“The Shape of Learning: How Media Consumers Become Media Producers”
http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2014/01/the-shape-of-learning-how-media-consumers-become-media-producers/
“Launch and Learn: Lessons in Multimedia Training”
http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2014/10/launch-and-learn-lessons-in-multimedia-training/
Facebook Group features and info architecture (and whether these can be replicated in WP.com’s P2 — soon to be o2):
Post types (photo, link, question)***
World Press Photo Academy Connected Learning https://www.facebook.com/wpphconnected
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas Social Media for Journalists: The Basics http://open.journalismcourses.org/course/view.php?id=16§ion=1
MulinBlog J-School Audio Photo Slideshow Storytelling http://www.mulinblog.com/mooc/course/view.php?id=9
Code School Backbone.js https://www.codeschool.com/courses/anatomy-of-backbonejs
Code School Front-End Formations https://www.codeschool.com/courses/front-end-formations
Coursera (U of TX) Energy 101 https://www.edx.org/course/utaustinx/utaustinx-ut-1-01x-energy-101-667
Testing the Jetpack Carousel Audio plugin:
SoundVision’s digital presence should strive to give visitors the best content, in a way that’s easy to navigate, and is easy (and inexpensive) for web admin/producers to maintain and enhance. Goals:
Start by examining other distributors and networks: How do they present their multi-sites? Examine individual program sites: How do they acknowledge their parent distribution/production agency?
Emulate what they do right; avoid their mistakes. For example, Localore has a great front page linking all their projects, but inconsistent branding on the individual project sites. PRI’s front is not as engaging, but their programs use the same logo at each site (more examples below).
SV Credits are sometimes in header, sometimes in footer, sometimes neither. Sometimes credits have SV logo, sometimes not. One of the best ways SV integrates with a program is SLP’s header:
A crucial web brand is your “favorites icon” (favicon), a small logo that appears in browsers tabs. For example, these pubradio site have one; SV does not:
These same icons appear in a user’s bookmark’s and history list; again SV has no icon:
SV sites use several different CMSes. TRBQ uses two different ones at same site (?????).
Recommendation: Use a single CMS on all your sites. This way any SV staff that learns it at one site can use it at another.
WordPress is a good candidate for SV: its “Multisite” option makes it possible to have one site control a network of sites (more info below):
A basic style guide helps gives sites a consistent look. And it saves content creators from wasting hours trying to decide simple things: How do SV sites write a date, “February 20, 2013” or “Feb 20 2013”? How do you indicate an updated article: display the original publish date and the update? Or just the last update? Or all the update dates?
For instance, this might be a style guide entry:
Always use “SoundVision”, with a capital “S” and “V”, when referring to the production network. When referring to the company, add the registered mark: “SoundVision Productions®”.
SV can save time by starting with an existing Style Guide (ProPublica’s) then adapt it.
Don’t just be on the web; be part of the Web: Offer ways for people to embed SV multimedia and share SV infographics. When choosing things like image sizes, think about NPR Content Depot and PRX standard sizes, and about thumbnail sizes at station websites. Chose standards and solutions that work best not just for SV, but for all pubmedia.
Use the same standards in all SV’s websites: same an audio player, same size thumbnail images, etc.. This saves time for content producers, and provides site visitors with familiar visual cues.
Also, SV has the opportunity to cross-promote and combine its resources. Different projects, might tackle similar stories together, e.g.: TRBQ and BURN on “How Much Stuff is Too Much Stuff?”.
Great SEO starts is mainly: great web content. SV’s staff has the skills to provide among the best content in SV program’s subject areas. Here’s a few presentations showing the different ways the web can now weave a story:
How other distributors and network present their multi-sites:
How individual program sitesacknowledge their parent distribution/production agency:
APM has different logos/ branding on each site — also note the following titles of each program’s front page, some w/ APM, some not:
test: post format-video
test: post format-audio
/**
* Change attribute for WP audio shortcode and embed .
*
* Default preload attribute is 'none' which shows time as 'O:OO'.
* Setting attribute to 'metadata' displays time upon page load.
*/
function soundsshares_audio_preload( $html, $atts, $audio, $post_id, $library ) {
$html = str_replace( 'preload="none"', 'preload="metadata"', $html );
return $html;
}
add_filter( 'wp_audio_shortcode', 'soundsshares_audio_preload', 10, 5 );
http://css-tricks.com/forums/discussion/4949/widow-cleaning-in-post-titles-vs-/p1
function widowKiller($text) {
$return = $text;
$arr = explode(' ',$text);
$arr[count($arr) - 2].= ' '.$arr[count($arr) - 1];
array_pop($arr);
$return = implode(' ',$arr);
return $return;
}
function widowKilledTitle() {
global $post; $text = the_title('','',false);
$return = $text;
$arr = explode(' ',$text);
$arr[count($arr) - 2].= ' '.$arr[count($arr) - 1];
array_pop($arr);
$return = implode(' ',$arr);
echo $return;
}
http://imgiseverything.co.uk/articles/removing-typographic-widows-in-wordpress-page-titles/
Twenty Thirteen: http://twentythirteendemo.wordpress.com/
MP6: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mp6/
headecon_function()
tells you it’s yours (not wp_)
5.3 namespace: http://de3.php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.php