Cheap & useful tools that can help entrepreneurial journalists be more efficient When it comes to tools, entrepreneurial journalists have the advantage of being free. Free of the obligation to use a news organization’s clunky software packages. Free from layers of tech bureaucracy. And free from having to get approval to try new tools. That freedom, of course, comes at a price. Fortunately, software developers have turned the world of tools upside down in recent years. Here’s a quick guide to some of the most useful, easy-to-use tools for any journalist developing a project without a big budget or a lot of time to invest in learning new tech. Tools for storing & organizing information Once we’ve wrestled down mounting piles of email, most of us start our day with ideas, notes and lots of random stuff to take care of. Here are some examples of how journalism startups can use it: In addition to organizing Web research, reporting notes, source info and other raw material, Evernote helps for recording ideas in audio, picture and text form. Tools for handling invoices
Meetings.io Information venue du Web, check! Crédit: DR Comment être sûr qu’un témoignage, publié sur un réseau social, est authentique? Comment s’assurer qu’une image n’est pas un photomontage ou un vieux cliché ressorti des limbes? En glanant, sur le Web , des éléments pour couvrir l’actualité en temps réel, les journalistes doivent repérer les «fakes», ces faux (messages, photos, vidéos, comptes) qui cohabitent, en ligne, avec de vraies infos. L’enjeu, pour un journaliste, c’est de vérifier que, par exemple, le tweet publié par un étudiant annonçant l’arrestation de Dominique Strauss-Khan, en mai 2011, ou la photo de l’avion sur l’Hudson diffusée sur Twitter par un citoyen américain, en janvier 2009, correspondent à la réalité. «Il n’y a pas de recette miracle, la vérification des contenus trouvés en ligne passe par un travail d’enquête journalistique», m’explique Julien Pain, responsable du site Les Observateurs pour France 24. Voilà pour la théorie. 1. C’est le premier réflexe à avoir. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Where is Ploum? 8 Google Chrome Extensions for Journalists When you’re browsing the web for information to help write your story, no browser helps you pull together your work better than Google Chrome. Google Chrome allows you to add extensions to increase the functionality of the browser and help turn it into a real writing and compiling powerhouse. Here are eight Google Chrome extensions which can help journalists get more done with Google’s revolutionary browser. After the Deadline As a journalist, you know how important it is to ensure that your copy is free from spelling, punctuation, or grammar errors. Awesome Screenshot: Capture & Annotate The name for this extension not only sums up its primary functions, but mentions one main thing: it is awesome. Concentrate This extension does a simple, but important job: it allows you to block out sites that distract you to help increase your productivity. Chrome Pad Chances are, you may write in another program like Notepad or Microsoft Word or Textmate while you draft your stories and research.
Outils de gestion de projets | Agence web Idéematic à Strasbourg Pour toute conduite de projets, que nous faisions référence à la méthode Agile, aux diagramme de Gantt ou au réseau de Pert et que nous soyons par ailleurs informaticien ou architecte, le pilotage dépend communément d’une très bonne organisation pour gérer son bon déroulement. Dans le contexte du web, nous avons ces dernières années vu évoluer grand nombre de solutions à utiliser en ligne ou à installer sur son serveur. Je vous propose aujourd’hui de faire le tour de certaines d’entre elles. Il sera intéressant d’observer ce que chacune propose, quel choix d’ergonomie elles font et ce qu’elles mettent en avant. Basecamp Le premier que nous allons voir est Basecamp, développé par 37signals. Basecamp gestion de projets, de tâches et de commentairescréation de templates de projetscalendriertime trackinggestion de fichiersnotifications par emailmessagerie intégréeapplication mobile Tarif : 49$, 99$ et 149$ par mois Site : Voir aussi plus bas Freedcamp. Project2manage Trello Trac
Flash Journalism updates - Journalists' Toolkit I have been hard at work updating the Flash Journalism website. New tutorials for ActionScript 3.0 and for working on the Timeline in CS4 and CS5 have been added. The old pages from the original site (created to support the book I wrote about Flash journalism in 2004) are still online, and all the old links will remain operational (for ActionScript 2.0. and Flash MX 2004/Flash 8). I have built a new site on top of the old one. There are lots of new working examples that can be downloaded and used by students or working journalists who are learning to use Flash to tell stories and to add interactivity to stories. Here are a few to get you started: The main difference I have discovered so far between CS4 and CS5 concerns the way embedded fonts are handled. But if you are using CS5, and you open a CS4 tutorial that includes a dynamic text field, you need to rebuild that text field and embed the fonts in the new way.
A fantastic tool for presenting debates – come play Someone should ask Stef Lewandowski to look after children more often. Any children. Every time he does, he seems to invent something. His latest project – made while cradling his baby son – is Wrangl, a tool for “making sense of both sides of the argument”. This is a problem that has been tackled before – most notably by Debategraph. That’s partly because it is aimed at for-and-against debates, rather than the broader issues which Debategraph focuses on. With such a simple basis, it’s then possible to link each argument to a counter-argument – or add new arguments of your own. The design of the site makes it easy to pick out each side’s arguments, and follow those through to counter arguments. It will be interesting to see how the site is used – and abused – and how it develops in response. To test it out, I’ve started a Wrangl of my own – on NHS reforms. Like this: Like Loading...