New media and video journalism
“Use your iPad to design apps for your iPad.”
That is not a typo.
iMockups 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.
If nothing else, we now have a business reason to expense an iPad.
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’
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.
Continue reading ‘Creating a Facebook presence for a non-profit’
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
PME 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.
Do you have a long-term mobile strategy? Is your staff MoJo savvy? What are mobile users looking for?
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.
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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