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

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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!

  1. From creating charts to managing your inbox, the 11 most useful web tools of 2014
  2. The Tumblr Starter Kit
  3. The 7 Best Uses for Tumblr
  4. Persona Wants to Protect Your Online Reputation
  5. The Beginner’s Guide to SoundCloud
  6. 5 Must-Have Tools for a Killer Presentation
  7. 9 Best Free Image Editors
  8. 7 Things You Didn’t Know Bitly Could Do
  9. How to Optimize Your Profile Photos Across Social Media
  10. 9 Best Free Image Editors
Posted in multimedia journalist, Social Media

Friday Fast Five – Your Guide to New Media

Posted on by nabjdigital

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

This week. we’re doing an all-Mashable version of Fast Five. Enjoy!

  1. 4 TED Talks Every Journalist Should Watch
  2. 11 Chrome Extensions to Improve Your Social Media Experience
  3. 14 Google Tools You Didn’t Know Existed
  4. 5 Design Tips to Boost Blog Conversions
  5. 10 Must-Try Mobile @IFTTT Recipes
Posted in Education, journalism, multimedia journalist

Friday Fast Five – Your Guide to New Media

Posted on by nabjdigital

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

  1. Mashable — Anyone Can Be Found on Social Media in 12 Hours
  2.  Poynter — 10 digital tools journalists can use to improve their reporting, storytelling
  3. Bloggers Passion — 5 Viral Content Ideas For Your Blogging Success
  4. Lifehacker — 8 Extensions That Make Google Drive More Powerful Than Dropbox
  5. Knight Digital Media Center — 5 ways to use Slideshare to engage communities, build traffic
Posted in Education, Innovation, journalism, multimedia journalist, Social Media

Friday Fast Five – Your Guide To New Media

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By Ameena Rasheed, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force intern

1. Mashable – 5 Easy-to-Use Animation Tools for Beginners

2. ProBlogger – Do You Know these Time Saving Blogging Tips

3. Poynter – How some news orgs use Tumblr

4. Nieman Lab – The newsonomics of value exchange and Google Surveys

5. Social Times – How to Start A Twitter Chat

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!!

Posted in Education, journalism, multimedia journalist, Social Media

Friday Fast Five – Your Guide To New Media

Posted on by nabjdigital

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!!

Posted in Awards, Conferences & Conventions, Education, journalism, multimedia journalist

Friday Fast Five – Your Guide To New Media

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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!!

Posted in Innovation, journalism, multimedia journalist, Technology

Friday Fast Five – Your Guide To New Media

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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

Posted in Education, Equipment, multimedia journalist, News, Social Media

Friday Fast Five – Your Guide To New Media

Posted on by nabjdigital

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 

Posted in Conferences & Conventions, Education, Innovation, journalism, multimedia journalist, News, Social Media

Friday Fast Five – Your Guide To New Media

Posted on by nabjdigital

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