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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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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Below is a slideshow of great pages that proves the visual journalism is not dead.
Not dead by a mile - and work like this is even more necessary when editors need to tell complex stories in an economy of newsprint. Stories that can be scanned and read in non-linear fashion.
The quality of work submitted to the Visual Editors portfolio site every day illustrates that the craft and need for editorial visuals is still being produced at a high level in newsrooms around the globe.
Every few days the editors highlight the strongest page designs and graphics to be featured on the home page.
Find more images like this on Visual Editors
Four days of seminars on video journalism - reporting and editing
Produced by Visual Editors and Beamups.com
Monday - Filming and sequences
Oct 26, 2009
Tuesday - Interviewing for video
Oct. 27, 2009
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The Victoria Advocate's Harry Potter themed newspaper.
Visual editor, Ryan Huddle posted an impressive gallery of Harry Potter themed pages in the gallery on
Visual Editors. (See slideshow embedded below)
He writes that his newspaper, the Victoria Advocate, had “a lot of success with the Victoria Prophet single pages we did in 2007. This year we went bigger and better with an entire section. We turned our weekly entertainment section into the Victoria Prophet with local feature stories, Advertising, Games, and we even have ads for the busniesses in the world of Harry Potter.”
In a time of contraction for some U.S. newsrooms it is heartening to see a paper take an idea like this and run with it and really, really do it right.
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Join us October 5-7, 2009 at The Toronto Star for three days of hands-on instruction on Web reporting, video reporting and visual multimedia techniques.
Details: http://toronto.eventbrite.com
What will I learn?
WEB REPORTING - Monday, October 5
Improve your reporting and audience engagement with social media tools and techniques. Learn how to write for the Web, manage a Twitter persona for yourself or your organization and dig into many delicious ways to use social media for research and publishing.
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