy of Web U (via Mindy McAdams) Are there original documents you can link to?Are there any photographs (related videos, sound files, slideshows)?Can
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:27 AM

A murder caught on video, reported in multimedia

I picked this up and realized I hadn’t blogged in almost a month.  Part of it is the intense energy I bring to work every day.  I’m sapped by the end of the day, running my the work blog on courts, trying to complete the enterprise projects
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Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:52 AM

What I learned about crime reporting via Twitter

The Twitter trial was exhausting. But the response was worth it.  That’s what I’ve found is usually true in this business. The most difficult reporting brings the best rewards. I had to take a week’s vacation after the capital murder
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