In Mark Briggs’ second chapter “Advanced Blogging,” he focuses on the essentials of blogging. His main points of the chapters are summarized as the following: Good blogs are a continuing conversation: If you write a blog, it is necessary to create a reader’s base to get some feedback. This enables you to continue the conversation […]
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Chapter two: The basics of blogging
February 14th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter two: The basics of blogging · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
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Guest Speaker: Mandy Jenkins
February 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Guest Speaker: Mandy Jenkins · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
MANDY JENKINS, SOCIAL MEDIA PRODUCER FOR TBD (a local news site), visited my Communications 361 class (Online Journalism) today to share her experiences in her field. I appreciate what she had to share with us and attained some useful advice. In College Jenkins said that “reaching out and connecting with people individually” helped her land jobs early and […]
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Chapter one: We are all web workers now!
February 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter one: We are all web workers now! · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
I have taken three classes with Professor Steve Klein, one for every semester I have been at Mason and the one thing that has stuck with me all this time is that he has always emphasized the FOUNDATIONS of writing for journalism. Whether it may be writing a story, doing carpentry work or climbing a […]
Briggs Review 3: Connecting With Your Audience
February 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Review 3: Connecting With Your Audience · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
IN THIS CHAPTER I LEARNED more about audience participation in contemporary news organizations and blogs. Crowdsourcing is when journalists give audiences tasks (sometimes paid and sometimes not) just like a professional reporter. For example, if a scandal occurs involving, lets say, mortgage rates, then the community affected will be able to give more vital information […]
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Briggs Review 2: The Essence of Blogging
February 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Review 2: The Essence of Blogging · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Gather ’round as I tell you how I learned the true meaning of blogging…
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Briggs Review 1: Basic Coding
February 10th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Review 1: Basic Coding · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
BRIGGS’ FIRST CHAPTER DABS in HTML and other computer terms that I was not very familiar with, and so I have compiled a list summarizing them: RSS: I’ve known for a long time that RSS feeds existed, but I didn’t know much about what they were. RSS feeds are short summarizing paragraphs of news or other information […]
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Briggs Chapter 4
February 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 4 · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Microblogging: Write Small, Think Big News in 140-characters Photo credit: AntiqueImages BUY IT HERE! The twitter chapter! Basically I’m going to break it down for you in a few basic points. Real-time uses of Twitter: Evacuations Tradgedy Trial Coverage Broadcast news Start using Twitter, Tweet! Establish your goal Have a topic Make a network […]
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Briggs Chapter 3
February 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 3 · Comm361, newspapers, Student Blog Posts
Have you ever heard the phrase, two heads are better than one? Briggs moved on in “Journalism Next” to crowdsourcing. What is crowdsourcing? “It is a relatively new term, coined by Jeff Howe in a 2006 article for Wired News. Think of crowdsourcing like outsourcing, the term it spun off from. Crowdsourcing harnesses the sustained […]
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Briggs Chapter 2
February 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 2 · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Advanced Blogging The rules are different with blogs. Blogging reporters play off other information they find online, even linking stories and blogs that might have been thought of as competition just a few years ago. Three characteristics define a blog: Frequently updated (recently updated stuff on top) Entries are called, “posts” and each have a […]
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Briggs Chapter 1
February 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 1 · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
We’re All Web Workers Now Photo credit: smileham/flickr …Says Mark Briggs. This thirty some page chapter dove straight in describing the basics of how the internet works and the technical contruction of web pages . Briggs had a graph like picture to help teach about Bits and Bytes. A comparable image I found was on a […]
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