Comments on: Don’t learn the book, just do http://journalistopia.com/2007/05/04/dont-learn-the-book-just-do/ A world for online journalists. Come all ye scribes, artists and innovators of the press. Sat, 10 Apr 2010 01:54:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: howardowens.com: media blog » Blog Archive » Journalists need to invest in their own careers http://journalistopia.com/2007/05/04/dont-learn-the-book-just-do/comment-page-1/#comment-5417 howardowens.com: media blog » Blog Archive » Journalists need to invest in their own careers Mon, 21 May 2007 02:58:10 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2007/05/04/dont-learn-the-book-just-do/#comment-5417 [...] Catching up on my blog reading and came across this post by Danny Sanchez on a related topic: Don’t read, do. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover [...] [...] Catching up on my blog reading and came across this post by Danny Sanchez on a related topic: Don’t read, do. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover [...]

]]> By: tish grier http://journalistopia.com/2007/05/04/dont-learn-the-book-just-do/comment-page-1/#comment-4579 tish grier Thu, 10 May 2007 20:24:34 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2007/05/04/dont-learn-the-book-just-do/#comment-4579 you've got it, Danny! as with most things nowadays, the manuals give you far more information than you need to start. Almost all the new stuff is hands-on-take-in-small-bites. Your idea of setting a goal, making a list of things to check off when completed, is kind of how I learned to do Power Point. The next steps--like embedding video, if needed--will come later. For the student, though, the thing is to just do it. When she graduates, who knows who will want the skill, but she will at least have had some exposure to how to do it. you’ve got it, Danny! as with most things nowadays, the manuals give you far more information than you need to start. Almost all the new stuff is hands-on-take-in-small-bites. Your idea of setting a goal, making a list of things to check off when completed, is kind of how I learned to do Power Point. The next steps–like embedding video, if needed–will come later.

For the student, though, the thing is to just do it. When she graduates, who knows who will want the skill, but she will at least have had some exposure to how to do it.

]]> By: Kay B. Day http://journalistopia.com/2007/05/04/dont-learn-the-book-just-do/comment-page-1/#comment-4500 Kay B. Day Wed, 09 May 2007 19:50:59 +0000 http://journalistopia.com/2007/05/04/dont-learn-the-book-just-do/#comment-4500 You are so right about just doing it--that's how I've learned almost everything I do on the Web (as a freelancer, right now, the Web is about 35% of my business). I'm about to venture into video territory. I'll just shoot it, see where the editing goes and learn as I go. I think this is the best time in history to be a writer-journalist-content provider (and in my other life, poet!) You are so right about just doing it–that’s how I’ve learned almost everything I do on the Web (as a freelancer, right now, the Web is about 35% of my business).

I’m about to venture into video territory. I’ll just shoot it, see where the editing goes and learn as I go. I think this is the best time in history to be a writer-journalist-content provider (and in my other life, poet!)

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