Does anyone fax anymore?
Charles Apple just blogged about his vast business card collection and in my current role as VizEds ambassador and editorial consultant I have collected hundreds of business cards as well.
I also have spent dozens of hours entering contact information from these cards and I noticed that I never, I mean never ever, enter anyone’s fax number. I am not a faxer.
I neither send nor want to receive faxes and I just wonder if I am alone. Have we moved on? Is not faxing another one of those ‘generational” divides?
Why IS there a fax number on your business card? Wouldn’t your Skype, GMAIL, AIM, MSN or Yahoo! screen name serve you better?
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Adrián Alvarez is working on a special report for Area 11 (SND’s Spanish-language newsletter) about visual editing blogs and bloggers. He is interviewing bloggers from 15 countries - so this should be an really interesting read!
Here are the questions and my responses. I can’t wait to read the special report to see what others are doing.
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Why build a visual journalism blog?
One of the things that Visual Editors provides is blogs for visual editors who blog from India, the U.K., the U.S. and Mexico. VizEds is particularly interested in supporting visual editors who will blog for VizEds from Australia/Oceania, Asia, the Middle East, Africa Europe, and Latin America. Visual Editors provides these highly-read blogs at no cost.
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Makes the daunting tasks of facing the future a bit brighter.
I have had the pleasure of working with Robb for several decades and have watched him grow into one of the most knowledgeable, articulate and talented thinkers about newspapers in our business. Robb has had a wonderful and extensive background in award winning design and editing.
He has spent much time with editors helping them make the most of the present and help them see the potential future of their newsroom. His keen insight into the reporting tools of the future have made him a wonderful asset to newsrooms as they prepare their staffs for that inevitable transition.
With his capable teaching and his enthusiastic presentations he makes the daunting tasks of facing the future a bit brighter.
Tony Majeri
Many roles in working with the World Editors Forum
I invited Robb in 2005 to the 12th World Editors Forum in Seoul to speak about design issues. He was also so involved in new media issues that I decided to work with him at different occasions: as a producer, as a trainer, as an adviser … For the World Editors Forum and for some of our partners.
Robb is very curious and understands very quickly what you expect. His solutions are always original and efficient.
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One of the best trainers of web-based technologies.
Robb has done a training for my company in Poland and I can recommend him as most probably one of the best trainers of web-based technologies and ideas for publishing houses.
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Finally a chance to present a design workshop in Chicago! Next month we’ll be gathering along Lake Michigan for a presentation and coaching in visual journalism at a meeting of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies.
The date is Saturday, Aug. 11. The site is at the Medill school at Northwestern in Evanston.
I have been asked to lead two sessions - one for designers and a keynote for the general session.
People have been asking me about student rates - at this point I don’t know - I will ask the organizers if there are any and update this post.
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Speaks well about the ease and possibilities of multimedia storytelling.
I worked with Robb as one of the three speakers at three days of workshops for the IFRA citizen journalism workshops in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia in July 2007. Robb has great enthusiam for multimedia journalism and speaks well about the ease and possibilities of multimedia storytelling.
Kevin Anderson, Editor, Blogs, Guardian Unlimited (London)
Stockholm: Web video is not Television
Martin Lindgren wrote:
Hi Robb, thanks for an inspiring lecture on Saturday. I agree with you that web video should be used as a complement to the news texts, and not as a mini-TV program. Keep up your good work, I think Swedish newspapers will transform themselves according to your thoughts in the near future.
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REDESIGN: Business section - San Jose Mercury News
It was great working with Robb. He has a unique set of skills that allow him to mash up what you might call traditional journalism with interactive media. It was a priority or ours to make our business section more interactive. Robb helped us give form to some of these ideas.
Jonathon Berlin
Design Editor at the San Jose Mercury News
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