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Workout on the Web: Personal Productivity Training for Journalists
This page was created for the SPJ 1/2 Day Workshop titled "Workout on the Web: Personal Productivity Training for Journalists."
Using Jeteye to pull together a resource page is an example of one way journalists can use the web to increase their personal productivity.
Jeteye is an example of Web 2.0 software. You sign up for account. You download an EXTENSION for your browser (Firefox is the easiest to do this with) and then when you locate a link, an image, or some text that you want to collect and organize, you click on the Jeteye icon in your brower. A sidebar opens with the Jetpak controls ready to go.
Some ways to make money with a writing and a blog
Angela Booth, freelance writer
To make money writing in 2006:
1. Write for business. Writing for companies and organizations is a
form of copywriting. You write: content for Web sites, marcomm
(marketing communications) etc;
2. Write for yourself, as a information provider online (highly lucrative). Selling information is HUGE;
3. Write a romance or mystery novel;
4. Write blogs as a career blogger;
5. Write blogs as a blogger-entrepreneur.
Influence of blogs, MSM and the "long tail."
Another interesting item to note is the level of influence that blogs
are having, especially compared with the mainstream media (MSM). This
chart is somewhat biased towards western sources of the MSM, and if you
see a source that is missing from this (or the next) chart, please let
me know.
What is interesting is that some of the most influential
weblogs are being treated in much the same way as traditional MSM, as
measured by the number of bloggers who are linking to them, as shown in
the chart below:
The blogs are in red, MSM in blue. What becomes more interesting to me, however, is that as
you continue down the long tail of media sites, the number of blogs
starts to grow - to 11 of the top 90 sites, or 12.2% of the total, especially given the budget differentials, as shown below:
Trust, reputation in "power users" changes buying habits and marketing biz
The top
most trustworthy sources were also considered the top five most
valuable: recommendations from friends, family and colleagues; e-mails
from friends; price comparison Web sites; recommendations from
professionals; and news sites. Nathan singled out online comparison
shopping as a source that's unique to the Web. "This is stuff that you
can't do using traditional media to the extent that you can on the
Internet," she stressed. In fact, 84 percent of participants researched
a future purchase on the Web, and 84 percent have made an online
purchase.
These power users, who represent 31 percent of the
U.S. population according to the study, differ from other consumer
groups; however, they have distinctions from one another as well. The
study shows that 68 percent of 16-34 year-olds use an instant messaging
service, making them 25 percent more likely than 35-49 year-olds to do
so. Seventy-one percent of the younger crowd manages or writes a blog,
making them three times more likely to do so than their older cohorts.
Forty percent of 16-34 year-olds, or about twice as many as 35-49
year-olds, belong to a social networking site. One third of the younger
users have participated in peer-to-peer file sharing, compared to 12
percent of 35-49 year-olds. from http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3623147
Summary: Collections of the best web tools for various years.
Summary: From del.icio.us to digg.com, newsvine.com, and then all kinds of variations of "my browser" people talk and think about how to get organized.
Summary: This is a note about "google notebook" which you logon to with your google password
Summary: Pew issued a report on blogging. Most bloggers are storytellers, not journalists. Here is a quick overview of the highpoints of the Pew report.
The debate is really over. As Jay Rosen says in PressThink, the media and press "is now divided into pro and amateur zones." They are complimentary and each contributes to better news for everyone.
Summary: Here is a definition and lots of examples of what Web 2.0 apps are and why this is a new paradigm.
We used to think in terms of "pages" on the web. Now think of content objects that we place in a "flow" or in relation to each other. We connect "microcontent units" together to re-mix or re-contextualize the information.
A good story should sit in a context of information that flush it out, whether that is a link to an archive, a photogallery, an interactive map or a video if it exists on the web.
No more upgrades or installations. Access anywhere that there is Internet.
Summary: Reviews various feed readers and compares them, but doesn't include browser based readers or web 2.0 style apps. You might want to subscribe to TechCrunch feeds if you cover tech at all.
Summary: "Moblogging" journalists provided a variety of real reporting from Heathrow and elsewhere about the terror threat that shut down Heathrow and caused worldwide delays on 8/10/06.
The important point here, is set up in advance. That's what I did almost by accident when I came upon the councilman's office in NYC after he had been shot.
Your phonecam is the first tool in your backpack journalist kit.
Summary: Dave Winer is making money, but his writing is the hook for new clients and opportunities. Notice what he says about journalism: "To make money on the Internet, get a lot of people writing for your site, nurture them, teach them, find the best, and grow grow grow. Editorial people become talent scouts. Instead of employing writers, employ facilitators and teachers. Rewrite the rules of journalism to reach into the depths of our culture, in ways that print-based media can't. There's no limit to the coverage of the Web. Where the front page of a newspaper is finite, on the Web we have vertical scrollbars that can go (virtually) to infinity. If another good story comes along, point to it. It's pretty simple.
Perhaps it's not surprising that version 2.0 is a superset of 1.0, it's just an upgrade. The same advice applies, but now that the dust has cleared from the dotcom exuberance, the next steps are even more clear."
Summary: A blog IS a website...and what that means for the bottom line.
Summary: This is an about.com list maintained by Jessica Ramirez.
Summary: From the freelance job postings. Lots of opptys to telecommute.
Summary: From infoplease.com.
Summary: Dave Sifry follows trends and the stats in the blogosphere. His reports go beyond superficial counts and include charts and graphs.
Summary: this site has information that is helpful, but it is tied to applian technologies so lots of their solutions are to download their software. I like their model, because the software is free with the option of a paid upgrade.
Not for Macs yet. Most of the s-ware is PC online.
Summary: Mark Jurkowitz, Project for Excellence in Journalism comments on and summarizes the Pew study on news consumption habits and refers back to "State of the News Media Study 2006."
The Internet fragments the media environment into thousands of niches, not just for the "Millenials" but for everyone.
Today, 50% of Americans say they use 2 or more platforms to get their news, even those who go online first, go elsewhere for news.
The best quote:"While online news has quickly emerged as a big part of the nation’s increasingly diverse news diet, it is not yet, for most of us, the main course. That’s largely because it takes reporters to produce a main course. And, at least for now, reporting remains very much a signature product of the traditional media."
Summary: We will watch this together. For one thing, she pretty much covers the topic. For another, what she says about productivity is useful. Thirdly, it is an example of an effective use of video in an information-centered site.
Summary: Starts like a rant, but the questions raised about who controls posting, content and deletions in a shared space are legitimate ones. There are sociological studies about how conflicts have been settled in wiki communities and other online communities that provide insight in these matters.
Summary: FYI a combination of web app tools and hardware like DV cams and audio recorders.
