JEA DIGITAL MEDIA WEB AND MULTIMEDIA GUIDE
This guide is a curated list of some of the most frequently visited web and multimedia posts the committee has published through the years. Since it’s creation in 2009, the JEA Digital Media committee has posted more than 1,600 articles that can be found in the Digital Media Library. The posts below should be helpful and relevant to you and your team.
If you are looking for something web or multimedia related and don’t see it here, or by searching on the site, please email Committee Chair Aaron Manfull and he and the team will work to help fill the gap.
Design Tips
- Don’t forget about your story pages on the web. Use these tips to level yours up
- Tips from an online journalism judge
- Give readers visuals every 250 words in online stories
- Boost your website’s appeal with an image for every story
- Add a menu of web links students frequently use to your website to help drive a little extra traffic
- Do you know what your staff’s news site looks like on mobile devices? You should.
- Envato Market fills in free WordPress plugin gap
- Three ways to use the built-in advertising space on your CMS theme
- Advertising Online, Part 1: Getting Ads on the Web
- Advertising Online, Part 2: Web Ads and Pricing Strategies
- WordPress Menu: Make a Menu Item in a Drop-Down Menu Unclickable
Storytelling Tools
- Boost multimedia storytelling with Knight Lab’s Timeline
- Here’s an updated list of online tools to create alternative story forms for the web
- Check out Genially to create interactive images, timelines, maps and more
- Proxi, “The Canva of Maps” lives up to its name for free interactive mapping
- How to use Timeline JS
- Try out Wakelet as an alternative to the now defunct Storify
- How to use StoryMapsJS to crate interactive maps for your website
- 70+ interactive storytelling examples for inspiring students
Content
- Easily transcribe your audio interview files with Adobe Premiere Pro
- A list of quick hitter content ideas that your staff can use to drive traffic to your site
- Start the semester off with a published stories challenge
- Consider adding an RSS feed to your staff’s site to bring in other news
- Now’s the time to map our a year of planned coverage
- Use a punch card system to help generate varied web content
- Showcase your staff’s top 10 stories at the end of the year
- Build digital skills early, have intro journalism students create multimedia packages for the web
- Generating Online Content: The Prospector Now staff shares their system
- Generating Online Content: The staff of the Kirkwood Call Shares Their System
- Generating Online Content: The Staff of Panoptic Online Shares Their Content System
- Sports Editor John Bohnenkamp Offers Tips for Writing Sports Recaps on Deadline
- Staff Positions: Converge all media copy under a Writing Czar
- Why we Edit in Google Docs and not the Back End of Our Site
- Use a Beat System To Generate More Online Content
- Looking to Generate More Online Content? Put Someone in Charge of it
- Online Beat System: Francis Howell Central High School
- North Central’s System for Getting Content Online Daily
- Work Smarter, Not Harder: Getting Stories Online
- Web and Print Legal Guidelines are the Same
SNO
- SNO adds timeline and Imagelink updates to Site Booster Add-on
- Use SNO’s Live Update tool to add chronologically based updates to stories
- Supercharge your site’s finding with SNO Donate if you host your site with SNO
- 5 reasons why we made the switch to SNO
Organization
- Converged Media Changed our approach and culture
- New staff structure emphasizes better web coverage
- For assignments, consider letting students choose from a menu of “salads,” “appetizers,” “main courses,” and “desserts”
- Looking for job descriptions for your web staff? Consider having them write their own
- Use a sports beat system to improve coverage on your online news site
- Rotate online news staffers through a variety of jobs to keep them focused and fresh
- Rule of 3 system gets refresh to help more journalism staffers be more successful
- How to use Evernote – and 5 ways it can help journalists
- Maestro on Steroids: A newspaper and yearbook planner for the digital age
- 8 Reasons for having a student-run website
- 5 Reasons to Have One Website for all of your High School Student Media
- Make Generating Content Part of the Everyday Job of a Staffer, Not an Extra with the Rule of 3
- Keep it Simple When Creating Ad Rates for the Web
- Advisers: 5 Ways to Learn Without Taking Over/Creating Content For Your Students’ Site
- Job Descriptions for Web Positions – Auburn Mountainview High School
- 4 things your online staff can do the last few weeks of school
- A checklist of Digital Media Things To Consider Before Closing out the Year
Audience and Promotion
- Your staff has a good system in place for generating web and social content, now it’s time to engage your audience better
- Grow your online audience and promote your website with these tips
- 5 tips to drive more traffic to your staff’s website
- Host a focus Group to Get Valuable Feedback
- Do Something to Promote Your Site or Program Weekly
- 5 ways to promote your site in the first weeks of school
- A post that keeps rocking due to SEO
- 5 Steps to Market Your Publication’s Website
- Branding: Work to Develop Your ‘Whole’ Identity
- Create Wallpapers For Your Readers to Keep in Their Thoughts
