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Social media for bloggers workshop

Mandy — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:24:17 +0000

Saturday, Oct. 2 I taught a workshop at American University’s School of Communication on Social Media for Bloggers. This as part of an ongoing partnership between AU and TBD.com to provide learning resources for our blog network, AU students and the community.

Here are my slides from the presentation, which goes over how bloggers can use a [...]

Social Media Guidelines to Live By

Mandy — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:48:27 +0000

Personally, I’m not a big fan of social media policies. While I recognize a lot of companies need to have these policies in place to cover their butts in court, I generally frown upon anything that gives journalists any excuse to not communicate openly with sources and/or readers via social media.

So this isn’t a social media [...]

New strategy: Berate bloggers, tell online readers to buzz off

Mandy — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 18:29:31 +0000

I’m not sure where newspaper execs are getting their PR advice these days, but whoever/whatever it is needs to be fired. The print news sector has put out some head-shaking proclamations this week – all of which have a common theme of holier-than-thou insults directed at online news consumers.

First up is the absolutely appalling handling of [...]

Rest easy journos, the government is coming to the rescue!

Mandy — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:00:50 +0000

The federal government wants to help save journalism, but journalism doesn't need saving. Old media needs saving, and they shouldn't be given a lifeline. [...]

The new kid in the downpour of fresh ideas

Mandy — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:30:27 +0000

When you’ve spent your entire professional career in a newspaper’s newsroom, it’s pretty easily to get your mind blown at a startup. I can attest to that firsthand in my first few days on the job at TBD.

Instead of shoehorning some new media approach into a centuries-old tradition, we’re building something so new, it’s still [...]

Furloughs – and the one year anniversary of Zombie Journalism

Mandy — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:34:34 +0000

The furlough – a company cost-cutting measure previously associated with the manufacturing sector – now embraced by those of us working in paragraph factories around the nation.

In the last year, my husband and I have had three separate weeklong furloughs (perhaps it wasn’t so wise to marry a journalist after all). These furloughs are, we’re told, [...]

Kirkland trial coverage shows us why good beat reporting still matters

Mandy — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:49:23 +0000

The court case of Anthony Kirkland is showing us that while Twitter and live blogs and all that are great tools for enhancing the way readers get news, it's tough to replace the know-how of an experienced beat reporter. [...]

Weather coverage made easy

Mandy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:30:23 +0000

When it comes to weather coverage, sometimes all we need to do is give readers the latest information. We at Cincinnati.Com used Wordpress to get the weather updates out in a simple, quick way during this month's snow storms. [...]

Getting to know our friends in the blogosphere

Mandy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:32:47 +0000

The 2009 Technorati State of the Blogosphere Report has got some great demographics about bloggers that online news orgs would be good to know, as a lot of them are voracious news consumers. [...]