June 18th: Minn Daily App & How to Take Your Facebook Presense to the Next Level
- This is huge. We really need to be talking more about this. I’m thinking someone can get in contact with someone at the Minn Daily and get details on the whole process from beginning to end. Because the project is open source, we can expect a lot more college media outlets to be doing this. Maybe the Minn can offer up some advice?
June 24th: Best of Student Media Podcasts
- An in-depth look on what college newspapers are doing well. Are they daily? Weekly? Do the best podcasts include conversations between staffers on recent news? Are they interviews with staff members or news makers? On the tech side, what equipment do they use to record and edit?
July 1: Analytics – When to Know if You’re Falling Behind
- Every industry has their standard (found out this summer 4 minutes is the average time visitors spend on cable news’ Web sites). What is it for college newspapers? How many pages does the average reader visit? How do you know when your site is falling behind?
All of these are wonderful ideas, Emily. I think there’s a lot more attention that could be paid to the Facebook application that was released. Specifically, I’d love to see a walkthrough of all the different features, information on how well it was adopted at the Minnesota Daily, and what type of features they’d like to build for it in the future.
Student media podcasts would be sweet too, especially if you could cover production values (including what sort of post-production effort they put in, equipment used, length of the podcast, etc.).