Monthly Archive for May, 2010

Use your iPad to design apps for your iPad and iPhone

“Use your iPad to design apps for your iPad.”
That is not a typo.

will allow designers to create quick wireframes and mockups for your web, iPhone and iPad projects, using an iPad.

This preview video heralds a wave of new productivity and design-focused apps.

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5 power tips for using Twitter for research

Seesmic is super fast and easily customizable.

Seesmic is super fast and easily customizable.

Five things you need to know aboutâ„¢. . . Twitter

A quick tutorial of my favorite power tips to help you find and mine the good stuff.

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Designing with the iPad in mind

Using the Apple iPad to sell a 22-pocket travel vest.

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BERLIN: How to travel with an iPad will be a real nightmare unless you have clothes with bigger pockets.

At first I laughed when I saw the for the 22-pocket travel vest with the silly iPad photo pasted in . . . but I have come around now.

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Poster design for Web workshop at KircherBurkhardt Akademie

Poster design for Robb Montgomery's

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BERLIN: Check out this poster designed by the promoters of my workshop this week.

I am producing a one-day “Writing for the Web” course at KircherBurkhardt Akademie on 28 January and a couple of weeks ago they asked me to imagine the title of the talk as a movie name.

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New media workshops (Western Canada)

The Canadian Newspaper Association is bringing Robb Montgomery to Vancouver, B.C. and Calgary, A.B. for a series of new media workshops.

Newsroom training at The Calgary Herald, The Edmonton Journal, The Vancouver Sun and the Black Publishing group in Richmond, BC

Mobile and Tablet Strategies (Chicago)

APME Newstrain

Robb Montgomery will present a workshop on mobile and tablet strategies at APME Newstrain Chicago on Friday March 26, 2010.
Featuring a workshop sessions where delegate will plan an iPad or iPhone app.

80 percent of the world’s population has available mobile phone coverage, and smartphone use is growing faster than any other kind of phone.

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Mobile and Tablet Strategies (Chicago)
Chicago, Illinois
March 26 — 26, 2010

Web reporting at 24Sata (Zagreb)

Web reporting

Improve your reporting and audience engagement with social media tools and techniques. Learn how to write for the Web, use RSS to save you time, clear your bookmarks bar to gather better research and use online tools to run surveys and conduct interviews.

Private workshop for staff of 24Sata.

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Web reporting at 24Sata (Zagreb)
Zagreb, croatia
March 08 — 10, 2010

How to control your Facebook privacy

How to “opt-out” of the things Facebook just opted you into with their new like button and social graph technology.

On April 21, 2010 to sharing your personal data to their business partners and, disturbingly, they automatically enroll all users into adopting or opting in to the new scheme.

If you have not visited your privacy settings, go take a look at what you, by default, have opted into.

At the very least, hiding your friends list is a good first step.

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Will Apple ban newspaper iPhone apps for nudity?

CAIRO: Will Apple ban popular newspaper apps from the iPhone App store?

UPDATE: of the Las Vegas Sun tells me that he is worried about his news app being banned. (full quote further down)

Update No. 2. that “The International Federation of the Periodical Press (FIPP) is considering making a complaint to Apple over the computer firm’s request that German publisher Axel Springer censor the naked girls on one of its iPhone apps.”

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Canadian Newspaper Association

With a number of prepared modules in his web arsenal, Robb can adjust the content and pacing to suit the audience. This ability worked well for us due to the wide variation of skill levels at our newspaper groups. During a recent trip to Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver, Robb was an engaging and effective presenter.

Susan Brophy Down

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