NABJ Nashville Media Institute

Val covered a ton of ground this morning with audacity.com for audio editing and soundslides.com for combining digital stills with an mp3 file exported from Audacity.

Dr. Syb talks about the Friday afternoon presenter, John Girtner.  John adds a few more multimedia applications to the growing list of options that journalist need to check out.

Val shares her recollection of how she became the multimedia director at The  Indianapolis Star in spite of her limited experience with pulling together all of the pieces and parts herself…and how lynda.com became her best source for online training in Flash.

The Hovey Street Murder story is a wonderful example of the importance of collaboration in multimedia production and delivery (and the sherrif’s quote in the title of this post).

Micro-blogging on Twitter allows the user a maximum of 140 characters (spaces included) for each post.  That requires succinct content and very little room for a long URL link. To remedy this situation, copy that long URL from the page you wish to link, and use one of the following, free, URL shortening services:

• tinyurl
• urlzen

Once the site generates your alias, shortened URL copy the complete smallet URL into your Twitter text box (just don’t exceed the 140 character limit).

There will be considerable discussion of the role(s) of social media at this workshop.  Twitter users wishing to add to the conversation should add the following hashtab to their Tweets: #NABJ08 This allows all of the commentary/comments to be aggregated to a single thread that you will find on search.twitter.com

Following a tasty-but-plastic-knife-challenged dinner, graciously sponsored by the Nashville chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, Rick Hancock jump started the institute with a presentation on Entrepreneurial Journalism.

The image on the left was uploaded from a laptop to an online photo manipulation site, picnik.com. The original image was cropped, re-sized to 180px x 240px, modified to include text, and then re-saved to the laptop.  From there, the Add media feature on this blog was used to upload the image into the blog’s gallery.  The gallery provides the URL for the file that was ten copied/pasted into the Insert/Edit Image tool.