Today, the Center for Sustainable Journalism and the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange, our niche journalism project, are proud to announce the launch of a multimedia arts site focused on juvenile justice and youth culture at large. Appropriately dubbed ‘Bokeh,’ the project hopes to bring into focus those oft overlooked and underreported areas of juvenile justice…
Source: StatCounter Global Stats – Social Media Market Share Do you stumble? Do you at least know what it is? You should, and here’s why. Kicking off 2011, StumbleUpon, a website that recommends ‘the best of the web’ based on the recommendations of users with similar interests, got to add another shiny achievement to its…
Do you have the right to film police? Do the police have the right to delete video (or any) files from your cell phone? Are you allowed to photograph the exterior of federal buildings? These are all good questions taken from real-life examples. When Miami-based multimedia journalist Carlos Miller started Photography is Not a Crime…
Depending on age, people tend to get their local news from a variety of different mediums and sources, but one thing is for sure: the system is fragmented. According to new data out from Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and Internet & American Life Project, most Americans get their information from a…
PHOTOS from SMIATL 2011 2011′s Social Media Integration conference is officially one for the history books. Special thanks to all the sponsors, speakers and 200+ attendees for making SMIATL2011 another great success! Photos from the conference are live on Picasa. Feel free to tag, share and save. Along with great memories comes great networking opportunities….
Some 73 percent of cellphone owners text message, with 31 percent preferring a text to an actual phone call, according to data released today by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Heavy text users, or those that send and receive more than 50 messages a day, preferred text to talk 55 percent of the time….
Thank You! The 2011 Social Media Integration conference at Kennesaw State University may be one for the record books, but the knowledge is here to stay. The two-day event saw a host of presentations from social media experts and strategists around the nation. Even if you weren’t fortunate enough to attend, there’s still room to…
May 2011 marked my one year anniversary as an official j-school grad. Yay. I’ll admit I was doing a bit of celebrating at the time in 2010, but I knew the real battle was just getting started. I needed to find a job. I had to pull some strings at the restaurant to get the Saturday of…
Scott Nicholson said it best when he revealed the gender findings on the LinkedIn Blog a few days ago. “Women are more savvy networkers in the ranching industry. Men are more savvy networkers in the cosmetics industry. Wait, what?” Nicholson said. We had the same reaction, so why reword it? Supposing the numbers didn’t lie…
View more presentations from Dave Peck The take home? Be honest and transparent when dealing with your own blunders. Sure, people screw up (I couldn’t tell you how many slips I’ve had running @CSJournalism) but that’s one of the dynamics of the social sphere and life in general. If you found this little presentation as…
