Wednesday, 28 October 2009

Joint Interactive Editor of River Online (With Jen Larner)

I'm taking my current role as joint interactive editor for the River
Online quite seriously, and establishing background resources for our
reporters to integrate with each other in order to help drive marketing.

Online resources like this one https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AmUiW0bgxp4mdHBpQ0c2cXF5S3pkRHJZSkRMWlVhVEE&hl=en
can be used to help aggregate student blogs to the KUJSoc website,
not only journalism students, but also half field journalism/politics
students like first-year Mashaal Myler.

Of course as an MA student I won't be at Kingston for long (just till
next June) so I'm encouraging Mashaal and her associates to get
involved with KUJSoc now, and bring students to the elections in may
2010.

I have high hopes for this personal blog however. In the past I've
tried starting this blog and never gotten anywhere with it - yet,
however, this being a newswriting course I'm expecting to be churning
out articles and throwing them up here first, in order that they be
syndicated elsewhere as they're produced, and I've just set up a nice
little email method, whereby I can blog by sending an email out to my
(secret) address.

Seems to work fine, plus i can throw up pictures with ease, so I can
even blog from my mobile phone, which is pretty cool I guess.

All this technology does get in the way however. None of it is worth
anything if you can't actually produce content, and that's what I'm
about right now. That's why I came on this course, specifically so
that I could produce decent content and learn the ins and outs of the
news/entertainment industry.

As usual, there are endless things to 'talk/write' about, but only the
most interesting things ought be published here I feel. Well.. I'm
going to give it my best shot. .

See you on the trail amigos...

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