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SNO Recognizes 49 Student Publications As SNO Distinguished Sites For 2018-19
/in SNO ReportSNO’s Distinguished Sites national recognition program, developed six years ago in an effort to more-clearly outline a set of standards for online student journalism excellence, saw more participation and success than ever before during the 2018-2019 school year. SNO recognized 49 student publications as distinguished sites, compared to 27 last year, and awarded a total of 219 […]
The SNO Report: Best of SNO Superlatives
/in Best of SNO, SNO ReportAlright, so automating Best of SNO really worked. It created a project (new jobs!) for a full-stack developer and a few gray hairs (who’s counting!) for an education/training specialist. It had an MVP-caliber year. Here’s proof: At the time of this email, Best of SNO had… More than 12,900 stories submitted to it, since September 416 participating […]
The SNO Report: Tasks to End the Year
/in SNO ReportWhether your school’s still making up for a bunch of snow days or you’ve already been dismissed for the summer, we hope we can ease your brain a little bit with a straightforward list of tasks to do before your website goes to sleep. Turn your site’s departing staff members into subscribers. Doing this retains […]
Introducing Student News Source: The new mobile app for SNO customers
/in SNO ReportSeveral months ago we announced that we were working on a complete overhaul of our SNOMobile platform, and we asked for help in shaping the new app. Over 100 SNO customers took the time to provide feedback, and here’s what they said: Make the new app seamlessly integrate with SNO websites, fill it with useful features like […]
Burning: This Week On Fresh Powder
/in Fresh PowderThe lede “Ummm is this terrorism?” Surely, my wife was not the only one to send a text like that last week as you and I and the rest of the world watched the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris burning. An acknowledgement from Poynter on the day’s successful myth-debunking collaboration. Seconded In TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People list, […]
Tiger, Tiger Woods, y’all: this week on Fresh Powder
/in Fresh PowderLegendary CBS Sports announcer Verne Lundquist retired from everything — everything, except for this. Except for The Masters. This weekend was why. This weekend, Tiger Woods won his first major championship since 2008. What’s to follow is a collection of the best stories about the biggest sports story of this century. (Don’t even try arguing with […]
Winter is coming: this week on Fresh Powder
/in Fresh PowderThe lede There’s only one television show important enough infiltrate “The lede” of this news digest, and on Sunday, that show returns to us, and then six weeks later it will leave us — Game of Thrones will be gone, forever. “An era will have ended in Westeros,” Matt Zoller Seitz writes for Vulture, “And as goes Westeros, so […]
The SNO Report: Meeting the SNO Developers
/in SNO ReportNoah and Travis are our two undercover guys. They lurk in the shadows (when their overhead desk light is off), living in the matrix, making sure your sites are up, running and doing all the things they’re supposed to be doing. They automate this, app that… migrate this, maintenance that. None of it makes any […]