SND and News University, the online training project of The Poynter Institute, are partnering up to offer a series of Webinars in a variety of areas: journalism, design and technical.
These will be offered at a steep discount to SND members.
Now we need you to help us decide what topics to cover in these Webinars. What are you looking for?
Software skills: Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, 3D, etc.? How-tos? Design philosophy? Transition from print to digital? Ethics? Alternative story forms? Web design? Data visualization?
Please post your ideas in the comments below. Your suggestions will directly translate into the Webinars we offer on News University.
Thanks for your help!
Denise M. Reagan
SND Education & Training Director
Hello? Is anyone out there? Any ideas you’d like to share?
Totally missed this announcement.
I feel like the web boot camp was a great “how to get started.” But it was so much in such a short time I’d like to be able to go back and expand on some of it.
Perhaps webinars can expand on making the transition, what to avoid/embrace in web design, how to apply print skills to the web (and what to unlearn).
Exactly how I feel (is anyone out there?) I tweet and blog and nobody listens…. Stuff that is being said by today’s “gurus” I said 15 years ago. Maybe how to get your good words to people who need to hear it. All journalists will be entrepreneurs one day.
Mike: Thanks for chiming in. I like the idea of following up on our Web Design Boot Camp.
Bob: Interesting. Are you talking about ways to use journalism skills in entrepreneurial ways?
Any other ideas out there? This is the kind of training people have been asking for. We want to offer it, but we need your help to focus the ideas so that we offer the kinds of things people want.
Thanks, everyone!
Yes. An emphasis on the business side of a news operation—print or web—would be helpful even if one doesn’t end up with one’s own business. A good entrepreneurial spirit is much the same as what an enterprising reporter needs. I was also talking about helping people who want or need to have their own news or news-related business online. Frankly, I also was b**ching a bit because I am not getting any followers to speak of, yet people who spout stuff I said 15-20 years ago as “new” are seen as news design gurus. How does a “newbie” break through this clutter and compete? I think that kind of practical business info (along with SEO and such) would help journalism start-ups, such as the one in San Diego. Good luck and thanks for asking.
Transition from print to digital!
I feel like I’m jumping all over the place ... a little web boot camp here, a little lynda.com training there.
Perhaps someone could spell out the options. It seems like most newspaper web work is moving stories around with a CMS or creating a logo for a project page. Perhaps I’m exaggerating, but it doesn’t hold much allure.
However, there might be other related areas that interest people.
I’m suddenly fascinated by the idea of a new kind of user-friendly, more-designed news aggregation site (things like the just-launched managing news or paperne.ws (a Knight Challenge grant proposal).
Also, the Vegas boot camp touched on some concepts I hardly understood that seemed interesting (about using news web sites to let readers interact with data in completely new ways).
There are so many things out there, it would be great to have someone take a snapshot of what’s happening and let us try to absorb.
Two words: Flash Catalyst.
From what I’ve seen out of Adobe’s Beta 2 of this, quickest way to get anyone who knows Photoshop or Illustrator up and running and producing Flash content—with no ActionScript knowledge required.
This isn’t a toy—for a whole lot of the stuff news folks are using Flash for, this would do you.
I’m with Bob. As I said back during The Turmoil, SND should get into the business-incubation business. What journalists need now, more than any other skill set, is entrepreneurship.
Why? Because Big Media has got itself in a jam and cannot or will not listen to smart ideas about news. And those thousands of jobs we’ve lost the last few years, they’re not coming back.
Therefore, those who wish to continue to perpetrate journalism — especially misunderstood and maligned “visual” journalism — are going to have to find ways to do it outside the mainstream. Please help us.
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I would like to see there such software skills as InDesign, FrameMaker, QuarkXPress or another else for designers work. I think it’ll help people to train their opportunities in creating things such as magazines, brochures, posters, flyers and books.
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