Want personalized tech help?!
We'll be offering some one-on-one tutoring Friday afternoon and Sunday at CAMP this year. We'll pair you up with a mentor for help on email, Pinterest, Storify, Skype, Google, Tableau, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other tools. Fill out this form to either help or be helped:
Take advantage of the silent auction this weekend with an array of treasures set up on tables in the corridors around our meeting rooms. This is your chance to take home some fabulous jewelry, a unique book, a beautiful scarf, a French-crafted corkscrew or some other special item. Every dollar you spend goes toward supporting CAMP and other JAWS programs. Bid away! The auction opens with the start of CAMP and will close – with items going to the highest bidder – on Sunday at 11 a.m., immediately following the morning break between sessions. Items can be picked up and paid for at the registration desk up until 5 p.m. Sunday. Unclaimed items are available for sale at dinner Sunday night.
You used to have an army of people who could check your work before it was published, or you never did. Either way, you're now your own copy editor, proofreader, fact-checker. We'll explore ways you can edit your own work better, finding those pesky mistakes before a reader can call you out on them. And while we're at it, we'll explore ways of preventing and spotting plagiarism, black eyes on the journalism industry. JAWS teamed up with ACES and several other journalism organizations to write a book on the issue, and we'll share some its recommendations.
Hands-on workshop on the basics of smartphone photography. We'll cover the best photo apps to use, tips specific for shooting and best communities for sharing. Take some photos after this session and we'll reconvene at 3:15 to review them.
Documents, spreadsheets, mapping capabilities and more – Google Drive offers lots of flexibility, as well as the ability to collaborate and share your work with others, in small groups or with the world. Hilary Niles, data reporter for VT Digger, offers a tour along with tips and tricks.
Get inspired, women! These journalists have thrown off the shackles of “traditional” jobs and struck out on their own. Well, actually, in some cases, they used their day jobs to fund their dream projects, working on weekends and nights, reporting during vacations and, in one case, taking work calls in the recovery room after giving birth! Three journalists will tell their personal stories of funding their dream projects, along with the steps - and pitfalls - they took along the way. Laura Amico created Homicide Watch, an online journalism organization that uses original reporting, primary source documents and social media to build a live public and comprehensive resource on violent crime. Erin Polgreen created Symbolia, a tablet magazine of illustrated journalism that pairs incendiary reporting with thoughtful illustration and comics. And Habiba Nosheen directed Outlawed in Pakistan, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival and was called "among the standouts" of Sundance by The Los Angeles Times. A longer version of the film aired on PBS FRONTLINE. Nosheen's 2012 radio documentary, What Happened at Dos Erres? aired on This American Life and was called "a masterpiece of storytelling" by The New Yorker.
In short, you’ll leave feeling inspired. And you’ll leave with practical advice on realizing your dreams!
Veteran editor and "resume doctor" Jodi Schneider, currently a team leader at Bloomberg News, will offer tips and strategies for finding and keeping jobs in the new journalism landscape. She'll offer real-world strategies for revamping your resume, developing and enhancing your network and making the best use of social networking while avoiding the pitfalls many job seekers fall into.
This session will give you hands-on training with Tableau data visualization software. Bring your own PC to the training--only a few loaners will be available. Tableau Public is for anyone who wants to tell stories with interactive data on the web. With Tableau Public you can create amazing interactive visuals and publish them quickly, without the help of programmers or IT. Tableau offers hundreds of visualization types, such as maps, bar and line charts, lists, heat maps and more. Tell stories about places with Tableau's built-in mapping, which automatically geocodes down to the city and zip code level. Tell stories about trends over time with Tableau's built-in date functionality, which lets readers filter to a time period or drill down from months to days to hours. Or combine views into a dashboard to show different sides of the same story.
Want personalized tech help?!
We'll be offering some one-on-one tutoring Friday afternoon and Sunday at CAMP this year. We'll pair you up with a mentor for help on email, Pinterest, Storify, Skype, Google, Tableau, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other tools. Fill out this form to either help or be helped:
