Seminar Resources
Artesian Media partners David LaFontaine and Janine Warner offer a wide range of speeches and seminars. This collection of resources is designed to help your learn more about social media, news, technology, advertising, and so much more.
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MobileQuest Training Game
We created this interactive game as a mobile training excercise to teach people to do research and publish photos and videos with their cell phones. With our instructions, you can create your own mobile training treasure hunt.
Media Organizations
Online News Association (ONA) www.journalists.org
World Association of Newspapers (WAN) www.wan-press.org
Newspaper Association of America (NAA) www.naa.org
California Newspaper Publishers Association (CNPA) www.cnpa.com
Online Journalism Review (www.ojr.org) Now hosted by the Western Knight Center, the blog is run by Robert Niles and has many contributors. (It was formerly run by the University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication.
Knight Digital Media Center at Berkeley University: Designed for journalists, this site provides online tutorials and resources for video editing, Flash, Dreamweaver and other programs.
Knight Digital Media Center www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org
Knight Center For Jounalism in the Americas knightcenter.utexas.eduThe Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin uses the cyberspace to teach great journalism and teaches great journalists how to use the cyberspace.
Knight Citizen News Network www.kcnn.org The Knight Citizen News Network is a self-help portal that guides both ordinary citizens and traditional journalists in launching and responsibly operating community news and information sites and that assembles news innovations and research on citizen media projects.
Poynter www.poynter.com The Poynter Institute is a non-profit organization dedicated to "making journalism better." Visit their web site to find a wide range of great resources for journalists.
J-Lab www.j-lab.org The Institute for Interactive Journalism helps news organizations and citizens use new media technologies to create fresh ways for people to participate in public life.
News University www.newsu.org An innovative online journalism training site.
American Press Institute (API) www.americanpressinstitute.org Founded by newspaper publishers in 1946, the American Press Institute is the oldest and largest center devoted solely to training and professional development for the news industry and journalism educators.
MIT Convergence Culture Consortium (www.convergenceculture.org) An MIT project to explore the integration of content, brand, and media.
Media Job Sites
Job hunting advice on the PBS site (includes a brief interview with Janine Warner)
News About Journalism
Research & White Papers
Newspaper Next (www.newspapernext.org) A project of the American Press Institute (API) with an extraordinary collection of case studies and best practices about New Media.
Living and Learning with New Media: Summary of Findings from the Digital Youth Project by Mimi Ito, Heather Horst, Matteo Bittanti, Danah Boyd, and others. This white paper summarizes the results of a three-year ethnographic study, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, examining young people’s participation in the new media ecology. (The 50-page PDF is available for download at www.MacFound.org
The Pew Internet and American Life Project www.pewinternet.org Pew Internet explores the impact of the internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life.
Blogs and other Tech Sites
The Institute for the Future (www.iftf.org) A non-profit dedicated to helping organizations make better decisions about the future with information about trends and technology.
BoingBoing.net One of the most popular blogs in the world. Covers what's new in science, technology, industrial design, toys, and art.
TechCrunch weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies
Buzz Machine Jeff Jarvis blogs about media and news
Rob Curly's Blog robcurley.com A self-proclaimed "an Internet nerd from Kansas who is in love with local news and the evolution of traditional media."
Master New Media by Robin Good (www.masternewmedia.org) A blog in English, Spanish, and Italian about a wide variety of innovations in media.
CNET Information, tools, and advice that help you decide what to buy and how to get the most out of your tech.
ZDNet Product reviews, computing news, downloads, how-tos, developer guides, columns, and more.
TechMeme The web's technology news site of record, Techmeme spotlights the hottest tech stories from all around the web on a single page.
What's Next: Innovations in Newspapers www.innovationsinnewspapers.com/A blog by Jun Antonio Giner of Innovation International Media Consulting Group
Seth Godin Prolific author who specializes in marketing (and talks a lot about tech)
Wikipedia Never underestimate how convenient it is to look up any acronym, new technology, or turn of phrase.
DigitalFamily.com Janine's site dedicated to helping people learn the best ways to create Web sites and more.
Social Networking Sites
FaceBookNewspaper Social Networking Sites
Bakatopia www.bakotopia.com A social networking site designed by the Bakersfield Californian. The newspapers licenses its technology to other papers.
Participata www.participata.com A platform designed for to help newspapers launch their own social networking sites
Advertising Resources
www.AdAge.com - Advertising Age es una revista en inglés dedicada a la industria de mercadeo y publicidad. Require una subscripcion pero ofrece varios newsletters de email gratis.
www.warc.com - World Advertising Research Center es un sitio con reportes, estatisticos, y mas sobre tendencias de anuncios en todo el mundo. Require una subscripcion pero ofrece una prueba gratis.
www.AdWeek.com - AdWeek es una revista que cubre todos los aspectos de la industria publicitaria.
Marketing Sherpa - Marketing Sherpa es una revista en inglés con un particular enfoque en innovaciones en mercadeo (marketing)
eMarketerDaily.com - eMarketer Dialy es un sitio web que cubre diversos aspectos del mercadeo en Internet
www.AdFreak.com - AdFreak es un blog dedicado a innovaciones en anuncios y mercadeo
www.thenewmarketing.com - The New Marketing es un blog que cubre los cambios que se plantean en la confluencia de medios, mercadeo y tecnología.
www.classifiedintelligence.com - Classified Intelligence es una compañía que genera informes sobre la industria de clasificados para periódicos.
www.ahaa.org - AHAA es el Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies en Estados Unidos.