Robb Montgomery

Creating a Facebook presence for a non-profit

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 ...

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. Details and schedule TBA.

Mobile Strategies (Chicago)

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 ...

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. This ...

Will Apple ban newspaper iPhone apps for nudity?

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) ...

New media seminars at The Toronto Star

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 ...

CNA: Ink and Beyond (Toronto)

TORONTO: Robb Montgomery will be presenting a global trends lecture and sharing scenes from his new documentary film "Breaking The News" at the Canadian Newspaper Association "Ink and Beyond" workshop on Friday May 14, 2010.

Video Reporting (Portugal)

Video journalism: Reporting and editing workshop. A multi-day private training for a client in Portugal.

Digital content workshop (Denmark)

Digital content reporting and editing workshop series. A multi-day private training for a client in Denmark.

Cairo: 3 weeks of multimedia workshops for journalists

CAIRO - Feb. 14 to March 4, 2010: I am heading back to Egypt to work for three weeks with the Egypt Media Development Program and the schedule they have prepared is jam-packed with training and consulting visits with journalists from Egypt's top media houses. I have been working with ...

Multimedia workshops (Cairo)

5 tips for making better video reports

Five things you need to know about™. . . Video Reporting A quick tutorial to guide beginners in making better video reports. 1. Beg, borrow or rent a better microphone. Sound quality separates watchable videos from the unwatchable. If you haven't budgeted for pro sound then you will never have a pro ...

Designing with the iPad in mind

[caption id="attachment_6661" align="alignleft" width="120" caption="(Click to enlarge)"][/caption] 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 photo ad for the 22-pocket travel vest with the silly iPad photo pasted in . . . ...

Poster design for Web workshop at KircherBurkhardt Akademie

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="120" caption="(Click to enlarge)"][/caption] 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 ...

Haiti: Visual data helps relief workers see hardest hit areas

Haiti: Forget 3D TV hype for a moment and look what Google has done with 3D pictures here to aid in the rescue efforts in Haiti. UPDATE: Google is also using their mapmaker tool to coordinate info on a master map of Haiti. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="500" caption="Google Earth and mapmaker used ...

Miki Lion (Beamups.com U.K.)

Robb's workshop is an essential step for anyone making the move from print to video journalism - and, let's face it, that's everyone in media today. Miki Lion, beamups.com

Joe Raffelberg (Egypt Media Development Program)

Robb is not only a very professional trainer in multimedia subjects he is also a visionary that translates his ideas into money-spinning strategy. On top he is much liked by his students and colleagues for putting things across to them in a patient, yet convincing way.In Egypt he is ...

Janet McNally (Pennsylvania Newspaper Association)

I worked with Robb when I was at the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association, setting up training events across the state. Robb is an excellent trainer. He meets participants exactly where they are, with the skills they possess, and with the equipment they have. He can work with a roomful of people who ...

Reporting in video (Denmark)

February 2, 2010 Denmark: (Private event) This is a pilot project and could result in a four-day video journalism workshop later in the spring.

Writing for the Web (Berlin)

January 28, 2010 Berlin: Robb Montgomery will direct a Web multimedia reporting seminar at KircherBurkhardt offices in Germany. (Private event)

Giant space photo reveals snow smothering Britain

U.K.: Tour this ginormous photo of a snow-blanketed Britain produced by NASA (Click to zoom and hold to scroll.) Displaying really big photos in really small places (Like a blog or a mobile phone screen) is a powerful story tool in today's ...

Bad photos can tell a story, or at least odd ones can

This collection of accidental, casual and awkward photos reveal a dimension of 80 days of overseas travel that isn't normally revealed in a journalist's storytelling. I am back in Chicago now organizing thousands of still-frame images and hours of documentary video footage and I kept pausing over the unplanned images ...

Ally Palmer, ‘Breaking the News’ and the future of journalism

Last week I filmed an interview with Ally Palmer in Edinburgh. I went to bonnie Scotland to film scenes for the documentary film "Breaking the News" and to unwind and unplug from my multimedia world tour to newsrooms and classrooms in many countries. I started editing the Palmer interview on the ...

World Editors Forum (Beirut)

June 5-10, 2010 Robb Montgomery will be working with the World Editors Forum at the annual WAN-IFRA congress in Beirut, Lebanon.

News Innovation & Technology (U.K)

September, 2010 Teesside University Journalism conference Middlesbrough, England Dates TBA News Innovation: Journalism, Technology and Design 2010. In association with the Society for News Design

Graphic: White House staff salaries revealed

The Obama White House staff salaries are shown in this live data graphic visulization. If you updates the figures, the graphic will be updated instantly for the next Web reader. The White House is uploading all kinds of public data to Socrata. I downloaded this set of numbers and built a ...

Germany’s Mathias Döpfner: Our newspapers show 25.4% profit

MONACO: Mathias Döpfner opened his interview segment at the Monaco Media Forum with the stunning news that the German media giant's newspaper division is showing a 25.4% profit. "If print is a dead business, then this kind of death feels pretty comfortable for me." No kidding. Springer is riding in the ...

France24: Teaching Multimedia Reporting in Paris

I am teaching a four day seminar on multimedia reporting to Web journalists for France 24. France 24 is A CNN-style 24/7 video and Web news organization designed for a French audience. I was hired as a consultant to New York City-based Mignon-Media and have been working closely with Jeff Mignon ...

Multimedia reporting (Moscow)

Robb Montgomery will present a three day workshop for journalists at Forbes magazine (Axel-Springer, Russia) Jan. 21-23, 2010.

Multimedia workshops (Cairo, Egypt)

Cairo: Robb Montgomery will be producing a series of new media workshops in Egypt between November 15 and 25, 2009.