Is it time to revisit your Facebook strategy? Should you have Groups vs. Pages. Fans vs. Members?
I have been doing a lot of research and writing reports for European clients to advise them on social media and mobile media strategies and am starting to turn some of that intel into action for my other full-time volunteer gig - running the Visual Editors charity.
Visual Editors is a non-profit foundation founded in 2004 to promote visual journalism literacy and has used an array of social networking tools to organize fundraising, meetups and training events around the world. It has been a sandbox for me and our members to get our hands dirty with emerging technologies and behaviors.
Our members have been, at times, years ahead of many other groups of journalists in adopting and adapting to the digital media landscape. VizEds members have been active for a long time in social media spaces like Facebook and Twitter.
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The Canadian Newspaper Association is bringing Robb Montgomery to Vancouver, B.C. and Calgary, A.B. for a series of new media workshops. Details and schedule TBA.
PME Newstrain
Robb Montgomery will present a workshop on mobile strategies at APME Newstrain Chicago on Friday March 26, 2010.
80 percent of the world’s population has available mobile phone coverage, and smartphone use is growing faster than any other kind of phone.
Do you have a long-term mobile strategy? Is your staff MoJo savvy? What are mobile users looking for?
This session will examine the rapidly-evolving mobile media landscape and generate a discussion of steps your newsroom can take to begin or enhance mobile gathering and distribution of content.
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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.
CAIRO: Will Apple ban popular newspaper apps from the iPhone App store?
UPDATE: Rob Curley of the Las Vegas Sun tells me that he is worried about his news app being banned. (full quote further down)
Update No. 2. The Guardian reports 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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Learn the culture and best practices for creating digital content.
Join us May 17-19, 2010 at The Toronto Star for three days of hands-on instruction on Web reporting, video reporting and visual multimedia techniques.
What will I learn?
VISUAL REPORTING - Monday, May 17
Low-cost visual multimedia tools and techniques. Learn how to shoot, edit and create engaging slideshows. How to create sequences and edit audio and create rich-media reports for Web audiences.
MOBILE AND SOCIAL MEDIA REPORTING - Tuesday, May 18
Techniques for producing field reports using mobile devices and using social media tools. Practice with mobile apps and Web sites that let reporters file richer reports from the field.
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