Featured Groups

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  Content management systems

  111 members
  Latest Activity: Aug 8
  

  A group to discuss Web site content management systems from Ellington to Drupal to College Publisher to Expression Engine to Town News and everything else. What do you use? How is it working out for you? What would be your ideal CMS?

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  Breaking news

  55 members
  Latest Activity: Aug 6
  

  Newsrooms today have to cover and update breaking news on the web AND produce a comprehensive, compelling story for the next day's newspaper. How are you doing it with limited resources?

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  Photography

  67 members
  Latest Activity: Sep 4
  

  You're a reporter. Something on the scanner is on fire. The photographers are all busy and there's a point & shoot in the cabinet. What do you do, hot shot, what do you do?

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  Elections & Politics

  71 members
  Latest Activity: Aug 20
  

  The U.S. presidential campaign and more. Discuss and share digital journalism initiatives, mashups, stories and projects.

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  New to multimedia

  95 members
  Latest Activity: 1 day ago
  

  Creating your first audio slide show? Learning how to gather audio and work with Audacity? Share your projects here.

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  Tutorial contributions

  47 members
  Latest Activity: Jul 8
  

  As we grow in size, managing tutorials might end up with quite a bit of overlap. If you feel like writing something, let us know here so we can keep track of it all.

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  Gear Recommendations

  69 members
  Latest Activity: Jul 10
  

  Discuss the gear you like and what you like about it.

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  Brainstorming

  107 members
  Latest Activity: Aug 21
  

  You know those cool interesting articles that you can publish this week or even wait a year and it doesn't make much difference? This is a group for people who have ideas to share and people looking for ideas to write about.

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  Growing Audience

  63 members
  Latest Activity: Jul 10
  

  Hey, I don't know about you, but I spend an awful lot of time answering questions from the boss about growing audience. Like yesterday, he says, "Tell me the top three things we can do to grow audience - without spending a dime."

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  Social Bookmarking for Journalists

  103 members
  Latest Activity: Aug 6
  

  Perhaps you've heard of social news sites before. Digg, Propeller, StumbleUpon and Reddit let readers decide what the most important news story of the day is. But journalists can use these as tools to stay informed and spread their work around.

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  Tools you can use

  208 members
  Latest Activity: Aug 26
  

  As journalists and editors not (for the most part) developers - what online tools are you using to splice and dice and feed your content.

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  Faculty Lounge

  36 members
  Latest Activity: Aug 2
  

  A place for journalism and mass communications instructors to share their secrets on getting students to look up from their laptops long enough to learn how to build a Facebook page for the student paper.

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  The Editor Zone

  43 members
  Latest Activity: May 21
  

  Are you an editor writing that first blog post, wondering what to say and what to leave out, trying to meet a set of online goals in between meetings? Start here.

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  Video

  98 members
  Latest Activity: Aug 13
  

  Picking up a video camera for the first time? Press record and start here.

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  Blogging

  144 members
  Latest Activity: Jul 17
  

  New to blogging? Been at it since Jorn Barger? Drop in here and give each other a hand, a comment, or a feed.

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  Social networks

  112 members
  Latest Activity: Jul 26
  

  Learn how social networking sites can help your career, put you in touch with old friends and colleagues and make reporting much more interesting.

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  Get wired, get hired

  127 members
  Latest Activity: Aug 18
  

  Are you a free agent blogger, shooter, or Web czar looking for a job in the news business? Post links to your profiles, portfolios, and clips here. Is your paper hiring? Jump on in and post the ad here - everybody knows somebody...