"Bloggers Boot Camp shows you how to create and maintain a successful blog in today's world. It teaches you how to find a niche, find your unique voice, and how to hold a conversation with that audience. It provides you with all the right tools appropriate to your content, writing style, and message
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. This new edition teaches you how to write for and promote in the world of social media. It explores and shows you how to navigate the murky waters of mainstream media that your blogging may touch. Finally, this new edition emphasizes the importance of networking and provides techniques and tips for getting a job in the blogging industry and building your reputation as a writer." (Back cover)
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"Examining experiences at a wide variety of community papers – from a 7,000-circulation weekly in West Virginia to a 50,000-circulation daily in California and a 150,000-circulation Spanish-language weekly in the heart of Chicago – "Saving Community Journalism" is designed to help journalists an
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d media-industry managers create and implement new strategies that will allow them to prosper in the twenty-first century. Abernathy's findings will interest everyone with a stake in the health and survival of local media." (Publisher description)
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"Efficient self-regulation in the media sector is an important condition for ethical standards in news coverage and can prevent extensive regulation by state authorities. As such, it plays an important role for the trust of citizens in media and for the freedom of the press. Experts gathered by the
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Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Article 10 ECHR Task Force in Belgrade in October 2013 give the following ten key recommendations." (Page 1)
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"Esta guía te ayudará a tener más conocimientos sobre la comunicación popular y la radio comunitaria, para que cada vez se escuchen y difundan más nuestras voces. Aquí encontrarás ejercicios y actividades para que conozcas y practiques con las herramientas básicas de la radio, partiendo de u
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n análisis de la realidad con perspectiva de género. Si usas la guía de principio a fin cumpliendo con todos los ejercicios, tendrás una vasta colección de producción radiofónica, y tu siguiente tarea será buscar dónde transmitirla. Porque no se trata de producir y dejarlo todo guardado en las grabadoras, las computadoras o en un cajón. Acerquémonos a la radio de nuestra comunidad o de la comunidad vecina y ¡animémonos a participar en ella! En esta guía no trataremos el aspecto técnico de cómo funciona o se equipa una radio, que aunque vemos importante y necesario conocer, y sobre todo que más mujeres participen en estos trabajos creemos que un primer buen paso es enfocarse en la producción para tener una base firme, establecer un grupo de trabajo y una rutina de producción, y así en muy poquito tiempo y con recursos mínimos comenzar a sacar sus voces al aire." (Introducción)
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"Throughout 2014 the IFJ and EFJ have been working hand in hand with affiliates, the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine, the Independent Media Trade Union of Ukraine and the Russian Union of Journalists to support their members in the field, condemn the intimidation of journalists and manipula
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tion of media and to maintain a professional co-operation between journalists across the conflict. The unions have shown great courage and leadership and we can be very proud of their responses. We are also grateful to the support of Dunja Mijatovic, Representative on Freedom of the Media for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe for initiating a dialogue between the journalists unions in the spring of 2014. Since then six meetings have taken place that have been vital in building the climate of trust and co-operation. The process has not been easy, there have been tensions and sometimes serious disagreements, but there has been a remarkably broad areas of agreement, both on the principles that underline our profession and on areas of practical action to support and protect our members. This handbook was one initiative from this process and attempts to document the conflict through the eyes of the journalists and the unions. It draws on the joint monitoring and reporting that was conducted by the unions to record the major incidents against journalists in Ukraine and in Russia when related to the conflict. Through a series of interviews with journalists who have been in the war zone it provides an occasionally rough but authentic voice of the reporters and their experiences. The value of proper safety training and preparation for any correspondent is a major theme with interviews packed with advice to journalists contemplating heading to the front line." (Preface)
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"Und nun hat auch der Duden eine kleine Hilfestellung für angehende Drehbuchschreiber veröffentlicht, die neben die deutschsprachigen Vorreiter von G. Koehler "Drehbuch schreiben" und N. Mosleh "Drehbuchschreiben" zu stehen kommt. Die Informationen zur richtigen Vorgehensweise bei der Drehbuchentw
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icklung werden Kapitel für Kapitel begleitet von kleinen Schreibaufgaben, anhand derer man seine Befähigung üben, aber nicht überprüfen kann. Interessant ist die Lektüre allemal, erfährt man doch einiges über die Kniffe der Drehbuchschreiber. Ob man auf diese Weise allerdings dafür sorgen kann, dass deutsche Drehbücher für Film und Fernsehen besser werden, muss offen bleiben." (Rezension in K10plus - Verbundkatalog der Bibliotheksverbünde GBV und SWB)
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"This book offers eight orienting insights about network building; each one frames a separate chapter, backed by case studies, illustrations, and how-to information.
1. Know the Network Difference. Networks have unique capabilities for achieving social impact that distinguish them from other forms o
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f social organizing, and generative social-impact networks are particularly suited for addressing complex problems.
2. Design Thoughtfully. Social-impact networks can be thoughtfully designed from the start; you don’t have to fly blind.
3. Connect, Connect, Connect. The foundation of generative social-impact networks is the connectivity of its members to each other, which can be cultivated by network weavers.
4. Anticipate a Network’s Evolution. A generative network’s capabilities, complexity, and potential for impact increase as the connectivity of its members deepens and the structure of their connectivity evolves.
5. Enable and Adapt. The growth and development of established social-impact networks depend on managing a set of inevitable challenges. 6. Assess to Improve. Monitoring and assessing a social-impact network’s condition and performance is the basis for improving its impact.
7. Revisit Design. Making an existing network more generative, with more engaged members and impact, requires resetting of key design decisions to boost members’ connectivity.
8. Be Network-Centric. In addition to skills and knowledge, network builders hold a distinct net-centric point of view with its own rules.
The flow of chapters traces the life cycle of network building, from designing start-up networks to managing established networks, assessing their performance, and resetting their design to boost performance. With each chapter building on material in previous chapters, the book is designed to be read from front to back. But we’ve organized the table of contents so that you can find the particular topics that are on your need-to-know-now list." (Introduction, pages 10-11)
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"This sourcebook is meant to equip development and communication professionals with a useful set of guidelines, reference materials and learning resources to apply communication in rural development initiatives. The main goal is to enable readers to design and implement rural communication strategie
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s combining participatory methods with communication processes, media and tools best suited for a specific situation. In particular, the sourcebook aims to develop the following capacities in ComDev: Identifying the phases and steps in communication planning for development; Conducting situational analysis and participatory communication appraisal in the field; Developing a workable communication strategy and plan of action; Facilitating multistakeholder dialogue and collaboration to successfully implement ComDev activities; Designing, pre-testing, producing and using multimedia ComDev materials; Assessing the results of ComDev initiatives and promoting long-term sustainability; Understanding ComDev as it applies to agriculture and rural development issues." (Page 2)
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"This study explores answers to critical questions in five key areas, and suggests tools and resources needed to help organizations elevate the practice and impact of digital storytelling. Strategy: How can digital storytelling help social impact organizations advance their missions? Capacity: What
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resources and skills do individuals and organizations need to shape and share their stories? Content: What are the elements of compelling and motivating stories? Platforms: What technologies are available (or needed) to help people curate, house and share stories? Evaluation: What simple, effective and meaningful metrics can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of digital storytelling?" (Key questions, page 3)
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"David Lochner gibt einen Überblick über die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten des Erzählens im virtuellen Raum. Ob Animationsfilm, digitales Spiel oder interaktiver Film – sie alle bieten Autoren und Produzenten neue Wege, Geschichten zu erzählen: Visionen, Träume und Welten zu entwickeln, die da
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s Publikum noch nicht gesehen hat. Die zunehmende Digitalisierung hat nicht nur den Film revolutioniert, sondern auch neue Medien erschaffen, wie das digitale Spiel und den interaktiven Film. Herkömmliche dramaturgische Plot-Szenarien werden durch interaktive Erzählschemata neu definiert und erschaffen. Der Nutzer schreibt die Geschichte mit. Was dem Spieler große Freiheit bringt, bedeutet für den Autor eine neue Sicht aufs Storytelling. Durch das Internet können wir diese virtuellen Welten in Form von digitalen Spielen, wie World of Warcraft oder Second Life, betreten und uns in Netzwerken austauschen. Spieler greifen erstmals kreativ in das Geschehen ein und nehmen Einfluss auf den Handlungsverlauf. Der Autor tritt dabei in seiner Funktion des Geschichtenschreibers einen Schritt zurück und gibt Inhalte an die Konsumenten ab. David Lochner zeigt, dass virtuelle Welten mehr sind als eine digitale Alternative zum Kinofilm oder Roman. Sie müssen deshalb als eigenständiges Medium betrachtet werden. Als Medium, das nach eigenen erzählerischen GeSetzmäßigkeiten funktioniert und neue Ansprüche an die Unterhaltung stellt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"These standards are to help people make their information easy to read and understand. We have made these standards as part of a project that took place in Europe. People from 8 European countries met several times to write these standards. The project which brought these people together was called
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“Pathways to adult education for people with intellectual disabilities”. Adult education is also called lifelong learning. Lifelong learning programmes are courses where adults can learn new things. At the moment, lifelong learning programmes are often hard for people with intellectual disabilities to take part in. The aim of this project is to make lifelong learning programmes easier for people with intellectual disabilities to take part in." (Page 5)
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"This toolkit is designed for journalists working in any media – newspapers, radio, and television – as well as bloggers and other information professionals who need to get access to information held by public bodies for their stories. The toolkit is for journalists making requests in their own
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country or considering submitting a request in another country. It is based on a comparative analysis of the access to information laws in the region covered by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which has 56 participating states in Europe, Central Asia and North America; of these 48 have legal provisions on the right of access to information held by public bodies; the law of Kosovo is also analysed." (Overview, page 7)
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