I've been wondering for awhile about those cool little pop-up windows that appear on some Web sites and blogs like the Center for Innovation in College Media and College Media Advisers Web sites.
Well, now I know how to do it and I've added the feature to The Student Newspaper Survival Blog. It's a snap! Literally. Snap.com offers these little visual previews of sites you link to. It's easy to put the feature on a blog or Web site; just follow the directions at the company's Web site.
My question for you readers is this: Do you like Snap Shots or do you find them annoying? Do they enhance your experience of this blog and others? Post a comment and let me know.
Another new development for The Student Newspaper Survival Blog: We've been added to the College Media Advisers site. Now you can read the six most recent headlines from the CMA site and instantly link to our blog. Thanks to Bill Neville and the folks at CMA for including our blog on the Web site.
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About the book
This blog is a companion to The Student Newspaper Survival Guide, a handbook about putting out a college newspaper. The book, published by Wiley-Blackwell, is now used in college newspaper offices around the world. For more information about the book, or to order a copy, go to Wiley.com.
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Rachele Kanigel is an associate professor of journalism at San Francisco State University, where she advises Golden Gate Xpress publications. She is the author of The Student Newspaper Survival Guide.
She was a daily newspaper reporter for 15 years, writing mostly about health and medicine for The Oakland Tribune, The News and Observer of Raleigh, NC, and the Contra Costa Times. As a freelance writer, she has written for numerous magazines and Web sites, including Time, U.S. News and World Report, Health, People, Reader's Digest, Natural Health, CNN.com and MSNBC.com.
She is active in College Media Advisers and was on the founding board of the California College Media Association.
She was a daily newspaper reporter for 15 years, writing mostly about health and medicine for The Oakland Tribune, The News and Observer of Raleigh, NC, and the Contra Costa Times. As a freelance writer, she has written for numerous magazines and Web sites, including Time, U.S. News and World Report, Health, People, Reader's Digest, Natural Health, CNN.com and MSNBC.com.
She is active in College Media Advisers and was on the founding board of the California College Media Association.
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Snap Shots
2 comments:
Snapshots are a really cool feature. It's nice to provide a preview of a link so you can have a chance to see if it would be useful. I really like your blog -- it's full of good information and hints. Wish I were a college newspaper editor -- I think I'd find it really helpful. -- Debbie
Ugh...Snap shots are probably the most annoying thing to happen to the web since pop-up ads. I've stopped going to several sites that use them. Supposedly, you can turn them off with a cookie, but they always seem to come back again.
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