April 22, 2011
Posted by Jen Reeves
I work on a lot of projects. And I never give myself enough time to tell people about it. I realize I should pay better attention to my friend Jeremy Littau. He’s SO DARN GOOD at making sure we see his hard, smart work. Dang it. He’s good. I’m constantly impressed. So yesterday was a [...]
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 5, 2011
Posted by Jen Reeves
A new year is a great reason to make changes. So after months and months of discussions with my husband, we’re making the move to living a DSL-only lifestyle. We use DirecTV for our television (mostly sports) viewing and more of our movies and television shows are coming from Netflix Instant. We rarely use our [...]
November 11, 2010
Posted by Jen Reeves
There are SO many people who have blogged about QR codes and have used them a LOT more than me. But this evening, I spoke to a group of young journalists who were really interested in how I put together my current business card. My QR code that takes you to the About page of [...]
November 2, 2010
Posted by Jen Reeves
My newsroom is buzzing around preparing for election night coverage. My nerd-self is buzzing about the cool ways you can participate in election day online. The one we’re looking forward to the most at KOMU is our CoverItLive chat we’re planning online tonight. We have experts, candidates and candidate representatives jumping in to give our [...]
October 12, 2010
Posted by Jen Reeves
In 1987, I watched a live broadcast of a little baby rescued from a well in Texas. I cried and celebrated the return of this little girl to her family. I was engaged in watching the wall-to-wall coverage on CNN. It was a new cable channel that focused on the news 24 hours a day. [...]
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 [...]
September 2, 2010
Posted by Jen Reeves
I often speak to classes about ways to build your personal brand… and I consider blogs as the core of that brand building process. A blog is a space to share your brain, your interests or at least examples of your professional work. The more you post and share and collaborate, the easier it is [...]
