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
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