New media and video journalism
Ottawa, Canada: I came here to relax a little, see Rush perform in a “Canadian” hockey arena (You may recall my special promotion: “I Consult for Rush Tickets”) and no sooner do I get here than a trifecta of big news follows.
1. The currency goes bonkers (”Loonie bests Dollar”)
Continue reading ‘Oh, Canada - what a newsy weekend we had’
September 27 and 28 I will be teaching two sold-out classes at the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association offices in Harrisburg, P.A.
The first is on “Web Video is not TV” and the second day is “Keys to Building Online Communities.”
At the beginning of the year I was asked by the editor of Ideas Magazine (Published by INMA) to write a column about multimedia. The magazine comes out every other month and I just filed my fourth column to the editor today. That copy won’t appear in print for a few weeks yet and it is exclusive to them.
Below I am reprinting the inaugural column filed back in the first quarter 2007. If I am going to write about how multimedia must be interactive, then we better back it up by inviting feedback to these columns.
The text of the IDEAS columns will be reprinted in the blog no sooner than six months after publication. And as you know, that lag can be the toughest thing.
Just look at what’s happened in the last year:
Continue reading ‘Multimedia Column for INMA magazine: No 1′
I want the iPhone to be able to allow news editors to keep their top reporters out in the field where they can do a lot of work without having to first crack open a laptop.
It is so close to being a killer app for field communications that all Apple needs to do is, um, hear this bit of free consulting.
e.g. I have the Google map app open and I pull up or search out an address for a home or business.
I query and get directions to the location but now want to SMS this info to a colleague or send the the turn-by-turns to another person by e-mail.
I should be able to do this - but I can’t.
– This kind of base level data pushing functionality - allowing the native apps to push to each other is critical to stay ahead of. But wait - I also want to push data to my blog(s) as well.
Continue reading ‘iPhone bug report. Apple needs to empower maps, contacts and native apps’
Robb Montgomery produces new media workshops to train journalists and media professionals in more than 20 countries in writing for the Web, multimedia reporting, and Web video journalism.
His hands-on seminars include interactive learning techniques, live demonstrations and expertise in teaching new media concepts to professionals.
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