Tag Archive for 'social media'

Multimedia training (EGYPT)

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Robb Montgomery
on August 17, 2009
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CAIRO: The Supremem Press council opens their new multi-million dollar training center and the Egypt Media Development program’s training consultant, Robb Montgomery, will return to Egypt to open the venue. Montgomery was the first journalist/trainer to train Egyptian journalists at the start of the project.

Montgomery will also be making a new film documentary about all of the training centers and also produce sessions for the Egypt Media Development Program where he will be training the trainers in social media and visual media techniques.

Which new media skills do you or your staff need most in the next 12 months?

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Robb Montgomery
on July 25, 2009
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After having worked closely with journalists and editors in newsrooms large and small in many parts of the world, I have a pretty clear sense of the training needs and am keen to match them to extremely practical workshop experiences.

But, I really need your help to confirm this. Will you please help me out with some data?



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How I used Twitter to get 9,000 views on YouTube

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Robb Montgomery
on July 5, 2009
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Last week I shared some tips for journalists using Twitter in a live Webinar for the World Editors Forum.

One of the examples I showed was how, as a solo video journalist, I was able to generate a lot of traffic and attention to a video report I filed in Cairo.