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 [...]
If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I’ve been excited about American Idol contestant David Cook’s performances. I can’t help it. The guy is the most unique singer I’ve ever seen on the show.
But outside of his singing, Cook also has given some valuable lessons for online news producers during his run. Take [...]
Welcome to the first in a series of posts about headline writing for web content producers. This series will cover best practices for writing headlines for people, search engines and social media. Check out my beginning blogging for journalists series. Amazing flickr image by christopher.woo
Headline writing is perhaps one of the most important and often-incorrectly-executed [...]
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One of the toughest things to train a new web producer on is tease-writing. Writing a very short amount of text to inform and excite a reader takes plenty of discipline and attention to detail.
Some news websites employ teases throughout their site, charging producers with creating engaging content to get readers to click [...]
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