Friday Fast Five – Your Guide To New Media

By Benét J. Wilson, chair, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force & social media/newsletters editor, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

It seems as if every day, there is some new hardware, software, tool, technology or trick designed to help us do our jobs smarter and faster.  This column was created to help you cut through the clutter. So enjoy these tips — and pass them along!

1. GigaOm – What newspapers and other media could learn from Reddit.
2. SocialMedia Biz – Memolane: Helping tell our stories through social media
3. Mashable – 11 Free Services for Scheduling Social Media Updates
4. Blogging Tips – How to Find Professional Web Designers for Your Online Business?
5. Knight Digital Media Center – Review: RCFP “first aid” app for journalists

Friday Fast Five

By Benét J. Wilson, chair, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force & social media/newsletters editor, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association

1. Mashable — 11 Fascinating Facts About Google Maps
2. GigaOm — Learnist – a ‘Pinterest for Education’ – releases apps for iPhone, iPad
3. Sue Gardner’s blog — How to write a Wikipedia article (it’s easy)
4. Blogging Tips — 30 Ways to Increase Site Traffic
5. Journalists’ Tool Kit — Good Tutorial Sites For HTML, HTML5, CSS, jQuery

Friday Fast Five

By Benét J. Wilson, DJTF chair & freelance aviation journalist/blogger

First, I want to wish you all a happy new year.  One of my resolutions for 2012 (besides getting my pilot license) is to get this blog back on track.  That means more posts from more guest bloggers, along with keeping up with regular features like our Calendar, which comes out every Monday, and this column every Friday.  Enjoy!

1. 10000 Words: 3 Things Journalists Can Teach Themselves Over Vacation (OK, this was for the recent Christmas holiday, but it’s relevant year round)
   
2. American Express Open Forum:  How To Start Managing Your Online Reputation
3. BaltTech blog: Hey Google: Let 410Labs show you how to launch an email app
4. Brazen Life: 4 Things You Can Learn for Free (or Cheap) to Help You Land Your Next Job
5. IJNet: Top five multimedia tools for journalists of 2011

Friday Fast Five + Five: The Job Search Edition

By Benét J. Wilson, DJTF co-chair, Online Managing Editor-Business Aviation, Aviation Week Group

I was in the car on Sunday and the NPR show “Marketplace Money” was on.  Host Tess Vigland was talking about how an internship at Oregon Public Radio launched her journalism career.  That got me thinking that as our latest crop of students graduate, now was the time to pull out the job search items lurking in my Fast Five bookmark folder.  But these links can be used by anyone searching for a job.

And NABJ members can get a free resume review from me.  I’m tough, but fair.  It’s better to hear what issues there may be with your resume from me rather than wonder why no one is calling you for interviews.  I’m at regaviationqueen AT Yahoo DOT com.  Now, on with Fast Five!

1. Marketplace — More companies hiring interns
   
2. 10000 Words — 3 Reasons Why You Should Have an Infographic Resume
3. Mashable — 10 Creative Social Media Resumes To Learn From
4. GigaOm — Landing Your Dream Job in a Networked World
5. Lifehacker — Top 10 Ways to Rock Your Resumé
6. Mashable — You Can Now Convert Your Facebook Profile to a Facebook Page
7. New Grad Life — 22 Tips for Landing a Job On LinkedIn 
8. Mashable — HOW TO: Ask For an Online Recommendation
9. Position Ignition — 5 Tips in Using Social Media for Job Searches
10. SmartBlog on Social Media — Using enterprise 2.0 tools to ease into your new job

Friday Fast Five

By Benét J. Wilson, DJTF co-chair, Online Managing Editor-Business Aviation, Aviation Week Group

1. 10000 Words – Tools of the Day: definr & Thsrs
2. Journalists’ Toolkit - iMovie 09 tutorials for journalism students
3. Mashable – ShoutEm Makes It Easy to Create Your Own Mobile App
4. New Media Photographer – 33 ways photographers can use QR codes
5. BatchGeo – Create Maps

Friday Five + Bonus!

By Benét J. Wilson, DJTF co-chair, Online Managing Editor-Business Aviation, Aviation Week Group

I’m still trying to clean out my Fast Five bookmarks, so this week, you get the usual offering from 10000 Words, plus an all-Blogging Tips post.  Enjoy!

1. 10000 Words – Five free tools for finding design inspiration
2. Blogging Tips – How to Consistently Develop Great Content as a Blogger
3. Blogging Tips – Which is Right for You?
4. Blogging Tips – 21 Ways to Get Traffic to Your Blog
5. Blogging Tips – Promote Your Blog With a Facebook Banner from Fbanners.com
6. Blogging Tips – SociaCard: The Online Card That Shows Off Your Social Media Profiles
7. Blogging Tips – Schedule Emails and Setup Reminders with Boomerang for Gmail

Friday Fast Five + Five

By Benét J. Wilson, DJTF co-chair, Online Managing Editor-Business Aviation, Aviation Week Group

1. 10000Words – Proclaiming things “Dead” is dead
2. Networked – 3 Helpful Tools for Journalists
3. Life Hacker – Why You Should Use Google Apps with a Personal Domain Instead of Your Gmail Account
4. Media Shift IdeaLab – A Guide to Delivering Audio Content to Mobile Audiences
5. GigaOm – 5 Simple Ways to Get More out of Google Analytics
6. Teaching Online Journalism – Teaching online with WordPress.com
7. SmartBlog on Social Media - What makes a webinar great? — a Q-and-A with Ann Handley
8. TechCrunch – I Didn’t Know You Could Do That With Google Docs
9. Smashing Magazine – Creating And Distributing Presentations On The Web
10. O’Reilly Radar – 4 free data tools for journalists (and snoops)

Friday Fast Five + Five: The New Years’ Edition

By Benét J. Wilson, DJTF co-chair, Online Managing Editor-Business Aviation, Aviation Week Group

Editor’s note: the Digital Journalism Task Force is holding a BlogTalkRadio session Tuesday, Jan. 11 from noon to 1:00 p.m. on this year’s convention.  Our panel, which features convention chair Rod Hicks, programming chair Dr. Sybril Bennett and Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists President Sarah Glover, will discuss what members can expect at this year’s event. Bennett will also offer guidance on what she and the Programming Committee will expect for this year’s workshops and panels.  We’ll also leave time for your questions. I hope you can join us.

Also, we will be migrating this blog to www.nabj.org one week from today.  It will now only be available to NABJ members.  The decision was made as NABJ continues efforts to build value in having a membership.  We’ll keep this page ope and available as a resource, and our old posts will continue to be available here.   Members, please go to nabj.org and click on the link for the Digital Journalism Task Force.

So here we are in 2011, ready to look ahead and make our resolutions.  You can check out my plans for 2011 over at my Aviation Queen blog.  And in that spirit, today’s Fast Five are all things you can use to help you with your resolutions.  Enjoy!

1. 10000 Words – 6 innovative uses of Tumblr by newsrooms
2. BlogHer – 3 Essential Online Tools for Finding Your Next Job!
3. DNAInfo – Six Ways Journalists Can Use Twitter Better
4. Online Journalism Review – Video journalism in the palm of your hand: Making the most out of Flip and cell phone video
5. Teaching Online Journalism – Online video, audiences, sharing: Putting it all together
6. Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute – Mobile Journalism Reporting Tools Guide
7. Networked – Writeboard: A free web tool that makes it easy to collaborate on a project
8. MakeUseOf – 2 Dead Simple Ways To Start Your Own Email Newsletter
9. Poynter – What journalists need to know about starting a nonprofit business
10. Top Rank – 9 Essential Social Media Tips for Beginners

Friday Fast Five + Five

By Benét J. Wilson, DJTF co-chair, Online Managing Editor-Business Aviation, Aviation Week Group

This will be the last Fast Five for 2011.  I hope you have found these helpful, and I look forward to continuing this column in 2011.   Next week, we’ll repost some of  our most popular columns in 2010.  So please enjoy your holidays, and we’ll be back live on Jan. 3, 2011.

1. 10000 Words – Six must-have WordPress plugins for newsrooms
2. Networked – Quoting the social Web: Using Storify to turn posts into stories
3. The Young Writers Society – Essential websites for anyone trying to get published
4. Innovative Interactivity – My advice to potential bloggers: Don’t ‘Just Do It’
5. Business Insider – 25 New Tech Trends You Need To Know About
6. Social Media Explorer – Five Social Media Trends for 2011
7. Lifehacker – Make a Yearly Habit of Visiting Your Google Dashboard
8. The Future Buzz – Niche Blogging Case Study – Ramping Up A New Blog From Scratch
9. Make Use Of – 5 Cool Data Apps & Mashups Provided By The US Government
10. GigaOm – 18 Tasks You Can Crowdsource

 

Friday Fast Five + Five

By Benét J. Wilson, DJTF co-chair, Online Managing Editor-Business Aviation, Aviation Week Group

Yesterday, an article in Forbes magazine noted that Mashable has topped the list of the most influential media outlets, as ranked by Klout, which tracks online influence.  Anyone can go to Klout, type in their Twitter handle and check out their own scores.  Check out the results for NABJDigital here.  But to celebrate Mashable’s achievement, today’s Fast Five will all come from that website — minus the required link from 10000 Words. Enjoy!

1. 10000 Words – Online Journalism Tool of the Day: WordCounter
2. Mashable (here and below) – HOW TO: Make the Most of Your Twitter Profile Page
3. HOW TO: Start Your Own Internet Talk Show
4. HOW TO: Create Your Own Customized Short URL
5. HOW TO: Develop a Branded iPhone App on a Budget
6. 10 Unique iPhone Photography Accessories
7. 5 Fresh Places to Find Great Online Video
8. 6 Ways to Score a Job Through Twitter
9. 6 Essential Steps for Executing Your Social Media Strategy
10. 16 Handy iPhone Apps for Better Blogging