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. Mashable – 10 Fascinating Data Visualization Projects

2. Report Schick – 50 Must-Follow Investigative Twitter Feeds

3. Mashable – Become a Camera+ Wizard With These Tips and Tricks

4. Gigaom - Coursera expands foreign-language classes with help of new international partners

5. Mashable - From task management to cloud storage, here are 10 apps you need for work

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. 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

Friday Fast Five: Your Guide To New Media

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force intern

1. SlideShare – How to Share Your Digital Stories

2. Dukeo – 30 Ways to Make Blogging Easier

3. iMedia Connection – 10 Ways to Promote Your Brand on LinkedIn

4. QKPix – 7 Essential Items For Your Camera Bag

5. Gizmodo - 10 Photoshop Alternatives That Are Totally Free

Four Ways Journalists Can Use Pinterest

A screenshot of Pinterest’s homepage.

By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force intern

Pinterest, a virtual pinboard where you can share and organize images and video through “pins,” has become a popular social media platform since its launch in 2010. In 2012, it was the third most-visited social networking site, as reported by CNN.

As journalists and news organizations look for various ways to interact with its readers and viewers, and users are seeking to engage with more visual social media content, Pinterest provides a platform which can potentially facilitate both sides’ interest in promoting, distributing and sharing content.

Here are four ideas that we’ve gathered from across the Web and compiled together for how journalists can start using Pinterest.

1.  Use compelling photos to share hard news headlines

While Pinterest is most known for its foodie and wedding posts, CTV News has created several boards to chronicle breaking news stories with its Occupy Wall Street, Tragedy and triumph and The World We Live In boards. Al Jazeera created The faces of Egypt’s voters board to capture to feelings of Alexandria’s residents in the historic election to choose the country’s next president.

2.  Give previews of what you are working on

The Houston Press, an alternative weekly publication, releases its print issues every Thursday, but gives its readers a sneak peek at its creative covers every Wednesday on its Under the Covers board. Time magazine also does the same with its TIME Covers board.

For those times where you don’t have that perfect image to sell the story, follow the lead of The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ Quotes board and highlight memorable quotes from your stories. You could also get a little creative and use infographics like on Mashable’s Infographics board, or like The Salt Lake Tribune’s Bagley Cartoons board and share editorial cartoons.

3.  Display photo galleries, feature stories and reviews

It’s no secret that one of Pinterest’s most popular categories is food. The Salt Lake Tribune is taking advantage of that with its SLC & Utah Restaurants & Bars board to share its restaurant and bar reviews. The Orlando Sentinel has boards dedicated to local attractions such as Walt Disney World and Florida Travel. There is also a Feature Pages–Collaborative board, which features pages from newspapers across the nation.

4.  Involve your audience

Some good examples of utilizing user-generated content on Pinterest are CTV’s Canada Through Your Eyes and PBS NewsHour’s Childhood Cancer Awareness: Your Photos. The New York Times asked for submissions to its Your Holiday Dessert Pins and then featured some of the best pins on its website.

Al Jazeera has a Crowdsourced News board, where users can share newsworthy items that Al Jazeera is and isn’t covering. Al Jazeera also has a web community and daily television show, The Stream, which is powered through social media and citizen journalism, and shares content from its viewers on Pinterest, too.

Last, but not least, NABJ experimented with Pinterest boards at the 2012 convention in New Orleans, creating boards on NABJ 2012 New Orleans, NABJ2012, NABJ Fashionistas & Fashionistos and New Orleans Food.

Please share how you’re using Pinterest in your work!

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 Fast Five + Five

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

Editor’s note: The Online News Association held its annual conference here in Washington, D.C., Oct. 28-31.  Several NABJ members were there, so DJTF is doing a BlogTalkRadio show on the event Wednesday, Nov. 17 from 8-9 p.m. Eastern time. I hope you can join us!

1. 10000 Words – 5 Things I’ve learned about building a personal brand and why everything you’ve heard is bogus
2. JeffBullas.com – 5 Tips To Build Your Personal Brand With Social Media
3. Mashable – 6 BlackBerry Apps to Cure iPhone Envy
4. Blogging Tips – 5 Ways Twitter Can Actually Be Useful… For Anyone
5. Chris Snider, DesMoinesRegister.com – Online Tools for Journalists (Slideshare presentation)
6. TwiTips – Twitter Chats: A Goldmine of Traffic, Followers and Knowledge
7. Social Media Examiner – 10 Tips for Finding a Job Using Facebook and LinkedIn
8. Lifehacker – The Best Photography Apps for Your iPhone
9. ReadWriteWeb – 5 Tools for Online Journalism, Exploration and Visualization
10. Blue Blots – 20 Free Online Video Editing Tools

 

Friday Fast Five + Five

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

It’s good to be back in the regular routine.  I’m still trying to dig out of my Fast Five folder, so we’re going to do a bonus five again this week.  Enjoy!

1. 10000 Words – 3 Underrated but essential skills for journalists.  I was surprised with the list, but Mark Luckie is 100% right!
2. Mashable – 6 Crucial Social Media Tips for Traditional Media.  All six are things that traditional journalists are not used to doing (promote your presence??), but the future is now.
3. Blogging Tips – Reinventing Yourself and Your Blog. As I work on plans to revamp the NABJDigital blog, I found these tips to be very helpful. We all have to shake it up now and then…
4. Lifehacker – Use Multiple Google Calendars to Balance Your College Life. OK, it says college life, but we could all use some help.  With all the things I need to balance in my life (family, work, associations, friends, etc.) this tool has been a lifesaver. Do it now!
5. Insure.com – 10 amazing infographics to help you visualize disasters.  We’ve all heard from our newsrooms to use more infographics to illustrate our stories. Here are 10 great examples for inspiration.
6. GigaOm – Freesound Project: Creative Commons Licensed Audio Snippets. Check out this site for almost 100,000 audio snippets when you need a sound effect for an audio project.
7. Photoline For All – 9 Tips on How to Learn Digital SLR Photography.  You have the camera. It’s gathering dust on the shelf. Read this, and get started!
8. PBS Media Shift – 10 Ways to Make Video a More Interactive Experience.  These are some really good ideas, especially adding a video component to your CoverItLive chat.
9. Free Technology For Teachers – 7 Resources for Detecting and Preventing Plagiarism. With content so easily available out there, it’s really easy for anyone to lift your work.  These resources help in the fight.
10. Pelfusion – 30 WordPress Based Websites That Don’t Look Like Blogs.  These show the real possibilities of using a free WordPress blog as your website platform.

Friday Fast Five

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

Sorry – it’s been a busy week, so I’m going to get right to it.

1. 10000 Words – 3 Ways journalism classes are making education more interactive (Mark’s  new book, “The Digital Journalist’s Handbook” is for sale.
   
2. Networked – Free chart creation with Chartle.net
3. Mediactive – Add Proofreading Support to Your WordPress Dashboard
4. Digital Journalist – Live-blogging tips for journalists
5. Alltop – 27 amazing digital photography tutorials