Scott Gerber, whose article “8 Ways Entrepreneurs Can Get More Out of Twitter” is featured on Mashable.com, asked a panel of young, successful entrepreneurs how other entrepreneurs can utilize Twitter to their advantage. They advised: Twitter is a social tool — interact and be social, find out what customers want or need Avoid insecurity work – limit Twitter time […]
Entries from April 15th, 2011
Tech Blog #8: “To Tweet or Not To Tweet: That is the Question!”
April 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #8: “To Tweet or Not To Tweet: That is the Question!” · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
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Tech Blog #7: New Apple Video Editing Software
April 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #7: New Apple Video Editing Software · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
Ben Parr’s article, “Apple Unveils Final Cut Pro X,” on Mashable.com, offers some details about this rebuild of the 12-year-old video-editing software introduced at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas: First 64-bit version Can utilize all eight cores and more than 4 GB of RAM for professional editing on […]
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Tech Blog #6: Browser Privacy
April 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #6: Browser Privacy · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
Tired of being tracked? Mashable.com features a new article by Jolie Odell titled “Apple Adds ‘Do Not Track’ Features to Safari.” Part of a test version of Mac OS X Lion, this new version of the Safari browser includes an option that lets users prevent cookies from tracking their online browsing behavior. Public concerns about web browsing […]
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VC Story #2: — A Force to be Reckoned With: Former Chief of Staff to the First Lady Anita McBride In-Class C-Span Video Conference
April 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on VC Story #2: — A Force to be Reckoned With: Former Chief of Staff to the First Lady Anita McBride In-Class C-Span Video Conference · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Former Chief of Staff for the First Lady Anita McBride video conferenced with us today, and, boy, has she worked in the White House for quite a while. McBride said that she never looked back after campaigning in 1980. Between 1987 and 1992, she was the Director of White House Personnel under both President Ronald Reagan and […]
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Video Conference Story #2: Anita McBride
April 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Video Conference Story #2: Anita McBride · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Former Chief of Staff to the First Lady Anita McBride joined our class via C-SPAN to discuss her work in the White House. Checkout some background information about McBride here and her work as a contributor at The Daily Beast. She is currently a professor at American University. As a veteran of three administrations, McBride […]
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Guest speaker: Mark Stencel
April 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest speaker: Mark Stencel · Comm361, Facebook, Student Blog Posts
Mark Stencel’s journalism career began around 1995 where he worked at the Washington Post for 12 years (9 focusing in online things), The News & Observer in Raleigh, NC. He currently works for NPR (National Public Radio), has been there for just under 2 years and is the digital managing editor. NPR is a non-profit organization, so money […]
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Tech Blog – Making the Most of Your Journalism Internship
April 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog – Making the Most of Your Journalism Internship · Comm361, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts
Steve Buttry was a fantastic guest speaker, and appropriately enough his blog is just as chock full of great information, including a particularly helpful article on making the most out of your internship. I’ve never partook in a journalism internship, but I’m currently interning at Loudoun County Public Schools Television, and I’ve kept Buttry’s tips […]
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Video Conference with Anita McBride
April 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Video Conference with Anita McBride · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Anita McBride, former chief of staff to former First Lady Laura Bush, discussed the roles and challenges of being a first lady during a C-SPAN interview on April 14 with political editor Steve Scully and students from George Mason University, Purdue University and the University of Denver. Being the first lady is the “most important, […]
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It’s All About the Timing
April 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on It’s All About the Timing · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Mandy Jenkins who is now D.C. Social News Editor at The Huffington Post wrote a very interesting post on her blog about the importance being the first person and/or news organization to get a story out first. What was really interesting was that Jenkins said that many reporters and journalists feel that there is a […]
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Guest Speaker: Brad Kalbfeld
April 13th, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest Speaker: Brad Kalbfeld · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Brad Kalbfeld, author of the Associated Press Broadcast News Handbook and managing editor for the Associated Press, came and spoke to our Comm. 361 class on April 5, 2011. Kalbfeld spoke about much of the history of journalism and how it’s evolved us into today’s journalism. Copyright: apbroadcast.com He started off his presentation by showing […]
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