“MySpace or Facebook?”
That’s one of the first questions I have been asking editors-in-chief in my travels the last three months and the answers have been surprising. More on that topic later, I have finally have had my bags unpacked in Chicago long enough to update my Facebook page and invite my friends in.
Robb on Facebook
I had been holding off doing too much with F’Book until the new widgets were released. I have a found a few I really like already and also found that Yuri Victor has started a Visual Editors group on Facebook for supporters of the public charity and addicts of the Web site.
Continue reading ‘Face time with Facebook’
Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Creative
“Robb Montgomery has three main attributes that virtually guarantee he will deliver what you need: the first is his almost encyclopedic knowledge of newspaper/web design and function (his world encompasses print, web, photo and video); the second is a creative genius that enables him to find mission and design solutions most consultants wouldn’t even dream of; and the third is an ability to get along with everyone, from paginators to chief executives, balancing all their needs in such a way to make everyone feel they had a part in the solution, achieving that all-important sense of buy-in.
Continue reading ‘John Wilpers in Boston’
Time to get to work
It’s the eve of the World Editors Forum in Cape Town and I have been again partnered with forum organizers produce interviews with Desmond Tutu, Bill Keller of The New York Times and Globe and Mail editor Edward Greenspon. Continue reading ‘Interviews with Bill Keller, Desmond Tutu and video tour of Table Mountain’
“Web video is not television” - Canadian Newspaper Association
Thanks, Robb
I came back all excited about your presentation. We are working on enhancing our website with videos etc. We have had two strategy meetings and some wonderful ideas are coming out. It’s now a matter of implementing them for September launch.
Continue reading ‘Joyce Carlson in Canada’
