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Kara Andrade prepares to head to Guatemala

September 13, 2009 – 3:51 pm

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Last night, I attended the Hasta Luego party for my friend Kara Andrade, who won a Fulbright and so later this week is heading to Guatemala with her partner Brad for about a year. She’ll be starting a new citizen journalism venture there. I’ll be following her progress on her blog and [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in citizen journalism, emotions, friends, journalism, mobile, travel | Comments (0)

My Mac Snow Leopard installation disaster so far

September 1, 2009 – 10:13 am

NOTE: So far I’ve had 3 visits to Apple Store to attempt repairs. SEE NEXT UPDATE.
I’ve used Macs for many years, and I’ve been lucky: never had a hard drive crash, or a problem installing a software update.
Until yesterday
I purchased the $29 Snow Leopard update, and tried installing it yesterday.
Midway through the installation, [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in help needed, problems, processes, software | Comments (5)

Public Media Collaborative, Mar. 11 meeting, Berkeley

March 12, 2009 – 12:12 pm

Last night I attended a meeting of the Bay Area Public Media Collaborative. I’m impressed by how this group is pulling together significant and diverse energy and talent.
The point? To “bring together bloggers, journalists, technologists, media and environmental justice folks, community organizers and activists from around the Bay area to explore and discuss social justice [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in civic, collaboration, community, culture, events, organizations | Comments (4)

New J-Skills: What to Measure?

April 10, 2008 – 10:02 am

Berbercarpet, via Flickr (CC license)

Journalism sudents need the right tools — and skills — for the kinds of careers and opportunities they’re really going to be making for themselves.

Picking up on my post yesterday, Univ. of Florida journalism professor Mindy McAdams challenged me (and her other readers) to translate my quick list of what j-schools [...]

By Amy Gahran | Also posted in Content Style & Business, General, Labels and Metadata, PR & marketing, Resources, Strategy, Wikis, blogs, business, careers, collaboration, community, content management, contributed content, conversational media, creativity, credibility, critical thinking, culture, distribution, education, experience, forums, innovation, journalism, media evolution, mindset, mobile, networking, news, processes, research, search, services, skills, social media, traffic, transparency, world | Comments (18)

One Laptop Per Child: Why Media Folks Should Care

September 27, 2007 – 8:28 am

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Don’t know what to do with a computer that looks like this? Don’t worry — you’re not the target market.

Lately I’ve been learning more about, and getting quite intrigued by, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program. Yesterday I listened to an IT Conversations podcast talk by Michael Evans, VP of corporate development for Redhat, [...]