Director of Community Engagement Steve Buttry for TBD.com was in class with us today! Buttry started by showing us a social media project that the Star Tribune worked on in mid- to late-2007. It involved a slide show of pictures and sounds that depicted the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minn. The bridge used to […]
Entries from March 22nd, 2011
Tech Blog #9: Guest Speaker Steve Buttry, TBD.com’s Director of Community Engagement
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Tech Blog #9: Guest Speaker Steve Buttry, TBD.com’s Director of Community Engagement · Comm361, New York Times, Steve Buttry, Student Blog Posts
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Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest Speaker: Steve Buttry · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Steve Buttry, Director of Community Engagement at TBD visited our class on Tuesday, March 22. He showed us a lot of great interactive sites that can be used by electronic journalists. Check out some of the links below – the stories are interesting, but the way each story is told is even more amazing! 13 Seconds […]
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Chapter 8: Telling stories with video
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 8: Telling stories with video · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Summary: Video provides a compelling medium for telling a story. Quality can range from the highly produced to a grainy web cam, depending on whether it appears on broadcast television or on the Web. The quality versus quantity debate is irrelevant in online journalism, a compelling video does not have to be aesthetic perfection. Everyone […]
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Briggs Ch. 9 – ‘Data-driven journalism and digitizing your life’
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 9 – ‘Data-driven journalism and digitizing your life’ · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Organizing your digital life was the focus of this chapter. There are many free or trial programs that can help you organize your digital self. Since these programs are online, they are easily edited and can be accessible to others. Some examples: Backpack Zoho MS Office Suite (Outlook, etc) Dropbox Basecamp Databases are helpful in […]
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Briggs Ch. 8 – ‘Telling stories with video’
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 8 – ‘Telling stories with video’ · Comm361, Student Blog Posts, video
Video storytelling was the concept of this chapter. Now anyone can use the digital equipment around them to create video storytelling, it just takes a lot of practice. Thanks to YouTube, the quality of the video doesn’t have to be very high. What’s important is authenticity. The most entertaining videos get re-posted over and over. […]
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‘Journalism Next’ Chapter 8 Summary
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on ‘Journalism Next’ Chapter 8 Summary · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Video is “the most powerful type of visual journalism,” according to Mark Briggs. In Chapter 8 of “Journalism Next” Briggs describes how journalists can get on the video bandwagon. This might come as a shock to journalism students but apparently quality of the video does not matter. It can be amateur video or some professionally done […]
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Chapter 9: Data-Driven Journalism and Digitizing Your Life
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 9: Data-Driven Journalism and Digitizing Your Life · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
“There is no such thing as information overload, only filter failure”, stated Clay Shirky during a presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo in September 2008. According to Briggs there are two challenges to all this information: Personal: being able to take advantage of all the tools out there to manage your day. Professional: seizing these opportunities […]
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Chapter 8: Telling Stories with Video
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 8: Telling Stories with Video · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts, video
Some things just can’t be expressed with words. That’s where the POWER of videos comes in. Copyright: avcreative.co.uk “The tools have changed, but the game remains the same: visual journalism is about telling compelling stories that connect an audience with subjects, people and issues.” – Mark Briggs First thing to know about making videos to […]
Want to Digitize Your Life?- Chapter 9 Mark Briggs
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Want to Digitize Your Life?- Chapter 9 Mark Briggs · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
With information such as emails, status updates and blog posts, its sometimes hard to keep up with the never-ending avalanche of information that is the Internet. We are up to our eyeballs in social media, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because all you have to do it learn how to breathe through all it. […]
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Video Stories- Chapter 8 Mark Briggs
March 22nd, 2011 · Comments Off on Video Stories- Chapter 8 Mark Briggs · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
The video age is upon us. More and more people are editing their way into the world of video, a world where publishing and creating a video is becoming incredibly easier. An impact of a video can alter a story from having the reader just reading to having them feel like they were part of […]
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