LifeHacker posted “Top 10 Ways to Rock Your Resume”, written by Whitson Gordon, on Mar. 5, 2011 and it already has over 115,000 views three days later! Start with a Big List, and Then Shorten It- Keeping your resumé brief is important, but one of the best ways to make sure your resumé is as […]
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Top 10 Ways to Rock Your Resumé
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Top 10 Ways to Rock Your Resumé · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
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Chapter 10: Managing News as a Conversation
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 10: Managing News as a Conversation · briggs, Comm361, Facebook, Student Blog Posts
“Now that news is a conversation, one of the greatest challenges facing journalists is how to manage, and leverage, that conversation.” – Mark Briggs According to Briggs, journalism now means 1) managing online communities as well as 2) participating in various social networks. Audiences being able to comment on stories online and voice their opinions is […]
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Lecture by Jon DeNunzio from The Washington Post
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Lecture by Jon DeNunzio from The Washington Post · Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts
Jon DeNunzio, User Engagement Editor, The Washington Post. (former Online Sports Editor) Follow Jon’s tweets! DeNunzio came to George Mason University on Mar. 3, 2011; he talking about integrating Social Media Into your journalism. Background: Graduated UVA in 1991 Was not a journalism major Concentrated in high school sports at Washington post 2000-2007 Got into […]
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Chapter 11: building a digital audience for news
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 11: building a digital audience for news · briggs, Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts
http://www.pathinteractive.com/blog/2009/12/seo-image-optimization/ You’ve created your blog. You tweet about it, you put on Facebook. You want people to read it. Not enough? You’re not having the traffic you wish you had? Mark Briggs is here to help you. And I am too. First, you need the measure your blog’s traffic. Who is reading your blog? What […]
Chapter 10: managing news as a conversation
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Chapter 10: managing news as a conversation · briggs, Comm361, social media, Student Blog Posts
News is becoming social. The internet is interactive, and allows the news to become a conversation, other just being information. With news gaining this character, there are some concerns about ethics, credibility, and being objective. As journalism, we have no control of what the reader, and now writer, is going to say about your piece on […]
C-SPAN Video Conference with Dan Rather and Tucker Carlson
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on C-SPAN Video Conference with Dan Rather and Tucker Carlson · Comm361, online journalism, Student Blog Posts
Dan Rather, former anchor of the “CBS Evening News” and special correspondent for HD Net, where he is the managing editor of “Dan Rather Reports,” sounded the death knell for the traditional evening news broadcast. “The evening news is what the Mafia would call a walking corpse,” said Rather. “It’s pretty much dead, but it […]
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Welcome to AllenTown
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Welcome to AllenTown · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
For Senator-elect George Allen, freedom is the name of the game Former Virginia Senator George Allen is on the campaign trail again, only this time he’s hitting the digital realm as well. On Thursday, February 17, 2011, Allen joined students from George Mason University and the University of Denver in a video conference to be […]
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Briggs Ch. 10
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Ch. 10 · briggs, Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Early in this chapter, Briggs writes: [M]any journalists (maybe most journalists) preferred news as a lecture. Only begrudgingly have they come around to the idea that a future in journalism means managing online communities and participating in various social networks. It’s a pretty damning accusation but one that I’m unfortunately all too familiar with. When […]
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Our Mindmeister for The Soldier Transition Project
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Our Mindmeister for The Soldier Transition Project · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
The Soldier Transition Project aims to highlight and tell the stories of returning soldiers who are trying to readjust back into life as a civilian. As the techy in the group, I will be in charge of the web site development/layout along with helping other group members out with incorporating their sections into one area. […]
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Briggs Chapter 11 Extra credit!
March 8th, 2011 · Comments Off on Briggs Chapter 11 Extra credit! · Comm361, Student Blog Posts
Building a Digital Audience for News The fundamentals for this are the following: -Track your content -Use Web analytics -Get Search engine optimization -Use effective headlining for the web -Distribute through the social media You should always track what you … Continue reading →
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