Entries by Tom

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 […]

The SNO Report: Get Inspired By Last Year’s Best Of Best Of SNO

On Monday, the competition for Best of SNO officially began. When you submit your content for consideration, your work is being compared to more than 20,000 stories from journalists at 500 different schools (based on last year’s data). So earning a Best of SNO credit is a big deal. To help you get started and spark some […]

The SNO Report: Start the year with SNO Curriculum

With every new school year comes a group of new students to train in journalism. Before they can even think about using the website, they need to know a few basics of the industry. We’re here to help, if you’d like some. SNO Curriculum gives you educational materials to use in the classroom. Whether you’re a […]

The SNO Report: Start The Year With SNO Curriculum

With every new school year comes a group of new students to train in journalism. Before they can even think about using the website, they need to know a few basics of the industry. We’re here to help, if you’d like some. SNO Curriculum gives you educational materials to use in the classroom. Whether you’re a […]

Get To Know The New Site Booster Package From SNO

Meet the new Site Booster This summer the Site Booster package received a major overhaul, adding a ton of new features that you’ve been asking for. Read on for all of the new details. Quizzes and Tests Brand new to the Site Booster package are SNO Quizzes and SNO Tests. SNO Tests are composed of […]