Keeping Up Online

Recently the U.S. Army has been using Pinterest to reach the masses via social media and also to appeal more to women since Pinterest is driven mostly by women. In class we talk a lot about social media, and more recently Pinterest so this article on The Verge fits in quite perfectly. …while most that follow the military […]

You hear time and time again that a photograph taken in the right place at the right time can tell a story that words cannot express. I think what makes images so powerful is their power to stay in your head. We’ve all read great articles and books but you don’t have a mental image […]

You can’t really talk about journalism without mentioning the power of the smartphone and going mobile. In our Online Journalism class we’ve had two speakers discuss the importance of mobile journalism, from Steve Buttry and Mark Potts. I check my Twitter every morning the same way some people read the paper every morning. Twitter is […]

I took an Adobe InDesign class just yesterday to learn some new skills with the program. I used InDesign for a few years in high school when I worked on the yearbook staffed and also took some classes a few years ago but haven’t used it since. I was really intrigued to use the program […]

Here is a great new article on Apple’s new operating system, Mountain Lion. As a an Apple user, I’m usually pretty excited about the updates however, their last OS, Lion, just launched seven months ago and now that I’m officially adjusted (it took a while just to remember to scroll in the opposite direction) I’m […]

If you’re not using Twitter, you’re behind. On everything. Chapter four covers microblogging which is short amounts of information online, so essentially Twitter. In my opinion, this chapter reads as a love letter to the site which is fine by me because I can’t live without my Twitter. What makes Twitter so popular, in my […]

So I recorded and edited my first video today! I recorded a few videos of my friends from work on my iPhone for my video. I then emailed the videos to myself (where is my USB cord?) and them imported them to iMovie on my laptop. From there I made a few edits and cuts, […]

  That headline says a lot about the candidates in my opinion. Regardless of what you think of President Barack Obama or the otehr candidates, you have to admit that he is really surging ahead when it comes to connecting to you on a technology level. So the President decided to not only share his […]

The beauty of the Internet is that anyone can use it. You can both consume and create, constantly raising the bar that pushes the standard to a higher level. Crowdsourcing online basically means a number of people all contributing to keep an article updated and accurate. The best example of this is Wikipedia. Articles can […]

In this The Verge article, people are more likely to check their smartphone than they are likely to give in to a cigarette break according to a study from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (say that five times fast). I do not smoke or drink (ok, rarely drink) so I can’t say for […]