New media and video journalism
“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.
Continue reading ‘Use your iPad to design apps for your iPad and iPhone’
Seesmic is super fast and easily customizable.
A quick tutorial of my favorite power tips to help you find and mine the good stuff.
Continue reading ‘5 power tips for using Twitter for research’
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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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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.
Continue reading ‘Poster design for Web workshop at KircherBurkhardt Akademie’
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
Continue reading ‘New media workshops (Western Canada)’
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.
Continue reading ‘Mobile and Tablet Strategies (Chicago)’
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.
This workshop has recently been give for the staff of France24, KircherBurkhardt, Al Ahram and other top digital content companies. Continue reading ‘Web reporting at 24Sata (Zagreb)’
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.
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.”
Continue reading ‘Will Apple ban newspaper iPhone apps for nudity?’
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.
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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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