Chris Snider

Let’s end the week with some quality linkage: The Bivings report compares how newspapers used the internet in 2008 compared to 2007. Monittor lets you embed a Twitter search on your web site. Marketing Pilgrim shares his favorite WordPress plugins for new blogs. The amazing people at Six Revisions share some useful cheat sheets for [...]

I tuned into my first journchat last Monday night in-between helping my Drake students with their final web projects – and I was impressed for a couple of reasons. First of all, I love the concept: “The mission of #journchat is to keep an ongoing, open dialogue between journalists, bloggers and public relations professionals.” If [...]

Let’s link… Looking for some gifts for the social media fan on your list? Look no further than Chris Brogan’s list. Help keep one of my favorite blogs (10,000 Words) free. Buy one of these t-shirts. Are you the future of journalism? Prove it and get a job from Publish2. I love Trulia. And now [...]

We can’t add more hours to the day, but we can work more efficiently. Here are some tools that could help reporters be more productive. 1. Google Reader Don’t waste your time going to dozens (or hundreds) of web sites every day. Use the RSS feeds from those sites and just check one web site [...]

Just got an e-mail about the St. Cloud Times’ holiday yule log. During these dismal times, we decided to offer the online readers a relaxing moment:  A Yule log burning in a fireplace with local holiday music. The page doesn’t even contain an ad. Holiday spirit, or missed opportunity?

Big news out of the Pulitzer Prizes camp today is that online-only publications are now eligible to win journalism’s most distinguished award. The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, which honor the work of American newspapers appearing in print, have been expanded to include many text-based newspapers and news organizations that publish only on the Internet, the [...]

Who says you need a staff of developers and tons of time to make a great web site? These tools are easy to use and easy to add to your site. 1. Coveritlive.com CoverItLive allows you to blog live from an event (you can even do it from your iPhone). It’s also a great tool [...]