Continue reading ‘How Obama and White House make viral videos’
Monthly Archive for February, 2009
Michael Cooke’s farewell remarks to reporting staff of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Continue reading ‘Listen to Michael Cooke's farewell speech to Chicago Sun-Times reporters’
The women behind the World’s Best Designed Newspapers™ from Robb Montgomery on Vimeo.
Las Vegas: Meet two women who have just won World’s Best Designed Newspaper™ honors from the SND competition.
These two editors set a high standard for newspaper design quality and have been on a roll lately winning many top design prizes in Europe and elsewhere.
Continue reading ‘The women behind the World's Best Designed Newspapers™’
The importance of Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s visit to Indonesia.
Continue reading ‘Montgomery explains importance of Hilary Clinton visit to Indonesia’
Find your next media job on Twitter - follow @media_pros to see hot jobs when they post.
This media jobs project is called Media Professionals and is something I have been tinkering with off and on for a couple of years. Now is the time to take this jobs feed to Twitter and Plaxo where more journalism job seekers are going these days.
Media Pros is an RSS feed, a Group on Plaxo and a Twittter feed
Continue reading ‘Use Twitter to find your next journalism job’
View the pages that provided a nearly European sweep of the Society for News Design’s biggest award.
This year’s “World’s Best-Designed Newspapers™” are:
Continue reading ‘European newspapers named World’s Best-Designed by SND’
Just added a new seminar for Pennsylvania newspaper editors.
“Breaking the Entry Barriers to Online – A Tool Kit” to the schedule. Please join me on Monday, April 6 from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m. at the America East convention in Hershey, PA. for this session.
Last year I worked with Time.com’s Craig Duff to deliver a series of video workshops at America East. America East is a huge newspaper exhibition and conference and attracts top speakers and delegates from all over the country.
I can’t wait to get back to Hershey and work with Pennsylvania editors again. This is the first trip of many that I will be making to the state in 2009. I will be producing at least four more training events in Harrisburg and visiting up to a dozen newspapers this year for private consults and coaching for their multimedia initiatives. Let’s roll up our sleeves and get to work!
Continue reading ‘Multimedia reporting tools at America East in Hershey’
Multimedia reporting tools at America East in Hershey
Hershey, Penn.
April 06 — 06, 2009
The first mobile phone to record HD video at 720p.
There will be two versions, one with 16 GB of internal storage, a second with 8 GB. In addition, this model will have a microSD slot, giving users the option of adding up to 32 GB more — 48 GB of storage is enough for 35 DVD-quality movies or 18,000 8MP photographs.
In addition, the Quad-band OmniaHD will have a GPS receiver, DivX support, HDMI port, 3.5 mm jack, built-in Wi-Fi with DLNA, external stereo speakers, G-sensor, a 1500 mAh battery, and an FM radio.
Continue reading ‘Move over Flip, record 720p HD video with this mobile phone’
What Facebook's revised terms of use mean for your content
“You are granting Facebook a pretty broad license to use your content that cannot be revoked, is perpetual (it never expires) and if they use your material you cannot claim any kind of royalty or fee. The new terms are worldwide.
It is not just the user content that you post but also your name, your likeness and your image to be used for any purpose including commercial or advertising uses.”
Continue reading ‘Why I took my photos and videos off Facebook’
Heading to Washington to be a film student for two days this week. American University and the Center for Social Media are hosting a two day documentary filmmakers workshop.
Continue reading ‘Studying documentary film at Washington, D.C.’
