by Chris Snider | Aug 2, 2010 | Digital ideas
The New York Times ran an article Sunday about media companies using Tumblr to increase their social media reach. Over the last few months, other media outlets have caught wind of Tumblr, which is free to use. The newest recruits include The Atlantic, Rolling Stone,...
by Chris Snider | Jul 7, 2010 | Digital information
Some interesting openings in the Midwest digital media space… • The Des Moines Register is filling a couple digital positions, hiring a college sports digital editor and a digital reporter to cover the Iowa Hawkeyes. • The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is hiring a...
by Chris Snider | May 11, 2010 | Digital information
Here are some tips to think about before you hit publish on your next blog post: 1. Write an SEO-friendly headline. Tell me the “who” and the “what” in the headline, so readers and search engines know exactly what you are writing about. 2....
by Chris Snider | May 7, 2010 | Digital information
I’ve worked with some amazing headline-writers in my career – newspaper copy editors who were almost poets when it came to writing the perfect turn of phrase to fit the space given. Unfortunately those witty headlines that catch our attention in print (where...
by Chris Snider | May 5, 2010 | Digital tools
I noticed Twitter’s new Blackbird Pie feature today for the first time. Have you ever come across a great tweet and wanted to share it with your blog readers? I have. And until today I had to take a screengrab of said tweet to post to my blog. Not anymore....
