I got back from Nashville late Saturday night, and boy was it a great trip. I attended the Center for Innovation in College Media’s first conference, and learned quite a bit about the importance of online journalism. Speakers included Jennifer Carroll, the vice president of new media operations at Gannett (the publisher of USA Today and 90 small and mid-size papers), and Jason Levine, a worldwide product evangelist for Adobe. Also, journalism pioneer John Siegenthaler made and appearance.
Overall, the conference was great, we covered things like how to shoot video for newspaper websites (as opposed to shooting for TV), how to integrate interactive maps as story-telling, using RSS feeds and things like digg and del.icio.us to your advantage, and optimizing features through College Publisher.
Look for some radical changes at The Batt, especially thebatt.com, in the near future.
UPDATE: Angela Grant, multimedia producer at the San Antonio Express-News, has posted the notes, outlines and handouts from her session about online video on her blog, InTheCircle. Her shooting tips really helped me, because shooting video for newspaper is quite different from shooting for TV. Make sure and check her stuff out, it’s a must.
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April 2, 2007 at 6:22 am
[...] especially pleased to hear from participants who have blogged about it. Read their comments: Chris Hokanson, Texas A&M multimedia editor; Chris Drain, adviser at Pensacola Junior College; Tiffany Tcheng, web editor at Arizona State; [...]
April 12, 2007 at 7:39 pm
Thanks for posting the link for my notes. Please let people know that I’d love to answer any questions they have. I’m also starting a service on my blog to provide truthful critiques for people seeking feedback on videos, audio slideshows or multimedia packages. Anyone can send links to me at angelabgrant [at] gmail [dot] com.