Friday, September 7, 2007

What makes a good workshop?

At a NINA committee meeting this morning, we talked about ideas for workshops in the next year. This year's workshops have seen great interest and attendance. It's clear there's a hunger out there for relevant training, especially in new media.

A few ideas that came up today:
  • Managing time between print and online journalism: What is the right balance and how can we do it all with little or no increase in resources?
  • Newsroom reorganization: Are we ready to think online first, even when our advertisers are not? And what exactly does that look like in terms of workflow?
  • Mobile journalism (mojo): How can we equip journalists to produce multimedia? What does their new workday look like? Do they even need to come into the newsroom every day?

We would love to hear your ideas. What training topics would be most relevant to you and/or your newsroom? What would the workshops look like? Please take a minute or two and post a comment below.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'd like to see some more "how to" multimedia workshops, maybe a continuing series and/or follow up from the tremendous "how to" multimedia workshop presented earlier this year. I think that many assume that everybody knows how to use every aspect of multimedia. And we ALL knows what happens when we assume, right? I believe the healthy attendance at that first multimedia workshop should give NINA the message that more workshops like this would be useful and welcomed.

Jim Killam said...

Thanks for the comment. We have talked about hands-on workshops with various software (like Flash) for next year. Also, something like, "How to produce databases on your Web site" might be useful. For instance, a database of all local restaurants, including menus.

Rest assured, multimedia is VERY much on NINA's radar for 2008.