Newsroom training
I’ll be in the Orlando Sentinel newsroom today, doing a bit of basic training (blogging; audio) for a variety of reporters.
See the outline.
By Mindy McAdams
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I’ll be in the Orlando Sentinel newsroom today, doing a bit of basic training (blogging; audio) for a variety of reporters.
See the outline.
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Hi Mindy, I’m one of the online producers that missed your entire thing today due to other obligations. I’m going to try and get the most out of the outline and slides.
Hope it went well.
Oh, and just to rub it in Danny’s face, “Google Reader 4 Life!” (He’s a Bloglines fan.)
April 18, 2008 at 9:59 pm[...] the venerable Mindy McAdams was at my very own (well, not mine per se) Orlando Sentinel doing trainging on blogging and audio. I missed it unfortunately, but by the looks of the outlines it looked like a good time. Bookmark [...]
April 18, 2008 at 10:01 pm