fast five – NABJDigital Blog

Mashable has long been one of my go-to websites when it comes to things I can do to improve my digital journalism skills. So below are great links to 10 Mashable articles that may help you. Enjoy!

journalism, multimedia journalist

Friday Fast Five: Your Guide To New Media – The Google Edition

Posted on December 19, 2014December 7, 2014 by nabjdigital

I wish there was just one place that was home to the master list of Google hacks. But until then, check out these five that can be handy right now.

Google – Public Data Explorer
Lifehacker – Create Customizable GeoMaps with Google Sheets
Gigaom – How get the most out of Google’s apps and services when using an iPad
Digital Telepathy – Google Spreadsheets: More Useful Than You Thought
About.com Travel – Make your own Google maps

multimedia journalist

Friday Fast Five + Five: Your Guide To New Media

Posted on May 30, 2014 by nabjdigital

It’s the end of the month, and I need to clean out the Fast Five folder. So today you get links to 10 great digital resources. Enjoy!

The Next Web — Why we need infographics and how to make them great
Blogging Tips — Boo! How to Make a Ghost Blogger Work for You
Nieman Lab — How ProPublica uses Google Docs to help in reader-backed reporting
ReadWrite — Wix Says You Don’t Need To Learn To Code To Build A Website
Mashable — 5 Virtual Assistants That Are More Productive Than Siri
Lifehacker — Top 10 Clever Google Search Tricks
MediaBistro — How Your Google+ Profile Can Help Your Articles Links Stand Out
Petapixel — Shutterfly’s New Interactive Guide Teaches the Basics of Capturing Better Images
GigaOm — More than 250 million global events are now in the cloud for anyone to analyze
Lifehacker — Be an Informer, Not a “Meformer”, To Get More Followers On Social Media

journalism, multimedia journalist, Social Media

Friday Fast Five: Your Guide To New Media

Posted on May 23, 2014May 17, 2014 by nabjdigital

Journalism.co.uk — 5 tips for how journalists can more effectively use Reddit
Lifehacker — Top 10 Apps and Services That Are More Than Meets the Eye
Beyond Search — Mining of Massive Datasets (free book)
Blogging Tips — What Type of Blogger Are You?
Social Media Examiner — 6 Simple Photo Tools for Creating Social Media Visuals

Education, multimedia journalist

Friday Fast Five + Five: The Google Edition

Posted on April 4, 2014March 30, 2014 by nabjdigital

It seems like every day I learn some new trick or hack with Google. Say what you want about Google, they have some really cool tools that can help you work smarter. Check out 10 of my finds, below.

Google — Google Media Tools
Knight Digital Media Center — Learn Google Analytics with new, free online course
Read Write — Now You Can Ask Google Search To Compare, Filter And Play
TechCrunch — Context Lets You Search Across Dropbox, Evernote, Spotify & More, All From Google.com
The Next Web — Watch this: Google Docs can automatically generate QR Codes
Mashable — The Beginner’s Guide to Google+
Journalism.co.uk — Google at 15: Tips and tools for journalists
Lifehacker — How to Set Up Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts (Properly) on iOS
Mash Social Media — 7 Tips for Sorting Your Gmail Contacts
MediaBistro — How Your Google+ Profile Can Help Your Articles Links Stand Out

Benét J. Wilson serves on the board of the Online News Association. She is the vice president of education for the NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force and is the social media/eNewsletters editor for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. She is also a freelance aviation journalist and blogger and is theAir Travel Expert for About.com.