Thanks for visiting New Media Bytes. If you like what you see, subscribe to my RSS feed.Zac Echola of Forum Communications drew up a great tutorial on how to create a photo blog with maps using Google’s MyMaps and MapChannels.
His tutorial is very easy to follow and uses free tools. He used this method to […]
As Twitter gains in popularity (expected to have reached more than 1M users already!), more news orgs are catching on to Twitter and using the microblogging for posting breaking news, re-syndicating feeds and liveblogging.
This is great news! I’ve found more and more news people showing up on the network and have connected with many. I […]
Welcome to the first in a series of posts about beginning blogging for journalists. Want more? View the entire beginning blogging for journalists series. Great image by Kris Hoet on Flickr!
Have you or someone you know been asked to blog? Many journalists face the task of starting to blog for their newspaper website, but most […]
Google announced last November that YouTube would soon make the upgrade to less-grainy video. This has been a big problem with YouTube according to many publishers and viewers.
I am a huge proponent of news orgs using YouTube to promote their video. I understand all the ramifications for “losing rights” for republishing and selling video content. […]
New Media Bytes is written by Shawn Smith, senior producer at Michigan's largest online news site. I write about online journalism, producing, blogging and new media. Read more about New Media Bytes. For more on me, see my LinkedIn profile.
How to comment on blogs without leaving your reader!
Shawn's Twitter