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Consulting on Setting up an ONA Student Chapter

I’ve been giving some of my time recently to the Online Journalism Student Society at the University of Ohio.  They’re trying to set up a student chapter of the Online News Association, and I’ve been offering them counsel and the occasional edit of their draft proposals.

I came from the…

Fuel Music and the Oscar Party Invites

Fuel Music and Sound asked us recently to help them manage the guest list for their annual Oscar Party. They wanted to drive people from email back to their own site, ifuelmusic.com, for responses.  That way, they increase their brand exposure while also getting a valid head count, without…

About Site Outages

Recently, we had a client who was having outage trouble with the ISP we recommended for them.  They’d had four individual instances where their site was unreachable, in the span of about two months.

Hop Studios helped them investigate the causes, and also get an overall sense of why these…

Writing BitTorrent for Dummies

Susannah just signed to do her second book (actually fourth, if you count co-author gigs).  It’s going to be another book for Wiley: BitTorrent for Dummies.

BitTorrent is two things: a method for transfering large files efficiently to many people at once, and a the name of a program that…

WKC Blog Launches Native American Blog

This week, we helped one of our clients, the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, to launch its first (of many?) blog:

WKC Blog: Covering Indian Country

The blog is designed to “illustrate and promote best practices for media coverage of ‘Indian Country’ by highlighting…