Where should your videos be uploaded and hosted online?
I was having a bear of a time with this decision for a new venture that I will announce in coming months.
What it comes down to is that it really matters what you want to do with it.
Don’t think there is only one solution to the question.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial is in left field of a well-worn baseball field, wedged between the icy Potamac River and the city’s Tidal Basin.
Tonight, so is a strange encampment of brown tents, bright lights and vehicles with federal government license plates.
Continue reading Strange encampment near FDR Memorial in Washington D.C.
Where do you store your photos online? I’ve used at least five different services and currently have three active accounts and can’t say I’m sold on any of them.
Read my thoughts and share your own. Am I missing out on the go-to place to store, save and share photographs?
Continue reading Photo Web sites online: do any win out as the best?
I now know a handful of bright people – some family, some friends, some young all smart and competent – who are victims of what is becoming a growing economic hysteria, made worse by media… and blogs. This from the Washington Post:
New unemployment figures from the Department of Labor show average new jobless claims for the past four weeks up more than 200,000 from a year ago to their highest level since Dec. 1982.
The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll found job cuts reaching a broad swath of Americans: nearly two in 10 reported they or someone in their household had lost a job in the past few months, and almost three in 10 said their household had been hit with a pay cut or reduced hours at work.” [Source]
That can only affect this freelance journalist, as it does millions of Americans.
Continue reading Recession thick, but some sectors still hiring
I did a lot of blogging here and elsewhere in 2008. Care for a review?
Publications:
Below see some specific posts from those publications.
Continue reading Blogging elsewhere in 2008: a highlight reel
While originally posted here, this post has been moved here.
It’s Christmastime in the city.
U.S. center cities of all shapes and sizes can expect a wave of traffic, from the exurbs, the suburbs, the neighborhoods and outside the region. They come for shopping and sightseeing and, really, the setting that your city will create, with lights, decorations, atmosphere, a tree and cheer.
So, on Christmas Eve, why not figure out how we can do it better.
Continue reading Center City Philadelphia at Christmas: how our city and yours can do it better
Choosing carefully when to post to your Web site, whether you are a newspaper or a blogger, is supposed to be a boon to your traffic.
Insightful Web analytics, they tell me, are the golden ticket to blossoming attention. So what time should you be posting?
Continue reading When to forward post to meet your Web traffic: the busiest times on the Internet
How many e-mail addresses do you have in your address book?
Sources have been important to journalists of all shape and caliber for the profession’s entire history, perhaps even more so for freelancers, who are guiding a ship and finding their story pitches on their own. But in an age of social networks and e-mail clients, it’s important to reevaluate how you’re collecting, retaining and organizing your sources.
Continue reading How developed is your contact list: freelance journalists better become collectors
I have at least three fairly different resumes stored in my Google Documents, ready to e-mail to editors, mentors, advisers or welfare agents.
For Philadelphia’s newest admitted freelance journalist, it’s a must because I am never quite certain exactly how I am branding myself and for what sort of work I might be pursuing.
How many resumes do you have? Are you ready to bust them out the moment someone of even the vaguest professional merit comes within sniffing distance?
Continue reading How many resumes do you have?: paper promotion of the young and unemployed
