July 11, 2011
Posted by Jen Reeves
I truly believe journalists need to be open to new opportunity to connect with communities and learn how to share. Any time a legitimate organization launches a new way to communicate, I’m going to jump. I’m curious. I’m hungry to connect. I want to learn its potential. That’s what I’ve done inside Google+. It is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
February 18, 2009
Posted by Jen Reeves
As a Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow, I have the opportunity to focus on projects that I wouldn’t normally have as much focused time to get the job done. So it’s exciting to see many things starting to emerge here at the Missouri School of Journalism. I’m teaching 21 students this semester and I have them all [...]
May 22, 2008
Posted by Jen Reeves
Aggregation. It’s a big focus of my life these days. I’m looking for easy ways to collect information and share it with the general public. At the same time, I’m trying to find ways to collect the websites and social networks I visit and aggregate it into one place. That’s why I’m curious to see [...]
May 12, 2008
Posted by Jen Reeves
I’m deep inside many different social networking tools. I use them personally in order to see how useful they are for my job. If it’s useful for my day to day life, then there may be a great reason for my newsroom to share its information using those tools. A year ago I got into [...]
November 1, 2007
Posted by Jen Reeves
Wow. That’s all I can say. Check this out: Google has created a new initiative called “Open Social.” I haven’t found a page on Google yet, but it’s all over the blogosphere. Even though the New York Times says it won’t happen, I really think that Google is planning to try and smoosh Facebook. Here’s [...]
October 29, 2007
Posted by Jen Reeves
I’m obsessed with social networks. From the moment I started playing with Facebook YEARS ago I saw an amazing opportunity. It’s an amazing way to stay in touch with people and share connections. THEN Facebook added applications… And that’s when I saw the amazing opportunities for newsrooms and educators. Students could add applications and share [...]
October 22, 2007
Posted by Jen Reeves
I love, love, love to see how major newsrooms are taking advantage of technology. First, using the simplicity of building maps using Google Maps, the LA Times came up with this one. Also, this looks like one of the first major opportunities for MSNBC to use its FirstPerson project. It’s a pretty slick little set [...]
