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 [...]
November 14, 2008
Posted by Jen Reeves
My friend and member of the Reynolds Journalism Institute futures lab staff and newscast director extraordinaire Travis McMillen created this quick look at what you may have missed if you weren’t watching the Smart Decision ‘08 webcast.
November 12, 2008
Posted by Jen Reeves
The end of the 2008 election season wrapped up a piece of my online obsession – SmartDecision08.com. Along with helping keep that site running with content from KOMU.com, KBIA.org and the ColumbiaMissourian.com I also decided to turn the partnership up a notch and produce a multi-newsroom webcast. We ended up also including a new internationally-focused [...]
October 31, 2008
Posted by Jen Reeves
I have to leave a quick note here because I jumped into a little experiment with Twitter in the last couple of days. I decided to see if mid-Missouri would be interested in tweeting (that’s the verb used when you want to talk about that act of posting something on Twitter) politics leading up to [...]
October 23, 2008
Posted by Jen Reeves
I’m taking part in a wonderful project through a non-profit group called e-thepeople. They put together a widget that helps you see your ballot, learn about the candidates and even print out your ballot before you go to the poll on November 4th.
Check it out:
Get the <a href=”http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/ethepeoplevoterguide” mce_href=”http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/ethepeoplevoterguide”>E-thepeople Voter Guide</a> widget and many other [...]
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 [...]
April 7, 2008
Posted by Jen Reeves
We officially launched smartdecision08.com last week and I’ve found my audience is not quick to sign up. I have teams of people trying to go out into our communities and encourage participation — And I’ve found when local organizations are introduced to the idea of blogging or video blogging, they are not interested. I wonder [...]
