Mark Luckie on useful pieces of free software

November 3, 2009 by Erik Gable · Leave a Comment
 

Mark Luckie of 10,000 Words lists free alternatives to these pieces of software: Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Final Cut, Adobe Premiere, Pro Tools, Adobe Audition, Soundslides, Flash and Microsoft Office. Plus, some more suggestions in the comments.

#JournChat on content-sharing agreements

November 2, 2009 by Erik Gable · Leave a Comment
 

Another bonus to compiling tweets and separating them by question after the fact … it makes it much easier to keep conversational threads together.  (Hopefully I didn’t piece any together in the wrong order.)

journchat: Q9 What do you think of the Associated Press Sports Editors’ “sharing” initiative? Good? Bad? More of this? http://bit.ly/2laEau #journchat

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#JournChat on advice for smaller newsrooms

November 2, 2009 by Erik Gable · Leave a Comment
 

I took part in a #journchat session on Twitter for the first time tonight, and with more than 1,000 posts, it got a little chaotic.  So, for my own future reference, I’m compiling the elements I found most interesting into blog posts.

This list was compiled using Publish2 and the Link Assist Wordpress plugin (after Greg Linch pointed me in the right direction).

journchat: Q10 What suggestions/advice would you offer to local (i.e. smaller) news outlets who are under-staffed/resourced? #journchat

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