Become Friends With Your Computer
Monday, September 20, 2010
When making friends, it's important to learn about their particular qualities. If you really want to get close to a friend, you must figure out what's inside of them as well. Be friends with your computer.
Instead of taking everything you see on the screen for granted, learn to change and edit webpages to your liking.
Journalists will increasingly find the need for skills that computer science departments are teaching.
The article, "Hack Into Hackers," by Nicholas Carlson, points out that it's the new journalist's job to learn "enough computer science and software engineering to be able to design tools for information gathering, synthesis, analysis and circulation." Basically to do everything that is involved with being a journalist.
Because of the evolving news world, journalists aren't sticking to one area of reporting. Traditional news jobs are going to becoming less prevalent where internet blogs and microblogging sites are gaining on their audiences.
In the reading, "technology firms like Yahoo and Google" are mentioned as examples of how man, technology and journalism have teamed up to make a power trio.
By learning how to code on the computer, you can more easily brand yourself as a journalist and improve your search engine optomization.
Being a new journalist means a more demanding workload and a whole new set of skills required to even begin the job. It is necessary now and will become more necessary in the future to aquire these and various other computer skills to be successful.
Get comfortable in your seat and give your computer a name because in no time you'll be making great friends.
2 comments:
I agree. Understanding your computer along with other programs that are out there such as the common ones like Word, Power Point, Excel and other ones such as Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign is essential in todays society. This goes back around to the social medias that people use now to market themselves and it is pretty much required to have experience with these social medias in order to obtain a job.
I agree and as more programs begin coming out, it will become necessary to acquire new skills. It's fortunate that the objective of media is to stay in the know so that when these programs do come out, we will know immediately and consider becoming familiar with them. Have you found that knowledge of these programs has helped you in journalism?
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