By Mindy McAdams

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Teaching Online Journalism

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Notes from the classroom and observations about today’s practice of journalism online

Archive for the “blogging” category

Better SEO for news sites, blogs

Friday, May 2, 2008

Mark Glaser interviewed some experts and came up with this list (see the full post for important details):

Get inbound links and link out as well.
Headlines and title tags should have key words up front.
Web addresses for your blog posts or articles should include key words.
Page descriptions should be unique or eliminated.
Highlight your best content on […]

Summer hours in effect

Monday, April 28, 2008

Final grades are due this week, commencement will be held this coming weekend, and I’m about to go to Southeast Asia for two months.
Posts to this blog, therefore, are likely to be few and far between until late in June.
While I’m abroad, I’ll be keeping a trip blog here:  Trip Log: SE Asia.
Feel free to […]

Newsroom training

Friday, April 18, 2008

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.

Who are you calling a journalist?

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Many people have commented on the actions of Mayhill Fowler, who went to a fund-raising dinner for Barack Obama and later wrote about remarks Obama made there. (Today Jeff Jarvis commented on Michael Tomasky commenting about Jay Rosen commenting on the matter.) Much of the fuss revolves around questions about who is a journalist, when […]

Idea for class: Blogging assignment

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

One of the things we try to get journalism students to do is, um, read other people’s blogs. And not only their friends’ blogs! So I had a brainstorm for an assignment:

Choose any three blogs from this list of The world’s 50 most powerful blogs (from The Guardian). Make an introductory post linking to each […]

MVPs for February

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Most visited posts on this blog from February 1, 2008, through March 1, 2008, according to Google Analytics:

6 tips for comments on stories and j-blogs (this post garnered more than 1,200 pageviews from StumbleUpon in the one-month period, with those visitors spending an average of 1 min. 37 sec. on the page; in contrast, […]

Spring break!

Monday, March 10, 2008

Please expect light posting this week.
If you have a WordPress blog, make a backup right now.
Richard Koci Hernandez’s excellent blog, Multimediashooter, was lost this weekend because of a hacker attack. It’s a loss to all of us in online journalism.