July 8, 2011
Posted by Jen Reeves
My newsroom is preparing to launch a very new show in September. It’s called U_News@4 and we’re planning to make it a social media-based newscast and conversation. Thanks to that show, the show’s anchor, Sarah Hill, and I are trying to experiment on as many new tools as possible on the air. When Google+ came [...]
July 5, 2011
Posted by Jen Reeves
I’m hooked. I realize I’m a social networking addict (as someone mentioned to me earlier today) but I’m really enjoying my experience on the new Google Plus. My invite came through less than 24 hours after the network’s release and I immediately jumped in to share invites with others and figure the space out. The [...]
March 4, 2011
Posted by Jen Reeves
I have a chance to speak to the Missouri Press Association today with Joy Mayer at the Reynolds Journalism Institute. We have a chance to speak to editors and publishers – many who are lucky to have an engaged audience of readers in small towns across the state. We’re talking today about social media and [...]
February 25, 2011
Posted by Jen Reeves
Check in services first came to my attention when I attended the SXSW Interactive festival in 2009. Foursquare announced a cellphone-based tool that let you “check-in” to your location and let people know where you visited. The more you visited, the more credibility you would gain inside the game. If you check in enough to [...]
February 22, 2011
Posted by Jen Reeves
This is the time of the semester when I meet with my students one-on-one to assess their career goals and help them best develop their online portfolio to get them the job they want. I range from helping them build a website on a free tool to teaching them how to set up and manage [...]
January 4, 2011
Posted by Jen Reeves
I’ve had a chance to wrap up 2010 with a great group of students followed by an awesome winter break with the family. We celebrated the holidays with both sides of our family (we held a mini-Christmas with my husband’s side of the family followed by the full thing with my side). We also got [...]
October 29, 2010
Posted by Jen Reeves
I’m attending the Online News Association conference this week… and I have an hour to decompress before the next meetup. I thought I’d brain dump a few things about the experience and lessons I learned today. In the last session I attended, I sat near a woman who said she felt this was the first [...]
October 6, 2010
Posted by Jen Reeves
I was thinking about going to sleep tonight… when something changed. A former student of mine invited me to a rolling conversation on Facebook. Rolling you ask? Well, Facebook changed in the last 24 hours. Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook team announced a number of new changes that include being able to download the content you’ve [...]
October 3, 2010
Posted by Jen Reeves
I hold two jobs (professor and newsroom manager), I have two kids, two dogs, a husband and the drive to try and stay healthy. Each of those focuses require time and energy. On most days I’m juggling all of those responsibilities at the same time. I am lucky to have access to technology that helps [...]
September 27, 2010
Posted by Jen Reeves
I didn’t get to attend… The many jobs I hold and a low travel budget kept me from attending the Block by Block Community News Summit. It was a chance for many small community news start-ups to meet together, get to know each other and talk about the future of journalism. I may not have [...]
