I attended a banquet and awards ceremony for the Southern Illinois Editorial Association last Friday just outside of Carbondale and brought home 17 awards for The Telegraph.
We placed first in our category for general excellence and first in the Web site category, which especially makes me proud.
We also got an honorable mention for Vet’s Voices.
2009 [...]
It’s been a work in progress, but we are slowly but surely adding online contests to our Web site as another way to get users involved and to drive more revenue for our establishment.
Currently online, we have a cat contest called “My Curious Cat.”
Voting and submissions are still being accepted and winners will be announced [...]
The Telegraph’s mobile site is now online. If you visit www.thetelegraph.com via your cell, it will take you automatically to it. You can also see a preview by visiting m.thetelegraph.com on your computer.
Once I get everything set up to our specifications, we can get a page on the Web site that will explain to users [...]
School started a couple of weeks ago… still trying to get back into the swing of things. It always used to be hard coming back from a break but I’m finding it’s even harder when your “break” consists of working 40 hours a week.
I’m taking Javascript and Flash. Both are slow going so far, but [...]
The Telegraph’s 2008 evaluation is in, and Dan has given me a brief overview of how we did in 2008. Tomorrow we’ll talk more in depth, but for now I’ll share the overview that I got.
The Web site scored “Above” standards in all categories except three. Our strong points were actually video and navigation, which [...]
In the past month or so we’ve been working on cleaning house. No, not getting rid of more employees - God knows how long we’d last if we lost another… We’re talking navigation.
Or sub-navigation, rather.
We’ve deleted links to dead pages, moved links under new categories where it made more sense to do so, added links [...]
According to an article I read on HuffingtonPost.com while looking for statistical information and studies being done on this topic, more than 30 percent of Americans between the ages of 30-49 say the Internet is their main source of news.
That bodes well for me, as The Telegraph’s Web news editor, but what does it mean [...]
As the former Jersey County reporter at The Telegraph, I had grown used to being banished to our neighbor county to the north on election night to report the results as they came in while the newsroom in Alton served as the information hub and election watch station - but not this year. Instead, I [...]
If you’ve been reading this blog you know I’ve gone back to school for my associate’s in Web design.
I am taking three classes this semester - XHTML/CSS, Adobe Illustrator and Web design basics (which is pretty much a Dreamweaver class so far). They’re all going decently well.
Two of them, Illustrator and XHTML, are at the [...]
Still have a lot of work to do before the paper get critiqued by corporate in November.
On a personal level though, it appears some of my hard work is paying off.
I’ve updated my resume for the first time in awhile because I won a couple of my first awards as a professional journalist.
Oddly enough, only [...]