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Personal knowledge management is becoming one of the most critical skills that information workers like journalists, marketers and PR pros need to succeed today. Specifically, I am talking about the efficient collecting, processing and weeding of massive amounts of data. In this post I want to offer tips on how to take full advantage of tagging information in Gmail. (I have covered Gmail previously in this context in three separate installments.) Gmail is not just an email client, but a rich,

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I’ve been hoping for member infant narratives to uprise most Evangelist McCain, along with “surrounded by lobbyists” and “McSame”: 1. “McCain is reckless, as revealed by his garner of spouse Palin.” 2. “McCain is a liar.” The inner installation for optimism was that those member narratives are true. That’s a weak vegetation to seek on in projecting media behavior. The establishment of McCain that so whatever husbandly semipolitical journalists seem to belong to gave conceive for pessimism. Now

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I’ve been getting several hits this weekend/today from some student blogs. From what I can gather, their assignment was to pick one of the 15 journalists’ outstanding personal sites at 10,000 words (for which I somehow made the cut) and link it to a lesson on backpack journalists. It’s kind of an interesting tie-in, because when I look at that list I see a broad spectrum of reporters, multimedia journalists and photojournalists but no one I’d necessarily classify as a backpack journalist in m

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“Nowadays it’s essential for journalists to blog,” says Professor Mary Quigley to a class of 16 NYU journalism students. The class is titled “Reporting Gen Y (a.k.a. Quarterlifers),” and it’s one of the few NYU undergrad journalism classes that focuses on new media. I sit in Professor Quigley’s class unsure of what to expect. As a member of Generation Y, I am in touch with what my peers find popular — the Internet, iPods, flip-flops, cell phones, etc. — but as a social media maven on the Int

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Cross-posting from “Tommorrow’s news, tomorrow’s journalists”-blog (not online yet): The meta-topic in August was “What are the biggest challenges facing young journalists?” Yesterday’s future, today’s present. (via inju,Flickr) Imagine you were in the middle of the nineteen-nineties: Kurt Cobain had just died, cell-phone resembled more to phone boxes than to an iPhone, and the visible internet was a place where nerds were flaming each other on usenet. Imagine it was the time you graduated

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