Entries by Tom

The SNO Report: Strategies to grow your online audience

Chances are you’ve invested some serious effort (maybe even blood, sweat and tears) into your site. You’ve worked hard on publishing and designing, and you want to make sure it gets the attention it deserves, right? Although promoting your site to your school and community may seem like a daunting task, it doesn’t have to […]

NEW! Attend intensive SNO training workshop this summer in person or virtually

Join us this summer for one of our SNO Adviser Academy workshops, an immersive multi-day training for journalism advisers of all experience levels. We’re excited to be able to offer it both in person, at our headquarters in Minneapolis, Minn., and virtually. Whether you’re traveling to see us or becoming an expert from your couch, SNO’s technical […]

The SNO Report: New SNO FLOW Rubrics

It’s no secret that student success is largely reliant on teacher feedback. It’s also no secret that teachers are busier than ever, and finding time to grade and provide timely feedback to students can be tough. While we can’t eliminate your grading responsibilities altogether, we’re excited to introduce a new feature for FLOW customers that […]

The SNO Report: Introducing SNO Donate

We know that school budgets are tight. That’s why we are so excited to announce the release of SNO Donate, a new way to collect financial donations through your SNO website from family, alumni, and community members that want to support your journalism program. Here’s what you need to know about SNO Donate: The donations […]

Best of Best of SNO: Year-End Edition

It’s been a while since our last Best of Best of SNO report, and since then, we’ve received and read thousands more submissions. Since we’ve changed our Best of SNO submission rules slightly, our publication rate has been slowly increasing. We love to see it! One of the “easiest” ways to make your content stand out and get published to Best […]

The SNO Report: Site Booster US & World Maps

We’re willing to bet that over the past two years, many of your programs have written about one, if not both of the following topics: COVID-19 and the 2020 presidential election. We also feel pretty confident in betting that those articles your staffs wrote included some comparative data, whether it be quantitative or qualitative. Think […]

The SNO Report: Best of SNO & SNO Distinguished Sites Updates

Best of SNO Updates + Changes The temperature may be cooling down (at least up here at SNO headquarters), but the Best of SNO season is definitely heating up! Here’s a quick look at some of our current Best of SNO stats at the time of writing: Over 6,500 stories submissions from 391 participating schools Over 600 total stories published from 174 […]

The SNO Report: Strategies For Promoting Your Website

How do you promote your publication’s website to get more of an audience? That’s the question one journalism adviser posed to SNO’s Facebook group, which came running to the rescue with answers. Let’s review some of their strategies that you, too, can use for your sites: “Talk to other teachers. Maybe they can create an assignment for […]