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See on issuu.com
Explore a world of publications by people and publishers alike. Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best.
helpingmedia’s insight:
Upload your documents and publications and embed them in any website. Another embed option with the added benefit of showcasing your work in categories for others to find, share, embed and follow.
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See on spreecast.com
Spreecast is the social video platform that lets people broadcast together.
helpingmedia’s insight:
They call it “The ultimate live video experience” with the chance to interact live with individuals and groups, post questions live onscreen, share and embed. Could be good for groups of stringers reporting on a news story from multiple locations. Have just signed up for an account but not tested yet. Please add any experiences below.
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Spundge lets you collaboratively discover, curate, and create better content.
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Spundge lets you collaboratively discover, curate, and create better content.
helpingmedia’s insight:
This could be good for news teams involved in collaborative news gathering. I read about it online and will test it and report on my blog.
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Some interesting predictions and more to come.
A great, free tool for creating audio/video rich timelines and maps with images and text that can be shared on social media and embedded in websites and blogs.
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See on storination.com
Storination is launching soon.
helpingmedia’s insight:
According to the site this is ‘hyperlocal-blogging’ and Journalism UK says it “is a platform which enables users to create a group of Storify stories. Publishers could use it to group together Storify stories from a certain event, for example, or covering a specific subject.”
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See on meograph.com
Meograph helps you easily create, share, and playback beautiful stories in context of Where and When.
helpingmedia’s insight:
Another timeline, multimedia, interactive asset aggregator to embed and share.
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See on datawrapper.de
Datawrapper is an open source tool helping everyone to create simple, correct and embeddable charts in minutes.
helpingmedia’s insight:
Another free data visualisation tool for embedding or sharing via social media.
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See on timetoast.com
Timetoast is a place to create timelines that you can add to your blog or website. You can create historical timelines of important events, or build a timeline of your vacation. It’s all up to you.
helpingmedia’s insight:
Another free timeline tool to embed or share on social media.
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A short report on a week-long course at DRT in Buon Ma Thuot, Dak Lak, in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
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A Map of the World Based on Book Publishing
When it comes to book publishing, not all countries are created equal, as this distorted map of the world by the International Publishers Association shows. […]
As you can see, places like the U.S., Europe, and parts of Asia are engorged in illustration of their strong publishing industries. Meanwhile, Africa and the Middle East are tiny slivers, meaning that the number of books published in those places is extremely low compared to the rest of the world.
The map demonstrates the way that books and the industry behind them reflect access to knowledge,” according to the creators of the report.
[Image: International Publishers Association]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbn9cufOUv1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
A Map of the World Based on Book Publishing
When it comes to book publishing, not all countries are created equal, as this distorted map of the world by the International Publishers Association shows. […]
As you can see, places like the U.S., Europe, and parts of Asia are engorged in illustration of their strong publishing industries. Meanwhile, Africa and the Middle East are tiny slivers, meaning that the number of books published in those places is extremely low compared to the rest of the world.
The map demonstrates the way that books and the industry behind them reflect access to knowledge,” according to the creators of the report.
[Image: International Publishers Association]
(via journolist)
Last year, Pamela Mutale Kapekele became one of many journalists to feel the effects of downsizing when her position was cut from her newspaper’s staff.
A short time later, the Zambian journalist read an article on IJNet about a CNN reporter who had recently suffered a similar fate.
“That piece was a great comfort to me. It was an assurance that I was not the only one going through a tough time and gave me strength to move on,” Kapekele, now a freelance journalist, writes in her entry in IJNet’s storytelling contest.
Kapekele had been browsing opportunities and articles on the website since 2007, but now that she was unemployed, she came to the IJNet site with a new sense of urgency.
Open Data Licensing Animation - OERIPR Support (by OERIPRSupport)
How much does a news organization have to add to wire copy before it can take credit for a story?
