This couldn’t be a better article for the relevance of this Comm. 361 Online Journalism class. This article gives an excellent overview of some innovative websites that can be used for classes dealing with journalism. MediaShift is a website which tracks how social media, weblogs, podcasting, citizen journalism, wikis, news aggregators and online video are changing […]
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MediaShift: How to Integrate Social Tools into the Journalism Classroom
February 25th, 2011 · Comments Off on MediaShift: How to Integrate Social Tools into the Journalism Classroom · Comm361, Facebook, social media, Storify, Student Blog Posts
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Quora: What is it?
February 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on Quora: What is it? · Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts
In a world of twitter, twellow, bebo, cloob and fotki, there possibly couldn’t be any use for Quora. Turns out I am wrong. Quora.com, a website founded by two former Facebook moguls, has been buzzing in the world of media gurus lately due to its community-driven Q & A repository. Deemed a “social network for […]
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Twitter raises awareness for the homeless
February 16th, 2011 · Comments Off on Twitter raises awareness for the homeless · Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts
I never thought of myself as much of a blog or Twitter person. Yes, I have a personal blog where I vent and write about issues that are important to me. And yes, I have a Twitter account where I would tweet maybe once every two months. However, when I started this class, doing these […]
Chapter four: Microblogging
February 15th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter four: Microblogging · briggs, Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts
Twitter. It’s the one thing that comes to mind when you hear the word microblogging. In what way can we possibly cover news in less than 140 characters? What is microblogging? It’s the idea that lets individuals write and share small content of news online via short sentences, images or video links. It is an […]
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How a pro does a story on Storify
February 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Comm361, multimedia, online journalism, social media, Steve Buttry, Storify
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Mandy Jenkins Visits COMM 361
February 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Mandy Jenkins Visits COMM 361 · Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts
There’s a famous saying that the harder you work, the luckier you get. This saying holds true for Mandy Jenkins, director of social media for TBD. Coming from a town in rural Ohio, Jenkins has always worked hard. She wanted to be a part of the media world; however, she discovered that her career path […]
>The social media revolution
January 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Comm361, online journalism, social media
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