Thank you.
This is really helpful right now.
best,
Simone
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On Apr 2, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Bernard L. Stein wrote:
> I put the question to Jeff Jarvis, the Internet savant at CUNY's
> new graduate school of journalism. Here's his answer.
> Bernard L. Stein
>
> "I hate to make blogs the cure for the common cold but...
>
> "Blog software is the easiest content-mangement and publishing
> system ever made. I would use a blog as a means of presenting
> portfolio work. I don't mean that the work needs to be surrounding
> by blog writing.
> One may just use a blog to publish your work.
>
> "At the simplest level, this allows one to link to any work you've
> done anywhere else (including clips on mainstream sites, files on
> CUNY servers, PDFs on your own server, etc.).
>
> "WordPress also brings the ability to publish pages, not just blog
> posts. So you may take an article and put it on a WordPress page
> and then link to that from the blog.
>
> "Video can be posted to services such as Blip.tv or YouTube.com and
> then embedded in the blog. Or one may link to video files on a
> server to be played. (I'd recommend the former; it's so much easier
> for all.)
>
> Sandeep [Junnarkar, who teaches the interactive classes] and I are
> recommending to students that they get their own domain for their
> portfolios and that they establish an account to get blog software.
> One may use a free service such as Blogger.com, or paid and hosted
> services such as WordPress.com and TypePad.com. Those are all easy
> (I'd recommend WordPress among them). To ratchet this up a bit,
> I've recommended a very cheap hosting service, A Small Orange,
> where one can get one's own account on a server for $25 a year; this
> then enables the ability to put files on a server once they're
> taken off a university server."
>
>
> ---- Original message ----
>> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 22:54:32 -0400
>> From: Simone Delgado <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: clips from online publications
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>> I don't know. This is really tricky. I've never
>> heard about a completely web-based portfolio. It is
>> an interesting question, though mainly because
>> online journalism is part of this new type of
>> journalism that is under construction right now, and
>> it's normal that we start struggling with the best
>> way to show our work for new jobs. I personally keep
>> two portfolios: one in DVD with video segments and
>> another one on paper with articles and stories
>> published in Brazilian papers and websites. I have
>> everything printed out as a back up and also I try
>> to write some URLs in my cover letter. However, I am
>> not sure if this is best way to present my work.
>> What about segments recorded for radio stations??
>> How could I combine everything in only one
>> portfolio??
>> thanks
>> Simone
>> On Apr 1, 2007, at 10:21 PM, Gorelick, Steve wrote:
>>
>> It may be unrealistic, but sometimes I wish there
>> was some sort of standard or protocol for on-line
>> journalism portfolios. But the problem is that
>> on-line clips are not only text-based stories.
>> Sometimes they are multi-media "clips" with text,
>> audio, and even streaming video.
>> Does anyone think that a completely web-based
>> portfolio makes any sense? That is, a prospective
>> employer simply goes to the web site and read the
>> clips and looks at any other multi-media work.
>> Steve
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: HCJ [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of Allison Steinberg
>> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 7:40 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: clips from online publications
>> I save clips from websites as PDFs. There's an
>> easy option to save as PDF under "print" if you're
>> on a mac.
>> Best,
>> Allison Steinberg
>> 646.413.8918
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Sent: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:49 PM
>> Subject: clips from online publications
>> I would think the question of how to include
>> online publications in your portfolio is fairly
>> straightforward. Printouts should work, with the
>> URL provided for confirmation on the printout or
>> in a cover letter. In any e-mail communication,
>> you would obviously include live links.
>>
>>
>>
>> There may well be some tricks to this I am
>> overlooking, e.g. a link that is unstable, a
>> page that is taken down. Perhaps it pays to save
>> one's online clips as webpages.
>>
>>
>>
>> Peter Parisi, Ph.D.
>> Dept. of Film & Media Studies
>> Hunter College
>> 695 Park Avenue
>> New York, NY 10021
>> 212-772-4949
>> "The suffering itself is not so bad, it's the
>> resentment against suffering that is the real
>> pain." --Allen Ginsberg
>>
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