Scoble keynote at ONA
September 25, 2008 in Conferences
Here’s an archived video of Robert Scoble’s keynote at the Online News Association. Scoble was livestreaming the keynote at kyte.tv.
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MPI workshop video & soundslides
September 23, 2008 in Conferences
If you’re interested in seeing the results of the MPI multimedia workshop in St. Louis last weekend, check out the videos on the MPI YouTube channel.
You can see the soundslides productions here:
I had no hand in training these participants, but I was on hand Saturday afternoon to assist when people had problems with the equipment or the software. The participants had about 1 1/2 hours to gather info and media, then another ~three hours to put it all together.
Making multimedia work no matter the size of your newsroom: MPI workshop
September 20, 2008 in Conferences
Hannibal, Mo. News Editor Mary Lou Montgomery is speaking. Hannibal paper is about 8,000 circ. Gatehouse Media paper. Here’s a link to their multimedia page.
These are partial transcriptions of what she says – ed.
Gary Hairlson of St. Louis Post-Dispatch on video
September 20, 2008 in Conferences
Notes from Gary Hairlson’s talk on video:
Action and emotion make for great multimedia
1 1/2 to 2 minutes video.
whether video or audio slideshow: depends on the amount of action. photographers decide on the scene. don’t send photographers out to do both. videos and framegrabs with high-def cameras. depends on how much time you have. audio slideshows can sometimes take just as much time as video.
Suzuki Method for video – you learn enough to get you through. you have to practice. if you don’t practice, you’re going to forget.
Video tips:
- Don’t pan and zoom
- Use a tripod
- Wide – Medium – Closeup – Extreme Closeup – shooting for mobile means a closeup is really like a medium.
- Shoot for 10 seconds
- Be quiet when you’re taping.
- Have an idea before you shoot.
- Look for a beginning and an end. sometimes you shoot the “end” at the beginning of the shoot. If you can shoot the beginning and end, the rest is a breeze.
Examples of Stltoday.com video available here.
Nancy Nall Derringer: MPI keynote
September 19, 2008 in blogging, Conferences
Derringer began blogging in 2001. Her first break was in 2002 related to Bob Greene, former columnist of the Chicago Tribune. Her writing about Greene’s sexual misconduct was picked up by Romenesko, Slate and later other publications around the Internet.
As the publicity came, she told her bosses about the blog, and they had no idea about the blog, or what blogs were. After that, editors began “sticking their noses into” the blog. As a columnist, Derringer felt she had the ability to express opinion in another format as she did in the paper.
In St. Louis for MPI multimedia workshop
September 19, 2008 in Conferences
It’s Friday night, I must be traveling. This weekend, I’m attending the Mid-America Press Institute‘s Stepping up to Multimedia Storytelling workshop. Tonight is the Keynote by Nancy Nall Derringer, a blogger who formerly worked at the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel and now lives in Detroit.
The Las Vegas Sun and all its greatness
September 16, 2008 in Conferences, industry news
Super Panel on Saving Newspapers
September 13, 2008 in blogging, Conferences
ONA bloggers are liveblogging the Super Panel on money and the business side of newspapers.
ONA liveblogs
September 13, 2008 in Conferences
If you’re interested, many of the sessions from the ONA conference in DC are being live-blogged by student journalists. You can see the liveblogs at the conference web page.
The Ethics 2.0 panel I’m in will be liveblogged here.
Robert Scoble at ONA ’08
September 13, 2008 in blogging, Conferences
Alfred Hermida blogged Robert Scoble’s keynote about web 2.0 social media tools and how it changes journalism. Scoble was really sold on Twitter and FriendFeed.
