Use IFTTT to automatically track social and web postings to a single Google Calendar
Unable to display content. Adobe Flash is required. I was speaking with Erica Smith last summer about wanting an easy
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5 Tips to Increase your Facebook Reach
Chris Snider, who teaches multimedia journalism at Drake University, posted this column on the Des Moines Register earlier this month:
Read moreSprout Social has a great guide to social media image sizes
Coming back to school after a nice summer and dusting off your staff’s social accounts only to find they need
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Which social media network should our staff use?
Which social media application should you use to report the story? That depends on the story, according to Shannon McDonald,
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Passwords that need to change because of the Heartbleed bug.
If your staff hasn’t changed passwords for many of your most commonly used online accounts in the past two weeks
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Like Getty Images, should school sites share free photos?
High school photographers and staff may wish to consider a cautionary tale playing out in professional media, namely Getty Images.
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Tips for starting a social media account
Starting a social media account for a publication can be overwhelming. No matter if your staff is on Twitter, Instagram
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Work to track your engagement and reach on social media with analytic tools
It is important to think of social media as part of the publication, and not something that is just done
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Why our school (and yours) should have a Facebook page
I had a plan this summer: get our school a journalism student-run Facebook page. I was going to present
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