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What's happening Around the Web
One of our functions here at the Center is to be "surrogate readers" for Texas community journalists. Keeping up with the fast-changing world of community journalism has never been harder, and community journalism is now the "hot" area in mass communications.
But you have a paper to put out, and a Website to maintain. A few of you may even have a life.
So we'll help you keep up with what folk around the nation are saying about our field — about community journalism specifically and the wider world of newspapers and news Websites in general.
July 12, 2010
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A quick-and-easy guide to Internet terms
So you heard someone talking about Ruby on Rails and it sounded like a Merle Haggard ballad -- and then you found out it was a Net platform? And you've always wanted a plain-English explanation of SEO, CSS and cloud computing? You're in luck. Poynter has posted a glossary of Internet terms that every digital journalist should know. And even if you don't "need" to know, imagine how impressed everyone in your office will be when you throw terms like metadata and data visualization into the conversation.
March 31, 2010
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Readers will love this: topic pages to overview news
What reader wouldn’t love this? Marlene Skowran’s blog at PoynterOnline shares an idea we should all look at. The Spokesman-Review in Spokane, Wash., publishes “topic pages” that aggregate years of news stories. Check this out – no matter what your interest, from local history to sports, you can review lots of news stories with one click of the mouse.
August 24, 2009
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Does your newspaper have a Facebook strategy?
A what, you ask? My newspaper needs a Facebook strategy? Yes, you do. And the fact that you do is symptomatic of the changes that are engulfing today’s community journalism. This article will take only a few minutes to read, but it overviews the issue, including some ideas on monetizing your Facebook presence.
July 13, 2009
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To charge or not to charge
So you're wrestling with the issue of charging for your Internet product. Do you want to do it? If so, how much? And if you charge, do you charge everyone, or only those who don't subscribe to your print edition? If that's the discussion around your newsroom, you're in pretty good company; The New York Times is talking about the same thing. This article will show you what the Times has come up with.
