By Mindy McAdams
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For multimedia reporting, I use only a few software applications in teaching: Audacity, Photoshop, Soundslides, and Windows Movie Maker or iMovie. These are entry level, and mostly free. (The reason we teach Photoshop instead of a free app is because Photoshop is the industry standard in journalism. Soundslides is not free, but it’s priced under [...]
Today is the day I reached the 1,000 milestone — I’m not sure how important this is, really, but it did give me a small thrill. (Very small.)
If you want to jump on the bandwagon, I am macloo on Twitter. A fine young journalist named Chris Deary was No. 1,000.
If you’re still skeptical about Twitter, [...]
This is the fourth post in a series titled “Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency.” In the third post, I explained how you can get started with gathering audio for use online. Today you’ll learn how to put that audio on a computer, edit it, and export an MP3 file.
Uploading the file
First you’ll need to connect [...]
Yesterday I started this series of posts called “Reporter’s Guide to Multimedia Proficiency.” (I like the way the abbreviation RGMP reminds me of the Canadian Mounties — RCMP.) The first topic was Read blogs and use RSS. Today’s topic might seem mundane to many of you, but I always say that writing a blog with commitment, [...]
I’ve been using WordPress (both the free WordPress.com version and the self-hosted option from WordPress.org) since June 2007 — 18 months. In that time, I’ve taught probably a couple hundred people (students and working journalists) how to start and manage a blog on WordPress.com. (It doesn’t take long, but you know, many people just prefer [...]
Craig Stolz, formerly a journalist at The Washington Post, has been blogging for one year. On the occasion of his blog’s anniversary, he wrote this succinct list of lessons learned, which is rather brilliant:
A personal blog is as valuable to the writer as the reader.
Entry titles are as important as content. Titles should be [...]
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 [...]
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