Category: Tips & Tricks How to get things done
Journalism “legals”: when is something in the public interest?
A Mediaonline article published this week does an excellent job of laying out some of the legal considerations governing the publication of sensitive material in South Africa. The article carries interviews with the people involved in looking at the legal ramifications of Jacques Pauw’s book, The President’s Keeper, (one of whom is my sister Gill Moodie) and notes that while something may ordinarily be dangerous to publish, the factor of “public interest” can come into…
Twitter’s 280-characters just too many? Here’s a way to cope…
I am in two minds about Twitter’s decision to allow 280-character tweets. One the one hand, when only 140 characters were allowed, I often felt that I could do with just an extra few characters to get in an extra hashtag, or a telling phrase. And I think that the imposed brevity meant people often substituted a short hashtag for actual meaning, as seen here: Looking for inspiration during #NaNoWriMo2017? These classic authors have you covered.…
How to embed social media in posts – online lesson
I am experimenting with making online lessons. This is my first effort – a look at three ways to embed social media in online posts (complete with videos).
VIDEO: How to embed a YouTube video in a post
This is my second video, demonstrating how to embed a YouTube video in a post:
VIDEO: How to embed a tweet in a post
Over on YouTube, I have channel called TheReneemoodie, where I demonstrate some the things that I might do in a training course. The first one looked at how to make an entire tweet appear in a WordPress post (though the procedure is easily replicable to other content managment systems. Here it is:
How to get things done
Journalism “legals”: when is something in the public interest?
A Mediaonline article published this week does an excellent job of laying out some of the legal considerations governing the publication of sensitive material in South Africa. The article carries interviews with the people involved in looking at the legal ramifications of Jacques Pauw’s book, The President’s Keeper, (one of whom is my sister Gill Moodie) and notes that while something may ordinarily be dangerous to publish, the factor of “public interest” can come into…
Twitter’s 280-characters just too many? Here’s a way to cope…
I am in two minds about Twitter’s decision to allow 280-character tweets. One the one hand, when only 140 characters were allowed, I often felt that I could do with just an extra few characters to get in an extra hashtag, or a telling phrase. And I think that the imposed brevity meant people often substituted a short hashtag for actual meaning, as seen here: Looking for inspiration during #NaNoWriMo2017? These classic authors have you covered.…
How to embed social media in posts – online lesson
I am experimenting with making online lessons. This is my first effort – a look at three ways to embed social media in online posts (complete with videos).
VIDEO: How to embed a YouTube video in a post
This is my second video, demonstrating how to embed a YouTube video in a post:
VIDEO: How to embed a tweet in a post
Over on YouTube, I have channel called TheReneemoodie, where I demonstrate some the things that I might do in a training course. The first one looked at how to make an entire tweet appear in a WordPress post (though the procedure is easily replicable to other content managment systems. Here it is: