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Working with Wordpress
RNTC Training
November 2010
Peter Verweij

What happening in journalism?
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Exiting times: changes and new possibilities
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Digital revolution: digitalization of information
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Integration text audio video: digital storytelling

Internet as a global network

As a source: finding news and information

As an medium: publishing news

You don't need a Printing Press TV or Radio
station; just blogging software and have you
own newspaper, radio or TV station

We Media: everybody is a journalist, potentially!

What is happening to
Journalism? 2

The consequence is:

Get publishing: start blogging
− This is your printing press, TV or radio station
− This what we are going to do on Tuesday

Get your message to the public:
− Windowing: Using social media to enlarge your audience
− This the topic for Thursday

This is the end of my lecture; This course is
training: hands-on

What are we going to do? 1

Tuesday working with blogs:

Simple text

Using the split: writing for the blog
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Including link

Including picture
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Embedded pictures: using picasa/flickr
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Embedded video: using youtube

Embedded slides show:using vuvox or from
flickr/picasa
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Embedded powerpoint: using slideshare

optional/advanced

Writing for the web
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Three style:
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Web style: trunking your story and link the parts

Blog style: opening and the split

Annotated story: paragraph with background links in
the text
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Rule:

Not reading but scanning: scanable layout

Z movement and hot spots

Visitor is in control: offer choices

Use multi media

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Tuesday continued:
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Finding pictures using:
− Google images
− Picasa and Flickr
− Editing pictures with Picasa
− Copy rights and using pictures

Working with polls
− Online: Surveymonkey
− Plugin Wordpress
− (using google apps, xls)

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Thursday: working with social media:
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Blog: blog roll and RSS feed; get connected to
bloggers

Facebook

Twitter
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Storify

Working with Twitter
Twitter: working with
Twitter: create an
account.
Followers and following;
tweet, direct
(communication),

Using your cell phone

Your cell phone as a tool for reporting

You need a smart phone

You need high speed Internet (3G)on your
phone

Apps to install:

Twitter, audio boo, youtube, flickr and or picasa to
upload directly, qik for direct video reporting,
facebook

You can also make audio/pics/video on your
phone and then upload from phone to laptop /
pc and work from there

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