Friday Fast Five – Your Guide To New Media

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force intern

1. Lifehacker – Top 10 Ways to Save Money on Tech 

2. Babble – How to Start a Blog

3. Mashable – 15 Digital Media Resources You Might Have Missed

4. Visual.ly – The Minimalistic Gmail Cheat Sheet

5. ProBlogger – Warning: Don’t Accept Guest Posts Until You’ve Done These 5 Steps

Editor’s note: the Digital Journalism Task Force is working on programming that will take us right to the annual convention. To that end, we’d appreciate it if you could take this quick 5-question survey to let us know what you want. Thanks!!

Friday Fast Five – Your Guide To New Media

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force intern

1. Mashable – 3 Quick Tricks to Improve Your Gmail Experience

2. The Next Web – Enigma makes it easy for anyone to search, discover and analyze public data from over 100,000 sources

3. App Advice – Do Your Researching, Writing And Sharing All In One App With Skriv

4. 1000 Words – Tools for Following, Unfollowing and Managing Lists on Twitter

5. Mashable – How to Erase Your Data From an Old Computer or Phone

Editor’s note: the Digital Journalism Task Force is working on programming that will take us right to the annual convention. To that end, we’d appreciate it if you could take this quick 5-question survey to let us know what you want. Thanks!!

Friday Fast Five – Your Guide To New Media

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force intern

1. Mashable – 6 Ways to Spring Clean You LinkedIn Profile

2. Media Bistro – Best Free Interview Transcription Tools

3. Inc. – 5 Reasons to Blow Uo Your Current Website

4. Mashable - 49 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

5. PR Daily – 30 ways to promote your next blog post

Friday Fast Five – Your Guide To New Media

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force intern

1. Media Bistro – Best Free Interview Transcription Tools

2. Newsnet – Five social media lessons from from @BubbaWatson, Masters Champ

3. Journalism.co.uk – Getting started in data journalism

4. PR Daily - Four things to know about having a social media career

5. Mashable - 5 Services to Boost Email Productivity

Friday Fast Five – Your Guide To New Media

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force intern

1. Amanda Mogul – 10 PowerPoint alternatives that make meetings fun

2. Mashable – 5 Ways Startups Are Using Vine

3. Entrepreneur – Building You Brand on Twitter

4. Mashable - 10 Instagram Companion Apps for Power Users

5. Nieman Journalism Lab - Pop in translation: A new tool to see what non-English news orgs are writing about the conclave 

Friday Fast Five – Your Guide To New Media

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force intern

1. Covering Health – Simple Tools For Spicing Up Your Stories With Multimedia

2. PR Daily – 22 image-editing tools to make your pictures pop

3. Mashable – 40+ Digital Resources That You May Have Missed

4. Bill Moyers - Five Great Online Tools for Mining Public Records

5. Kikolani - How To Write A Killer Headline and Make Your Post Shine

Friday Fast Five – Your Guide To New Media

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force intern

1. Gizmodo – 7 Uses for Your Outdated iPad

2. Blogging Tips – How To Choose A Best Domain Name Smartly

3.  Journalism.co.uk – 50 blogs by journalists, for journalists

4.  ProBlogger – 7 Old Post Revival Techniques You Won’t Believe You’re Overlooking

5. Mashable – Kleverbeast Wants to be Like Tumblr for Your Own Mobile Apps

Friday Fast Five – Your Guide To New Media

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force intern

1. Forbes – 5 Essential Tips To Make Your Social Profiles Resume-Ready

2. Mashable – How to Effectively Use Twitter as a Job Search Resource

3.  The Daily SEO Blog – 10 Tools for Creating Infographics and Visualizations

4.  Salesforce Marketing Cloud – Use the 5Ws of Journalism to Plan Your Social Media Activities

5. Socialbrite – 11 free & inexpensive online photo editing tools

Friday Fast Five – Your Guide To New Media

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force intern

1. How-To Geek – The Best Free Programs and Online Services for Sending and Sharing Large Files

2. Blogging Tips – 5 Breakthrough Methods for Attracting Attention to Your Blog

3.  Mashable – Clean Up Your Facebook Profile With FaceWash

4.  Future Journalism Project – How to Use Storify as Your One-Stop Social Media Search Engine

5.  Journalism.co.uk – How to: verify content from social media

Friday Fast Five: Your Guide To New Media

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force intern

1. SHIFT Digital – The Ultimate LinkedIn Profile Cheat Sheet

2. iMedia Connection – 6 Trends That Will Shape Digital in 2013

3. PBS MediaShift – Meograph: The Future of Storytelling is 4D (with context)

4. PR Daily – 20 Content Ideas Readers Love

5. Mashable – 40 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed