MTSU New Media

Random content, notes and checkins from the interweb

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Focus groups

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My Batch Geo Map

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More MTSU HootSuite'rs Hit the Street!

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WE PASSED! Congrats Hootsuite-Certified #EMC3070! @EMCMTSU @mtsunewmedia pic.twitter.com/BgPLbleq9h

— Carla Swank (@CarlaSwank) April 22, 2015

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Using Legal Images Online

Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons

When you’re on a Wikipedia page and you see an image, click it to open the image viewer.

Below the image in the viewer, on the right side, you’ll see a button:

Click that button and you’ll likely go to http://commons.wikimedia.org/

On the right of of the Wikimedia Commons page, find this button (if the button is not there, the image is NOT free to use!):

Click…

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Online Mapping Tools

Google Maps may be the most well known of mapping tools there are a few other contenders. Check them out.

ESRI Story Maps – Very interesting approach to mapping. ESRI is the one of or THE leader in GIS or geographic information system.

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Online Infographic Tools

Here’s a Huffington Post – Tech article with reviews of infographic sites.

Try a few of these.

Infogr.am

Piktochart.com

eas.ly

Canva.com

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New Media, New Mess

Here’s an article from the Nieman Reports written by Amy Webb. She has a Nieman Visiting Fellowship at Harvard and is looking hard at journalism education. I would urge academia to substitute the words “mass communication” for “journalism” because I believe that all that is affecting the journalism profession is affecting all the mass communication disciplines.

So, Amy’s article titled “A…

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Video

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MTSU EMC Scholarship Deadline Extended to 3/16

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Freelance 101 Presentation

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Comic: What they Read

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You're Not Writing for You

You’re Not Writing for You

It’s easy to fall into the trap of listening to your inner voice and thinking you’re the only person who will read your writing. It’s like you drop into an echo chamber. But their is an escape hatch: personas.

Personas are a way to identify EXACTLY who your audience is. Their name, their age, their hobbies. And while you’re writing you look at their picture and say “Would Kathy like this?”

Usabil…

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Net Neutrality and the Common Carrier Rule are Different Things

Net Neutrality and the Common Carrier Rule are Different Things

I subscribe to Southern/alpha, a Nashville based tech and business blog. In my latest issue one story popped out at me: “Discussion of the Week: FCC, don’t make it harder to get access to fiber”. And I said to myself “What are they talking about?” Most of the article seemed to be a press release from the Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Council Americas. So I tried to leave a comment. No comment box on…

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First 1,000 Followers on the Big Social Networks

First 1,000 Followers on the Big Social Networks

I have to say that Buffer is coming through with some super content. (I’ve been using Buffer since beta.) This new post, “How to Get Your First 1,000 Followers on Every Major Social Network” is a great example. I don’t think they missed a thing.

A few sample tips:

Fill out your Profile: I’ve seen more people and businesses fail this way.

Share your new profile link: A “D’oh!”, but nothing happens…

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From my friend Rahel Bailie: Why Content

From my friend Rahel Bailie: Why Content

From my friend Rahel Bailie: Why Content Marketers Need to Know about Content Strategy. Thanks Rahel for calling this out. I suppose “Content Marketing” was a better buzz word than “Content Strategy for Marketing”

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Creating Good Content Pamorama.net has a great post about good content. In fact it's a post with a bonus infographic (below), suitable for framing or thumbtacking to your wall.

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Getting the Party Started

I’ve had websites for all my classes for two years yet not a website for the New Media Communication concentration in the Electronic Media Communication department, part of the College of Mass Communication, here at Middle Tennessee State University.

That changes now.

Watch this space for information about new, digital, emergent [YOUR ADJECTIVE HERE] media, updates about the concentration, about…

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