Adventures in Media Development

01/10/2016

35 Actionable Tips to Grow Your Medium Blog — # S W L H

https://medium.com/swlh/35-actionable-tips-to-grow-your-medium-blog-4e4017b89905 #.15l8kn67y

1. ¶ T I M I N G ¶ Publish on a Saturday morning to increase your chances of standing out. You will quickly notice you…

01/02/2016

16 Journalism Tools & Resources to Explore in 2016.

https://medium.com//16-journalism-tools-resources-to-explore-in-2016-b8e9b408b8bf #.qgfvk3cbd

Every year we start with a fresh and very personal selection of tools and resources that offer a glimpse of the future o…

12/29/2015

Coursera's 10 Most Popular Business Classes of 2015

http://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/coursera-s-10-most-popular-business-classes-of-2015.html?cid=sf01002&sr_share=facebook

Coursera reveals which classes were most in demand among business leaders this year.

12/28/2015

A look back at this year's biggest advances in analytics

http://ijnet.org/en/blog/look-back-years-biggest-advances-analytics

Throughout 2015, the ways in which we publish and share content changed dramatically — as did the ways in which we measure our content's success.

10/20/2015

Free software and open source tools for investigative journalism and research

http://www.mandalka.name/investigative_journalism/

Free Software and open source tools for privacy and research for investigative journalism, data driven journalism or datajournalism

10/20/2015

7 Lessons Learned Teaching Data Journalism | MediaShift

http://mediashift.org/2015/10/7-lessons-learned-teaching-data-journalism/

05/13/2015

America Shakes Its Addiction to Oil

Love this. Great data visualization plus journalism.

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2014-america-shakes-off-oil-addiction/

As GDP grows and gas prices plunge to the lowest levels in four years, oil consumption should be soaring. It isn't.

02/22/2015

The Discipline of Teams

https://hbr.org/2005/07/the-discipline-of-teams

What makes the difference between a team that performs and one that doesn’t?

01/27/2015

The Ultimate Pitch Deck to Raise Money for Startups

Excellent resource.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chancebarnett/2014/05/09/investor-pitch-deck-to-raise-money-for-startups/

Great startups don’t fund themselves. Raising money from investors for your startup is challenging at any stage and requires a great pitch, even for experienced founders with significant traction in their company. The good news is that there’s a formula for pitching your startup that has helped star…

01/25/2015

Emerging Opportunities: Monitoring and Evaluation in a Tech-Enabled World : The Rockefeller...

My life the next few months is going to be heavy on M&E. Or project tracking. Or whatever you want to call it.

Here's something to read.

http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/emerging-opportunities-monitoring

# -99 # # # -179 # Opportunities: Monitoring and Evaluation in a Tech-Enabled World, a discussion a

12/02/2014

Understanding “New Power”

This. Interesting.

https://hbr.org/2014/12/understanding-new-power

The crowd is challenging traditional leadership. Here’s how to harness its energy.

10/14/2014

The Goat Must Be Fed

This is my life. Except in the developing world.

http://www.goatmustbefed.com/

With “traffic and weather on the eights,” 144 times a day, WTOP-FM is one of the most successful and best-staffed commercial news radio stations in the United States. It is “on-air, online, mobile,” as an announcer intones hourly. When it comes to the latest shooting, Beltway tie-ups or other this-j…

10/01/2014

5 Ways Being Too Nice Can Hurt You

This is certainly an issue in the NGO world.

http://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/5-ways-being-too-nice-can-hurt-you.html?cid=sf01001

Kindness is always in style, but being a pushover can hurt you in many different ways. Here's a list.

08/03/2014

Key Takeaways from the CodeCamp Strategy Week

http://adventuresinmediadevelopment.com/key-takeaways-codecamp-strategy/

Having open data leaders from five continents, we drew upon truly global intelligence and lessons on strengthening citizens through data initiatives.

08/03/2014

CodeCamp: Helping media and government become data-driven

http://adventuresinmediadevelopment.com/codecamp-media-government-datadriven/

Different models from around the world for tackling civic innovation and engagement through open data.

08/03/2014

CodeCamp: Strengthening Citizen Voices through Open Data and Civic Innovation

My spring project.

http://adventuresinmediadevelopment.com/strengthening-citizen-voices-data-codecamp/

We brought together a select group of open data and civic innovation experts from around the world to learn what works and what doesn't. Here's a post.

08/03/2014

Winter/spring of death finally over. Posts soon.

I ended up with a little back log on blog posts. Taking care of that now.

http://adventuresinmediadevelopment.com/winterspring-death-finally-over-posts/

I just completed one of the most intense runs of my career. When the run started exactly is open for debate. I’m going with November 2013. But the stuff worth mentioning here didn’t kick in until January. Either way, it

07/24/2014

Instagram

This.

http://instagram.com/p/qg2Aj9AAbJ/

mushon's photo on Instagram

05/24/2014

Matt Waite: How I faced my fears and learned to be good at math

This is in my personal Hall of Fame of posts I've read about journalism.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/11/matt-waite-how-i-faced-my-fears-and-learned-to-be-good-at-math/

You might think the principal coder behind PolitiFact took naturally to math. You'd be wrong.

05/24/2014

3 New Job Titles Every Company Needs But No One Has Yet

I love this. Someone needs to make this happen.

http://www.fastcompany.com/3030811/3-new-job-titles-every-company-needs-but-no-one-has-yet?utm_source=facebook

What would happen if businesses introduced new positions dedicated completely to imagining new ways to shake things up? Here's what that might look...

05/16/2014

Why We Favorite Tweets, According To Science

I favorite tweets because of an elaborate project tracking system I have set up that pulls favorites into a spreadsheet using a Google script and the Twitter API.

And you?

http://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/why-we-favorite-tweets-according-to-science

An ' official ' taxonomy of faving behaviors.

05/16/2014

Strategy and Strategic Alliances for the New York Times

Someone on Liz Heron's wall posted this. From 2009. Fascinating.

http://www.slideshare.net/batess/strategy-and-strategic-alliances-for-the-new-york-times

Discussion of strategy and competitive analysis of the New York Times within the context of Strategic Alliances.

05/16/2014

The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age

Here's the post Liz Heron started the conversation with.

http://www.niemanlab.org/2014/05/the-leaked-new-york-times-innovation-report-is-one-of-the-key-documents-of-this-media-age/

It's an astonishing look inside the cultural change still needed in the shift to digital — even in one of the world's greatest newsrooms. Read it.

05/16/2014

I'm quite enjoying the conversation on news innovation and culture happening on Liz Heron's wall.

This is an issue I work on every day with media around the world.

Fascinating to see this come to the surface in one of our most important news sources in the US.

https://www.facebook.com/lheron/posts/10152206354703127

04/22/2014

By the Numbers: Tracing the Statistical Correlation Between Press Freedom and Democracy

I'll definitely have to dig into this.

http://cima.ned.org/publications/numbers-tracing-statistical-correlation-between-press-freedom-and-democracy?utm_source=Freedom+House+Data+&utm_campaign=By+the+Numbers&utm_medium=email

It is generally accepted that media freedom is beneficial to democratic and economic development, but the exact nature of this relationship and the direction of causality between press freedom and general freedoms is under-researched.

04/07/2014

Startups, This Is How Design Works

http://startupsthisishowdesignworks.com/

A guide to understanding digital & physical product design for startups

04/05/2014

21 Technologies That Will Decentralize the World

Delicious.

http://www.shareable.net/blog/21-technologies-that-will-decentralize-the-world

Across the planet, new technologies and business models are decentralizing power and placing it in the hands of communities and individuals. "We are seeing technology-driven networks replacing bureacratically-driven hierarchies," says VC and futurist Fred Wilson, speaking on what to expect in the n...

04/04/2014

What You Think You Know About the Web Is Wrong | TIME

http://time.com/12933/what-you-think-you-know-about-the-web-is-wrong/

If you’re an average reader, I’ve got your attention for 15 seconds, so here goes: We are getting a lot wrong about the web these days. We confuse what people have clicked on for what they’ve read. We mistake sharing for reading.

04/04/2014

Coursera - Information, Tech & Design courses

https://www.coursera.org/courses?orderby=upcoming&cats=infotech

Take free online classes from 80+ top universities and organizations. Coursera is a social entrepreneurship company partnering with Stanford University, Yale University, Princeton University and others around the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. We believe in connecting pe...

04/04/2014

Stanford University - Design course videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity/search?query=design

Located between San Francisco and San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford University is recognized as one of the world's leading research and teach...

04/02/2014

8 APIs your news organization should start using today | Poynter.

http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/digital-strategies/165347/8-apis-your-news-organization-should-start-using-today/

Create. Inform. Engage. | Journalism training, media news & how to's

04/02/2014

13 Ways to (Productively) Waste Time

Nice.

http://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/13-ways-to-productively-waste-time.html

Need a few minutes browsing the web to recharge your brain? There are better options for those minutes than dogs on skateboards.

03/27/2014

Eric Newton, advocating for ‘transparent objectivity’ in the digital age

I LOVE this. Journalism absolutely should be more transparent. Journalism depends on trust. How can it expect the public to trust it if we have no exposure to its processes and decision making on some level? For too long, it has relied on the story itself. What about the story of the story?

http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2014/3/24/eric-newton-advocating-transparent-objectivity-digital-age/

Knight Foundation senior adviser Eric Newton will be speaking at the Polis Annual Journalism Conference on March 28, 2014 at ...

03/23/2014

In defense of ‘vanity’ metrics: why page views are still important | Poynter.

Some great thoughts here.

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/top-stories/244136/in-defense-of-vanity-metrics-why-page-views-are-still-important/

Create. Inform. Engage. | Journalism training, media news & how to's

03/20/2014

PAKISTAN-ICTD 2014

Well, I'm on another adventure. I'm in Pakistan, speaking at this event.

http://itu.edu.pk/ictdworkshop2014/index.php

Welcome to Pakistan-ICTD workshop being held at Information Technology University, Pakistan. The aim of the workshop is to bring leading researchers in ICTD to formulate how technology can assist with the unique set of problems currently being faced by Pakistan. It will be a great opportunity for yo...