July 3, 2012
Posted by Jen Reeves
With Google+ celebrating its public launch a year ago and KOMU 8 celebrating a year of experimenting in the social network, I thought it would be worthwhile to share some of the ways I see a tremendous shift in the way broadcast news is headed in the near future. G+ Hangouts changed the way our [...]
June 6, 2012
Posted by Jen Reeves
There was a time in history not long ago when Twitter was new. Nowadays it so not new that it doesn’t even need a “T’ as a logo. Twitter updated its logo and made it just a bird. Heck, Twitter even made a pretty video about it: I used to blog about Twitter all of [...]
April 11, 2012
Posted by Jen Reeves
Last September my newsroom took a jump into an uncharted path of merging social media with broadcast. We had had moments of success leading up to the U_News show that gave us the bravery to do things differently. We had a schedule opening after Oprah ended her show. That’s when we launched U_News@4 #SarahHill. We [...]
April 10, 2012
Posted by Jen Reeves
The combination of new Android users and Instagram’s $1 billion purchase by Facebook means swarms of people are signing up for the community. I figured I would share some of my tips since I have really enjoyed the community there. First, I HIGHLY recommend reading Anthony Quintano’s tips on succeeding inside Instagram. It’s a fabulous [...]
April 9, 2012
Posted by Jen Reeves
I love Facebook and its many ways it helps connect people on a personal level and gives brands a different way to encourage sharing and information distribution. I don’t like how Facebook has killed some pretty great apps in the last few years. I’m writing this to share some history… and let Facebook know I [...]
March 30, 2012
Posted by Jen Reeves
I love new technology. I can’t stop myself from signing up and giving a new application or website a try. It’s a part of my curiosity as we continue to look for new ways to help journalism grow into its future. I’m often really excited about the new because I often see the great potential a [...]
March 18, 2012
Posted by Jen Reeves
This year was my fourth time attending the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, TX. Four times isn’t that long but it is long enough to assess some of the changes that have come with the experience. For years I have bragged about the festival’s awesomeness. To me it’s like the Online News Association [...]
February 23, 2012
Posted by Jen Reeves
I merged Facebook with my personal blog world in 2010… But getting there took some work. My mom online world started many years before that. It’s something I had started on Geocities in 2002 before my son was born. By the time I was pregnant with baby number two, I had moved over to the [...]
February 21, 2012
Posted by Jen Reeves
It would be magical if I could just share my brain and it would auto publish… There are so many ideas I hold in my brain that I wish I could get out into a computer screen for dozens of blog posts. Lately I’ve thought a lot about a panel I’m helping lead at SXSW [...]
February 20, 2012
Posted by Jen Reeves
A friend of mine in the social journalism world mentioned in a blog post how he isn’t an engager… because it isn’t possible. He’s a broadcaster inside social media. And that made me think. Social media has grown because it’s all about sharing and talking and learning. Why can’t media brands be a part of [...]
