The Future of Journalism According to a Member of the Facebook Generation

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Top 10 Reasons to Start a Ning for your Newspaper

In College Journalism, Facebook Generation, Ning, Online Journalism, Social Networking, The Whit on December 13, 2008 at 5:03 pm

The Whit just started it’s own Ning which we will be perfecting and inviting writers to join over winter break. We first came heard of this idea from Daniel Bachhuber of CoPress and it’s something we’re really looking forward to using in the upcoming semester!

1. It’s cooler than a wiki. Let’s face it. Despite it’s cool sounding name, Wiki’s aren’t fun. They get the job done, yes, but they aren’t good at lifting the veil up on who you are and what you actually do. Telling new staffers to go to a wiki to learn about your college newspaper and all that it does is not going to get them enthusiastic about helping you out. Telling a new staffer to go to your snazzy ning, where they can personalize their own page, makes them feel like they are already a member and gets them excited about joining the paper.

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VIDEO: What does it all mean?

In Facebook Generation, Google, Jobs on December 12, 2008 at 2:23 am

Fascinating video called “Incredible facts about our Technological World!” This is absolutely fascinating. You could undoubtedly blame much of the newspaper crisis on the incredibly fast-changing world of technology and it’s nearly impossible for journalism (in addition to other industries) to keep up.

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Using ISSUU for your College Newspaper

In College Journalism, The Whit on December 11, 2008 at 10:50 pm

In lieu of creating PDFs for your college newspaper’s Web site, why not use ISSUU, a service which enables you to upload PDFs into a snazzy media viewer. I’ve known about this service for awhile but didn’t realize until tonight that it was free and therefore perfect for college newspapers. ISSUU is a great alternative to PDFs as you are able to gain more traffic (your newspaper will have it’s own profile on ISSUU’s Web site) and gain a better understanding for what your visitors are doing.

Also, it’s much more user-friendly because who REALLY wants to download those big, bulky PDFs onto their desktop?

The only disadvantage with ISSUU is that if you happen to save your publication into seperate PDFs, you are going to have to combine each section into a single PDF in order to upload the entire issue into ISSUU. It’s requires an easy solution, however. Just a simple download.

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