The Digital Sherpa is returning next week from summer hiatus.

As a reminder, the DS is a small set of curated links to items of interest to college media professionals and student journalists that I have culled from the mountains of information that accumulate every week in the tech/media world. For an explanation of the name, see this post.

So if you’re interested in a curated links e-mail, delivered approximately once a week, sign-up with your e-mail and you’ll start receiving an e-mail next week. Or, you can sign up through the form in the right sidebar (see image, right).

If you’d like to see an example of what I’m talking about, check it out here. And if you have any items that might be of interest to the college journalism community, feel free to e-mail me at bryan.murley -at- gmail.com and I’ll see about including it.

Disclaimer: We will never sell or give out your information to third parties.

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For a while now, I’ve been posting “Curated Links” posts, catch-alls of information I’ve found around the web that might be of interest to college advisers, college journalists, and academics. I find literally hundreds of items a week, but I have tried to keep the links down to a manageable number.

There are usually items about the changing state of the professional media, thoughts about digital media, tips and tricks, and some new digital tools that might be of use to college journalists.

As we’re going through a transition here at the CICM, we’ve decided to branch off those curated links into a new e-mail edition I’m calling Digital Sherpa (See here for info on why I chose that name).

So if you’re interested in a curated links e-mail, delivered approximately once a week, sign-up with your e-mail and you’ll start receiving an e-mail next week. Or, you can sign up through the form in the right sidebar (see image, right).

If you’d like to see an example of what I’m talking about, check it out here. And if you have any items that might be of interest to the college journalism community, feel free to e-mail me at bryan.murley@gmail.com and I’ll see about including it.

Edited to add: We will never sell or give out your information to third parties.

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Some big news for the CICM went down over what was Spring Break here at Eastern, we got a new director. Here’s official word from College Media Association President David Swartzlander:

Dear CMA members:

It is my pleasure to announce that Brad Arendt, director of student media at Boise State University, has agreed to serve as director of CMA’s Center for Innovation in College Media, effective immediately.

Brad, who has been advising for 13 years, intends to continue to provide hands-on training workshops at the national level, beginning with the Chicago convention this fall.

He also has some exciting ideas he hopes to try, such as the possibility of offering video webinars for such topics as video editing, using digital online tools and using software.

Bryan Murley will continue to write the CICM blog and showcase examples of innovative student work. In addition, Bryan will continue to track emerging trends in news media that impact college media organizations.

The CICM mission has not changed. It still serves as a non-profit think-tank created to help college student media adapt and flourish in the digital media world. CICM has been a part of CMA since 2010.

Brad and I have been in consultation about some new efforts for the future. Stay tuned to the blog for some announcements.

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Photo by Flickr user Ryskiphoto, used by permission under Creative Commons license.

Saturday marked the 6th blogiversary of this here effort. Since nobody reads blogs on Saturdays, I’m marking the occasion today. According to the most official source known to humankind, the anniversary is usually celebrated by gifts of iron, sugar, or wood objects.

About 130 posts over the last year (of 1,930 since the beginning), all but a handful by yours truly.

As I wrote last year,

On a personal note, there have been numerous people I could and should thank for the assistance and support over the past five years. Foremost among them are Chris Carroll and Ralph Braseth, who set this blog in motion in late 2005 with an e-mail asking me to set up a web site for them. “I’ll set up the site, but you have to provide the content.” You can see how well that worked.

I should also thank the many advisers who read and contribute in even small ways to make this blog what it is, and to College Media Association, Inc., for keeping this thing alive.

I’d also thank the many industry experts, young journalists and wizened professionals whom I’ve bugged over the years for interviews or assistance.

And, as always, my colleagues in the Journalism Department at Eastern Illinois University for their continued support of a non-traditional publishing format.

Hard to believe that when we began, YouTube was just taking off, Facebook was still limited to colleges and high schools, and nobody had even heard of Twitter or the iPhone or iPad.

Maybe it’s vain to mark anniversaries like this, but blog years are like dog years – longer than human years. I’ve watched many start up, burn bright and then flame out over the years. So it’s worth remembering every once in a while – even if I have to do it myself.

I’ve got some new ideas for the new year, and the new template is part of that. Keep reading, and contributing, so we can keep pushing college media forward.

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