Month: June 2010

  • Mark your calendar for multimedia boot camp

    The Freedom Forum Diversity Institute will offer two Multimedia Boot Camps for Journalism Professionals and Educators in August, 2010 and one in November 2010. MULTIMEDIA CLASSES IN 2010: • Multimedia Boot Camp: Aug. 2-6, 2010 • Multimedia Boot Camp: Aug. 11-15, 2010 • Multimedia Boot Camp: Nov. 17-21, 2010 More info.

  • Times were harsh

    My cousin, Amy Clark, won an essay writing award earlier this month for a piece based on an oral history recorded in the mid-1980s of my grandmother, Emma Stanley Edwards, and her  sisters. Amy. an English professor, says the piece is part of a larger work she is tinkering with. … Pop pounced on her…

  • A tale from the delta of Social Media

    While it doesn’t reach the fame of Dave Carroll and United Airlines’ breaks guitars, Kevin Slimp of Knoxville experienced the power of Social Media on Sunday when he posted this note at 11:32 a.m. Sunday on Facebook about his Delta Air Lines flight: UPDATE: Flight from Atlanta to Knoxville just cancelled. Have I been here…