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Leverage Your Social Media
Learn to engage with your community, monitor the conversation and plan outreach around events, real-world meetups and breaking stories with this module.

Outside-the-Box Community Engagement
Created by Dave Poulson, editor of Great Lakes Echo.

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A list of 73 free or inexpensive resources for reporting, multimedia storytelling and managing websites.

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Spotlight On:

DC Startup Forum

CEO of Webbmedia Group Amy Webb spoke at American University on April 18 for the DC Startup Forum. Get great insights from past discussions in this exciting speaker series for media entrepreneurs.


Erin Polgreen:
Guerrilla Marketing

Symbolia founder and new NMWE advisory board member Erin Polgreen discusses successful marketing techniques for her comics journalism project.


Engaging Audiences

This June 2012 survey, funded by the McCormick Foundation, reports on how "digital-first" news sites are engaging their audiences.


New Media Women

Four women have been awarded $14,000 each for the 2013 New Media Women Entrepreneurs awards.


ONA 2012

Read about J-Lab's session, "Entrepreneuring 4.0," at the 2012 ONA conference.


imageLaunching a Nonprofit News Site

Want to launch a nonprofit news site? Here's a step-by-step guide to jump start your efforts.



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